Seven Suns
Seven suns
are plunging down like diamonds
To deck the
body of man with deathlessness.
Bursting the
brain to an omniscient truth,
Piercing the
brows to a gaze unbound by time,
Thrilling the
throat with a word which rhythms the worlds,
Gripping the
heart with a oneness that is all,
Wakening the
belly to a laugh of infinite space,
Unloosing
within the loins a swirl of stars,
Coiling at
the base of the spine an almighty calm,
They take their
splendorous stations in frail flesh—
And the flesh
suddenly knows itself supreme
As though
heaven’s roses bore dust-intimate roots!
No gods are
they from foreign farnesses
But the
dust’s own divinity beyond
Its brief and
blind and broken beauty here.
One viewless
marvel plays a twofold game,
The solar
shine and the terrestrial shade,
Empyrean and
abyss each measuring each:
The seven
suns descending to the earth
Are the seven
earths awaiting in the sun.
Amal Kiran
(KD Sethna)
The Secret Splendour, p. 396
Seven Suns of
the Supermind
Sri Aurobindo
describes seven suns of the Supermind as follows:
1. The Sun of
Supramental Truth,—Knowledge-Power originating the supramental creation.
Descent into
the Sahasradala.
2. The Sun of
Supramental Light and Will-Power, transmitting the Knowledge-Power as dynamic
vision and command to create, found and organise the supramental creation.
Descent into
the Ajna Chakra, the centre between the eyes.
3. The Sun of
Supramental Word, embodying the Knowledge-Power, empowered to express and
arrange the supramental creation.
Descent into
the Throat Centre.
4. The Sun of
Supramental Love, Beauty, and Bliss, releasing the Sou lof the Knowledge-Power
to vivify and harmonise the supramental creation.
Descent into
the Heart-Lotus.
5. The Sun of
Supramental Force dynamised as a power and source of life to support the
supramental creation.
Descent into
the Navel Centre.
6. The Sun of
Life-Radiances (Power-Rays) distributing the dynamis and pouring it into
concrete formations.
Descent into
the Navel Centre.
7. The Sun of
Supramental Substance-Energy and Form-Energy empowered to embody the
supramental life and stabilise the creation.
Descent into
the Muladhara.
The Hour of God, Vol. 17, p. 27
Seven
Descents
The Sun of supramental
gold descends,
The high
omnipotence of diamond daze!
The Lion of
light with a million rays of truth,
The Bull of
hero-strengths with armies of flame,
The White
Horse with a moon-halo on his head,
The Eagle of
ecstasy with far wafted wings,
The Stag of
swift luminous omniscient beam,
The
Star-Serpent of stark gigantic might,
The Bison
with red horns of immortality’s Law;
The great
august
Comes
crashing the golden cosmos’s massive gates,
Sweeping in
his royalty’s blaze the twilight of thought,
Thundering
through the throat the impeccable voice,
Pouring in
the heart the holocaust of love,
Pressing the
fire-feet of the creative gleam,
Flooding with
miracles the spines of little life,
Thrilling the
vast Name in body’s night of trance;
The Self of
Bliss bursts in seven epiphanies.
RY Deshpande
2 June 1960
The Descent
of Kundalini Shakti
All underwent
a high celestial change:
Breaking the
black Inconscient's blind mute wall,
Effacing the
circles of the Ignorance,
Powers and
divinities burst flaming forth;
Each part of
the being trembling with delight
Lay
overwhelmed with tides of happiness
And saw her
hand in every circumstance
And felt her
touch in every limb and cell:
In the
country of the lotus of the head
Which thinking
mind has made its busy space,
In the castle
of the lotus twixt the brows
Whence it
shoots the arrows of its sight and will,
In the
passage of the lotus of the throat
Where speech
must rise and the expressing mind
And the
heart's impulse run towards word and fact,
A glad uplift
and a new working came.
The
immortal's thoughts displaced our bounded view,
The
immortal's thoughts earth's drab idea and sense;
All things
now bore a deeper heavenlier sense.
A glad clear
harmony marked their truth's outline,
Re-set the
balance and measures of the world.
Each shape
showed its occult design, unveiled
God's meaning
in it for which it was made
And the vivid
splendour of his artist thought.
A channel of
the mighty Mother's choice,
The
immortal's will took into its calm control
Our blind or
erring government of life;
A loose
republic once of wants and needs,
Then bowed to
the uncertain sovereign mind,
Life now
obeyed to a diviner rule
And every act
became an act of God.
In the
kingdom of the lotus of the heart
Love chanting
its pure hymeneal hymn
Made life and
body mirrors of sacred joy
And all the
emotions gave themselves to God.
In the navel
lotus's broad imperial range
Its proud
ambitions and its master lusts
Were tamed
into instruments of a great calm sway
To do a work
of God on earthly soil.
In the narrow
nether centre's petty parts
Its childish
game of daily dwarf desires
Was changed
into a sweet and boisterous play,
A romp of
little gods with life in Time.
In the deep
place where once the Serpent slept,
There came a
grip on Matter's giant powers
For large
utilities in life's little space;
A firm ground
was made for Heaven's descending might.
Behind all
reigned her sovereign deathless soul:
Casting aside
its veil of Ignorance,
Allied to
gods and cosmic beings and powers
It built the
harmony of its human state;
Surrendered
into the great World-Mother's hands
Only she
obeyed her sole supreme behest
In the enigma
of the Inconscient's world.
Savitri, pp. 529-30
Descent of
Force that defeats Death
A mighty
transformation came on her.
A halo of the
indwelling Deity,
The
Immortal's lustre that had lit her face
And tented
its radiance in her body's house,
Overflowing
made the air a luminous sea.
In a flaming
moment of apocalypse
The
Incarnation thrust aside its veil.
A little
figure in infinity
Yet stood and
seemed the Eternal's very house,
As if the
world's centre was her very soul
And all wide
space was but its outer robe.
A curve of
the calm hauteur of far heaven
Descending
into earth's humility,
Her
forehead's span vaulted the Omniscient's gaze,
Her eyes were
two stars that watched the universe.
The Power
that from her being's summit reigned,
The Presence
chambered in lotus secrecy,
Came down and
held the centre in her brow
Where the
mind's Lord in his control-room sits;
There throned
on concentration's native seat
He opens that
third mysterious eye in man,
The Unseen's
eye that looks at the unseen,
When Light
with a golden ecstasy fills his brain
And the
Eternal's wisdom drives his choice
And eternal
Will seizes the mortal's will.
It stirred in
the lotus of her throat of song,
And in her
speech throbbed the immortal Word,
Her life
sounded with the steps of the World-Soul
Moving in
harmony with the cosmic Thought.
As glides
God's sun into the mystic cave
Where hides
his light from the pursuing gods,
It glided
into the lotus of her heart
And woke in
it the Force that alters Fate.
It poured
into a navel's lotus depth,
Lodged in the
little life-nature's narrow home,
On the body's
longings grew heaven-rapture's flower
And made
desire a pure celestial flame,
Broke into
the cave where coiled World-Energy sleeps
And smote the
thousand-hooded serpent Force
That blazing
towered and clasped the World-Self above,
Joined
Matter's dumbness to the Spirit's hush
And filled
earth's acts with the Spirit's silent power.
Savitri, pp. 664-65