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Namah                                     Vol. 30, Issue 2, 15th July 2022





        centre of my heart, and with the out-breath, I  Grant my prayer: Transform me into a brazier
        radiate — may all of us be relieved from the  of pure love and boundless compassion (9).”
        grips of the ego consciousness, and may we  Let us all become a brazier of pure love and
        all be expansive, wide with our hearts open.  boundless compassion. Amen.

        Many of us may feel a resistance in doing  References
        Tong-len, which is okay, since the ego or the
        sense of limited self will always be afraid   1.  Sri Aurobindo. Birth Centenary Library, Volume
        of trying to protect itself from all that is   20. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust;
        seemingly damaging. But this is our chance   1970, p. 77.
        and if in spite of the resistance from the ego-
        consciousness, if I have a pure intention of   2.  Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
        benefiting myself and others, then we can   Volume 28. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
        allow ourselves to practise this, so as to let   Trust; 2012, p.256
        all ill-will, all impurities, burn away with
        the purifying power of this practice; and we   3.  Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 21; 2005, p. 234.
        connect ourselves to a higher power beyond
        our limited imaginations.                4.  Sri Aurobindo. CWSA, Volume 33; 1997, p.443


        In the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations, we have   5.  Ibid., pp. 443-44.
        a hint of the Mother practising something like
        Tong-len:                                6.  Ibid., p.440.

        “O Lord, I would like to be so ardent a love   7.  The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 9. Cent
        that all lonelinesses may be filled up by it and   ed. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust;
        all sorrows soothed.                       1977, p. 287.


        O Lord, I cry unto Thee: Make me a burning   8.  The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 2 ; 1978,
        brazier which consumes all suffering and   pp. 19-20.
        transforms it into joyous light irradiating the
        hearts of all! . . .                     9.  The Mother. Collected Works, Volume 1; 1979, p. 65.
















         Dr. Monica Gulati, a learner and a seeker, is based in Gurgaon, India and an editor of NAMAH.

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