July 1, 1914
WE salute Thee, O Lord, with adoration and joy and we give ourselves to Thee in a gift constantly renewed, so that Thy will may be done on the earth and in all places in this world. Turning towards Thee our thought is mute, but our heart exults, for Thou shinest in everything, and Page – 149 the smallest grain of sand can be an occasion for adoration. We bow down before Thee, we unite with Thee, O Lord, in a love without limit and full of an ineffable beatitude. O give to all this sovereign joy.
O SOVEREIGN Force, victorious Power, Purity, Beauty, Love supreme, allow the integrality of this being, the totality of this body to approach Thee solemnly and offer to Thee in a complete and humble surrender this means of manifestation perfectly given up to Thy will, if not perfectly ripe for this realisation. With the calm and strong certitude that Thou wilt one day accomplish the expected miracle and fully manifest Thy sublime splendour, we turn towards Thee in a profound ecstasy and silently implore Thee. Immensity, Infinitude, Wonder… Thou alone art and shinest in all things. The hour of Thy fulfilment is near. All Nature solemnly retires into a calm concentration. And Thou repliest to her ardent appeal! Page – 150 July 5, 19l4
ALL that belongs to the outer and lower being which is still obscure, prostrates itself in a mute and fervent adoration, appealing with all its force to Thy purifying action which will make it fit to manifest Thee fully. And in this adoration is found perfect silence and. perfect beatitude. Thou repliest mercifully to the appeal: "What has to be done shall be done. The necessary instruments shall be prepared. Make thy endeavour with calm, with certitude."
July 6, 1914
WHAT a plenitude in the perception! The whole individual being, modest, humble, surrendered, adoring, calm and smiling, feels one with all, can make no differences of value; it is in perfect solidarity with all and with that all it kneels in front of Thee; and at the same time the formidable omnipotence of Thy Force is there; ready for manifestation, waiting, it is building the propitious hour, the favourable opportunity: it is there, the incomparable splendour of Thy victorious sovereignty. The Force is there. Rejoice, you who wait and hope: the new manifestation is sure; the new manifestation is near. Page – 151 The Force is there. All nature exults and sings in joy, all nature is in holiday. The Force is there. Arise and live; rise and be illuminated; .arise and battle for the transfiguration of all: the Force is there!
PEACE, peace over all earth…. Not the peace of an inconscient sleep or of a self-satisfied inertia, not the peace of a self-forgetful ignorance and an obscure and heavy indifference; but the peace of the omnipotent force, the peace of a perfect communion, the peace of an integral awakening, of the disappearance of all limitation and all darkness. Why torment oneself and suffer; why this harsh struggle and this sorrowful revolt; why this vain violence; why this inconscient and heavy sleep? Wake up without fear, appease your conflicts, silence your disputes, open your eyes and your hearts: the Force is there; it is there divinely pure, luminous, powerful; it is there as a limitless love, as a sovereign power, as an undisputed reality, as an unmixed peace, as an uninterrupted beatitude, as the supreme Benediction; it is existence in itself, the boundless felicity of the infinite knowledge…and it is something more which cannot be said, but which is already Page – 152 active in the higher worlds beyond thought, as the power of sovereign transfiguration, and also in the inconscient depths of Matter as the Irresistible Healer. Listen, listen, O thou who wouldst know. Look, thou who wouldst see, contemplate and live: the Force is there!
July 8, 1914
O FORCE divine, supreme illuminator, listen to our prayer, do not go far from us, do not withdraw, help us to fight the good fight, fortify our strength for the struggle, give us the power for victory! O my sweet Master, Thou whom I adore without being able to know Thee, Thou who I am without being able to realise Thee, all my conscious individuality prostrates itself before Thee and implores, in the name of the workers in their struggle, of the earth in its agony, of humanity in its suffering and of Nature in her endeavour, O my sweet Master, marvellous Unknowable, Dispenser of all boons, Thou who bringest light to birth out of darkness and force out of weakness, support our efforts, guide our steps, lead us to victory. Page – 153
O THOU who eternally and immutably art and who givest Thy consent to Thy becoming in this world that Thou mayst bring to it a new Illumination, a new Impulsion, Thou art there, manifest Thyself more completely and more perfectly; the instrument has given itself and gives itself to Thee in an enthusiastic surrender, a total self-abandonment, Thou canst reduce it to dust or transform it into a sun, it will resist nothing that is Thy will; and in this surrender lies its true power, its beatitude. But why dost Thou spare the animality of the body? Is it because time must be given to it to adapt itself to the marvellous complexity and the potent infinity of Thy Force? Is it Thy will that wishes to be gentle and patient, and not to precipitate anything but leave to the elements the leisure to adapt themselves?…! mean to say : is it better so or is it impossible otherwise? Is it a special incapacity which is magnanimously tolerated by Thee, or is it a general law which is an inevitable part of all that is to be transformed? However, since it is so, it matters little, what we think of it. The attitude alone is important: must we struggle against it, or must we accept it? And, it is Thou who dictates! the attitude, it is Thy Will which determines it at every moment. Why foresee and combine when it is enough to verify and fully adhere? Page – 154 The working in the constitution of the physical cells is perceptible: penetrated by a considerable amount of force, they seem to expand and become lighter. But the brain is still heavy and asleep…! unite myself with this body, O divine Master, and I cry to Thee: "Do not spare me, act with Thy sovereign omnipotence; into me Thou hast put the for a total transfiguration.
