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Of squares and cubes

Of squares and cubes

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RY Deshpande

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Of squares and cubes

Leaped down from square of the sky an intense fire

And the enthused poet turned into a seer;

Utterance came like music to the eager strings,

Colours of rhythmic sounds heard only in silence;

Reality that had no name rushed with tales,

Of future’s topaz and emerald and ruby’s smile;

Cubes joined orange and gold cubes in a mystery

That blazed in body and soul of the Rishi.

31 August 2024

 वर्गघनयोः

आकाशस्य वर्गात् अधः उत्प्लुत्य तीव्रः अग्निः

उत्साहितः कविः च द्रष्टा परिणतः;

प्रतीक्षमाणतारं प्रति सङ्गीतमिव उक्तिः आगता,

मौने एव श्रूयते लयात्मकध्वनिवर्णाः;

यस्य नाम नासीत् तस्य वास्तविकता कथाभिः सह त्वरितम्,

भविष्यस्य पुखराजस्य पन्ना च माणिक्यस्य च स्मितस्य;

घनानि नारङ्ग-सुवर्ण-घनयोः सह रहस्यं कृतवन्तः

तत् ऋषेः देहात्मने प्रज्वलितम् |

३१ अगस्त २०२४

Mother drew this sketch to explain to a child the meaning of Yoga: man is below, the Divine above; the twists and turns represent the path of ordinary life, the straight line, the path of Yoga. The top is a square.

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    The Mother reveals:

    Nothing was left but an immensity, without beginning, without end, neither in space nor in time—outside time. Outside time and space: an immensity of light. It was something of the same nature as light, but not light—far brighter, far… not bright: far more intense than light. It was white, but not our physical white; it was a white… at the time I couldn’t define it. Afterwards, looking at it again in my consciousness, it seemed to be the light of a gold turned white, you understand: like when you bring something to white heat. Well, it was like gold becoming white through its intensity. It was ABSOLUTELY immobile—that is, I had the feeling you get in Sat. Yet that immobility contained (how shall I put it?)… yes, it actively contained—although its action wasn’t perceptible—a sort of infinite Power, which could be the creative Power. And directed by an unmanifest Consciousness…. If you can make anything out of this, good for you!

    Everything was like that, and without thought—I am now trying to put it into words. And at the center of that immensity was a concentration of white light as we know it (far more intense), but denser, forming a sort of cube that was relatively tiny in the immensity, but nonetheless quite perceptible. It was vibrant, fluid, condensed, concentrated, and tremendously active. And all that immensity converged there (how?) without moving. And from there, it was spreading everywhere, without going out.

    In order to be discernible, the cube was enveloped in something that looked like a kind of tulle, a tulle made of a pale gray substance, which expressed the individual nonexistence, the perfect humility that completely abolishes the ego: because of that there wasn’t the least possibility of ego—if you ask me why, I can’t say, but that’s how it was. And I was seeing that tulle all the time—something extremely delicate, scarcely perceptible, yet maintaining the cube’s form. It was perfect humility (in the divine sense) and total absence of ego—there wasn’t even the memory or idea of it, nothing whatever: the abolition of the ego. And it served to receive that immobile immensity which manifested through an action of the Power. And then, the action of the Power…. I was conscious (“I” was conscious—where was I? I don’t know; the cube represented my physical being: I had been TOLD it was my physical being), and I was watching it without being situated—I myself had no precise place but could see and understand the whole thing. And I could discern all the action being done through the cube: this action for that thing, this for that, this for that… the whole earth (gesture expressing forces radiating outward, each for a special purpose), things from the past and things FAR into the future.

    https://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/november-27-1962

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    The Mother:

    Someone has just brought, from two sides at the same time (gesture to the right and to the left), a plate of grapes and yet another plate of grapes, like that. One was for you and one for me.

    Since two or three days, there are some vital beings eager to manifest their goodwill, and this was like the expression of their goodwill. In the vital, food is very often grapes, very frequently. Grapes of incomparable beauty, besides. And grapes are the fruit of life. So I suppose that’s why. There were two bunches: one was bigger, the other not so big; I don’t know for whom was the biggest and for whom was the other: they came from both sides, they were presented like this (gesture to the right and to the left of Mother). One was on a plate, the other on a square of white paper. I presumed the one on the square of white paper was for me!

    Lovely, beautiful! Grapes turning golden, you know—transparent and golden when they’re ripe. Each grape was this big (gesture: about five centimetres).

    https://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/march-4-1967

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    RY Deshpande

    Thanks to Marc D from Auroville for these references.

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      RY Deshpande

      3 January1970, (Matrimandir)“ …twelve columns. At the center, on the floor, my symbol, and at the center of my symbol, there are four symbols of Sri Aurobindo, upright, forming a square. And atop the square, a translucent globe…”

      … (About the Columns) Circular?

      Or simply square – we’ll have to see.

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      RY Deshpande

      A. B. Purani, Evening talks, 4 June 1926, p. 370 (ed.1982)

      “…[Sri Aurobindo] the square always indicates to me the Supermind: it is a perfect shape… It might have been already found on the mental plane by somebody or might have come into my mind by some force. I did not pursue its meaning; it indicated to me the Supermind and I was satisfied“.

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      R.Y. Desphande, “Nagin Doshi tells me”. Nagin Doshi speaks to R. Y. Desphande, page fifteen, 18.6.1994 “Then I went to the Samadhi. I saw a solid square, a concrete square coming down. It came down and was around my waist…” . Page 16: “Sri Aurobindo had said “I am the square”.

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