Monday, March 7, 2011

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

Sunday, March 6, 2011

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)