Saturday, May 12, 2012
Luminous Preservation of Sri Aurobindo’s Body
(Though Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his physical body on
December 5, 1950, the body did not show any signs of decomposition till four
days later. The body was aglow with a special light which the Mother confirmed
as being the light of the Supramental.)
Regarding the preservation of Sri Aurobindo’s body for several days
after his withdrawal: You are right; the mere fact of preservation
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Where music and spirituality meet, with Anie Nunnally
In the summer of 2011 I had the pleasure of participating in the AUM Conference in Lodi, CA. The Conference gathered many spiritually oriented people who receive inspiration and guidance from the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. For 3 days we all joined in to hear insightful lectures, participate in meditations and workshops, and receive offerings of poems and music.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Spirituality
“… the old spirituality was an escape from life into the divine Reality,
leaving the world just where it was, as it was; whereas our new vision, on the
contrary, is a divinisation of life, a transformation of the material world
into a divine world. This has been said, repeated, more or less understood,
indeed it is the basic idea of what we want to do. But this could be a
continuation
Monday, April 30, 2012
A Rare Interview of Sri Aurobindo
(This is a rare interview of Sri Aurobindo which he gave to a
correspondent of the Empire, a Calcutta-based daily
journal, on 15 August 1908. The interview took place in the Alipore
Magistrate’s Court on the date of Sri Aurobindo’s thirty-sixth birthday. The
spellings have been kept intact.)
Ever since the commencement of the trial until Saturday Arabindo
[Sri Aurobindo] has
Friday, April 20, 2012
Meeting with Sri Aurobindo
It was unbearable for
me to stay in the demanding environment of Nasik, and I thought of visiting Pondicherry
and meeting the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. The students of this ashram were very
devoted and firm in the conviction that the way of life they led was supreme.
The day I arrived at Pondicherry there was a concert given by a famous musician
who was a disciple of Sri Aurobindo.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The Supramental substance and New Birth
I may say that by the very fact that you live upon earth at this moment… you absorb with the air that you breathe this new supramental substance which is spreading in earth’s atmosphere and it is preparing in you things you will manifest all of a sudden, as soon as you have taken the decisive step.
Whether that will help you or not to take this decisive step is another question which has
Sunday, April 1, 2012
'Concept of Man in Sri Aurobindo's Poetry' : An Interview with Dr. Jitendra Sharma by Khurshid Alam
CLRI Que 1: Hi Jitendra, can you share the reason why you selected Sri Aurobindo Ghose’s works as your research topic while there are so many Indian writers in English? Particularly now there are a good number of Man Booker Prize winners also.Ans: Sri Aurobindo, a great politician, philosopher, freedom-fighter, mystic,
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