Yoga of Synthesis: At the gateway of new Civilisation, Culture and Ideals of the Aquarian Age

Let us establish (as it is progressively revealed to my intuition from the ashram of synthesis) much more accurate concrete mathematical model of  synthesis (or harmony, brotherhood, unity, fusion etc) as taught and demonstrated by some of the initiates of the last two centuries (messengers of the World-Teacher) as follows: H.P. Blavatsky : A Synthesis of Philosophy, Religion and Science (The Secret Doctrine, Ageless Wisdom and Theosophy: an esoteric wisdom religion) (A Ray 1 and 2 impulse of synthesis) Djwal Khul and Alice Bailey : A Synthesis of the Seven Rays (The 24 synthetic Books on Esoteric Philosophy of Seven Rays) (A Ray 2 wisdom impulse of synthesis) Sri Aurobindo and The Mother : Integral and Synthesis of Yoga, Auroville - Experimental city of Synthesis (A Ray 4 and 6 artistic harmonizing impulse of synthesis) Nicholas and Helena Roerich and Vicente Beltran Anglada: Agni Yoga (A Ray 1,2,7 impulse fiery and magical impulse of synthesis) Alexander Grothendieck (with Saunde...

 "All grew a consecration and a rite. Air was a vibrant link between earth and heaven; The wide-winged hymn of a great priestly wind Arose and failed upon the altar hills; The high boughs prayed in a revealing sky." - Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol. A theosophical meditative perspective: Sri Aurobindo mystically says that the approach of radiant Goddess (theosophy teaches that, with Sanat Kumara came a group of other highly evolved Beings who are the outcome of the triple nature of the Planetary Logos. They embody the forces emanating from the head, heart, and throat centres, and They came in with Sanat Kumara to form focal points of planetary force for the helping of the divine plan for the self-conscious unfoldment of inconscient Earth) is making everything holy and devoted. The atmosphere is felt as a luminous link between the lower earthly inconscient and higher heavens. The wind rushes upon the hilly shrines and fluttering shoots offer their prayers to the eloquent skies...

 "Earth felt the Imperishable’s passage close: The waking ear of Nature heard her steps And wideness turned to her its limitless eye, And, scattered on sealed depths, her luminous smile Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds." - Savitri, a Legend and a Symbol.   A theosophical meditative perspective: These lines potray apprehension of the insconscient Earth (one of those non-sacred planets as we are taught in theosophy) as the approach of the immortal Goddess is sensed. Her wide infinte eyes and awakenend ears get attuned to the Goddess. The dazzling smile of Goddess, fires the deep shut quiet of Nature. Huta paints the smiling Goddess radiant with brilliant sparks illuminating the wide space also depicting Earth at the bottom. Image: Meditations on Savitri painting no. 12 depicting above lines from Book 1, Canto 1.

 "Once more a tread perturbed the vacant Vasts; Infinity’s centre, a Face of rapturous calm Parted the eternal lids that open heaven; A Form from far beatitudes seemed to near. Ambassadress twixt eternity and change, The omniscient Goddess leaned across the breadths That wrap the fated journeyings of the stars And saw the spaces ready for her feet. Once she half looked behind for her veiled sun, Then, thoughtful, went to her immortal work." Note that Sri Aurobindo has always portrays the Godhead or Logos as feminine a Goddess or Shakti (being on Rays 2,4,6 which are soft mystic theosophy rays). Once again a march of the Goddess begins to disturbs the boundless spaces of inconscient as her divine form approaches for her immortal mission. She sits at the centre (representation of the Central Spiritual Sun) of an measureless heavenly abode, with an ecstatic calm. An all-seeing emissary amid change and eternity, She leans across the Vast spaces enfolding the destiny of the celest...

 "An instant’s visitor the godhead shone. On life’s thin border awhile the Vision stood And bent over earth’s pondering forehead curve. Interpreting a recondite beauty and bliss In colour’s hieroglyphs of mystic sense, It wrote the lines of a significant myth Telling of a greatness of spiritual dawns, A brilliant code penned with the sky for page. Almost that day the epiphany was disclosed Of which our thoughts and hopes are signal flares; A lonely splendour from the invisible goal Almost was flung on the opaque Inane." A meditative, theosophical, synthetic perspective: In these verses, Sri Aurodindo portrays the Godhead (our Planetary Logos in theosophy) as a momentary visitor presenting a Divine Vision for the life evolving on the pondering earth's forehead curve. The blissful Vision is filled with an esoteric magical mystique. Through a beautiful coloured calligraphy, it is penning mythical verses in the skies, describing the advent of a grand spiritual dawn. The Visio...

