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\nIntroduction<\/a>   Notes<\/a>   Book 1<\/a>   Book II<\/a>   Book III<\/a>   Book IV<\/a>   
\nBook V<\/a>   Book VI<\/a>   Book VII<\/a>   Book VIII<\/a>   
\nBook IX<\/a>   Book X<\/a>   Book XI<\/a>   Book XII<\/a>
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Book Three. The Book of the Divine Mother<\/p>\n

\nCanto I<\/a>    Canto II<\/a>    Canto III<\/a>    Canto IV<\/a>           \n<\/p>\n

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\nBook Three: Canto
\nII<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nAdoration of the Divine Mother<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Summary<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n
As the soul
\napproaches its self-discovery there comes an absolute stillness; the
\nsense is swallowed up; all that the mind has known appears unreal.
\nOnly an Inconceivable is left. There is liberation from all.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nBut that is not the
\nend. This escape is not the crown for the labours of the soul; the
\nsoul has a purpose to fulfil, a mystery to solve. The silence and the
\nrelease is only a gate on the Journey. Behind the zero is the face of
\nthe Immortal, who is to be revealed in the shape of this material
\nworld.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAs Aswapathy has
\nthis experience of extinction, the Presence he has yearned for draws
\nclose. A Being of wisdom, power, delight emerges drawing to her
\nbreast Nature, world and soul. From this Being issues a beautiful
\nlustre and links itself to the heart of Aswapathy. All turns
\nbeautiful, felicitous.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nIt is the Mother of
\nAll, the mediatrix between earth and the Supreme. In her presence
\nopposites cease to strive. Wisdom dawns, existence reveals its
\npurpose.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nLove manifests and
\nsuffering ceases to be. Life gains over death. Error drops away. The
\nFormed and the Formless join in Her face.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nShe, the Divine
\nMother, stands at the head of Time, She is the luminous heart of the
\nUnknowable. All Nature calls to her alone. She is the Way and She is
\nthe Goal.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nHer rapture fills
\nthe limbs of Aswapathy; all his seekings are fulfilled in Her. He
\nrealises, however, that his single freedom cannot satisfy him. He
\nasks for Her light and bliss for all earth and men. He is aware that
\nhis own strength is inadequate for this purpose and he surrenders all
\nof himself to Her so that Her vast Power can act and fill the finite
\nwith the Infinite, bring Her healing touch of Love, Truth and Joy
\ninto the suffering world. He gives his freed soul to her and her
\nalone.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>A
\nStillness Absolute<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nstillness absolute, incommunicable,
Meets the sheer
\nself-discovery of the soul;
A wall of stillness shuts it from the
\nworld,
A gulf of stillness swallows up the sense
And makes
\nunreal all that mind has known,
All that the labouring senses
\nstill would weave
Prolonging an imaged unreality. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAs one steps, in the
\ncourse of one’s spiritual quest, across the threshold of the soul,
\none is greeted with an over-powering stillness, a silence beyond all
\nrelations. In that stillness the world is cut off from oneself. The
\nsense gets lost in its deeps; all the experience that the mind has
\nhad before appears to be unreal; all that the senses would construct
\ncan only prolong this image of unreality.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Self’s
\nVast Silence<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nSelf\u2019s
\nvast spiritual silence occupies space;
Only the Inconceivable is
\nleft,
Only the Nameless without space and time:
Abolished is
\nthe burdening need of life:
Thought falls from us, we cease from
\njoy and grief;
The ego is dead; we are free from being and care,
\n
We have done with birth and death and work and fate. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe boundless
\nsilence of the self extends everywhere. What remains is the
\nUnthinkable, the Nameless beyond time and space. The urgency of life
\nis abolished. There is no more thought, no more joy, no more grief.
\nThe lynchpin of life in the world, the ego, is no more. One feels one
\nhas seen the last of the struggle of life and death, strife and fate.
