Rooster - a Liaison between Self and The Divine

Before the sun shines its first ray

To glitter the sky with golden hue,

The rooster perches quietly,

and cracks the shell of dawn.

His crowing every daybreak

Is sharp as truth and pure as oath,

Meandering the dark sleeping world 

Lifting morning from its sheathe.

Through him, the earth hears

The divine beginning to revitalize,

He rises where heaven blushes awake,

Propelling to an entity brighter than itself.

He is the coupling 

Between sleep and waking,

A feathered messenger 

In the tabernacle of eternity.

In the context of spiritual growth, 

The rooster helps the aspirant's awakening 

to higher consciousness and 

the pursuit of inner transformation.

He serves as a potent metaphor 

for the soul’s progression 

from ignorance to divine consciousness, 

A liaison between the self and The Divine!

The above poetic prose is an inspiration from my own experience of taking the Aurobindonian path as a result of the self-awakening action of the “rooster – my late mother”. I had never been into spiritual line or Aurobindonian philosophy though my mother always spoke about inner awakening and we had been praying to The Mother and Sri Aurobindo since my childhood but not dived into the core.  However, in July 2022 when the death of my maternal grandma shook me and disturbed me, I was looking for inner peace and this time round I became the member of Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry, formally entering into the philosophical path. My mother was extremely happy and she told me, “You are in safe hands, I need not worry”. Two months later, my mother passed away and this time, I was in a state of total calmness and control, perhaps the Grace of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

- Dr. Sudevi Basu (India)