Hidden kingdoms of beatitude

But near and real to the longing heart And to the body's passionate thought and senseAre the hidden kingdoms of beatitude.In some close unattained realm which yet we feel,Immune from the harsh clutch of Death and Time,Escaping the search of sorrow and desire,In bright enchanted safe peripheriesFor ever wallowing in bliss they lie. 
                                            - Sri Aurobindo
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The Secret Knowledge

On a height he stood that looked towards greater heights.
Our early approaches to the Infinite
Are sunrise splendours on a marvellous verge
While lingers yet unseen the glorious sun.
                                                                        - Sri Aurobindo

( Savitri, Volume 28,  Book 1 Canto 4, Page 46)

Evolution

If mankind only caught a glimpse of what infinite enjoyments, what perfect forces, what luminous reaches of spontaneous knowledge, what wide calms of our being lie waiting for us in the tracts which our animal evolution has not yet conquered, they would leave all and never rest till they had gained these treasures.

Aim of the Yoga

  The aim of the yoga is to open the consciousness  to the Divine and to live in the inner consciousness more and more while acting from it on the external life, to bring the inmost psychic into the front and by the power of the psychic to purify and change the being so that it may become ready for transformation and be in union with the Divine Knowledge, Will and Love.

Supraphysical

Subjective discovery must be pursued by a subjective method of enquiry, observation and verification; research into the supraphysical must evolve, accept and test an appropriate means and methods other than those by which one examines the constituents of physical objects and the processes of Energy in material Nature.                 - Sri Aurobindo(SABCL, Vol. 19, Page 650)

All can be done

All can be done if the God-touch is there.
                                       - Sri Aurobindo
(Savitri, Volume 28, Page 3)

Gossiping Familiarity with Sri Aurobindo

Anything written by a sadhak about Sri Aurobindo which brings him down to an ordinary level and admits the reader to a sort of gossiping familiarity with him is an unfaithfulness to Him and His work. Good intentions are not sufficient.                                                                                                      - The Mother(Collected Works of the Mother, Vol. 13, Page

Leaders of the Integral Yoga

As for the Mother and myself, we have had to try all ways, follow all methods, to surmount mountains of difficulties, a far heavier burden to bear than you or anybody else in the Ashram or outside, far more difficult conditions, battles to fight, wounds to endure, ways to cleave through impenetrable morass and desert and forest, hostile masses to conquer - a work such as, I am certain, none else

Why Sri Aurobindo Is Cool

When most of us think of Sri Aurobindo, we probably think of that famous image of him, sitting there in that throne of a chair, long white beard and hair, looking like something straight out of a Hollywood movie in which he was cast in the role of God. You can almost imagine his voice, thundering with frightening authority in perfect King James English like Robert Powell's classic rendition of

Universal forces

All life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces. But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a particular force. Only most people do not really choose – they indulge the play of the forces.                                                                                           - Sri Aurobindo
(Letters On Yoga,

We are sons of God

A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme:His nature we must put on as he put ours;We are sons of God and must be even as he:His human portion, we must grow divine.Our life is a paradox with God for key.
                                    - Sri Aurobindo
(Savitri, Volume 28, Page 67)

Death

Death is but changing of our robes to waitIn wedding garments at the Eternal’s gate.                                         - Sri Aurobindo   (Collected Poems, Volume 5, Page 54) 

Humility

Whatever is your personal value or even your individual realisation, the first quality required in yoga is humility.   - The Mother
(Words Of The Mother, Volume 14, Page 160)

Sri Aurobindo's evolutionary spirituality

Sri Aurobindo was India's greatest modern philosopher-sage, flowing out of a country that is one of the most astonishing and profound geographical sources of spiritual awareness on the planet. In Sri Aurobindo we have the first grand statement of an evolutionary spirituality that is an integration of the best of ancient wisdom and the brightest of modern knowledge. Nobody combined both

Elitism

      Each (Spiritual Path, Philosophy, Religious school or Ashram etc.) feels it has the best to offer, the sole truth. This spirit leads to a kind of elitism, which is the enemy of true spirituality… I can only say that each disciple who feels and acts 'superior',  betrays Sri Aurobindo who was an universal man to the core and whose humility was held up as an example to the world

Pain

Pain is the hammer of the gods to break
A dead resistance in the mortal's heart,
His slow inertia as of living stone.
If the heart were not forced to want and weep,
His soul would have lain down content, at ease,
And never thought to exceed the human start
And never learned to climb towards the Sun.

