Joy of the Inner Way Life runs joyous through these limbs And the sounds of melodious zephyr hymns In fields of the spirit's inner sight. Sing of peace, and the end of night. An overwhelming gratitude Fills the seekers inner mood And fragrant moments of delight Sail on the being's sea of light.

To Mother - A Prayer From Auroville Oct. 5, 1970 Sweet and sacred lady of the stars Whose simplest movement beckons trails of light To fall in streams upon our earth-hewn heads, Humbly lies Thy Name upon our lips. Faint breezes stir the sapling soul to wake Amid the perfume of Thy earthly form, The radiating litany of song, Thy Voice, the splendid melody of earth. We bow, O Mystery, before Thy Feet While colours unnameable fill the fragrant air The incense of Thy Love, Thy Smile, Thy Touch, To soar to heights unkn

Turn Not From Grace Far past the erring ways we've trod Where feet of light would wander not No path from us was wholly barred Thy grace our steps have oft forgot. Thy call we've heard, have gained Thy sight, But if ignorant refuse new birth Wilt Thou again in love alight Upon this charred and ravaged earth?

Matrimandir, Auroville Inscribe upon the memory of the trees My love of Her who brought me forth to these Barren plains where the spirit must define The future's truth embodied in Her shrine.

The Divine Visitor That he might come and I unknowing sleep, Absorbed in dreams and only half aware, My storm-cloud consciousness disrupting light. Yet could he pass without a heart uncharmed And by the power of his presence, calmed? Should I not wake and dawn behold in night, Some fragrance catch on a supernal air And by His touch my soul's remembrance keep?

Prayer for His Intercession    Nov. 1969 Receive me now, I freely come, Let seals be shattered, dross refined Till nothing stands a bar to Thee And thy transforming Will in me, And humbly let me swiftly find The way to thy Elysium.

A Child's Song of Auroville.htm A Child's Song of Auroville Come with me where we children play At Auro-beach in the sun-strewn day, Gathering shells to hear the roar Of oceans that have gone before. Now in the hour approaching night The Banyan glows a green-gold sight And "Peace" is filled with quiet breast As the flowers follow the sun to rest.

Grace Now a stillness enters in And aspiration leaps. A subtle phase preparing all While the outer being sleeps. A hundred thousand lives I've lead Experience of soul, Awaiting the moment of Thy Feet, To view Thy golden aureole. A blessing sign of Thy Grace endures. For what is meaningless Or vile when all is seen as Thee And all is felt as Thy caress? And what these eyes cannot disclose, This soul, O Lord, undying knows.

The Supreme's Benediction.htm The Supreme's Benediction Though his past he must assiduously unwind The Mother to his inner call inclined, Loosened the bonds and in his striving breast; Granted the seeker momentary rest. In that solemn hush from the endless rush Released he found the path his soul must climb And knew the fire that welcomed him Ablaze on the welcoming shores of time. He heard a music's pure intrinsic strain Enter him again and yet again, A wondrous strophe of unimagined bl

Blossoming of Auroville      1960's And now upon this hard unyielding land Come motived from the greater fields of joy Flowers of unearthly beauty stand Blooming free beneath His silent hand.