Mother India: Infinity’s Beauty-Eye, Immortality’s Fragrance-Heart

Dedication

I most prayerfully dedicate Mother India: Infinity's Beauty-Eye, Immortality's Fragrance-Heart to Sri Aurobindo, Mother India’s beloved Patriot-Avatar-Son, on the occasion of his 125th Birth Anniversary and India’s 50th Independence Anniversary

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My Mother India’s soul

Is made of

God’s blossoming Smiles.

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My Mother India’s heart

Is made of

God’s streaming Tears.

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My Mother India’s life

Is made of

God’s mounting Visions.

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Long one hundred and ninety years ago,

My Mother India was helplessly

And hopelessly subjugated

To the mighty British yoke. ```

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On August 15th, 1947

The darkest bondage-night

Disappeared,

Only to be gloriously replaced

By the brightest freedom-light.

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Down the sweep of centuries

The Absolute Lord Supreme

Has blessed you, Mother,

With a few choice children

Of His own highest Divinity.

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Your son Rama

(Sri Ramachandra)

Embodied and revealed

The Message of shadowless Promise

And sleepless Sacrifice.

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Your son Krishna

(Sri Krishna)

Embodied, revealed and manifested

The Message of Love-Delight within,

Love-Delight without

And Love-Delight all-where. ```

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Your son Siddhartha

(The Buddha)

Was the possessor of Eternity’s

Infinite Compassion-Ocean. ```

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Your son Chaitanya

(Sri Chaitanya)

Became the Beauty

Of God’s own Love

And the Fragrance

Of God’s own Forgiveness. ```

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Your son Ramakrishna

(Sri Ramakrishna)

Became the Illumination-Tower

Of the synthesis of all world-religions. ```

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Your son Narendranath

(Swami Vivekananda)

Became the fastest

World-progress-acceleration-dynamo. ```

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Your son Aurobindo

(Sri Aurobindo)

Became the harbinger

Of the Supermind-descent

Into the heartbeat of humanity

And the champion supreme

In the cause of mankind’s

Nature-transformation. ```

The Mother1

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An endless birth from mute Eternity

Within Thy Bosom dawns at Thy Will supreme.

Thy blissful Touch on all the limbs of earth

Bestows a thrill of joy, unknown, extreme.

In Thee is hushed, O Mother!

our empty cry.

We are Thy stoic sons of the fire-pure way,

Firm-poised in dreadful hours of earth’s blind drag;

No more the harrow of doom shadows our day.

Proceedest Thou across the path of night

With Thy flame-white Love to change its face and fate.

Thou art the matchless fruit of Thy cosmos’ seed;

In Thee the key of Transformation’s Gate.

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- Chinmoy (1955)

Our Mother, the Mother of the Golden All, the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, accepted the human cloak at her sweet will with her boundless Power for the full manifestation of the Divine here on earth.

Her mission in life was to create a transformed humanity.

She is the sole hope of Nectar-Bliss for those who are burning with an unquenchable thirst for the unique Birth.

And she will be crowned with Triumph only when we, her children, cease to be the finite.

(1958)

MI 15. Photo caption in original book. "The author with the Divine Mother in 1958 receiving decathlon championship award."↩

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My Mother India,

You are telling me

That God cannot be seen

Under a microscope;

He cannot be seen with a telescope;

He can only be seen, felt,

Addressed and realised

With a sleeplessly God-aspiring heart

And God-serving life.

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My Mother India,

You are telling your God-seeking children

That once they see the Face of God,

They will become God’s Face

In everyone and in everything.

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O soul of Mother India,

From you I have learned

That the oldest Dream of God

Was human aspiration

And the youngest Dream of God

Is divine manifestation. ```

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O my Mother India’s soul,

You are telling me

That you have a plethora

Of earth-walking intellectual figures,

But what you truly need are

Earth-ascending, Heaven-descending

Truth-seekers and God-lovers.

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O soul of Mother India,

You are telling me

That what we need

Is not the sound of vastness;

What we actually need

Is the silence of fulness. ```

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O soul of Mother India,

You are asking me

To be an inspiration, aspiration

And dedication-supplier,

So that I will be entitled to become

A Heaven-perfection-satisfaction-gatherer. ```

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I am a staunch Indian Hindu.

Therefore, I feel

In the inmost recesses of my heart

That right from tomorrow

Everyone will change

And everything will change

For the better.

Why?

Because in secrecy supreme

I am receiving this Message

From the God-realisation-soul of India.

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The Indian mind

Is not in a chronic state of insecurity,

But definitely it is

In an endless state of uncertainty. ```

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O my Mother India,

You are telling me

That I must immediately

Do away with the brooding cloud

Of self-doubt and God-doubt.

Indeed,

A mind of doubt nowhere can see

The Beauty of God’s Eye

Or breathe in

The Fragrance of God’s Heart. ```

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When Mother India devotedly sits

At God’s Feet,

God immediately says to Mother India,

“My child, that is not

The right place.

For you, the right place

Is in My Heart-Garden.”

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I immensely like

Mother India’s outer life,

With its God-revelation-festivities.

I sleeplessly love

Mother India’s inner life,

With its God-worship-shrines. ```

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My Mother India,

Miss Margaret Noble came from Ireland.

Her Master transformed her into Nivedita,

The God-consecrated soul,

To serve you unconditionally

And specially to awaken your daughters

To look inward, upward and forward.

