Sri Aurobindo's Birthday and India's Independence Day

The Kalki Avatars-Napoleon Bonaparte

















Sri Aurobindo was known in his ashram as the rebirth of Napoleon. Napoleon’s birthday was also August 15th.... In his previous births, it was believed he was Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Krishna and many other persons too. Someone asked Sri Aurobindo whether he had been Shakespeare as well, but could not elicit an answer.

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Politics

Question: Sweet
Mother, what should be the attitude of a true politician?

Ans.:  But it's just the
attitude of a true politician which I have given here. It's
the ideal
politician, my child. One can't make a better one. It is the circumstances, he
says that himself: "a greater force than mine..." it's the way the
world is organised; he started with the best intentions, he tried his very
best,

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Planchette, Automatic Writing

Sri
Aurobindo's younger brother, Barindra, was like an orbiting planet round the
Sun that was the elder brother… During his
stay at Baroda, Barindra who had been reading about the then widely popular
phenomenon of "Spiritualism" started experimenting with planchette
writing, table tapping and mediumistic communication. Sri Aurobindo sometimes
joined the séances, partly out of amusement and

The Longest Sentence in English Poetry is in Sri Aurobindo's "Savitri"

The
longest sentence in English poetry—143 words and, if a compound is counted as
two, 144—is in Savitri, Book IV, Conto III,
P.426.



     
We must understand, of course, that true sentence-length does not really depend
on putting a full-stop as late as possible and substituting commas and
semi-colons and colons for it wherever we can. The true length is organic. The
construction is such

Sri Aurobindo on Sri Ramana Maharshi

Mrs. K. went to see Maharshi and was seen driving mosquitoes at
the time of meditation. She complained to him about mosquito bites. The
Maharshi told her that if she couldn't bear mosquito bites she couldn't do
yoga. Mrs. K. could not understand the significance of the statement. She
wanted spirituality without mosquitoes!

There are reports that those who stay there permanently are not
all

Rabindranath Tagore on Sri Aurobindo

(In a comparative study
of Tagore & Sri Aurobindo, 'The
Rainbow Bridge' (2007), Goutam Ghosal writes: "Tagore met Sri
Aurobindo twice, very humbly, recognizing in him the light unerringly."

Tagore wrote of his significant experience in 1928 (below), and even wrote an
entire poem, ‘Salutation’, dedicated to Sri Aurobindo.)

For a long time I had
a strong desire to meet Aurobindo Ghosh, It

Sri Aurobindo and Gods

The Mother had a
small book by her table. She opened the book at random and said, “Here, read
this.” The sentence was Sri Aurobindo telling someone in a letter, “Shiva
and I are one.”


In her 1961 Mother's Agenda, the
Mother remembered 1926 as the year Shiva refused to incarnate until the
Supramental Yoga was complete. Krishna however 'consented' to be FIXED in Sri
Aurobindo.



Mother’s