\nOne has arrived.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Too
\nEarly to Rejoice<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nO
\nsoul, it is too early to rejoice! <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThou
\nhast reached the boundless silence of the Self,
Thou hast leaped
\ninto a glad divine abyss;
But where hast thou thrown self\u2019s
\nmission and self\u2019s power? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOn
\nwhat dead bank on the Eternal\u2019s road? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOne
\nwas within thee who was self and world,
What hast thou done for
\nhis purpose in the stars? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEscape
\nbrings not the victory and the crown! <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThat, however, is
\nonly a misleading appearance. The journey’s end is not yet. The soul
\nhas reached only the silence of the Self, plunged into the happy
\ndeeps of divine Peace. The true mission with which it set out on its
\ncareer is not fulfilled, the power with which it was endowed is not
\nutilised. The soul is laden with the charge of the manifesting Divine
\nwho indwells it, but it has not served its purpose. Certainly, it has
\nescaped the toil and the struggle of the manifestation, but that
\nsurely is not the victory and the crown that were intended for it
\nwhen it was launched on the great adventure!<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Only
\nHalf is Done<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nSomething
\nthou cam\u2019st to do from the Unknown,
But nothing is finished and
\nthe world goes on,
Because only half God\u2019s cosmic work is done.
\n<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOnly
\nthe everlasting No has neared
And stared into thy eyes and killed
\nthy heart: <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe soul came from
\nthe Unknown Source with a mission; but its mission is not completed
\nand hence the world goes on on its usual rounds. If the mission of
\nthe soul were fulfilled the world would be different. What has been
\ndone is only part of the assignment given by God. Only an aspect of
\nthe Reality that is not involved in the labour of becoming has been
\nexperienced and the soul’s will to become, to manifest has been
\nsmothered.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Everlasting
\nYes<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBut
\nwhere is the Lover\u2019s everlasting Yes,
And immortality in the
\nsecret heart,
The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The
\nsymboled OM, the great assenting Word,
The bridge between the
\nrapture and the calm,
The passion and the beauty of the Bride,
\n
The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss,
The smile that
\nsaves, the golden peak of things? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis
\ntoo is Truth at the mystic fount of Life. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBut there is also
\nthe aspect that affirms, that enjoys the manifestation. There is the
\nimmortality at the core pressing to realise itself; there is the call
\nthat summons the formative energies; there is the rhythmic word of
\nsanction constantly vibrating; there is this world-bridge between the
\nstates of calm and the intensities of bliss; there is the wonderful
\nbeauty and passion of Nature; there is the meeting place of the
\nopposites making creation possible; there is the smile of Grace;
\nthere is the summit of the shining Truth.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAll of this is
\nequally true and compulsive of life.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Veil
\nof Light<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nblack veil has been lifted; we have seen
The mighty shadow of the
\nomniscient Lord;
But who has lifted up the veil of light
And
\nwho has seen the body of the King? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe veil of
\nIgnorance concealing the sovereign Reality has been lifted and we
\nhave seen the great shadow of the omniscient Lord. But there is yet
\nanother veil, the veil of light, that is to be lifted before the very
\nbody of the supreme King of All is visible.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nThe luminous
\nstillness and Silence that greets the seeker is not the end; it is
\nonly a veil albeit of Light\u2014and that has to be lifted and the quest
\npursued. For beyond is the very Person of the Lord.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Mystery
\nRemains<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nmystery of God\u2019s birth and acts remains
Leaving unbroken the
\nlast chapter\u2019s seal,
Unsolved the riddle of the unfinished
\nPlay;
The cosmic Player laughs within his mask,
And still the
\nlast inviolate secret hides
Behind the human glory of a Form,
\n
Behind the gold eidolon of a Name. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe question of the
\nhow and the why of God’s manifestation is not yet solved, the last
\nseal on the mystery is not yet broken, the plot of the Cosmic Play is
\nstill to be unveiled. The Player of the Cosmic Drama is still behind
\na mask, keeping the secret to himself, hiding it behind the greatness
\nof the human form, behind the glittering spectacle of a Name.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>The
\nBeyond<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nlarge white line has figured as a goal,
But far beyond the
\nineffable suntracks blaze. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhat
\nseemed the source and end was a wide gate,
A last bare step into
\neternity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe white purity of
\nsilence appears to be the terminus. But there is a beyond.
