Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Transformation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Body Cells
Q. I asked myself a question about Sri Aurobindo. I wanted to know
at what point he had arrived when he passed away – at what point of
transformation. What difference in the work, for example, is there
Monday, January 27, 2014
Meanings of : ॐ OM (AUM) - by Atala Damodar
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Sri
Ramakrishna on OM
The sound OM is Brahman. The rishis and sages practiced
austerity to realize that Sound-Brahman. After attaining perfection one hears
the sound of this eternal Word rising spontaneously from the navel. "'What
will you gain', some
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Sri Aurobindo's Path is new and very difficult
There's a fellow (he's
neither young nor old) who has been living for twenty-five straight years at
one of the sources of the Ganges, in a small cave carved into the mountainside
– a tiny, bare space, an earth floor and a tiger skin. He sits on the tiger skin
stark naked, without a stitch, naked as a newborn babe, in the dead
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Sri Aurobindo and Time
The other story is of the days Sri Aurobindo had the habit of
walking up and down in his rooms. He used to walk for several hours like that.
It was his way of meditating. Only, he wanted to know the time, so a clock had
been put in each room to enable him to see the time at any moment. There were
three such clocks. One was in the room where I worked; it was, so to say, his
starting-point.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
"K.M.Munshi, Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo" by Sujata Nahar
Sri Aurobindo's words, "The spirit of her [India's] culture
is her soul," had taken root in the heart of K. M. Munshi. Unlike his
Prime Minister who never made a real discovery of India, Munshi had done it. He
had imbibed her culture. He was a novelist among other things, and what pleases
me more than anything else is that his heroes are no weaklings. A man of
integrity, he had the
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Thoughts come from outside : Sri Aurobindo
To reject doubts means control of one's
thoughts – very certainly so. But the control of one's thoughts is as necessary
as the control of one's vital desires and passions or the control of the
movements of one's body – for the yoga, and not for the yoga only. One cannot
be a fully developed mental
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Mother's Talk on Sri Aurobindo's Epic Poem "Savitri"
Mother : Do you read Savitri ?
Mona Sarkar : Yes, Mother, yes.
Mother : You have read the whole
poem?
Mona Sarkar : Yes, Mother,
I have read it twice.
Mother : Have you understood all
that you have read?
Mona Sarkar : Not much, but
I like poetry, it is because of that I read it.
Mother : It does
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