Growth in Consciousness and Knowledge

As knowledge grows Light flames up from within:
It is a shining warrior in the mind,
An eagle of dreams in the divining heart,
An armour in the fight, a bow of God. – ‘Savitri’

As one grows in consciousness and the Knowledge of the inner being grows more and more, the Light of the soul flames up illumining all within and without. It presents itself in the mind as a luminous power spotting

“The Kabbalah, the Philosophie Cosmique, and the Integral Yoga: A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence” by Peter Heehs

Peter Heehs is an independent scholar based in India. He
has written or edited nine books and published more than fifty articles. 
2011. “The Kabbalah, the Philosophie Cosmique, and the Integral
Yoga: A Study in Cross-Cultural Influence”. Aries 11:2
(September): 219-247 (Pdf file available here :http://peterheehs.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ARIES_011_02_04Heehs.pdf).

Some of these

Swami Vivekananda’s connection to Puducherry - by KAVITA KISHORE

An artist giving final touches to the commissioned carving of Swami Vivekananda, which the Ramakrishna Seva Sangam plans to install, to celebrate his 150th birth anniversary.


With the 150th birth anniversary of the philosopher providing a fitting backdrop, Kavita Kishore explores the threads that link him to Puducherry


In a small stall off the beach, a potter is giving finishing touches to

Mother's Advice to Ashramites

Evolving Towards a Consciousness of Unity by Lori Tompkins

Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven (The Empyrean);from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy, Paradiso Canto 31



[I wrote this article in July of 2011 and I almost forgot about it. Here it is, an offering for the New Year.]


In 1908-1909, while spending a year in jail for being a seditionist against British rule in India, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) came to the

Politics

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Sri Aurobindo withdrew
from politics; and, in his Ashram,

a most important rule is that one must abstain from all politics

― not because Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself with

the happenings of the world, but because politics, as it is

practised, is a low and ugly thing, wholly dominated by

falsehood, deceit,

Aju Mukhopadhyay's recent books

Two recently published books by Aju Mukhopadhyay on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The blurbs of the books give glimpses of their life and work.

 

Sri Aurobindo’s Creative Literature

Sri Aurobindo could be a remarkable dramatist and fiction writer too apart from poet but he was either engaged as a secret revolutionary leader or a political leader in the open field; either professor,