\nUnspeakable vasts of Glory are there, farther on. What appeared to be
\nthe origin and the goal of the world reveals itself as a fresh large
\nopening, an ultimate bare step into Eternity.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Rays
\nReturn to the Sun<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAn
\neye has opened upon timelessness,
Infinity takes back the forms
\nit gave,
And through God\u2019s darkness or his naked light
His
\nmillion rays return into the Sun. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAn opening is
\neffected from Time into the Timeless. All the multitude of forms that
\nissued from out of the Infinite Being return to it. The countless
\nemanations that spread out at the beginning of creation seem to
\nreturn to their Source through the Divine Darkness of Cessation or
\nthrough the dazzling light of Splendour.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Zero
\nSign of the Supreme<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThere
\nis a zero sign of the Supreme;
Nature left nude and still
\nuncovers God. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBut
\nin her grandiose nothingness all is there:
When her strong garbs
\nare torn away from us,
The soul\u2019s ignorance is slain but not
\nthe soul. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Supreme is
\nrepresented by many signs. And the zero is one of them. But it is not
\nan empty zero. For even when Nature is denuded of all forms and
\nmovements, it is not a mere Nothing that is left but the very Godhead
\nthat stands unveiled. This magnificent zero in fact contains all in
\nits embryo. When all the veils of Nature are removed, it is only the
\ncoverings of ignorance over the soul that are eliminated, the soul is
\nrevealed ever pure and shining.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Negation
\nis not all<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nzero covers an immortal face. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nhigh and black negation is not all,
A huge extinction is not
\nGod\u2019s last word,
Life\u2019s ultimate sense, the close of being\u2019s
\ncourse,
The meaning of this great mysterious world. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe zero is only a
\nmask over the Face of the Immortal. A total negation is not the whole
\ntruth. An immense extinction is not the ultimate say of God, the
\nfinal note of Life, the end of the journey of the soul, the true
\nmeaning of the mystery of the universe.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>The
\nPower in Silence<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn
\nabsolute silence sleeps an absolute Power. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAwaking,
\nit can wake the trance-bound soul
And in the ray reveal the
\nparent sun:
It can make the world a vessel of Spirit\u2019s force,
\n
It can fashion in the clay God\u2019s perfect shape. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIt is in silence
\nthat power gathers itself. In absolute silence an absolute Power is
\ndormant. When this sleeping, potent Power awakes, it can move into
\naction the soul that is lost in itself, and in its radiance, reveal
\nthe Source of all, the Truth-Light. This Power can turn the world
\nthat is subject to the incapacities and limitations of Ignorance,
\ninto a receptacle of the Force of the Spirit. It can mould the most
\nobscure matter into a beautiful form of God.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>To
\nFulfil God’s Desire<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTo
\nfree the self is but one radiant pace;
Here to fulfil himself was
\nGod\u2019s desire. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nTo liberate the soul
\nfrom the bonds of ignorance and falsehood into the vasts of Silence,
\nthe folds of unnamable Peace, is indeed necessary. But that is not
\nthe final goal; it is only a great step in the Journey. The real
\nobjective is to fulfil the will of God and that will is to manifest
\nHimself here, in this world. The soul has this mission to discharge
\nafter its liberation.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy is aware
\nof this truth.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>A
\nPresence Nears<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nEven
\nwhile he stood on being\u2019s naked edge
And all the passion and
\nseeking of his soul
Faced their extinction in some featureless
\nVast,
The Presence he yearned for suddenly drew close. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAcross
\nthe silence of the ultimate Calm,
Out of a marvellous
\nTranscendence\u2019 core, <\/FONT>
A body of
\nwonder and translucency
As if a sweet mystic summary of her self,
\n
Escaping into the original Bliss
Had come enlarged out of
\neternity,
Someone came infinite and absolute. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhen Aswapathy is
\nthus standing on the bare edge of existence and all his search and
\npassion are about to get lost in the yawning featureless Vast,
\nsuddenly, a Presence which he has long thirsted for comes close. This
\nPresence infinite and absolute, draws near across the silence of the
\npervading Calm from out of the bosom of the Transcendent. It is a
\nmarvellous body, luminously transparent; a happy epitome of its self,
\nprecipitating itself into a native bliss. It comes out of eternity
\nhuge and infinite.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Being