                                             - Sri Aurobindo

("Savitri", Volume 29, P. 443)

We do not found ourselves on faith alone

We do not found ourselves on faith alone, but on a great ground of knowledge which we have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That is why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often

God shall grow up

A few shall see what none yet understands;God shall grow up while the wise men talk and sleep;For man shall not know the coming till its hourAnd belief shall be not till the work is done.                                     - Sri Aurobindo

(Savitri, Volume 28, Book 1 Canto 4, Page 55)

Difficulties

But difficulties were made to be overcome and if the Supreme Will is there, they will be overcome.                                                                                - Sri Aurobindo

( SABCL, On Himself,  Volume 26, Page 403)

Mahasamadhi of Sri Aurobindo

Be faithful to your guru

                                                          


As for the disciple, I would tell him: "In all cases, be faithful to your guru whoever he is; he will lead you as far as you can go. But if you have the good fortune to have the Divine as your guru, there will be no limit to your realisation."
                                                                                              

This bodily appearance is not all

This bodily appearance is not all;The form deceives; the person is a mask;Hid deep in man celestial powers can dwell.His fragile ship conveys through the sea of yearsAn incognito of the Imperishable.
                                                  - Sri Aurobindo
(Savitri, Vol. 28, Page 23)

Experiments and Achievements of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

The more one studies Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the more is one wonderstruck by the breathtaking sweep of their experimentation and their victorious achievements. It is impossible to present even a distant idea of the crucial significance of their realisations to the expanding horizons of knowledge and to the possibilities of evolution and mutation of the human species.

Parts of the Being (According to Sri Aurobindo)

Who is Sri Aurobindo ?

Once in the early years of my life in the Ashram I wrote to Sri Aurobindo, "How people calling to Shiva or Krishna or their Ishta Devata get responses from you I don’t understand," he replied, "Who is Shiva? and who is Krishna? and what is an Ishta Devata? There is only one Divine, not a thousand Divines." Myself: "It would mean that wherever a sincere heart is aspiring for the Divine, his

The Mother’s Subtle Body

    Today I would like to share with you an occult experience which was narrated to me by Jhumur-di (Shrimati Jhumur Bhattacharya, one of the most pretty and elegant sadhikas of the Ashram who is an inmate since the early 1940s; she is a teacher in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and a fine actress who has taken part in Sri Aurobindo’s dramas like Vasavadutta, Rodogune, Perseus

"All life is Yoga." - Sri Aurobindo

Georges Van Vrekhem is best known for his two seminal works on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. He speaks about life as an Aurobindonian and the next step in man's spiritual evolution.It is quite a tongue twister, but the word 'Aurobindonian' crops up frequently when Georges Van Vrekhem speaks. 'A true Aurobindonian', 'a real Aurobindonian', 'you don't have to be an Aurobindonian to evolve to

Om Anandamayi Chaitanyamayi - Jagjit Singh

Interview with Prof. Manoj Das

(In an interview, Prof. Manoj Das expanded on his own belief system and Sri Aurobindo's thoughts for mankind.)

Of all the philosophies of India, why choose Sri Aurobindo?

He attracted me because of his belief that the present status of man is not the acme of evolution. As I delved deeper into Sri Aurobindo's works, I realized that though suffering is bitter, it is an intermediary process

God also laughs

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
                             - Sri Aurobindo

Towards the Transformed Body

A momentous stage was reached. An irreversible stage was reached. The whole work, the real work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, was to open up the consciousness of the cells by fixing the supramental consciousness in the body-consciousness. This work was done; the rest was a secondary consequence. As Mother said: 'It must be "worked out" as one says, it has to be realised in all details, but

The Human Aspiration

The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and... his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation... is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality. The ancient dawns of human knowledge have left us their witness to

The Temple and the Human Soul

The aim of the yoga

The aim of the yoga is to open the consciousness  more and more while acting from it on the external life, to bring the inmost psychic into the front and by the power of the psychic to purify and change the being so that it may become ready for transformation and be in union with the Divine Knowledge, Will and Love.

