5th December 1950:The Triumph Over Death

Sri Aurobindo

The Pilgrim of the Night
I made an assignation with the Night;
In the abyss was fixed our rendezvous:
In my breast carrying God's deathless light I came her dark and dangerous heart to woo.
I left the glory of the illumined Mind And the calm rapture of the divinised soul And travelled through a vastness dim and blindTo the grey shore where her ignorant waters roll.
And still

Valuable words

One day Pujalal told me: "Why don't you write down these answers from Mother, all these valuable words may benefit others when they read them." So I asked Mother one day: "Mother, should I write down all that you tell me?" Mother countered: "Why do you wish to write them down?" I said: "These are valuable words, what if I forget them later?" Mother said: "All that I tell you, I say to your

The Ideal Centre

Once when the Mother was asked by a group of disciples to give permission and blessings for opening a centre, She said in answer: "To open a centre is not sufficient in itself. It must be the pure hearth of perfect sincerity, in a total consecration to the Divine." This is the first motto or mantra that should be inscribed on the tablet of the inner constitution of every group organisation. It

When were Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra called “Sri Aurobindo” and the “Mother”?

                                                                                                                                                                                               by Raman ReddyBarring a few exceptions, it was only towards the end of 1926 that the disciples in Pondicherry began  referring to Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra  as “Sri Aurobindo” and the “Mother” in their diary

Physical nearness

The Divine Will

‎‎"You say, 'I give my will to the Divine... Let the divine Will work it out for me'. Your will must continue to act steadily, not in the way of choosing a particular action or demanding a particular object, but as an ardent aspiration concentrated upon the end to be achieved."
                                                                                              - The Mother

The Golden Opportunity

There are, in the history of the earth, moments of transition when things that have existed for thousands of years must give way to those that are about to manifest. A special concentration of the world consciousness, one might almost say, an intensification of its effort, occurs at such times, varying according to the kind of progress to be made, the quality of the transformation to be realised