July 11, 1914
THE whole physical being would wish to be dissolved and reconstituted in an adoration without limit. O Lord, Thou who hast come to touch Matter as the Messenger of the Supreme Power and Supreme Beatitude, Thou bringest to birth the conception of what the total realisation can be. And when the being has believed that it has been definitively invested with Thy sublime mandate. Thou withdrawest, giving it to understand that it was only a promise, an assurance of what can be. Alas, how Teat is the imperfection of this Matter that we cannot retain Thee! O Lord, use Thy omnipotence, accomplish the miracle of Thy permanent Presence…Why spare us so much? We must either triumph or perish I The Victory, the victory, the victory! We demand he victory of Transfiguration! Page – 155
IN all the states of being, in all the modes of activity, in all things, in all worlds, one can meet Thee and be united with Thee, for Thou art every-where and ever present. He who has met Thee in one activity of his being or in one world in the universe, says: "I have found Him" and seeks no more for anything else, he thinks he has arrived at the summit of human possibility. What a mistake! It is in all states, in all modes, in all things, in all worlds, in all elements that we have to discover Thee and be united with Thee, and if we leave out one element, however small it may be, the communion cannot be perfect, the realisation cannot be accomplished. And that is why to find Thee is only the first step in an ascent that is infinite. O sweet Master, sovereign Transfigurator, let all negligence and all lazy indolence cease, gather up all our energies in a sheaf and make of them a will, indomitable, irresistible. O Light, Love, ineffable Force, all atoms cry to Thee that Thou mayst penetrate and transfigure them. Give to all the supreme happiness of the communion! Page – 156
PATIENCE, force, courage, calm and indomitable energy. May the mind learn to be silent and not to want to profit immediately by the forces which come to us from Thee for the integral manifestation. But why should the poorest, the most mediocre, the most imperfect element have been chosen for the expression of Thy will?
WHAT then, O Lord? Whatever Thou wiliest, whatever Thou wiliest. This instrument is weak and mediocre, Thou hast taught it that all activities were possible to it, that in. dl the potentialities of human action nothing was- fundamentally foreign to it; but it is in intensity and in perfection alone that the Divine begins, and up to now Thou hast accorded to it no exceptional intensity,, no true perfection…All is in a state of promise not yet individualised, but collective, and nothing is completely realised. Why, O Lord? Thou hast put in my heart this peace so total that it seems almost to be indifference, and says in an immensity of calm serenity: Whatever Thou wiliest, whatever Thou wiliest. Page – 157
SALUTATION of a silent and humble adoration. I bow down before Thy glory, for it dominates, me with all its splendour. O let me dissolve at Thy feet, melt in Thee!
TERRESTRIAL realisations easily assume a great importance in our eyes, for they are proportioned to our external being, to this limited form which makes of us men. But what is a terrestrial realisation compared with Thee, in front of Thee? However perfect, however complete, however divine it may be, it is only an indiscernible moment in Thy eternity; and the results obtained by it, however powerful, however marvellous they may be, are but an imperceptible atom in the infinite advance towards Thee. It is this that Thy workers should never forget, otherwise they will -become unfit to serve Thee. O my sweet Master, what a childishness it is to think oneself responsible for anything and to wish to individualise. Thy supreme and divine Will! Is it not enough to be united with Thy heart and live permanently in it? Then Thou takest all the responsibility? Page – 158 and Thy will works even without there being any need for us to know it.. .Only a realisation independent of all outer circumstances and unconfined by any attachment or understanding, however high it may be, is a true realisation, a realisation of value. And the only one which fulfils these conditions is to unite with Thee in a union tight, integral, definitive. As for the care of Thy transient and momentary manifestation, in a fugitive existence and in a passing world, it is Thou who must be responsible for it and do what is necessary for it to be, if Thou deemest it good. O my sweet Master, sovereign Lord, Thou hast taken all my cares and hast left me only the Beatitude, the supreme ecstasy of Thy divine Communion.
TWO things remain unshakable amidst all the winds of tempest, even the most violent: the will that all may be happy with the true happiness,— Thy happiness; and the ardent desire to be perfectly united and identified with Thee… all the rest is perhaps still the result of an effort or a pretension, this is spontaneous and unshakable; and at the moment when the very ground seems to give way under my feet and all is crumbling down, this appears luminous, pure and calm, piercing all clouds, dispelling all darkness, surging up greater and stronger from Page – 159 all the ruin and carrying in itself Thy infinite Peace and Beatitude.