 "A glamour from unreached transcendences Iridescent with the glory of the Unseen, A message from the unknown immortal Light Ablaze upon creation’s quivering edge, Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours." An occult meditation with a theosophical perspective: In these lines, Sri Aurobindo renders a captivating mood of a magical Dawn. It has an allure of inaccessible supremacy and is glittering with Unseen glory. There appears to be a message from an eternal Light, on fire upon a shivering rim. A splendid atmosphere with glorious tones seems as if the Dawn has planted its seed of splendour that will sprout in hours into a majestic day. The painting attempts to reproduce that magical Dawn. As stated previously, a Dawn might refer to any general beginning, an illustration in theosophy being a manvantara (manu/Ray 1 + anatara/gap or distance) generally valid from a microcosm (atomic life) to a macrocosm (man, planet, solar system and s...

 "The darkness failed and slipped like a falling cloak From the reclining body of a god. Then through the pallid rift that seemed at first Hardly enough for a trickle from the suns, Outpoured the revelation and the flame. The brief perpetual sign recurred above." A theosophical meditation: Near the radiant leaning body of an Divine Avatar (God), the dark shadow of ignorance slides like a falling robe. The vanishing darkness initially is faint as if a drizzle but then comes a pouring of revelation through her Divine flame although it seems short-lived. In theosophy, it reminds us of those initiates that were sent forth in last two centuries starting with Blavatsky (amanuensis for M. and K.H.) when the first revelation and impulse was given while the second came forth through Alice Bailey (amanuensis for D.K.). Theosophists are told that a third is yet to come before the new age of Leo-Aquarius gets firmly established provided they play their parts in the Whole sufficiently. Hu...

 Why a theosophical meditation on Savitri provides a wonderful example of synthesis of philosophy with art ? In his own letter Sri Aurobindo, a synthesiser writes - "This is the real stumbling-block of mystic poetry and specially mystic poetry of this kind. The mystic feels real and present, even ever-present to his experience, intimate to his being, truths which to the ordinary reader are intellectual abstractions or metaphysical speculations. He is writing of experiences that are foreign to the ordinary mentality. Either they are unintelligible to it and in meeting them it flounders about as in an obscure abyss or it takes them as poetic fancies expressed in intellectually devised images. He uses words and images in order to convey to the mind some perception, some figure of that which is beyond thought. To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, substantiality which is more real than the sens...

 "All can be done if the god-touch is there. A hope stole in that hardly dared to be Amid the Night’s forlorn indifference. As if solicited in an alien world With timid and hazardous instinctive grace, Orphaned and driven out to seek a home, An errant marvel with no place to live, Into a far-off nook of heaven there came A slow miraculous gesture’s dim appeal. The persistent thrill of a transfiguring touch Persuaded the inert black quietude And beauty and wonder disturbed the fields of God." A Theosophical meditation: Sri Aurobindo says that when a man gets touched and motivated by the Divine Will (Ray 1) then every thing becomes possible for such a realized man. Theosophically such is an enlightened and intelligent purpose which is also cooperative, adjusting itself to Divine plan of Hierarchy and fits in with the purpose of the Planetary Logos. In the Dark Night with its pitiful and sad indifference and in an alien world, a Divine appeal seems like an marvellous straying or...

 "An unshaped consciousness desired light And a blank prescience yearned towards distant change. As if a childlike finger laid on a cheek Reminded of the endless need in things The heedless Mother of the universe, An infant longing clutched the sombre Vast. Insensibly somewhere a breach began: A long lone line of hesitating hue Like a vague smile tempting a desert heart Troubled the far rim of life’s obscure sleep." An unevolved and unshaped consciousness (Ray 2) is desirous of the light and has a foreknowledge of the distant goal of fulfilment (Ray 1 Divine purpose). At it current stage in evolution it is a like a longing infant who lays a finger on the cheek of a seemingly unmindful Divine mother as portrayed by Huta. The desert heart and obscure sleep of the matter is being breached by a tinge at the dawn. "Arrived from the other side of boundlessness An eye of deity peered through the dumb deeps; A scout in a reconnaissance from the sun, It seemed amid a heavy cosmic...

