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Publication Details S´raddha- Frequency of publication : Quarterly. Published on 15 August, 24 November, 21 February, A Quarterly devoted to an exposition of the teachings of 24 April. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo Annual Subscription : Rs 150.00 Single copy : Rs. 50.00 Those wishing to have the journal mailed to them may please send an additional Rs. 100.00 Annual Subscription for soft copy of the journal : Rs.150.00 Vol.7 No.3 For overseas readers : Annual subscription :US$ 45 inclusive of postal and bank charges for hard copy; US$ 20 for soft copy All payments to be made in favour of Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences All Rights Reserved No matter appearing in this journal or part thereof may be reproduced or translated, in any form, without the written permission of the publishers except for short extracts as quotations. Views expressed by the authors are not necessarily those of the journal. Readers with different viewpoints are requested to write direct to the contributors. Editor, S´raddha-, will be pleased 21 February, 2016 to provide the necessary contact details. All correspondence may be addressed to S´raddha- Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata 700 071 Editor: Arup Basu Phone: 98302 58723 E-mail : [email protected] , [email protected] Published by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata700071 Phone : 2282 3057, 2282 2162, 2282 1819 Printed by Basab Chattopadhyaya Shilalipi Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 16 A Tamer Lane 8 Shakespeare Sarani • Kolkata 700 071 Kolkata 700 009 Phone 0336540 5390 / 98360 37601 with a diamond light. Lightness and pliability gave the body the look of a swift flowing robe of radiance, sweetness, charm and grace. As she neared and kneeled before her, the woman rested her hand on the suppliant’s head, let fall on her that ethereal, heaven-winning smile of hers and half-parting those beauteous lips dropped sweet words of honey ‘Do you recognise me now? Editorial Come closer and look at me, here I am in my new body just as I promised you. The entire world is waiting for this moment. Look on it, feast your eyes and be No, it was not ‘a midsummer night’s dream’ but a midsummer noon’s dream. blessed for ever’. This is what happened to her on a hot and languorous April afternoon. It was On this hallowed day, let us once again renew our pledge to be her ‘docile hot and humid and there was a faint whiff of dullness and fatigue in the air. She instruments’ and ‘faithful servitors’. Let us send our prayers and deepest had taken a full meal and making herself comfortable in bed, settled for a long aspirations to her in her own words: noon reading session. Soon, however, the eyelids were drooping, her hands became limp, the book slipped on to the bed and she fell into a sleep or ‘perchance We stand before Thee that Thy will may be fulfilled in us, in every element, to dream’. She dreamt, or rather saw – for later she swore that, to make sure in every activity of our being, from our supreme heights to the smallest cells that she was not dreaming things but actually witnessing the scenes in full of the body. consciousness, she distinctly felt the pressure where she had pinched herself Grant that we may be faithful to Thee utterly and for ever. on her right arm – that she was entering a huge building with a tall gate. There ...................................................................................................... was a pathway lined with some lovely flowering plants in pots arranged in We would be completely under Thy influence to the exclusion of every haphazard grace leading to a large square courtyard part concrete, part filled other. with sand and hedged on two sides with evergreens in pots laid out with affable .......................................................................................... artistry. In all that she saw she found a touch of dignity, grace and simple Grant that everything in us may collaborate in Thy work and all be ready for beauty. Then, as it so often happens in dreams, when one cannot quite explain Thy realisation. (CWM, Prayers and Meditations, vol.1, p.377) the logical sequence of events, she found herself amidst a large group of people, a vast concourse, which seemed to swell and take on the shape of a sea of We thank humanity, ill defined and blurred, where individuals could not be distinguished. -The Editor, New Race, for kindly permitting us to reproduce the article She knew not where she was headed for; she found herself pushed along on by Larry Seidlitz which appeared in its vol.xii, Nov, 2011 issue. the surging tide of this shapeless mass of human beings which swayed and -Sri