Study Circle
“So also one may say that the perfection of the integral Yoga will come when each man is able to follow his own path of Yoga, pursuing the development of his own nature in its upsurging towards that which transcends the nature.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga-57
“It is always better not to listen to talks especially on so-called spiritual matters. Each one must follow his own way and the others have nothing to do with it.”
The Mother
TMCW-14/p-204
“The Blessed Lord said: The triple realisation of Brahman, atmani atmanam atmana or “of the self by the self in the self” reconciles the relation between Purusha (Spirit) and Prakriti (Matter); it comes by an inner meditation through which the eternal Self becomes visible, pasyanti, to us in our self-existence. Or it comes by the Yoga of the Sankhyas (the separation of the soul from nature). Or it comes by the Yoga of works. Others, who are unfit for these Dhyana, Jnana and Karma Yoga, may hear of the written Truth of Shastra from men of Spiritual attainment and mould the mind into the sense of THAT to which it listens with utter faith and concentration. But, however arrived at, it carries us beyond the limitation of death to a vast immortality of Spirit.” (The Gita-13.25, 26)
“The Blessed Lord said: I am the birth of everything and from Me all proceeds into the development of action and movement; understanding thus, the wise adore Me in rapt emotion. Their consciousness full of Me, their life wholly given up to Me, illumining each other, mutually talking about Me, they are ever contented and joyful. To these who are thus in a constant union with Me, and adore Me with an intense delight of love, I give the Yoga of understanding, buddhi Yoga, by which they come to Me. Out of compassion for them, I, lodged in their self, lift the blazing lamp of knowledge and destroy the darkness which is born of the ignorance.” (The Gita-10.8, 9, 10,11)
Thus, Study Circle becomes for us a field of the larger significance of Prakriti Yajna; if rightly performed, then it calls down vast rain of Divine Force or ‘sealike down pour of masses of a spontaneous knowledge’ ‘from heavenlier skies.’ Or 'Her mouth was seized to channel ineffable truths, Knowledge unthinkable found an utterance.' (Refer CWSA-21/The Life Divine-291, Savitri-284, 553)
As per the Gita, the realisation of the Divine is an easier task of Study Circle or 'Easy the heavens were to build for God' (Savitri-653) and as per Savitri, the transformation of Nature appears as an impossible task of Study Circle or "Earth was his difficult matter, earth the glory" (Savitri-653) or "Earth saw my struggle, heaven my victory." (Savitri- 639) The greatest utility of Study Circle is not to limit it to Teachings alone but to utilise it as means of movement of the ascent of the Soul to travel ‘beyond the world’ (Savitri-319) to discover 'great impersonal speech' (Savitri-553) and descent of Divine Shakti to ‘save the world.’ (Savitri-319)
Savitri also observed that the age-long grey restraints of earth cannot be broken by man’s slow impatient evolutionary life which is hurried towards a ‘sudden splendid path’ (Savitri-652) by the revelation, sermon and profound words of ‘human gods.’ (Savitri-652) Human words can only shadow the Divine Mother’s golden glorious Truth, to human thought ‘she is an unthinkable rapture of light,’ (Savitri-663) and to mortal speech she is an inexpressible marvel. (Savitri-663) Savitri felt that the most of the devotees or ‘tired Spirits’ (Savitri-647) are ‘tied to body and to mind’ (Savitri-647) and approach the God with the hope of satisfying their desire or lure of earthly boons and they are incapable of bearing the million ‘wounds of Time.’ (Savitri-647) She was further informed by the Divine that most of the human beings are built on Nature’s early evolutionary plan and ‘owe small debt to a superior plane;’ (Savitri-689) thus man’s ‘mind is closed between two firmaments’ (Savitri-690) of seeking truth through (1) sight and sound or images and words, and (2) surface and brute out sides or consciousness is projected outward, and is unwilling to plunge into the inner depth of Truth. So the Divine advised Savitri not to disturb the life of common man and their settled balance of created things by intervention of Spiritual energy and leave them to ‘heavy toil and slow aeonic steps’ (Savitri-690) and all shall be done for them ‘by the long act of Time.’ (Savitri-691)
“However, one should not think that the value of spoken words depends on the nature of the subject of conversation. One can talk idly on spiritual matters just as much as on any other, and this kind of idle talk may well be one of the most dangerous. For example, the neophyte is always very eager to share with others the little he has learnt. But as he advances on the path, he becomes more and more aware that he does not know very much and that before trying to instruct others, he must be very sure of the value of what he knows, until he finally becomes wise and realises that many hours of silent concentration are needed to be able to speak usefully for a few minutes. Moreover, where inner life and spiritual effort are concerned, the use of speech should be subjected to a still more stringent rule and nothing should be said unless it is absolutely indispensable."
The Mother
TMCW-12/On Education/p-62-63