Sri Aurobindo on Sri Ramana Maharshi

Mrs. K. went to see Maharshi and was seen driving mosquitoes at
the time of meditation. She complained to him about mosquito bites. The
Maharshi told her that if she couldn't bear mosquito bites she couldn't do
yoga. Mrs. K. could not understand the significance of the statement. She
wanted spirituality without mosquitoes!

There are reports that those who stay there permanently are not
all

Rabindranath Tagore on Sri Aurobindo

(In a comparative study
of Tagore & Sri Aurobindo, 'The
Rainbow Bridge' (2007), Goutam Ghosal writes: "Tagore met Sri
Aurobindo twice, very humbly, recognizing in him the light unerringly."

Tagore wrote of his significant experience in 1928 (below), and even wrote an
entire poem, ‘Salutation’, dedicated to Sri Aurobindo.)

For a long time I had
a strong desire to meet Aurobindo Ghosh, It

Sri Aurobindo and Gods

The Mother had a
small book by her table. She opened the book at random and said, “Here, read
this.” The sentence was Sri Aurobindo telling someone in a letter, “Shiva
and I are one.”


In her 1961 Mother's Agenda, the
Mother remembered 1926 as the year Shiva refused to incarnate until the
Supramental Yoga was complete. Krishna however 'consented' to be FIXED in Sri
Aurobindo.



Mother’s

Adolf Hitler, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Mother's Agenda, Vol. 6January 12,
1965

(Regarding an old “Playground
Talk” of March 8, 1951, in which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and
“guided” Hitler: “Hitler was in contact with a being whom he considered to be
the Supreme: that being would come and give him advice and tell him all that he
had to do. Hitler would withdraw into solitude and wait long enough to come

29 February 1956 : The Supramental Manifestation in Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Mother has the concrete experience of the
descent of the Supramental Consciousness on Earth on February 29,1956.



The Golden Day

‘The lights had been turned off at the
Playground after the reading of some passages from The Synthesis of Yoga and
the children's questions. They all sat on the ground in a semicircle around
her. One heard the sea in the distance, and the

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Religion and Yoga

Aju Mukhopadhyay's "Insect’s Nest and Other Poems" : Book Review by Prof. Santanu Banerjee

Aju Mukhopadhyay is a renowned bi-lingual poet and writer who has authored a dozen books in Bangla and almost equal number of volumes in English. Currently he lives in Pondicherry, a place that has been hallowed by the spiritual presence of one of the most illustrious sons of Bengal-Sri Aurobindo.Mukhopadhyay’s latest book of verse entitled Insect’s Nest and Other Poems is neatly

Ganga, Shiva and the Earth by Lori Tompkins

How Ganga comes to Earth




'Ganga is said to have descended from heaven and fallen onto Shiva's head, whence from his matted locks the Great God released her in a gentle flow upon the Earth. It is said that the Earth was spared the full impact of her power by this graceful act of Shiva, and that, had it not been so, the planet could not have tolerated the descent of Ganga in her full form.'

Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga Practice

 


We offer this page to all sadhaks who are in need of simple and
effective tools to put their sadhana on the integral foundation of concrete and
psychological methods of the Integral Yoga.

Sri Aurobindo writes:

What I meant by some concrete method was things like repetition
of a mantra, pranayama, asana, etc. What I mean by subtle methods is
psychological, non-mechanical processes e.g.

"The Golden Chain": A Talk by Nolini Kanta Gupta

(This  talk was  addressed  to the students of  “Sri Aurobindo



International Centre of Education”, Pondicherry.)






     You have been here for many years, for
many, many years. From childhood you are here, most of you, perhaps all of you.
Some of you are going out, some are likely to stay, some are still undecided.
If you are asked, "