Swami Vivekananda’s Nivedita,

Our Sister Nivedita,

Your most faithful service

Will forever shine

In India's sacred heart-shrines. ```

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My Mother India,

Miss Agnes Bojaxhiu came from Albania

To claim you as her heart-home

And to sleeplessly serve

Your poor, sick and helpless children.

This Albanian is now

India’s beloved Mother Teresa.

O Mother India,

As these two non-Indians

Claimed you and became

Indian to the core,

Even so, we would like to offer them

Our untiring gratitude

From the inmost recesses of our hearts. ```

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My Mother India,

When I think of myself as an Indian

And take pride in my Indian birth,

I immediately start soaring

Upon the melodies and cadences

Of your love. ```

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The God-intoxicated Vedic India

Of the hoary past

Cannot forever remain

Buried in stark oblivion.

There shall come a time

When the vision of the Vedic seers

Will be resurrected

And will mightily, convincingly,

Gloriously and triumphantly

Cover the length and breadth

Of the world.

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If it is true

That India was a land

Of God-dreamers,

Even so, it is equally true

That India, either in the near future

Or in the distant future,

Will become a nation

Of man-awakeners and God-servers. ```

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My Mother India,

When my mind doubts

Your world-illumination-capacity,

God in no time withdraws

His Compassion-Eye

And His Forgiveness-Heart from me. ```

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My Mother India,

O Mother,

You are Infinity’s

Beauty-Eye;

You are Immortality’s

Fragrance-Heart. ```

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My Mother India,

Beauty incarnate in God’s entire creation

Was your myriad-minded Rabindranath.

He was the sun of your own heart-garden,

A golden song

Sung by the Singer Supreme.

Tagore’s was a poetic heart

And a prophetic eye:

“Look everywhere and see God’s Beauty,

And then, O Ind, raise your proud head

Towards the Highest.”

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My Mother India,

Your pride, your hope-noon,

Your all-transforming crest

Was Aurobindo.

Wet with your tears, his human heart.

The thunder-blaze of his volcano-pen

Awoke the sleeping souls

To free their Motherland.

Aurobindo,

The zenith Leader of the dire revolt,

With rising sparks of Ind was all aglow

In him we found our altar of sacrifice.

From his words and deeds

Drank we deep delight ambrosial. ```

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The strength of ancient India

Was found in self-searching

And Truth-discovering.

May the strength of modern India

Be found in self-giving

And peace-invoking. ```

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Out of His infinite Bounty,

God tells us, His Indian children,

That no matter what we do

And no matter what befalls us,

God will keep His Heart

Always high, very high

And full of unconditional Hopes.

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My Mother India,

Many politicians, many patriots

And many revolutionaries

Offered their lives

To bring about your independence.

Among those there was a patriot,

Revolutionary, independence-dreamer

And Mother India-lover

Whose very name became

Synonymous with sacrifice.

He is Netaji,

The Leader Supreme.

Netaji, our beloved Netaji,

The year 1997 most affectionately

And most proudly celebrates

Your Birth Centenary.

Every Indian heart

Is your home. ```

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Each and every Indian

Became divine excitement within

And divine jubilation without

On August 15th, 1947. ```

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Only a professor of stupidity

Multiplied by absurdity

Can dare to say

That the partition of India

Was unquestionably indispensable.

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India's vastness intimidated

Some political leaders.

Therefore, they wanted to be associated with

And wedded to the comfort of

Division-security.

Some people are afraid of swimming in the ocean.

They prefer to swim in a tiny pool

For their own safety

Although experienced, courageous

And kind-hearted ocean-swimmers

Are ready willing and eager to teach them

How to swim in the vast ocean. ```

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Alas, how I wish we all

Could have been inundated

With aspiration within

And inspiration without

Right from the very birth

Of our Independence Day,

August 15th, 1947,

To devotedly assist our Mother India

In taking the spiritual leadership

Of the entire world! ```

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Mother India,

When I lovingly, affectionately

And self-givingly meditate on you,

God Himself comes to me

To share with me His immense Desire

To make you the Pilot Supreme

Of the world-boat.

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My Mother India tells her children,

“Love all countries

The way you love me.

Cherish no negativity

Against other countries.

You must realise that your own negativity

Will eventually drag you down

Into your own mind’s abysmal abyss.” ```

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My Mother India,

When I look at your eyes,

I clearly see

That you are in the fondest embrace

Of God’s Fulness-Peace.

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My Mother India,

No matter where I am physically,

I most devotedly long

To keep my God-seeker-life

In the foothills

Of your heart’s Himalayas. ```

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My Mother India,

When I ask you how I can truly

Make you happy,

You always have one answer:

“My child, I want you and your heart

To be always on your knees

In gratitude-prayer

To the Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme.” ```

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Who am I?

I am my Mother India’s

Compassion-flooded miracle-child

To carry her inspiration-eye

And aspiration-heart

To her near and far country-relatives. ```

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My Mother India,

Even for a fleeting second,

Do not allow us to forget

Our Lord Krishna’s —

Your choicest son Krishna’s —

Immortal utterance:

“Whenever righteousness declines

And unrighteousness prevails,

Myself I embody and manifest.

For the protection of the good,

And for the destruction of the wicked,

And for the establishment

Of the inner Code of life,

I come into being from age to age.” ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Mother India: Infinity’s Beauty-Eye, Immortality’s Fragrance-Heart, Agni Press, 1997
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