 We continue with next few lines and theosophical meditations on Savitri.  Most will doubt that Sri Aurobindo never hinted on any of the theosophical interpretation of his epic poem. However those whose synthetic faculty of intuition is waking up would relish the fact that occult visions of Vyasa and Sri Aurodindo are in harmony with those passages from "The Book of Dzyan" paraphrased by Blavatsky once again proving that "Truth is One". No doubt even though Sri Aurobindo denounced romanticism of the Masters by next generation of Theososphists in his time, his conversations recorded in the book "Talks with Sri Aurobindo Volume 1 by Nirodbaran" sheds light on his thoughts as noted below: DR. MANILAL: What do you think of Madame Blavatsky? SRI AUROBINDO: She was a remarkable woman. DR. MANILAL: Were you ever a freemason? SRI AUROBINDO: My eldest brother was. I gathered that there was nothing in it. But it certainly had something when it was first started. Hav...

IT WAS the hour before the Gods awake. Across the path of the divine Event The huge foreboding mind of Night, alone In her unlit temple of eternity, Lay stretched immobile upon Silence’ marge. Almost one felt, opaque, impenetrable, In the sombre symbol of her eyeless muse The abysm of the unbodied Infinite; A fathomless zero occupied the world.   The word "awake" indicates cycles (as in a day of activity and a night of rest repeatedly). In every cycle there is a creation and obscuration. The poem starts with a description of that darkest hour before the Dawn at which Lords of Creation will again come with their creative impluse to carry forward the evolution of conciousness. In India's temple-life for thousands of year it has been a religio-mythic tradition where around 3-4 am everyday the bells are rung to awaken the deites. Lying across the path of that Divine Event when these Lords will awake, is that Night which senses something terrible is going to end her rule. The ...

 Meditations on Savitri: Book 1: The Book of Beginnings,  Canto III: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release "Lifting the heavy curtain of the flesh He stood upon a threshold serpent-watched, And peered into gleaming endless corridors, Silent and listening in the silent heart For the coming of the new and the unknown." Meditative experience: The yogi (King Aswapati) rising through denser physical planes of flesh and matter now stands upon the threshold watched by the serpent (to me it appears as the Dweller or Guardian on the Threshold). He silently peers through the corridors of higher planes on which the evolutionary current will carry humanity and bring about the advent of new races (sixth and seventh as in The Secret Doctrine). "He gazed across the empty stillnesses And heard the footsteps of the undreamed Idea In the far avenues of the Beyond. He heard the secret Voice, the Word that knows, And saw the secret face that is our own." Meditative experience: These are the o...

 Meditations on Savitri: Book 1: The Book of Beginnings,  Canto III: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release   "He sat in secret chambers looking out Into the luminous countries of the unborn Where all things dreamed by the mind are seen and true And all that the life longs for is drawn close. He saw the Perfect in their starry homes Wearing the glory of a deathless form, Lain in the arms of the Eternal’s peace, Rapt in the heart-beats of God-ecstasy. He lived in the mystic space where thought is born And will is nursed by an ethereal Power And fed on the white milk of the Eternal’s strengths Till it grows into the likeness of a god. In the Witness’s occult rooms with mind-built walls On hidden interiors, lurking passages Opened the windows of the inner sight. He owned the house of undivided Time. Lifting the heavy curtain of the flesh He stood upon a threshold serpent-watched, And peered into gleaming endless corridors, Silent and listening in the silent heart For the coming of t...

 In previous posts we briefly studied the nature of spiritual path of initiations along with the rays and inner human constitution. We also attempted to summarize many key points in various tables and diagrams. Continuing further, I intend to do a study of the book esoteric astrology in that series and summarize key features in tables. Later slowly we will combine and interpret those earlier tables along with astrology tables to be able to intuitively grasp an occult picture of an individual as he takes birth in a given incarnation along with the lessons that he is supposed to learn and his journey through many ages in various zodiac signs as he gets liberated from the wheel of rebirth and samsara (Fifth Initiation) standing free as a master of compassion and wisdom. 1. Djwal khul traces the progress of the man from sign to sign around the zodiacal way from sign to sign (not necessarily smooth and ordered). He says: "As the ages slip away, the man passes into and out of all the si...