\nof Wisdom and Delight<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nbeing of wisdom, power and delight,
Even as a mother draws her
\nchild to her arms,
Took to her breast Nature and world and soul. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAbolishing
\nthe signless emptiness,
Breaking the vacancy and voiceless hush,
\n
Piercing the limitless Unknowable,
Into the liberty of the
\nmotionless depths
A beautiful and felicitous lustre stole,
\n
Imaged itself in a surprising beam
And built a golden passage
\nto his heart
Touching through him all longing sentient things. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA being of light,
\npower and bliss takes in her arms, as a mother draws her child, the
\nwhole universe. The featureless void is no more, the hush of
\nstillness is broken; the boundless Unknowable is opened up and a
\nbeautiful, happy Light comes over in the form of an unexpected beam
\nforging a shining passage to the heart of Aswapathy and through him
\ntouching all the yearning sentients.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Sweetness
\nof the All-Beautiful<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nmoment\u2019s sweetness of the All-Beautiful
Cancelled the vanity of
\nthe cosmic whirl. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nNature throbbing with a Heart divine
Was felt in the unconscious
\nuniverse;
It made the breath a happy mystery
And brought a
\nlove sustaining pain with joy;
A love that bore the cross of pain
\nwith joy,
Eudaemonised the sorrow of the world,
Made happy
\nthe weight of long unending Time,
The secret caught of God\u2019s
\nfelicity. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nof the cosmic whirl.
\nAll through the unconscious universe, Nature is felt vibrating with a
\ndivine Soul. This divine Presence turns the breath into a felicitous
\nmystery, brings in a love that buttresses pain with joy, makes of the
\nworld’s sorrow a glad mystique, makes the heavy tread of unending
\ntime a happy experience and grasps the secret of the Felicity of God.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Justifying
\nthe Labour<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAffirming
\nin life a hidden ecstasy
It held the spirit to its miraculous
\ncourse;
Carrying immortal values to the hours
It justified
\nthe labour of the suns. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis divine Heart
\nconstantly affirms in life the presence of a veiled Delight, the
\nDelight that makes all living possible, that sustains and directs the
\nevolving spirit on its journey. Imparting immortal significances to
\nthe unrollings in time it justifies the labour of Nature.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Mother’s
\nMight<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nFor
\none was there supreme behind the God. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nMother Might brooded upon the world;
A Consciousness revealed its
\nmarvellous front
Transcending all that is, denying none:
\n
Imperishable above our fallen heads
He felt a rapturous and
\nunstumbling Force. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nFor here is someone,
\nsupreme behind the ruler of the worlds. A Mother Power broods upon
\nthe world. A Consciousness that is above all, and yet excluding none,
\nreveals itself. Aswapathy feels an imperishable, rapturous and
\nirresistible Force above our defeated selves.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>The
\nMother of all<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nundying Truth appeared, the enduring Power
Of all that here is
\nmade and then destroyed,
The Mother of all godheads and all
\nstrengths
Who, mediatrix, binds earth to the Supreme. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nWhat reveals itself
\nis the eternal Truth, the undiminishing Power that upholds all this
\ntransient creation. It is the Mother of all creative puissances, who
\nlinks mortal life with the Immortal, the earth with the Supreme, and
\nmakes possible the union of both.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Enigma
\nCeases<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nEnigma ceased that rules our nature\u2019s night,
The covering
\nNescience was unmasked and slain;
Its mind of error was stripped
\noff from things
And the dull moods of its perverting will. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nNow ceases the
\nenigma of this creation. Nescience that covers half the creation is
\nstamped out. The errorful mind born of this Nature in nescience is
\neliminated; the inertia and falsehood of its distorting will are
\nthrown off.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>All-Seeing
\nIdentity<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIllumined
\nby her all-seeing identity
Knowledge and Ignorance could strive
\nno more;
No longer could the titan Opposites,
Antagonist
\npoles of the world\u2019s artifice,
Impose the illusion of their
\ntwofold screen
Throwing their figures between us and her. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the brilliant
\nlight thrown by the Divine Mother’s vision which embraces all in one
\nidentity, Knowledge and Ignorance, the old antagonists on the world’s
\nstage, combat no more. They no longer impose the seeming double
\nscreen of their workings between us and the Divine Creatrix.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Wisdom