July 19, 1914
LORD, Thou art the omnipotent Master of Thy own manifestation; grant that these instruments may escape from their too narrow frames, too fixed and mediocre limits. All the riches of human possibilities are needed to translate an atom of Thy infinite Force…… Open the closed doors, set flowing the sealed fountains, and let Thy torrents of eloquence and beauty pour out over the world. Amplitude and majesty, nobility and grace, charm and grandeur, variety and puissance, all are needed, for it is the will of the Lord to manifest. O my sweet Master, Thou art the sovereign Director of our destiny. Thou art the omnipotent Master of Thy own manifestation. Thine are all this world, all these beings and all these atoms. Transfigure them and illumine.
THERE was no longer the body, no longer any sensation; there was only a column of light rising from the place where is ordinarily the base Page – 160 of the body up to the place where is ordinarily the bead, to form there a disk of light like that of the moon; then from there the column went on rising up to very far above the head to break into an immense sun, dazzling and multi-coloured, from which fell a rain of golden light covering the whole earth. Then slowly the column of light descended. forming an oval of living light, awakening and setting in motion, each in a particular way, according to l special mode of vibration, the centres which were above the head, at the place of the head, the throat, the heart, in the middle of the belly, at the base of the spine and still lower. At the height of the knees, the ascending and the descending currents joined together and the circulation thus became in a way uninterrupted, enveloping the whole being with an immense oval of living light. Then slowly the consciousness descended again. from stage to stage, halting at every world, till the consciousness of the body came back. The resumption of the consciousness of the body was, if my memory is exact, the ninth stage. At this moment the body was still quite stiff and immobile.
July 22, 1914
THOU art all love, O Lord, and the light of Thy love is there deep down in all thought and. Page – 161 in every heart. Achieve Thy work of transfiguration: illumine us. Open the doors still closed, widen the horizon, establish power, unify our beings and make us participators in Thy divine beatitude, so that we may help all to share in it. Let us conquer the last obstacles, inner and outer, and surmount the ultimate difficulties. An ardent and sincere prayer has never risen to Thee in vain, always in Thy munificence Thou respondest to every call and Thy mercy is infinite. O Divine Master, let Thy light fall upon this chaos and a new world emerge from it. What is now preparing accomplish and let a new humanity be born which will be the perfect expression of Thy new sublime Law. Nothing shall stop our elan; nothing shall tire our endeavour; resting upon Thee all our hopes and all our activities, strong in a complete submission to Thy supreme Will, we shall march to the conquest of Thy integral manifestation with the calm certitude of victory over all that would oppose it. Salutation to Thee, O Master of the worlds, who triumphest over every obscurity.
O LORD, Thou art all-powerful: become the fighter and win the victory. May Thy love Page – 162 dwell as the sovereign Master of our hearts and Thy Knowledge never leave our thoughts…Do not abandon us in impotence and darkness; shatter all limits, break all chains, dispel all illusions. Our aspiration rises towards Thee as an ardent prayer.
AT daybreak, I sang the praise of this world where it is possible not only to desire Thee, at also to know Thee and even to become Thyself. and I felt astonishment that some so ardently aspire to leave this universe and enter into another and perfect world. Thou hast put so much contentment in my heart that it has become impossible for me not to be satisfied in all circumstances inner or outer. And yet. something in my being aspires always towards more beauty, more light, more knowledge, more love, in short, towards a more conscious and constant relation with Thee… But that too depends on Thy will and it is when it is Thy will that Thou wilt accord to me the total transfiguration. Page – 163
GENTLY, humbly my prayer rises towards Thee O Sweet Master, Thou who acceptest without debate or criticism all that offers itself to Thee; who givest and makest Thyself known to all without questioning whether they are worthy, and findest nothing too weak, too small, too modest, too insufficient to manifest Thee. Let me lie down at Thy feet, merge into Thy heart disappear in Thee, be blotted out in Thy beatitude or rather be solely Thy servitor without pretending to anything else. I do not desire or aspire to anything more, I wish only to be Thy servitor.
IT seems to me that it is Thy will to make me pass successively through all the experiences that are generally put at the summit of a Yoga as its culmination and the proof of its perfect accomplishment. The experience is intense, complete, striking, carrying in it the knowledge of all its effects, all its consequences; it is conscious and willed, it comes out of a methodical effort and not by an unexpected chance; and yet it is always unique, like the milestones placed along a path and separated from each other by a long ribbon of road; and, moreover, these milestones which stake Page – 164 out the infinite ascent, are never alike; ever new, they appear to have no connection with one another…Will a moment come when Thou wilt make this being cable of synthesising all these innumerable experiences so as to draw out of them a realisation new, more complete, more beautiful than all those gone though up to this day? I do not know. But Thou hast taught me not to regret the exceptional state after it has disappeared any more than I desired it before t came. I no longer see in it the sign of an instability in the progress made, but the proof of an advance which is pursued deliberately, without stopping any longer than is indispensable, for the diverse stages of the path. Every time Thou teachest me a little more that the means of manifestation is limited only because we think it to be so, and that it can effectively share in Thy infinitude; everytime something of Thy immensity is allied to the instrument which is its dwelling place, flinging wide the doors which open upon limitless horizons. Page – 165 |