Michel Montecrossa’s New Year Symphony 2024 with the title ‘THE NEW MIRAPURI YEAR OF THE MOTHER’S POWER AND STRENGTH OF JOY’, released by Mira Sound Germany as Audio-CD, DVD, DOWNLOAD & STREAMING, presents the English Translations of the French Messages by Mira Alfassa – The Mother on ‘Joy’, Her French Quotations from the Dhammapada, selected Passages from the Mother’s French theater Play ‘L’Ascension vers la Vérité’ – ‘The Ascent to The Truth’ and Three Poetic Song Lyrics by Sri Aurobindo in the original English language: ‘The Universal Incarnation’, ‘The Inner Fields’, ‘My Jewelled Dreams Of You’ set to the music and chant of Michel Montecrossa.
Michel Montecrossa says:
„The New Year Music 2024 ‘THE NEW MIRAPURI YEAR OF THE MOTHER’S POWER AND STRENGTH OF JOY’ is, together with the messages of Mira Alfassa – The Mother, a great joy-giving Stream of Consciousness Music and Movie Experience.”
The tracks:
- Overture ‘A Man’s Soul’ by Michel Montecrossa
- Message by Mira Alfassa – The Mother ‘JOY’
- Selected Passages from the theatre play ‘The Ascent To The Truth’ by Mira Alfassa – The Mother
- ‘Truth Is Love’ by Michel Montecrossa & Mirakali
- ‘The Universal Incarnation’ by Sri Aurobindo & Michel Montecrossa
- ‘Dreaming Joy’ by Mirakali
- ‘The Inner Fields’ by Sri Aurobindo & Michel Montecrossa
- ‘New Substance’ by Michel Montecrossa
- ‘My Jewelled Dreams Of You’ by Sri Aurobindo & Michel Montecrossa
English Translation of the French Message of Mira Alfassa – The Mother
Joy! Joy means to live in the Truth, to live in communion with Eternity, with the true Life, the Light that never fails. Joy means to be free, free with the true Freedom, the Freedom of the constant, invariable union with the Divine Will.
English Translation of the French Text quotations from the Dhammapada by Mira Alfassa – The Mother
Seek therefore the company of the sage who is steadfast, learned, wise, devoted and noble. Follow the example of such a good and wise being, as the moon follows the path of the stars.
They are beings who have the divine nature, who may live in human bodies, but free from ignorance and falsehood.
Mira Alfassa – The Mother
The Ascent to the Truth
The Summit
(The two Aspirants who have valiantly withstood every test, haul themselves up with a supreme effort to the summit, bathed in brilliant light. Everything is light except the little patch of rock on which they stand and which is hardly big enough for their feet.)
First Aspirant:
The summit at last! The shining, dazzling Truth, nothing but the Truth!
Second Aspirant:
Everything else has disappeared. The steps by which we so laboriously climbed to the summit have vanished.
First Aspirant:
Emptiness behind, in front, everywhere; there is only room for our feet, nothing more.
Second Aspirant:
Where do we go now? What shall we do?
First Aspirant:
The Truth is here, Truth alone, all around, everywhere.
Second Aspirant:
And yet to realize it we must go further. And for that another secret must be found.
First Aspirant:
Obviously, all possibility of personal effort ends here. Another power must intervene.
Second Aspirant:
Grace, Grace alone can act. Grace alone can open the way for us, Grace alone can perform the miracle.
First Aspirant: (stretching his arm towards the horizon)
Look, look over there, far away, on the other side of the bottomless abyss, that peak resplendent with brilliant light, those perfect forms, that marvellous harmony, the promised land, the new earth!
Second Aspirant:
Yes, that is where we must go. But how?
First Aspirant:
Since that is where we must go, the means will be given to us.
Second Aspirant:
Yes, we must have faith, an absolute trust in the Grace, a total surrender to the Divine.
First Aspirant:
Yes, an absolute self-giving to the Divine Will. And since all visible paths have disappeared, we must leap forward without fear or hesitation, in complete trust.
Second Aspirant:
And we shall be carried to the place where we must go.
(They leap forward.)
Sri Aurobindo
THE UNIVERSAL INCARNATION
There is a wisdom like a brooding Sun,
A Bliss in the heart‘s crypt grown fiery white,
The heart of a world in which all hearts are one,
A Silence on the mountains of delight,
A Calm that cradles Fate upon its knees;
A wide Compassion leans to embrace earth‘s pain;
A Witness dwells within our secrecies,
The incarnate Godhead in the body of man.
Our mind is a glimmering curtain of that Ray,
Our strength a parody of the Immortal‘s power,
Our joy a dreamer on the Eternal‘s way
Hunting the fugitive beauty of an hour.
Only on the heart‘s veiled door the word of flame
Is written, the secret and tremendous Name.
Sri Aurobindo
THE INNER FIELDS
There is a brighter ether than this blue
Pretence of an enveloping heavenly vault,
A deeper greenness than this laughing assault
Of emerald rapture pearled with tears of dew.
Immortal spaces of cerulean hue
Are in our reach and fields without this fault
Of drab brown earth and streams that never halt
In their deep murmur which white flowers strew
Floating like stars upon a strip of sky.
This world behind is made of truer stuff
Than the manufactured tissue of earth‘s grace.
There we can walk and see the gods go by
And sip from Hebe‘s cup nectar enough
To make for us heavenly limbs and deathless face.
Sri Aurobindo
MY JEWELLED DREAMS OF YOU
I have gathered my dreams in a silver air
Between the gold and the blue
And wrapped them softly and left them there,
My jewelled dreams of you.
The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged
And the golden waters pour
Down the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged
And glimmer from shore to shore.
Heaven‘s fire is lit in the breast of the earth
And the undying suns here burn;
Through a wonder cleft in the bounds of birth
The incarnate spirits yearn
Like flames to the kingdoms of Truth and Bliss:
Down a gold-red stair-way wend
The radiant children of Paradise
Clarioning darkness‘s end.
A little more and the new life‘s doors
Shall be carved in silver light
With its aureate roof and mosaic floors
In a great world bare and bright.
I shall leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you.