The Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore
Sunshine Youth Group
Presents

Victory to Our Sweet Mother!
An offering at the Lotus feet of the Divine Mother
on the occasion of
The 2nd Birthday of Sunshine Youth Group

Date: Sunday, 29th June 2003
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society, Singapore

The one whom we adore as The Mother

The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence.

Four Great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this universe and in her dealing with the terrestrial play.

Wisdom, Strength, Harmony, Perfection are their several attributes and it is these powers that they bring with them to the world, manifest in a human disguise in their Vibhuthis and shall found in the divine degree of their ascension in those who can open their earthly nature to the direct and living influence of The Mother.

To the four, we give the four great names, Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati

Prayers and Meditations

September 13 1914

With fervour I hail Thee, O Divine Mother, and in deep affection, identify myself with Thee. United with our divine Mother I turn, O Lord, to Thee, and bow to Thee in mute adoration and in ardent aspiration identify myself with Thee.

Then all becomes a marvelous Silence; Being is absorbed in Non-Being, all is suspended, at rest, motionless.

How shall one express the inexpressible?

July 16, 1914

Salutation of my silent and humble adoration…
I bow down before Thy glory, for it dominates me with all its splendour…
Oh, let me dissolve at Thy feet, melt into Thee!

Maheshwari

Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens then into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them.
For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us to supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness to the grandeur of the supreme light, to a treasure house of miraculous knowledge, to the measureless movement of the Mother’s eternal forces.

Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever.
Nothing can move her because all wisdom is in her, nothing is hidden from her that she chooses to know, she comprehends all things and all beings and their nature and what moves them and the law of the world and its times and how all was and is and must be.

A strength is in her that meets everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high tranquil power.

In each man she answers and handles the different elements of his nature according to their need and their urge and the return they call for, puts on them the required pressure or leaves them to their cherished liberty to prosper in the ways of the Ignorance and perish.
For she is above all, bound by nothing, attached to nothing in the universe.

Mahakali

Mahakali is of another nature.
Not of wideness but of height, not wisdom but force and strength are her peculiar power.
There is in her a overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion of force to achieve, a divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and obstacle.

Terrible is her face to the asura, dangerous and ruthless her mood against the haters of the Divine; for she is the Warrior of the worlds who never shrinks from he battle.

If her anger is dreadful to the hostile and the vehemence of her pressure painful to the weak and timid, she is loved and worshipped by the great, the strong and the noble; for they feel that her blows beat what is rebellious in their material into strength and perfect truth, hammer straight what is wry and perverse and expel what is impure or defective.

Nothing can satisfy her that falls short of the supreme ecstacies, the highest heights, the noblest aims, the largest vistas.
Therefore with her is the victorious force of the Divine and it is by grace of her fire and passion and speed if the great achievement can be done now than hereafter.

Mahalakshmi

Above them is the miracle of eternal beauty, an unseizable secret of divine harmonies, the compelling magic of an irresistible universal charm and attraction that draws and holds things and forces and beings together and obliges them to meet and unite that a hidden Ananda may play from behind the veil and make of them its rhythms and its figures.
This is the power of Mahalakshmi and there is no aspect of the divine Shakti more attractive to the heart of the embodied beings.

For she throws the spell of the intoxicating sweetness of the Divine: to be close to her is a profound happiness and to feel her within the heart is to make the existence a rapture and a marvel; grace and charm and tenderness flow from her like the light from the sun wherever she fixes her wonderful gaze or lets fall of the loveliness of her smile, the soul is seized and made captive and plunged into the depths of an unfathomable bliss.

Harmony and beauty of the mind and soul, harmony and beauty of thoughts and feelings, harmony and beauty in every outward act and movement, harmony and beauty of life and surroundings, this is the demand of Mahalakshmi.

Life is turned in her supreme creations into a rich work of celestial art and all existence into a poem of sacred delight; the world’s riches are brought ogether and concerted for a supreme order and even the simplest and commonest things are made wonderful by her intuition of unity and the breath of her spirit

Mahasaraswati

Mahasaraswati is the Mother’s power of Work and her sprit of perfection and order.
The youngest of the four, she is the most skillful in executive faculty and the nearest to physical Nature.
Mahasaraswati presides over the detail of organization and execution, relation of part and effective combination of forces and unfailing exactitude of result and fulfillment.

The science and craft and technique of things are Mahasaraswati’s province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker.

Therefore of all the Mother’s powers she is the most long suffering with man and his thousand imperfections. Kind, smiling, close and helpful, not easily turned away or discourages, insistent even after repeated failure, her hand sustains our every step on condition that we are single in our will and straightforward and sincere; for a double mind she will not tolerate and her revealing irony is merciless to drama and histronics and self deceit and pretence.

A mother to our wants, a friend in our difficulties, a persistent and tranquil counselor and mentor, chasing away with her radiant smile the clouds of gloom and fretfulness and depression, reminding always of the ever present help, pointing to the eternal sunshine, she is firm, quiet and persevering in the deep and continuous urge that drives us towards the integrality of the higher nature.
All the work of the other Powers leans on her for its completeness, for she assures the material foundation, elaborates the stuff of detail and erects and rivets the armour the structure.

Gloire à Toi Seigneur réalisateur Supreme
Donne nous une foi ardent, active, absolue inébranlable en Ta VICTOIRE

Students’ Prayer

Make of us the hero warriors
We aspire to become.
May we fight successfully
The great battle of the future that is to be born,
Against the past that seeks to endure;
So that the new things may manifest
And we may be ready to receive them.

Victoire à la Douce Mère
Victoire à la Douce Mère
Victoire à la Douce Mère