Volume VII, Issue 2-3
Author: Sanjeev Patra
Editor’s Note: This poem by Sanjeev Patra is an ode to one of the most beautiful and profound vision revealed by Sri Aurobindo for the future march of humanity. If we aspire to collaborate in the Divine Mission of progressive unfolding of the Truth in the earth-consciousness, we must make a steady and sincere effort to transcend the limits of our ego-bound self and nature.
To secure the evolutionary journey of this universe
Supreme Mother steps in to manifest on this planet
Creates, carries and cajoles this universe brick by brick
Keeps us the sun-eyed children at the fulcrum of Her Divine Eye.
To bring us closer to Her in every birth of ours
Chisels us from inconscient stones to insect to this Man
Sees the Divine Spark in all of us despite our failings
Tries to turn our psychic towards the Supramental Sun.
To reach Her goal of supramental, we must
Establish silence and complete stillness of our being
Discover the Light within by listening to the inner voice
And feel the unfolding of the Divine Grace and True Knowledge.
To be the forerunner of a New Consciousness, we must
Live with certitude that the Mother is watching us every moment
Be the messenger of His teachings in our speech and actions
Break all barriers of littleness, narrowness, darkness,
And of suffering, falsehood and ignorance.
To play the role of Her sun-eyed children, we must
Join Her Divine Mission like an Arjun, detached with unwavering focus
See only Her Light in all Her creations and moments
Be simple, aspiring, smiling, surrendering souls.
To grow always towards Her Light
Live this life without mental calculations and profit motive
Live each of Her gifted moments in our psychic
Live like an immortal warrior and grow closer to The Mother.
Also read in the current issue:
The Work of Today for a Supramental Future
Inspiration from Sri Aurobindo
A divine life upon earth, the ideal we have placed before us, can only come about by a spiritual change of our being and a radical and fundamental change, an evolution or revolution of our nature. The embodied being upon earth would have to rise out of the domination over it of its veils of mind, life and body into the full consciousness and possession of its spiritual reality, and its nature also would have to be lifted out of the consciousness and power of consciousness proper to a mental, vital and physical being into the greater consciousness and greater power of being and the larger and freer life of the spirit.
It would not lose these former veils but they would no longer be veils or imperfect expressions but true manifestations; they would be changed into states of light, powers of spiritual life, vehicles of a spiritual existence. But this again could not be if mind, life and body were not taken up and transformed by a state of being and a force of being superior to them, a power of Supermind as much above our incomplete mental nature as that is above the nature of animal life and animated Matter, as it is immeasurably above the mere material nature.
