I am your Rest

Today we celebrate the annual alignment on the ecliptic plane of the Sun-Earth Polarity with Aldebaran, the Eye of Revelation of Taurus, intimately connected to the Pleiades and the radiant pupil through which one penetrates the cosmos and reaches the Centre, the supreme Heart from which emanates the manifestation that reverberates, through the reflective action of the Taurus-Scorpio axis, towards the plane of the Seven solar Systems, towards the solar Heart. (1)
The 4^th Ray, which governs that point of contact between highest and abyssal which is the door and pivot of all revelation, “actively works to harmonise all effects emanating from the world of causes” and shines forth with great power through Aldebaran, whose luminous rays unveil Reality.

“When the vision discerns the significance of the Universe, the ways to endlessly manifested existence are revealed. World vision discloses that which exists in life, but the unlimited vision reveals the boundless Be-ness. The creativeness of Cosmos is incessant, and there where the world vision sees boundaries the unlimited vision perceives new horizons.” (2)

A century ago, the Master of Agni Yoga made resound his fiery Call into consciousnesses, a call that appeared in the guise of Bliss, Smile, Strength, Valour, Wisdom and Joy. (3)
This call, the vector of the divine, reveals to us the faces of Being, of the One, so that it may be comprehensible to the mind and close to the heart; these magnetic and radiant names of Life, with which the Teaching of Agni Yoga opens, urge the identification of the consciousness with the highest and most central aspects of Reality and open to the disciple the path to the infinite.
Among these flashes of love the central one affirms

I am your Rest

and calls everyone back to that inviolable dwelling that is the Centre, ‘the radiant Origin of Life’ (4), sealing the promise of a steadfastness that conquers creation inch by inch and transforms it into a space resplendent with colours and harmonies, where Rest is only the song of those who return to the dwelling of the Beloved.
At the Centre there is no oscillation, which is proper to becoming, but only the dynamic peace of Being, that lives now and forever.

At the Centre, our going towards any goal is appeased, for we dwell in the shining star of the Spirit that is here and everywhere.
“All events collect around one focus. All signs point to the one focus. One manifested fire exists in everything, the seed of which attracts all corresponding energies. Thus all cosmic events are fulfilled. Hence, only a full realization of the one focus can direct the spiritual quests to the affirmed seed. The immutability of creativeness enters vitally when the focus is realized. For thus, verily, striving enters into the channel of action! Therefore, only in this way can we attain steadfastness of spirit. Thus can one be imbued with a subtle realization of Infinity.” (5)
In the Centre one does not have to fear the illusion of manifestation, the uncertainty of the path or the supposed oblivion of death since the One is that Centre, beyond all polarity and dynamics, in which everything subsides, unfolds and rests. (6).

“In me alone is everything born;
in me alone does everything rest
and in me alone gets everything dissolved.”

After ‘six days’ of work and understanding, of victories and defeats, of ascents and descents, here is Rest.
If we know how to stand firm at the Centre, we can contemplate the One from various perspectives and at the same time perceive its unity and inherent integrity.
The One is unique, beyond any disorderly movement and any feverish search; the One is quiet in its perfect stability; the One is the source of every possible unity and the source of all hoped-for concord.
The mantra that closes the Vedas takes us back to the Heart of the One and shows us the path of supreme firmness in which every conflict is resolved and union triumphs (7):

“One and the same be your resolve, and be your minds of one accord.
United be the thoughts of all that all may happily agree.”

The One, ineffable yet unfolded in a triumph of lights and forms, multiple and univocal, is thus the dwelling place of every being and dwells in every being, it is the ‘lighted house’ already built ‘in the mists of time’ yet erected moment by moment by the work of the countless consciousnesses that populate the universe.
And although the One does not need motion because it rests in every heart, it is always active, alight and vibrant and awaits the day when it will explode like a radiant sun in those very hearts of which it is the foundation.
This firm rest in the One enables every fiery consciousness to generate a Sun within itself and to identify with its own solar origin, finally attaining that supreme peace for which every heart yearns and which rests in the heart of the One.
And a spark of that One, who by supreme sacrifice (sacrum facere) revealed itself in the garments of the Dyad (the two Origins), burns in every atom of the universe and, if it wanted and knew, could illuminate the entire cosmos with the strength of its fire, showing, as all wise beings know in their hearts, “the connection of Being in Non-being” (8), the perfect adherence of the form that swirls in the cosmos with the perfect peace of the spirit that animates and supports it.
“Unfathomable is the Calm of the Creator amidst the manifold turmoil of events.” (9)

But Rest is not to be confused with inaction, with idleness or, worse, with sleep of reason and heart: “We summon them to action. Tell this to those who think that We divert them from labor.” (10)
And Work, the work that grounds its action on the firmness with which we adhere to the Centre, is the infinite road that awaits us, the path that leads ever closer to the One whose tireless industriousness is not wasted in a vain agitation but concentrates around the unifying power of the vision of the Good.
“Those who yearn for rest regard life as if it were a tomb. What is rest? This concept is an invention of the dark ones. (…) A joy of doing nothing… is not Ours. Is nature ever idle? We, as parts of nature, are subject to its laws.” (11)
The human task is therefore to guard the heart and mind, to preserve and sacralise the place where our fire ‘rests’ without ever ceasing to work and fight; it is to raise every day the point of tension that connects us to the infinite, to work for the common Good with every fibre of our being; it is to sharpen our gaze and contemplate the sky where the silence of the Mother of the World becomes the mantle on which the heart can rest and raise its smile of gratitude.

Resting is not sleeping, but re-posing at the roots of the tree of Life.
It is re-posing our heart, day after day, on the heart of the One.

Sleep or vigilance, labor or rest,
motion or repose, all carry us equally
toward the fulfillment of life’s plan.
“It is like fallen leaves,” say the timid.
“It is like seeds for the sowing,” say the wise.
“It is like arrows of light,” say the daring. (12)

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1. See L’Ordine di Orione (The Order of Orion, only available in Italian)
2. Agni Yoga Series, Infinity I § 196
3. Agni Yoga Series, Leaves of Morya’s Garden I – The Call, Introduction
4. See the document (only in Italian): Lambdoma delle Idee-Generatore
5. Agni Yoga Series, Hierarchy § 223
6. Kaivalya Upanishad 19
7. RgVeda X, 191, 4
8. RgVeda X, 129, 4
9. Agni Yoga Series, Leaves of Morya’s Garden I – The Call § 216
10. Ibidem § 280
11. Agni Yoga Series, Agni Yoga § 268
12. Ibidem § 36