A Prayer

A magic leverage suddenly is caught
That moves the veiled Ineffable's timeless will:
A prayer, a master act, a king idea
Can link man's strength to a transcendent Force.
Then miracle is made the common rule.
One mighty deed can change the course of things;
A lonely thought becomes omnipotent .
                                              - Sri Aurobindo

SAVITRI - Sri Aurobindo's epic poem

SAVITRI — Idhayaththai Allum Iravaakkaaviyam — 2 Volumes (Savitri: The Immortal, Soul-entrancing Epic) (Tamil): A.I. Ravi Arumugam — Tr. in Tamil; Narmada Pathippagam, 10, Nana Street, Pondy Bazaar, T. Nagar, Chennai-600017. Rs. 1200.IT IS significant that in a literary context where brief lyrics and mini-poetry seem to rule the day, Indian poets have kept the flag of the long poem flying in

Sri Aurobindo in Alipore Jail

Vivekananda and Aurobindo (Disciple): Vivekananda had a sort of Nirvanic experience. He has himself mentioned something about it.Sri Aurobindo: Yes, that experience is the only one definitely known.Purani: He also had visions at Amarnath. But he seemed always torn between two tendencies: world-work and direct sadhana.Sri Aurobindo: Yes. And he used to put more intuitive flashes into his

Our Thoughts

Music

The role of music lies in helping the consciousness uplift itself towards the spiritual heights.                                                                                           - The Mother

The Mother

Last Darshan of the Mother

SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER

Meeting with Sri Aurobindo

                                                                  


When I first met Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry, I was in deep concentration, seeing things in the Supermind, things that were to be but which were somehow not manifesting. I told Sri Aurobindo what I had seen and asked him if they would manifest. He simply said , “ Yes “. And immediately I saw that the Supramental had touched

Should we read just any book?

Some days ago I received a letter from someone who told me that he was very hesitant about reading books of ordinary literatures, for example, novels or dramas, because his nature had an almost insuperable tendency to receive imprints of the characters in these books and to begin living the feelings and thoughts of these characters, the nature of these persons. There are many more people than

THE DANGERS OF INCONTINENCE OF SPEECH

Every word spoken uselessly is a dangerous gossiping. Every malicious word, every slander is a degradation of the consciousness.And when this slander is expressed in a vulgar language and gross terms, then that is equivalent to a suicide — the suicide of one's soul.                                                                     - The Mother
(Champaklal's Treasures , Page 139)

Sri Aurobindo

The Divine Plan (according to Sri Aurobindo)

THE MOTHER'S SOLE AUTHORITY OVER THE ASHRAM WORK

I would suggest that in your relations with others, — which seem always to have been full of disharmony, — when incidents occur, it would be much better for you not to take the standpoint that you are all in the right and they are all in the wrong.  It would be wiser to be fair and just in reflection, seeing where you have gone astray, and even laying stress on your own fault and not on theirs.

Debate

Q.How is it that we lose a chance to widen our knowledge 


   by prevailing in a  debate?
   
Ans. A debate is never anything but a conflict of opinions; and opinions are nothing but very fragmentary aspects of the truth. Even if you were able to put together and synthesise all opinions on a given subject, you still would not achieve anything but a very imperfect expression of the truth.If you

We believe in the Truth revealed by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Faith - Anchor of Life

Faith - Anchor of Life
Happy are men anchored on fixed belief 
In this uncertain and ambiguous world,
Or who have planted in the heart's rich soil
One small grain of spiritual certitude.
Happiest who stand on faith as on a rock. 
                                       - Sri Aurobindo
(Savitri, Book VII, Canto III)

Have Faith in the Path and the Guru

Have faith in the Divine, in the Divine Grace, in the truth of the sadhana, in the eventual triumph of the spirit over its mental and vital and physical difficulties, in   the Path and the Guru, in the experience of things other than are written in the philosophy of Haeckel or Huxley or Bertrand Russell, because if these things are not true, there is no meaning in yoga.

How Sri Aurobindo achieved Yoga Siddhi in 1926? The Mother explains thus:

24 November - 1926 


Except for Krishna.... In 1926, I had begun a sort of overmental creation, that is, I had brought the /Overmind /down into matter, here on earth (miracles and all kinds of things were beginning to happen). I asked all these gods to incarnate, to identify themselves with a body (some of them absolutely refused). [298] Well, with my very own eyes I saw Krishna, who had always

Happy Mahashivaratri !