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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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