The Last Darshan Photographs of Sri Aurobindo

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Auroville

What is Auroville?Auroville is a universal township in the making for a population of up to 50,000 people from around the world.How did Auroville begin?The concept of Auroville - an ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity - came to the Mother as early as the 1930s. In the mid 1960s the Sri Aurobindo Society in Pondicherry proposed to Her that such a township should be started. She

God

          They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience?                                                                                                      - Sri Aurobindo

The Supramental Yoga

I am concerned with the earth, not with worlds beyond for their own sake;it is a terrestrial realisation that I seek and not a flight to distant summits.All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; thesupramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for aprogressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the bodyfor its object.

24 November 1926 - the Day of Siddhi

In order to understand the importance of this day it is necessary to go back to Sri Aurobindo's experiences in jail in 1908-1909 and link them up with his experiences of 24 November 1926. We must also take into consideration what Sri Aurobindo wrote about his own sadhana to Barin in 1920.In the letter to Barin of April 1920 Sri Aurobindo described the stage of his yoga before

Why is there pain and suffering?

Question: Why is there pain and suffering? How should we deal with them, including physical illness? What happens when we seek for pleasure?Answer: Pain and grief are Nature's reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest

Considering the Dynamism of the Mother's Symbol

On 12 August 2009 a crop circle was discovered at Wayland Smithy, Oxfordshire which by date and by structure emphasize the 12 division of the circle. This crop circle is a variation of the Mother's Symbol with its 12 petals and 3 concentric circles. In the crop circle we see the center circle (undivided) surrounded by two larger circles demarcated by dotted rings. This structure is praised in

Attitudes in Sri Aurobindo

Professor Gabriel Monod-Herzen, the well-known French physicist, once explained in what sense Sri Aurobindo embodied for him the quintessence of the scientific spirit. “There are two attitudes in him which I most admire: The first is that he does not reject anything or anyone; there is a place for all opinions, even those which he does not accept, in his work. He has come to find that particle

Calmness

A calmness neared as of the approach of God
- Sri Aurobindo
( Savitri, Book IV, Canto I, Page 351)

Grace and Protection of the Divine Mother

The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it even will carry you through all difficulties, obstacles and dangers; surrounded by its full presence you can go securely on your way…

World War

Question: If a world-war breaks out, it may not only destroy the major portion of humanity but may even make living conditions for those who survive impossible due to the effects of the nuclear fall-out. In case the possibility of such a war is still there, will it not affect the advent of the Supramental Truth and the New Race upon earth?
Answer: All these are mental speculations and once you

Difficulties

       To anticipate difficulties is to help them happen. Always to foreseethe best with a total trust in the Divine Grace is to collaborate effectivelyin the supramental work upon earth.                                                                                                - The Mother(CWM, Vol.15, Page 121)

There is a Power within

There is a Power within that knows beyondOur knowings; we are greater than our thoughts,And sometimes earth unveils that vision here.
          - Sri Aurobindo
(Savitri ,Book 5 Canto 2, Page 397)

Yogic methods

                         Yogic methods have something of the same relation to the customary psychological workings of man as has the scientific handling of the force of electricity or of steam to their normal  operations in Nature. And they, too, like the operations of Science, are formed upon a knowledge developed and confirmed by regular experiment, practical analysis and constant result. All

Hallucination and Coincidence

Hallucination is the term of Science for those irregular glimpses we
still have of truths shut out from us by our preoccupation with matter;
coincidence for the curious touches of artistry in the work of that supreme and universal Intelligence which in its conscious being as on a canvas has planned and executed the world.

Purpose of life

All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; your
only object  in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become
a manifesting instrument of the Divine Shakti in her works.
                                                                                  - Sri Aurobindo

Song and Poem

Once I asked Sri Aurobindo if song and poetry were akin to each other. This was his answer: "No, a song is not a kind of poem; or need not be. There are some very good songs which are not poems at all. In Europe, song-writers or the writers of the librettos of the great operas are not classed among poets. In Asia the attempt to combine song-quality with poetic value has been more common, but

SRI AUROBINDO AND LORD KRISHNA

You can’t expect me to argue about my own spiritual greatness in comparison with Krishna’s. The question itself would be relevant only if there were two sectarian religions in opposition, Aurobindoism and Vaishnavism, each insisting on its own God’s greatness. That is not the case. And then what Krishna must I challenge, — the Krishna of the Gita who is the transcendent Godhead, Paramatma,

Chance and Illusion

Chance is not in this universe;
the idea of illusion is itself an illusion.
There was never illusion
yet in the human mind that was not the concealing and disfigurement of a truth.                                                                             - Sri Aurobindo(Thoughts and Aphorisms 19)

Consequences of our actions

The Divine does not see things as men do and has no need to punish or reward. Each and every action carries in itself its fruit and its consequences.According to the nature of the action, it brings you near to the Divine or takes you away from Him, and that is the supreme consequence.                                                                                                    - The Mother

Main Points in Sri Aurobindo’s Teachings

·         The human is a transitional being. A new spiritual life, a divine life on earth awaits him.·         We can attain this new life on earth by making the effort of transformation.·         We must not only cope with the problems of life but transform them so they are changed permanently.·         Religion has failed to change the essential nature of man. It has not focused on permanent

The physical Nature

The physical Nature does not mean the body alone but the phrase includes the transformation of the whole physical mind, vital, material nature – not by imposing Siddhis [occult powers] on them, but by creating a new physical nature which is to be the habitation of the supramental being in a new evolution. I am not aware that this has been done by any Hathayogic or other process. Mental or vital

Sri Aurobindo on "Savitri"

The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death. But this legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle. Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun,

A Talk By The Mother On Sri Aurobindo's "Savitri"

- Do You read Savitri ?
- Yes Mother, yes.
- You have read the whole poem?
- Yes Mother, I have read it twice.
- Have you understood all that you have read?
- Not much, but I like poetry, that is why I read it.
- It does not matter if you do not understand it — Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new