Mother with children

Big Change

What is the true significance of Birthdays?

"It is truly a special day in one's life. It is one of those days in the year when the Supreme descends into us - or when we are face to face with the Eternal - one of those days when our soul comes in contact with the Eternal and, if we remain a little conscious, we can feel His Presence within us. If we make a little effort on this day, we accomplish the work of many lives as in a lightning

The Mother on “Cinema”

      I remember that whenever the film "The Wizard of Oz" was screened inthe Ashram Playground, it used to rain.     Earlier, the Mother also used to watch films (censored) with chidren andAshramites in the Playground. If it rained, the Mother would not get up. Andnobody would get up unless the Mother got up.   It also reminds me that at times, when children requested Her for the success of

Sri Aurobindo on the spiritual value of poetry

The Word has power- even the ordinary written word has a power. If it is an inspired word it has still more power. What kind of power or power for what depends on the nature of the inspiration and the theme and the part of the being it touches. If it is the Word itself, - as in certain utterances of the great Scriptures, Veda, Upanishads, Gita, it may well have a power to awaken a spiritual

Power of Kali

Behind all destructions, whether the immense destructions of Nature, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the violent human destructions, wars, revolutions, revolts, I find the power of Kali, who is working in the earth-atmosphere to hasten the progress of transformation.All that is not only divine in essence but also divine in realisation is by its very nature above these

The Mother playing tennis and walking

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Change of Consciousness

CONCEPT OF MAN IN SRI AUROBINDO'S POETRY

ISBN- 978-81-261-4932-2 
CONCEPT OF MAN IN SRI AUROBINDO'S POETRYJITENDRA SHARMASri Aurobindo considered himself firstly to be a poet. His profound and spiritual outpourings of poetic inspiration chart a new course for Man, heralding the emergence of a new species of Superman. His verses describe beautifully, with an aroma of the spirituality of India, the appearance of Man on earth and the

Computer and the Mother

May be it was 1968/1969, an expert on computers of those days and artificial intelligence, Frank Mathur from USA, started a course on computers in our school.


A computer was made by all the components that he had brought from USA. It was a huge block of 1,5m x 1.2m. Taking upstairs to show the Mother was very cumbersome with the narrow staircase as all of you must have noticed.



I hadn't

Nirodbaran narrates a real story of Black Magic

...Well, we were living in that house then. The Mother too was there
with me. A servant called Vittal used to work for us whom for some
reason we had sacked. Absolutely furious, he screamed threats and
abuses at us, warning us that we would soon find it impossible to
Fakir who knew some black magic.
"One evening, out of nowhere, we suddenly found stones falling on
the roof of our kitchen. The

INTERVIEW WITH SHRI UDAR PINTO By Anie Nunnally

Number 5 Rue Dumas is on the street in French Pondicherry directly
behind the main compound of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram; Golconde is just
a block down the street from this large French Colonial-style
structure that the Mother had named "Fenetres" (windows). This is home
to Udar Pinto, his English wife Mona, manager extraordinaire of
Golconde and their daughter Gauri, a teacher in the Higher

Work is body's prayer

Let us work as we pray, for indeed work is the body's best prayer  to the Divine.                                                                                  - The Mother

THE FREEDOM OF INDIA - Predictions of Sri Aurobindo

“ … I know and have experienced hundreds of times that beyond the blackest darkness there lies for one who is a divine instrument the light of God’s victory.  I have never had a strong and persistent will for anything to happen in the world - I am not speaking of personal things - which did not eventually happen even after delay, defeat or even disaster”.

How can I find my place in the Universal Work ?

How can I find my place in the Universal Work ?The Mother, Sri Aurobindo Ashram
This is a question which every individual puts to himself when he attains a certain level of inner awakening. In this article, the Mother gives simple and clear guidelines which can lead us in this path of self-discovery.The Work to AccomplishWe all have a role to fulfil, a work to accomplish, a place which we alone

The Mother: "I will guide you."

Love God and Humanity

This is a miracle that men can love God, yet fail to love humanity.
With whom are they in love then?
                                                                              - Sri Aurobindo




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Slide Show: The Mother - Our Executive President

Slide Show: The Mother - Our Executive President



The Mother - Our Executive President - Presentation TranscriptThe Mother Our Executive President Sri Aurobindo Society GOLDEN JUBILEE 1960-2010
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“May we never forget all we owe to Thee” 2010 marks the Centenary of Sri Aurobindo’s arrival at Pondicherry and the beginning of his great work of World Transformation. 2010 is also the Golden

Slide Show: Sri Aurobindo And Sri Krishna

Slide Show: Sri Aurobindo And Sri Krishna


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Sri Aurobindo And Sri Krishna - Presentation TranscriptSri Krishna: Sri Aurobindo’s Double
What Sri Aurobindo saidFrom Champaklal Speaks, page 39. Sri Krishna and Sri Aurobindo Kamala's brother Mahesh had come to me in 1923. Obviously we both came for the same purpose, but I

Why the future is veiled from us?

Imagine for a moment that you knew the future.  Doesn’t that seem a good thing?  You could relax and work without getting stressed out; you could plan ahead and direct your energies only in those paths that you know would lead to success; you could avoid all those intransigent people who keep trapping you in some debilitating vortex of time.  There would be no wastage of energy, no error, no

Music

…the best way of listening (to music) is this. It is to be like a still mirror and very concentrated, very silent. In fact, we see people who truly love music . . . I have seen musicians listening to music, musicians, composers or players who truly love music, I have seen them listening to music . . . they sit completely still, you know, they are like that, they do not move at all. Everything,

The Evolution of the Spiritual Man

The current established basis of the evolutionary action in humanity takes us to the development of the highly developed mentality as discussed in the prior post. Sri Aurobindo points out that in order to go beyond this stage we need to see the development of the next evolutionary principle and its emergence. “For the mental man has not been Nature’s last effort or highest reach,–though he has

Why spiritual experiences do not repeat?

