{"id":3941,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:21","slug":"20-1918-to-1937-vol-01-prayers-and-meditations-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/02-works-of-the-mother\/01-cwmce\/01-prayers-and-meditations-volume-01\/20-1918-to-1937-vol-01-prayers-and-meditations-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-20_1918 to 1937.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\n
\nJuly 12, 1918<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>*Suddenly, before Thee, all my pride fell. I understood how futile it
\nwas in Thy Presence to wish to surmount oneself, and I wept, wept abundantly
\nand without constraint the sweetest tears of my life\u2026.* Ah yes, how refreshing,
\nhow calm and sweet were those tears I shed before Thee without shame or
\nconstraint! Was it not like a child in its father’s arms? But what a Father!
\nWhat sublimity<\/span>, what magnificence, what immensity of
\ncomprehension! And what a power and plenitude in the response! Yes, my tears
\nwere like holy dew. Was it because it was not for my own sorrow that I wept?
\n*Tears sweet and beneficent, tears that opened my heart without constraint
\nbefore Thee and melted in one miraculous moment all the remaining obstacles
\nthat could separate me from Thee!*<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Some days ago I had known it, I had heard: \u201cIf thou canst weep without
\nrestraint or disguise before Me, many things will change, a great victory will
\nbe won.\u201d And that is why when the tears rose from my heart to my eyes, I came
\nand sat before Thee to let them flow as an offering, devotedly. And how sweet
\nand comforting was the offering! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>*And now, although I weep no longer, I feel so near, so near to Thee that my whole being
\nquivers with joy. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Let me stammer out my homage: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>I have cried too with the joy of a child, \u201cO supreme and only Confidant,
\nThou who knowest<\/span> beforehand all we can say to Thee
\nbecause Thou art its source!<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage –<\/span>36<\/span>9<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>\u201cO supreme and only Friend, Thou who acceptest<\/span>,
\nThou who lovest<\/span>, Thou who understandest<\/span>
\nus just as we are, because it is Thyself who hast so made us! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>\u201cO supreme and only Guide, Thou who never gainsayest<\/span>
\nour highest will because it is Thou Thyself who willest<\/span>
\nin it! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>\u201cIt would be folly to seek elsewhere than in Thee for one who will
\nlisten, understand, love and guide, since always Thou art there ready to our
\ncall and never wilt Thou fail us! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>\u201cThou hast made me know the supreme, the sublime joy of a perfect
\nconfidence, an absolute serenity, a surrender total and without reserve or
\ncolouring, free from effort or constraint. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Joyous like a child I have smiled and wept at once before Thee, O my
\nWell-Beloved!\u201d* <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/span>
\n37<\/span>0<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\n
\nOctober 10, 1918<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my beloved Lord, how sweet it is to think that it is for Thee and Thee
\nalone that I act! It is at Thy service that I am; it is Thou who dost decide
\nand ordain and set in motion, guide and accomplish the action. What peace, what
\ntranquillity, what supreme delight come with the feeling and perception of
\nthis! For it is enough to be docile, plastic, surrendered, attentive, in order
\nto let Thee act freely; no longer then are any errors or faults, any lack or
\ninsufficiency possible, for what Thou hast willed Thou doest and Thou doest it
\neven as Thou hast willed it…. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Accept the ardent flame of my gratitude and my joyous and fully
\nconfident adherence. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>My father has smiled and taken me in his powerful arms. What could I
\nfear? I have melted into Him and it is He who acts and lives in this body which
\nHe himself has formed for His manifestation.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/span>
\n37<\/span>1<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\nOiwak<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/span>\u00e9<\/font><\/span><\/b>: <\/font> <\/span><\/b>
\nSeptember 3, 1919<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Since the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and
\ncare, I invoked the God to take it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>My God, Thou hast accepted my invitation, Thou hast come to sit at my
\ntable, and in exchange for my poor and humble offering Thou hast granted to me
\nthe last liberation. My heart, even this morning so heavy with anguish and
\ncare, my head surcharged with responsibility, are delivered of their burden.
\nNow are they light and joyful as my inner being has been for a long time past.
\nMy body smiles to Thee with happiness as before my soul smiled to Thee. And
\nsurely hereafter Thou wilt withdraw no more from me this joy, O my God! for
\nthis time, I think, the lesson has been sufficient, I have mounted the <\/span>Calvary<\/span> of successive disillusionments high
\nenough to attain to the Resurrection. Nothing remains of the past but a potent
\nlove which gives me the pure heart of a child and the lightness and freedom of
\nthought of a god. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

(End
\nof The First Part<\/span>) <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/span>
\n37<\/span>2<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

