Now chirrup sunbirds
Like a dream floating in the lower sky
Came pink-bright faith looking into urging depths;
Dazzling feathers known only to the angels
Brought her when, sonorous, struck inner bells;
The kindled fire burned the surface soul
And in that purity faith became knowledge;
Now in delightful courtyard chirrup sunbirds
In the morning blaze of truth’s confidence.
19 December 2024
The Mother speaks of faith as “Aspiration for trust in the Divine”. An intense need for the immutable peace that is given by the certitude of the Divine Grace.
Physical description of this “Aspiration for trust in the Divine” as a flower is: Small pale purple funnelform flower with five lobes edged pale purple, the lower lobe marked deep purple and the throat finely lined and irregularly spotted white – borne in few-flowered racemes. A subshrub with ovate leaves.
About soul’s faith Sri Aurobindo writes in a letter: “Until we know the Truth (not mentally but by experience, by change of consciousness) we need the soul’s faith to sustain us and hold on to the Truth—but when we live in the knowledge, this faith is changed into knowledge.”
And this is from Savitri:
In the Book of Yoga, Book Seven, Savitri at the very beginning is bidden to find her soul and house in it the power of the Almighty Mother; with it she has to conquer Death. She immediately follows the instructions and the cosmic dream discloses to her the mystic origins and the shadowy beginnings, and also to where this creation is proceeding. She is at present in her Inner Countries where she meets the beings of fixed mind. Both soul and spirit are absent but only mind alone. She was advised to stay in that place, a home of cosmic certainties, without the truth and God’s harmony. There is something in her which reuses to accept the suggestion. She, casting into his world sight’s deep release, asserts: “Happiest who stand on faith as on a rock.” [120.21; VII:3]
“Happy are they who in this chaos of things,
This coming and going of the feet of Time,
Can find the single Truth, the eternal Law: ||120.19||
Happiest who stand on faith as on a rock. ||120.21||
But I must pass leaving the ended search,
Truth’s rounded outcome firm, immutable
And this harmonic building of world-fact,
This ordered knowledge of apparent things. ||120.22||
Here I can stay not, for I seek my soul.” ||120.23||
Hap+py| are they| who in| this cha+os| of things,|
This com|+ing and go|+ing of| the feet| of Time,|
Can find| the sin|+gle Truth,| the e+ter|+nal Law:|
Hap+pi+est| who stand| on faith| as on| a rock.|
But I| must pass| leav+ing| the end|+ed search,|
Truth’s round|+ed out|+come firm,| im+mu|+ta+ble|
And this| har+mon|+ic build|+ing of| world-fact,|
This or|+dered knowl|+edge of| ap+par|+ent things.|
Here I| can stay| not, for| I seek| my soul.|
Savitri Book 7 Canto 3 – The Entry into the Inner Countries; Painting by Huta #5
Savitri tells to the beings of fixed mind: “Happiest who stand on faith as on a rock.”
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