English Songs as Mantras in the Future

Two hundred or three hundred or five hundred years from now, I predict that quite a few of my songs given to Parvati’s Enthusiasm-Awakeners singing group, simple English songs, will be taken as mantras. Of course, you may not remember my prediction. Today we are laughing and smiling as we sing these songs. But after 300 or 400 years, these songs will be taken as mantras. If English-speaking people do not accept them, no harm. Then Indian-language-speaking people, in India and elsewhere, will accept these. And these songs will be sung again and again. On the one hand, these songs are childish or childlike, but they touch the very depths of the devotion-heart. If people have an iota of devotion, these songs will touch the very depths of their devotion-heart.

There will come a time when the whole world will run towards devotion, not only India. Salvation will come from devotion. If the world has to raise its consciousness, then it is through devotion, the magnet. Now millions of people are of the opinion that devotion is feminine. So many people, specially atheists and agnostics, when they hear the word ‘devotion’, either they sneer at the word, or they say they have nothing to do with it. Devotion is all from human weakness. Might is right.

But those people do not realise devotion has the magnetic pull. Devotion can bring the infinite Power, wherever it is, into the heart and life of the seeker. A day will come when this secret will be well known all over the world. Not only my songs, far from it – there will be many, many who have already written and who will be writing devotional songs, simpler than the simplest. They will touch the very breath of the seekers.

This world will be inundated with seekers. It is far beyond our imagination to think that this world – the half-animal life, half-human life world – will be inundated with seekers. The boat perhaps will reach the rock bottom. After we go down, then we have to go up, up, up, up. Since God created this earth planet, God will never accept defeat from His creation.

I am sure that on the physical plane you may not see it, but if you remain in the soul’s world, you will see that this prediction will come true. Devotion is absolutely simpler than the simplest. At that time, as I said today, pride and the mind will not work. A little child is running towards his parents, and the parents will give the little child everything: infinite affection, compassion, sweetness and fondness. The older one will come with self-importance, pride and haughtiness. Parents will condescend to give him not a full smile, not a half smile, but perhaps one-eighth of a real smile.

It we really want to make progress, we have to consciously feel – make ourselves feel – that we are little children. The mind has to be smashed into pieces. A little child gets joy from everything – a little flower, a little leaf. Sri Aurobindo wrote that God is an eternal Child playing in His eternal Garden. Like that, we are not 60, 70, 80 or 90 years old. We have to feel that we are all under seven years and our progress will be the fastest.

It is not fooling the mind. It is only illumining the heart, to say that we are not older than seven years, and it can be done. It has happened in the case of many, many spiritual seekers and spiritual Masters. Unlearning and learning must go together. What is today’s prayer?

All recite:

My mind-unlearning desire
And my heart-climbing aspiration
Must go together.

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