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Namah Healing in the Heart of the Mother

or Supreme, and the Sakti, the Creatrix or the That journey from ignorance to the Divine
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Divine Mother — and then to keep splitting is the ultimate Becoming, and one that all
into the most dazzling multiplicity, of which on Earth, especially those in need of true
we exist within at this very moment. healing — one that widens them beyond their
Though the entire mystery has not been fully human stories — should know about! But
revealed to us, as it is beyond human mental as those who are aware of this journey, we
conception or the limits of linear thought — must “search our nature with spiritual fire,”
though Sri Aurobindo in Savitri and His other cleansing our wounds and pathologies in the
Works is the closest voyager, I believe — the psychic fire, so that we can fully give ourselves
Divine created this zone of Earth where the to this Divine vision.
darkest of the dark could be contrasted to the
Light for fuller Self-knowledge. The Divine Divine Love, the Truest Healer
plummeted into what Sri Aurobindo terms
the Inconscience, the Abyss. And then, in
His creative vision, He planted the seed for
a being, man, that would struggle back to the
Divine Light with the Earth as its training
grounds. In Sri Aurobindo’s mystic vision
of Integral Yoga, as encapsulated in his
transcendent masterpiece Savitri, this being
would not simply escape the confines of
the Earth, but would, with the assurance
of its unique, evolving, eternal soul, bring
the Divine victoriously into matter and
spiritualise the Earth. He writes of the
dilemma of man’s veiled self-knowledge
and inevitable ascent in Savitri:

“This powerful bondslave of his instruments
Thinks his low station Nature’s highest top,
Oblivious of his share in all things made
And haughtily humble in his own conceit The Divine Mother, SSakti, deep inside of
Believes himself a spawn of Matter’s mud this Becoming having plummeted into the
And takes his own creations for his cause. Inconscience, has fused to all the Earth’s
creatures and now hides within each of
To eternal light and knowledge meant to rise, their faces. She accompanies all creatures
Up from man’s bare beginning is our climb; in their sojourns on Earth across the ages.
Out of earth’s heavy smallness we must break, But most preciously, the Mother’s Divine
We must search our nature with spiritual fire: Love accompanies and guides the human
An insect crawl preludes our glorious flight; being with the finest detail, as we are the
Our human state cradles the future god, only creatures with evolving souls — that
Our mortal frailty an immortal force (3).” portion of the Divine that has been splintered

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