\n
\nPondicherry<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/span><\/b>
\nJune 22, 1920<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>After granting me the joy which surpasses all expression, Thou hast sent
\nme, O my beloved Lord, the struggle, the ordeal and on this too I have smiled
\nas on one of Thy precious messengers. Before, I dreaded the conflict, for it
\nhurt in me the love of harmony and peace. But now, O my God, I welcome it with
\ngladness: it is one among the forms of Thy action, one of the best means for
\nbringing back to light some elements of the work which might otherwise have been
\nforgotten, and it carries with it a sense of amplitude, of complexity, of
\npower. And even as I have seen Thee, resplendent, exciting the conflict, so
\nalso it is Thou whom I see unravelling the entanglement of events and jarring
\ntendencies and winning in the end the victory over all that strives to veil Thy
\nlight and Thy power: for out of the struggle it is a more perfect realisation
\nof Thyself that must arise.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/span>
\n37<\/span>3<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n


\nMay 6, 1927<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>One must know how to give one’s life and also one’s death, give one’s
\nhappiness and also one’s suffering, to depend for everything and in all things
\nupon the Divine Dispenser of all our possibilities of realisation, who alone
\ncan and will decide whether we shall be happy or not, whether we shall live or
\nnot, whether we shall participate or not in the realisation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>In the integrality<\/span> and absoluteness of this
\nlove, this self-giving, lies the essential condition for perfect peace, the
\nindispensable foundation of constant beatitude.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/span>
\n37<\/span>4<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

\n
\n
\nDecember 28, 1928<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/a> <\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>There is a Power that no ruler can command; there is a Happiness that no
\nearthly success can bring; there is a Light that no wisdom can possess; there
\nis a Knowledge that no philosophy and no science can master; there is a Bliss
\nof which no satisfaction of desire can give the enjoyment; there is a thirst
\nfor Love that no human relation can appease; there is a Peace that one finds
\nnowhere, not even in death. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>It is the Power, the Happiness, the Light, the Knowledge, the Bliss, the
\nLove, the Peace that flow from the Divine Grace.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/span>
\n37<\/span>5<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n


\n
\nNovember 24, 1931<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>O my Lord, my sweet Master, for the accomplishment of Thy work I have
\nsunk down into the unfathomable depths of Matter, I have touched with my finger
\nthe horror of the falsehood and the inconscience, I have reached the seat of
\noblivion and a supreme obscurity. But in my heart was the Remembrance, from my
\nheart there leaped the call which could arrive to Thee: \u201cLord, Lord, everywhere
\nThy enemies appear triumphant; falsehood is the monarch of the world; life
\nwithout Thee is a death, a perpetual hell; doubt has usurped the place of Hope
\nand revolt has pushed out Submission; Faith is spent, Gratitude is not born;
\nblind passions and murderous instincts and a guilty weakness have covered and
\nstifled Thy sweet law of love. Lord, wilt Thou permit Thy enemies to prevail,
\nfalsehood and ugliness and suffering to triumph? Lord, give the command to
\nconquer and victory will be there. I know we are unworthy, I know the world is
\nnot yet ready. But I cry to Thee with an absolute faith in Thy Grace and I know
\nthat Thy Grace will save.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Thus, my prayer rushed up towards Thee; and, from the depths of the
\nabyss, I beheld Thee in Thy radiant splendour; Thou didst appear and Thou saidst<\/span> to me: \u201cLose not courage, be firm, be confident, \u2013 I
\nCOME.\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – <\/span>
\n37<\/span>6<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/div>\n


\n
\nOctober 23, 1937<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> *<\/span><\/p>\n

(A prayer for those who wish to serve the
\nDivine)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Glory to Thee, O Lord, who triumphest<\/span> over every
\nobstacle. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that nothing in us shall be an obstacle in Thy work. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that nothing may retard Thy manifestation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that Thy will may be done in all things and at every moment. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>We stand here before Thee that Thy will may be fulfilled in us, <\/span><\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>
\nin every
\nelement, in every activity of our being, <\/span><\/p>\n

\n     <\/span>
\nfrom our supreme heights to the
\nsmallest cells of the body. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that we may be faithful to Thee utterly and for ever. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>We would be completely under Thy influence to the exclusion of every
\nother. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that we may never forget to own towards Thee a deep, an intense
\ngratitude. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that we may never squander any of the marvellous things that are
\nThy gifts to us at every instant. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Grant that everything in us may collaborate in Thy work and all be ready
\nfor Thy realisation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Glory to Thee, O Lord, Supreme Master of all realisation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>Give us a faith active and ardent, absolute and unshakable in Thy
\nVictory.
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage – <\/span>
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