AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VISION OF SAVITRI

Fifteen years ago I could positively consider I made some step in what is called integral yoga. Of course, it was not a product of my own judgment but rather the fact that, incredibly as it may appear, I met Sri Aurobindo. 

During the year of my forced seclusion I met several times the Master and had some subtle vision of Auroville. In addition to it I was allowed to witness some early akashic registers of the humankind, pages lost forever for the history, of which only remain trace on the akashic registers. The sequence of the encounters with the Master was encumbered by a great vision of Savitri and chronological  sequences of future history on earth till a new man supplanted the previous species.

Bear it, you would know not of those inner experiences of mine unless I had been so required by the Master himself: if something, I only failed in finding better words to describe the beauty of the experiences and the deep joy of my heart and the bliss which overwhelmed me every time I met the Master. 

In that unforgettable period of my life I discovered,  far from my own expectations, that the Master had been following my inner development: he knew me very well, to the point of considering me worthy of his presence and of carrying his  personal message to the destined public.

 I was asked to share the content of the visions, and I assure you that when I accepted it, I had not the remotest idea of how difficult it could result, it was so full of intricate mysteries which kept me in solitary study during a number of years.

Beside, you can imagine which kind of effect may have on your whole life meeting such a Master: a real revolution, it comes to question everything in your life, but it gives also strength and confidence for the task ahead. Now I don't feel alone anymore in my spiritual quest because I know now that the Master is silently following my steps, as surely is following the steps of all those who have accepted the challenge of integral yoga with a sufficient degree of sincerity, aspiration and compromise.

The experiences with him, as you can read, demonstrates that the Master is quite aware in details of what happens in Auroville and elsewhere, and of people.

Please do not confuse me with the message because I do not advance any claim in this sense: I am not myself the message but only the messenger, and  you should consider me as a scribe which faithfully reported all the experiences which were meant to be of your knowledge.

I wish to underline here I know about integral yoga since forty five years now, though I never really considered myself as specially  fit for the task, and it is rather true the contrary;
for circumstances I have developed into something much like an independent mind and an independent researcher, never summing up myself to any existing doctrine or spiritual tendency etc. For those very reasons I had not a special motivation to consider Sri Aurobindo as my own guru though deeply respectful of his teaching, and yet, it was him which I met. 

 In a sense it is not of my concern -why- Sri Aurobindo wanted this material to be known to you: I did not ask him and he did not tell me. I may venture some hypotheses, but only the reader may know the answer.  I think there may be several reasons, not only one. Some of them I suggested here in my writings,  I think the material is mainly directed to people which has some connection with his teaching and recognize the terms employed, though I'm convinced that it is material for a wider audience.

In second instance, I think it is dependent on the personal receptivity of the reader. 

Unavoidably the whole matter turns around experiencing with subtle body and subtler reality and the establishing of an intuitive knowledge, all subjects which arose the legitimate interest of any reader familiar to the Master´s teaching and anyhow interested in their own inner development. That is why I took special care in describing not only the meetings but how I experienced it and what I could feel while in my subtler physical body.

 In no moment Sri Aurobindo told me that communicate the whole thing was going to be a simple task, so be tolerant with my efforts, his teaching ( at least his personal teaching with me I mean) results so ample in perspectives, takes in so many elements, that I suspect even myself which had the experience have never wholly understood it, nor I pretend to have said and discovered all that can be said and discovered about it.

I sometimes have found myself  in the need of interweaving the presentation of the original material with some personal experience or some collateral argument, you may not agree with some of my conclusion, but you are due not to doubt as far facts are concerned: all I relate here really happened, and I share them with the purest of the intention.

You are not due to necessarily believe in my experiences in conscious sleep or in a subtler physical reality.  I report them as faithfully as possible as to be matter of investigation for people with a genuine interest in them. 

I apology if you found a better work of presentation could be made, but it failed the help of a dear collaborator which had the necessary technical knowledge. 

The trajectory of my personal relation with Sri Aurobindo is not in question and subsidiary here in this work, I´m not meant to talk of it in details.  

Clarifying the Vision: The sun-eyed children and Auroville

Two visions concerning Auroville characterized the days following the main Vision already described:

1)    They appeared at once in front of my inner sight while awake in the subtle body at night, while the physical body slept. It was a group of about 30/40 people evidently aurovillians, the image was at real time: they were as alive in front of me, and I could appreciate any single detail of them, it looked as they were posing for a photograph at open air.

Yet, they did not form a single compact group because a very thin space among them divided the group into two smaller ones.

At my left there were mostly younger people and some older one, as soon as I looked them in their eyes (they had very beautiful eyes and a deep expression of their face) I thought of the words of the poem Savitri:
I have seen... The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn...
It was clear, far too evident that they represented the new lymph and the hope of Auroville and the world. I was deeply moved by the sight.

At their side, another smaller group: mostly older people and very few younger ones.

Their eyes had not the brilliance and depth of the previous group but rather looked as tired, as a mental veil was obstructing their vision. I could sense their deep concern and the frustration for their fruitless efforts, as a veil of sadness covering their eyes.