RY Deshpande for allowing us to reprint his writing on Nolini Kanta moved aimlessly through many dark, ill-lit serpentine corridors. Then all of a Gupta which appeared earlier on his website Mirror Of Tomorrow sudden, as they took a turn to the right she found herself alone in that empty, (MOTM) posted on Sunday 19 April, 2009 sprawling space. For a moment she felt a cold fear of the Unknown gripping -Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust for granting permission to reproduce her. She held her breath for a while, remained calm and steadied her faith. selected sections from SABCL, vol.25, pp.121-135; extracts from CWSA, Then she noticed looming through the surrounding haze, the mystic outline of vol. 12:5, CWM, Prayers and Meditations, vol.1, p.377; photo of the the figure of a woman of surpassing beauty nodding towards her summoning Mother from the Ashram photo catalogue with a few lines from Savitri her to approach. She advanced but as she kept moving, the figure, too, moved appended to it. swiftly and soon she lost her, then found her again. It was as if she was playing hide and seek with her. This went on for a while till she noticed from afar that the figure was seated in the high-backed chair near the exit of the hall just above the Meditation Hall. She could not discern her face but the figure itself was that of a female human being, the head perfectly shaped, the face resplendent Contents Opening and Surrender to the Mother Sri Aurobindo 7 Prus´na Upanishad The Upanishad of the Six Questions Part 1 Alok Pande 12 Gitanuvachan Srimat Anirvan 17 The Supramental Manifestation – Theme I Debashish Banerji 40 ÍFFŸFFc··F⁄F∂FW £FFŒFk - - - Glimpses of the Mother’s Supramental S´raddha va m·l labhate jña nam· Manifestation Larry Seidlitz 50 Who has faith. .........he attains knowledge A Manifestation sheathed in Light Rick Lipschutz 61 —Gita IV. 39 Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal Teacher Prema Nandakumar 76 Practising a-tmanivedanam (self-surrender): A master-key in sa-dhana- Anuradha Choudry 83 Evolution of the Vedic Spirit: A Psychological Perspective M.S. Srinivasan 94 The History of the Ashram School – Part I Kittu Reddy 110 The Organisational Cycle: from Reason to Subjectivity Suhas K. Mehra and Beloo Mehra 128 A Tale of Love that Transcends Gender Madhumita Dutta 147 Nolini Kanta Gupta’s Perceptions of Poetry RY Deshpande 157 Notes On Authors 171 Cover : Painting by Giles Herdman A: It is the receptivity to the Mother’s presence and her forces. Q: What is the right and perfect way to get this opening? A: Aspiration, quietude, widening of oneself to receive, rejection of all that tries to shut you to the Divine. Opening and Surrender to the Mother Q: How to know that I am opening to the Mother and not to other forces? A: You have to be vigilant and see that there is no movement of disturbance, Sri Aurobindo desire, ego. Q: What are the indications of a real opening to the Mother? A: That shows itself at once — when you feel the divine peace, equality, The Central Secret of Sadhana wideness, light, Ananda, Knowledge, strength, when you are aware of the Mother's nearness or presence or the working of her Force, etc, etc. If any By remaining psychically open to the Mother, all that is necessary for work of these things are felt, it is the opening — the more are felt, the more or Sadhana develops progressively, that is one of the chief secrets, the central complete the opening. April, 1933 secret of the Sadhana. 13-2-1933 Q: Opening — what does it mean? Is it: "not to keep anything secret from But it is not by upades´a that this Sadhana is given or carried on. It is only the Mother"? those who are capable by aspiration and meditation on the Mother to open and A: That is the first step towards opening. 17-6-1933 receive her action and working within that can succeed in this Yoga. Q: How to open to the Divine Mother? 21-6-1937 A: By faith and surrender in a quiet mind. 18-6-1933 Keep yourself open to the Mother and in perfect union with her. Make Openness to the Mother yourself entirely plastic to her touch and let her mould you swiftly towards perfection. 9-3-1934 To be open is simply to be so turned to the Mother that her Force can work in you without anything refusing or obstructing her action. If the mind is shut up You have only to aspire, to keep yourself open to the Mother, to reject all in its own ideas and refuses to allow her to bring in the Light and the Truth, if that is contrary to her will and to let her work in you — doing also all your work the vital clings to its desires and does not admit the true initiative and impulsions for her and in the faith that it is through her force that you can do it.
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