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