\nwas Near<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nWisdom was near, disguised by its own works,
Of which the
\ndarkened universe is the robe. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nNo
\nmore existence seemed an aimless fall,
Extinction was no more the
\nsole release. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe Wisdom which is
\nconcealed behind the exterior of its multitude of activities, and of
\nwhich this obscured universe is the cloak, which ever beats within
\nthe body of this universe in Ignorance, draws near. Existence is no
\nmore seen as an aimless fall, extinction from life is no more posed
\nas the sole possible release for the soul. The real meaning of
\nexistence begins to dawn.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Clue
\nFound<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nhidden Word was found, the long-sought clue,
Revealed was the
\nmeaning of our spirit\u2019s birth,
Condemned to an imperfect body
\nand mind,
In the inconscience of material things
And the
\nindignity of mortal life. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe mystic Word that
\nholds the clue is found. The meaning of the birth of the spirit on
\nearth, why the free and immortal spirit embodies itself in imperfect
\nbody and mind, buries itself in the stark inconscience of matter and
\nsuffers the degradation of mortality, is revealed.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Sorrow
\nAnnulled<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nHeart was felt in the spaces wide and bare,
A burning Love from
\nwhite spiritual founts
Annulled the sorrow of the ignorant
\ndepths;
Suffering was lost in her immortal smile. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA divine Heart is
\nfelt vibrating in the wide spaces; a flaming Love springs from the
\npure spiritual founts above and negates utterly the sorrow in the
\ndepths of Ignorance. In the immortal smile of the Divine Mother, all
\nsuffering is forgotten, lost.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>All
\nLight and Love<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nLife from beyond grew conqueror here of Death;
To err no more was
\nnatural to mind;
Wrong could not come where all was light and
\nlove. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAn eternal Life from
\nbeyond the known ranges of existence grows and conquers Death. The
\nmind which errs normally in its judgements ceases to do so; not to
\nerr becomes natural to it. And where all is light and love as a
\nresult of this Presence of the Mother of All, wrong does not come.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Her
\nBody of Beauty<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nFormless and the Formed were joined in her. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nImmensity
\nwas exceeded by a look,
A Face revealed the crowded Infinite. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIncarnating
\ninexpressibly in her limbs
The boundless joy the blind
\nworld-forces seek,
Her body of beauty mooned the seas of bliss. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOpposites like Form
\nand the Formless are found together in the Great Mother. Her look is
\nvaster than the Immensity of existence. The multitudinous Infinite
\nstands revealed in her single Face. Her limbs embody, mysteriously,
\nthe endless joy which the blind forms in the world seek but fail to
\nsecure. Her body is a veritable structured beauty and acts as a moon
\nto the seas of bliss, stirring and throwing them into rapid movement;
\nbliss flows where her body is.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>At
\nthe Head She Stands<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAt
\nthe head she stands of birth and toil and fate,
In their slow
\nround the cycles turn to her call;
Alone her hands can change
\nTime\u2019s dragon base. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nShe stands high
\nabove controlling the cycles of birth, labour and fate. She alone can
\nalter the mighty foundations of inexorable Time.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Golden
\nBridge<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHers
\nis the mystery the Night conceals;
The spirit\u2019s alchemist
\nenergy is hers;
She is the golden bridge, the wonderful fire. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe secret of
\nexistence veiled by Nescience is in her keeping. Hers also is the
\ntransforming energy of the Spirit. She is the shining bridge between
\nearth and heaven, Matter and Spirit, darkness and light. She is the
\nmarvellous Flame that builds the creation and leads it to its goal.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Luminous
\nHeart of the Unknown<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThe
\nluminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the
\ndepths of God;
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The
\nmagnet of our difficult ascent,
The Sun from which we kindle all
\nour suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,
The
\njoy that beckons from the impossible,
The Might of all that never
\nyet came down. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nShe is the luminous
\ncore of the Unknown, the silence-based Power in the profounds of the
\nReality. She is the Force that effectuates, the exact Word that
\nmanifests and creates. She is the summit that pulls us upwards to it.