At their sight I felt a sudden warm solidarity, they made me a bit sad on my turn because I could sense the despair within.  

I stared a while at both groups passing from one to the other, as drinking the subtle message the vision pretended to deliver me, then all disappeared at once.

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2)   It is  the first hours of the afternoon in Auroville, I can see houses but no people around, the scene is illumined by the sun and by a peculiar light which seems to proceed directly from the objects, as they were half-luminous by themselves.

What I'm seeing are low houses surrounded by peaceful gardens but no humans or other living beings.

I can see all the houses creatively connected by any sort of object with the function of a pipeline carrying water to all of them.

It looks graciously chaotic as there are pipelines made out of bamboos, concrete, stones, metal pipe and other items which makes it quite an original and assorted waterway   through which a clear water runs into and off the houses.

Somewhere there are clay pots intended to gather water, and some leaking all along the pipeline.

But I can see siding the older and provisional one, a brand new pipeline is in installation process, it looks a professional work, with same sized metal tubes all well painted in orange antioxidant paint  and rationally placed as to bring water to each houses, though at the moment, it  look as not  connected yet to the source of water.

Yet, it looks as it had been tested already, because I can see drops of clear water falling from the new pipes and new green grass has kept growing outside the tubes where the drops fall on the earth.

I keep looking at the  peaceful sight   permeated by the meaning of the vision, because it is clear it do not refers at ordinary water,  then everything suddenly disappear.

Clarifying the Vision: Auroville

The night was warm in Auroville while we seated on the floor of the little terrace,
we smiled each other, I finally could talk with dear friends which could give me an advice on the whole matter of the Vision and my unexpected visit to Auroville in my subtle body.
I confided in their large years of study and their evident spiritual development, moreover, I knew they should possess the key.

-So, tell us, what happen?

I mentioned them my unexpected contacts with the Master, the Vision he showed me, and how later I resulted very affected hosting the terrible doubt I had been victim of a feverish hallucination, and I continued: -The following night, as soon the body fall asleep I found myself in the subtle body feeling the peculiar sensation of being travelling at incredible speed, ending up in Auroville.

I literally appear in a room, a few meters behind a man sitting at a table, from the open window I can appreciate the luxurious tropical vegetation and the refreshing shadow of the trees. I´m quite surprised, but my first feeling is of uneasiness, I don´t feel comfortable by invading in such a manner the private space of someone else, and I´m thinking fast for what reason and why I´ve landed there, and what I´m supposed to do there.

Then suddenly the beloved Master appear at my right, my surprise is even greater now and I open my mouth with a torrent of questions in my mind but he silently put a finger on his mouth, as asking me silence. He is not in that glorious supramental shape of the previous night, and is wearing a simple white dhoti.

But my heart is silently dancing in my chest with delight for seeing him again and have the privilege to be with him.
Then, as answering to my questions, he silently indicates the man, as inviting me to investigate.

In all this, the man has not perceived our presence and I´m quite surprised he has no  reaction at our sudden appearance at his back. He continues unmoving reading something, I can appreciate he has a solid figure and curly hair. As I feel with permission to investigate I get closer to the man slightly at his left bending over his shoulder to see what is reading and I almost jump with surprise again!
He is actually reading an article of mine!

-The article on integral yoga appeared on a magazine, I said looking at my friends, and you probably remember that I send it to you by post.
-Yes, I remember it, I still have somewhere a couple of issues of the magazine, but please continue your story.

-Well, as I told you I´m quite surprised, but even more because I can perceive a psychological atmosphere which surrounds the sitting man, it is a kind of dense and stiff aura which probably has impeached him to perceive at any rate our presence, and especially his Master just behind him. I´m astonished how that can be!

I´m aware the man is reading the article from a pretentious position, as he were entitled in judging the value of the article and he his searching for some heretic proposition of mine, and in a very inquisitive way. This attitude is producing that almost unbearable aura which surround him. I´m almost sick in perceiving the aura.
I turn myself and I look to the Master, his eyes are sweet, but looks deeply into mine.
Then, he makes silently a gesture with his right hand as to say: this is what it is.
A few moments later we depart from there and I found myself again in my body and my house, at thousands of kilometers from here.

-Could you describe me the man? Did you see his face?
- From where I was I could only see a part of his face, he was definitely a south European, sun tanned face, a man with a solid body, bearded face and curly hair.

-Yes, he said, you are describing X, he was here as a guest, I myself gave him the magazine as it was written in his language, I perfectly remember it. He is still here, he stays now at Y.

We silently stared at each other for a long while, communed by the special atmosphere which surrounds who has suddenly discovered something of a great spiritual value,  I felt as my heart was suddenly free, I could have no doubts anymore, my experience with the Master had been real, finally I had a positive proof of it, and from now on I could answer to the request of the Master with the commitment of my  whole being.

That night, alone, I was wandering why then the Master choose me for the Vision, what did he see in me so worthy of trustfulness when even myself could not have any better consideration of my numberless faults, but for this I had no answer at all.