with Sri Ganesh

You can be Justicer As you can be Healer And yet you are Neither: You are Her dancer, You guard the keys To Her Harmony –

In your dance generously You display and you share The Riches of Her complete Harmony, In your dance is Her Promise and Her call –

As you appear on the forest verge, Fully dressed and attired, A bejeweled intricate vibrancy, All hearts remember How beautiful and fulfilling Her world can be, Provided One is true to it.

- 28-02-09:

It is Auroville’s birthday.

I learn about the five … (what to say in any of our modern languages…?), the five positions or aspects or expressions or actions… of the Lord, of the Supreme: the Panchakriyas. These are: Srishti = creation Sthiti = preservation Samhara = destruction

Tirobhava = illusion Anugraha = grace…

… An elderly devotee, who was involved with the Sri Aurobindo Society in this area during the early years of Auroville, named Biharilal, and who came this morning to attend the birthday celebrations, spends a while with us here, and even does a bit of sweeping...

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