\nShe is the blazing Light from which we kindle our many lights, the
\nSplendour that looms over the still unreached vasts of God. She is
\nthe Joy that .inspires adventure and makes possible the impossible.
\nShe is the Might from which all derives but which has not yet come
\ndown on earth.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>All
\nNature Calls to Her<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\nNature dumbly calls to her alone
To heal with her feet the aching
\nthrob of life
And break the seals on the dim soul of man
And
\nkindle her fire in the closed heart of things. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nStriving Nature
\nmutely appeals to her, and her alone, to heal with her touch the
\nincessant ache of life, to break the seals that keep the soul of man
\nin obscurity, to light her flame of aspiration, ascent and liberation
\nin the shut-in heart of things.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Contraries
\nPrepare Harmony<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\nhere shall be one day her sweetness\u2019s home,
All contraries
\nprepare her harmony;
Towards her our knowledge climbs, our
\npassion gropes,
In her miraculous rapture we shall dwell,
Her
\nclasp will turn to ecstasy our pain. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOne day all here
\nshall be the home of her felicity. All the present contraries are
\nreally preparing in their clash the advent of her harmony. Our
\nknowledge climbs up to her, our passion gropes towards her; what is
\npain now shall be transmuted by her clasp into ecstasy and in that
\nmiraculous rapture we shall dwell.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Fulfilment<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOur
\nself shall be one self with all through her. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn
\nher confirmed because transformed in her,
Our life shall find in
\nits fulfilled response
Above, the boundless hushed beatitudes,
\n
Below, the wonder of the embrace divine. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBy becoming one with
\nher, we become one with all; for in her all find their unity. When
\nour life becomes one with her it gets transformed into her superlife
\nand gets established in her; then is it fulfilled and then it
\ndiscovers the still vasts of bliss above and the wondrous clasp of
\nthe Divine everywhere on earth here below.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>One
\nPointing Spire<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis
\nknown as in a thunder-flash of God,
The rapture of things eternal
\nfilled his limbs;
Amazement fell upon his ravished sense;
His
\nspirit was caught in her intolerant flame. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOnce
\nseen, his heart acknowledged only her. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nOnly
\na hunger of infinite bliss was left. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\naims in her were lost, then found in her;
His base was gathered
\ninto one pointing spire. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis Knowledge
\nflashes to Aswapathy and the rapture of the immortal invades his
\nbeing. His senses are overcome by bliss and lie amazed. His spirit is
\nseized by the conquering flame of the Divine Mother. Once he has seen
\nher, his heart acknowledges her alone as its sovereign. Only the
\ndevouring hunger of the boundless bliss remains; all his previous
\naims merge in her and then find themselves in her. His whole
\nfoundation gathers into a single high pointing cone.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Seed
\nCast<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThus
\nwas a seed cast into endless Time. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nWord is spoken or a Light is shown,
A moment sees, the ages toil
\nto express. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nSo
\nflashing out of the Timeless leaped the worlds;
An eternal
\ninstant is the cause of the years. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThus is a seed sown
\nin Aswapathy, the seed that is to grow in time to come.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nSuch is the process
\nin this Creation. One great Word is uttered, a Light flashes, and in
\none single moment the Vision is seen but it requires ages of toil to
\nwork out, to manifest what is so released. This is how the worlds
\nhave issued out of the Eternal. A moment’s vibration in the Eternal
\nis at the root of these unrollings of Time.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>He
\nmust now New-Shape<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\nhe had done was to prepare a field;
His small beginnings asked
