Today we travel through the universal vital planes and through the human vital planes. When we go with Savitri, we see her experience of the energies which affect all people. With the King we travel through the universal vital planes As he does his yoga for the world, he solves the mystery of Life's pain and struggle when Life has to be in a human body. It answers the age-old question; "Why is life so hard to live?
Today we start our inner journeys to the soul and to the soul of the world. Our soul is in the center of our subtle being, in the heart chakra. The World Soul is in the world's heart, at the center of Creation. Today we begin to learn about the subtle planes of a human being and the subtle universal planes. These two soul journeys are in Sri Aurobindo's epic poem, Savitri. The journey to the individual soul is the story of Mother's yogic experiences and realizations. The journey to the soul of the world is the story of Sri Aurobindo's yogic experiences and realizations.
Savitri travels through the mortal mind which we all have. In contrast to the vital being, the area of life energies, everything in the mind is limited, ordered and organized. Spirituality is limited to religious ethics and the heart is closed to love.
Mother explains that If we do not have a physical form, we would be almost indistinguishable in the general mass of currents and vibrations which flow through us all. It is our only individuality until we form through the movements of life and education.
On the way to find her soul, Savitri passes through the vital energies in her body, which seem like huge waves crashing around her. They are not yet governed by soul or mind They carry all the world's hope and fears and all the longing eternity cannot fill.
Pain comes to teach us something. The quicker we learn it, the more our need for pain diminishes. The secret is to get out of the ego and unite with the Divine. Instead of running from our pain, we can go through it to the delight at the core of all things.
Aurovilian Loretta speaks of 2 Workshops, one in Italy, sponsored by The Communnity of Living Ethics, and one in Canada sponsored by The Mother's Circle. Fiorenza Bortolotti speaks of the history and work of the Community of Living Ethics.
Savitri begins the search for her heaven-born soul in matter's body. Her seeking is for all mankind, not for herself alone. It is all confusion and disorder at the outer levels of her subtle being. Savitri uses her will and the great Name to get through.
Mother speaks of different types of collective meditations. She tells the Ashramites that it is time use their collective meditation to create a favorable ground for receiving the new force. She gives two methods, one active and one passive.
What is death? What happens to us when we die? Mother and Sri Aurobindo's teachings, based on their own experiences and realizations, bring the answers to these age-old questions.