The spiritual path often seems like a walk through the arid desert.   Intermittently, one may encounter an oasis of water in the form of a  replenishing soul moment, but the rest of the time one has to trudge through the scorching heat of the hardships of daily life.   It is in this context that the Vedic Rishis spoke of the spiritual seeker being like a Divine child who is suckled by two

Religious Ceremonies

Q. Mother,

I have been asked whether Sri Aurobindo’s followers can or cannot worship Rama, Krishna and the other gods, whether they should perform religious ceremonies or stop them. I replied that we do not have any set rules that each one has to follow. Each one should do what he feels from within. I said that if one is sincere and wants to be a servant of the Lord, he can become one even

Do you wish to rise?

Do you wish to rise?
Begin by descending.
You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds?
Lay first the foundation of humility.
                                          ~ Saint Augustine
He who would bring the heavens hereMust descend himself into clay
And the burden of earthly nature bearAnd tread the dolorous way.                                 ~ Sri Aurobindo 

Stories behind 1913 Nobel Award

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first non-European to receive it. His coming by the Nobel created much excitement not only in India but outside it as well. Rabindranath, not at all known outside India before the publication of hisGitanjali in its English version in November 1912 from London, made millions of people sit up and take

Ravana is the dark side of Vishnu

A Conversation with Sriman Aravinda Ghosh: The India Interview (1909)

by RY Deshpande on Sun 05 Jun 2011 03:30 AM IST  |  Permanent Link  |  Cosmos
Article from India (Tamil weekly) 18 September 1909 InterviewA few days ago one of our correspondents went to Calcutta and spoke to Mahajnani Sriman Aravinda Ghose on several topics. We give here excerpts from the conversation.
Our correspondent had the darshan of Aravinda-babu at 6, College Square Street [sic],

Astrology and Horoscope - Sri Aurobindo’s letter to his wife Mrinalini Devi

                                                                                                                      C/o Rai Bahadur                                                                                              K.B. Jadhav,                                                                                              Baroda

Mantra

One has to be quite ignorant of the mechanism of forces not to understand that saying a mantra of the old gods puts you under the influence and into the orbit of precisely that which resists the new truth.                                                                                               - Satprem(Mother’s Agenda, October 16, 1963)

Neither earth moves nor sun

To the senses it is always true that the sun moves round the earth; this is false to the reason. To the reason it is always true that the earth moves round the sun; this is false to the supreme vision. Neither earth moves nor sun; there is only a change in the relation of sun-consciousness & earth-consciousness.                                   - Sri Aurobindo

Founding of Auroville

        The foundation of Auroville was laid in February 28,1968,
with representatives of several nations participating in the solemn
ceremony. Mother did not attend but she broadcast a message
from her chamber.
       The next day the Indian Express carried a photograph of
the ceremony. In the left-hand corner at the top of the picture
appeared a face looming over the horizon, looking exactly

Evolution Fast-forward

Evolution Fast-forwardAn Auroville-produced video about the vision and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, done entirely using computer motion graphics. It presents the evolutionary crisis, the two negations and the synthesis of Consciousness and Force. For those who already know about Sri Aurobindo and the Mother the video provides a contemporary way of presenting their teachings. For the new

Sri Aurobindo has not been given the importance he deserves

Other factors apart, the single biggest cause that made the shy Sri Aurobindo a legend is the fact that his was the first voice to demand unqualified freedom for the country, an idiom unheard till then – a fact that is often passed over if not deliberately ignored. He did so without the slightest inhibition at a time when many leading national figures of the day would have shuddered to proclaim

Sri Aurobindo’s 1947 meeting with two French visitors

Towards the end of September 1947, leading Indian newspapers carried reports that Sri Aurobindo, in seclusion since 1926 had received two visitors, the first it was said since his meeting with Rabindranath Tagore 19 years earlier. These two visitors who remained with Sri Aurobindo in his room for three-quarters of an hour were M. Maurice Schumann, leading a cultural mission despatched to

Life and Death

Life, death,  —  death, life; the words have led for agesOur thought and consciousness and firmly seemedTwo opposites; but now long-hidden pagesAre opened, liberating truths undreamed.Life only is, or death is life disguised,  —Life a short death until by life we are surprised.
- Sri Aurobindo

My new book: 'Concept of Man in Sri Aurobindo's Poetry'

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

The Spiritual Significance of Flowers

Gentle and lovely, flowers share their beauty with us and bring us a touch of eternal things. According to the Mother, each variety of flower has its own special quality and meaning. By establishing an inner contact with the flower, this meaning can be known.Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them, the Mother said. It is a subtle and fragrant language. As if to provide a key to

The Mother

To know the Mother is to know the Divine. To let Her Force work in you is to evolve. Her sweetness invades our nerves when we call Her into our being.

Mother was the very incarnation of the Transcendent Adiparashakti. Sri Aurobindo said Mother was an Avatar and an incarnation of the Divine Transcendent Shakti.

Divine Child:

The Mother was born in Paris on 21 February 1878. Mira, as the child

The Significance of Flowers

Answers by the Mother
Sweet Mother, how do you give significance to a flower?By entering into contact with it and giving a more or less precise meaning to what I feel… by entering into contact with the nature of the flower, its inner truth; then one knows what it represents.

Each flower has its special significance, hasn't it?
Not as we understand it mentally. There is a mental projection when