It's like in Savitri, when he speaks of the "consciousness that fell asleep in the dust" … the divine Consciousness that fell asleep in the dust of its creation (I am embroidering). The divine Consciousness, the eternal Mother, that is, fell asleep in the dust of her creation; somebody wakes her up, and She realizes (this isn't from Sri Aurobindo!), She realizes that it's the supreme Lord who shook her! So She does everything, all sorts of extraordinary things, anything to stop Him from going away! (Mother takes up Savitri)
She reposes motionless in its dust of sleep.
Then:
For him she leaped forth from the unseen Vasts
To move here in a stark unconscious world.
And then:
In beauty she treasures the sunlight of his smile.
Ashamed of her rich cosmic poverty …
Splendid!
In the course of her conversations with a disciple, the Mother on several occasions made comments about Sri Aurobindo’s transformative epic Savitri. We are reproducing these here, with our deep and sincere thanks to
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Friday, February 6
by
RY Deshpande
on Fri 06 Feb 2009 03:15 AM IST
Narad
who has done this excellent piece of work. The series will cover these comments yearwise. The expectation is that we will grow in the richness of the insights and revelations given to us by the Mother. |
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