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".........................before Thee we bow down and implore

that we may never forget, even for a moment, all we owe to Thee."

The Mother 09-12-1950

Remembering Sri Aurobindo

A Programme: at SAVITRI BHAVAN

Date: 05^th December, 2004

Day: Sunday

Time: 3:30 EM.

"Division ceased to be, for God was there.

The soul lit the conscious body with its ray,

Matter and Spirit mingled and were one."

Book II, 8

"O Divine Victor, all earth sings Thy praise and all forces will obey Thee.

For the Lord has said, "The hour has come". And all obstacles will be surmounted, — The Mother "All we owe to Thee" was the offering of gratitude with the garland of remembering from people connected to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The program began with a Guru Vandana by Joy, couplets dedicated to the Guru in Sanskrit. With a brief introduction to the series of programs we have shared since 2001, we concentrated with the Mother's organ music and her reminiscences of Sri Aurobindo. 55 candles were lit in glass and 55 lotus flowers offered at His feet on the 5^th December 2004 at Savitri Bhavan in the presence of a hundred people and His sacred presence; we began with an invocation of Sri Aurobindo Gayatri mantra by Mirresh, Gauridi, Udar Pinto's daughter from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram shared sweet, delightful childhood memories of seeing Sri Aurobindo along with the Mother and growing up

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in their protection and warmth. Six teenage girls trained in dance at Arulvazhi then presented an offering of the Shloka from Gita with a translation in English from Sri Aurobindo.

Richard shared some gleanings from Amal Kiran from the Ashram, and recited from Savitri the following lines:

Then in the process of evolving Time

All shall be drawn into a single plan,

A divine harmony shall be earth's law,

Beauty and joy remould her way to live:

Even the body shall remember God,

Nature shall draw back from mortality

And Spirit's fires shall guide the earth's blind force;

Knowledge shall bring into the aspirant Thought

A high proximity to Truth and God.

Book XI

One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:...

Book I,4

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From the non-being to true being,

from the darkness to the Light,

from death to Immortality.

Om Peace! Peace! Peace!

(Upanishad)

So be it.

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Remembrance of Sri Aurobindo

Let us strive to realize the ideal of life he has set before us.

Lobelia erinus 'Cambridge Blue'. Blue

Glad remembrance

In activity and in silence, in taking and in giving, always the glad remembrance of Thee.

Clarkia unguiculata 'Rosea plena'. Several colours

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