\nfor a mighty end:
For all that he had been must now new-shape
In
\nhim her joy to embody, to enshrine
Her beauty and greatness in
\nhis house of life. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy realises
\nthat all his efforts thus far have only prepared the field; what he
\nhas achieved are only small beginnings and a great fulfilment has yet
\nto be achieved. Whatever he has formed in himself now needs to be
\nnewly shaped if he is to embody the Divine Mother’s Joy in himself,
\nto establish her beauty and glory in the edifice of his life.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Asks
\nfor Earth and Men<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBut
\nnow his being was too wide for self;
His heart\u2019s demand had
\ngrown immeasurable:
His single freedom could not satisfy,
Her
\nlight, her bliss he asked for earth and men. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy’s being
\nhas grown wide, too wide for his single self. Now his heart asks for
\nsomething that cannot be measured. He is unable any more to be
\nsatisfied with his own freedom. He asks that the Light and Bliss of
\nthe Divine Mother be for all men, the whole earth.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Heaven
\nis too High<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nBut
\nvain are human power and human love
To break earth\u2019s seal of
\nignorance and death;
His nature\u2019s might seemed now an infant\u2019s
\ngrasp;
Heaven is too high for outstretched hands to seize. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nThis
\nLight comes not by struggle or by thought;
In the mind\u2019s
\nsilence the Transcendent acts
And the hushed heart hears the
\nunuttered Word. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHowever, human power
\nand love alone are hardly enough to break the bonds of ignorance and
\ndeath over earth. All his strength now seems to Aswapathy to be no
\nmore than a child’s grasp. Heaven is indeed too high for the eager
\nhands of man to seize. The Light beyond cannot be got by effort or by
\nthinking. It is only when the mind falls silent that the Transcendent
\nReality begins to act in it; it is only when the heart is stilled of
\nits agitations that the unspoken creative Word is heard.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>Vast
\nSurrender<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nvast surrender was his only strength. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nA
\nPower that lives upon the heights must act,
Bring into life\u2019s
\nclosed room the Immortal\u2019s air
And fill the finite with the
\nInfinite. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy realises
\nthat the only effective way open to him to achieve his object is to
\nsurrender himself in all his wide being to the Divine Power so that
\nit could act in him and through him. For this Power that is above the
\nlower hemisphere of existence can alone act here, bring into the
\nlimited field of life the breath of the Immortal and infuse the
\nfinite creation with the Infinite.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>What
\nDenies must be Slain<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAll
\nthat denies must be torn out and slain
And crushed the many
\nlongings for whose sake
We lose the One for whom our lives were
\nmade. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nIn the process
\neverything that negates this objective must be pulled out from its
\nroots and destroyed. So too must be slain all the desires that crowd
\nupon man and occupy him demanding satisfaction and thereby leading
\nhim away from the Divine to realise and manifest whom life is given
\nto him.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\n
<\/FONT><\/FONT>His
\nSoul Given to Her<\/B><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nNow
\nother claims had hushed in him their cry:
Only he longed to draw
\nher presence and power
Into his heart and mind and breathing
\nframe;
Only he yearned to call for ever down
Her healing
\ntouch of love and truth and joy
Into the darkness of the
\nsuffering world. <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nHis soul was freed
\nand given to her alone. <\/FONT><\/FONT>
\n<\/P>
\n


\nAswapathy has no
\nother desire, no other seeking except to draw into himself the great
\npresence and power of the Divine Mother. He longs intensely to call
\ndown for ever Her healing touch of love, truth and joy into the
\nobscurity of this suffering world.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n


\nHis soul is freed of
\nevery other claim and offered to the Divine Mother alone.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
\n



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