The Last Darshan Photographs of Sri Aurobindo

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Matrimandir

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Auroville

What is Auroville?Auroville is a universal township in the making for a population of up to 50,000 people from around the world.How did Auroville begin?The concept of Auroville - an ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity - came to the Mother as early as the 1930s. In the mid 1960s the Sri Aurobindo Society in Pondicherry proposed to Her that such a township should be started. She

God

          They proved to me by convincing reasons that God did not exist, and I believed them. Afterwards I saw God, for He came and embraced me. And now which am I to believe, the reasonings of others or my own experience?                                                                                                      - Sri Aurobindo

The Supramental Yoga

I am concerned with the earth, not with worlds beyond for their own sake;it is a terrestrial realisation that I seek and not a flight to distant summits.All other Yogas regard this life as an illusion or a passing phase; thesupramental Yoga alone regards it as a thing created by the Divine for aprogressive manifestation and takes the fulfilment of the life and the bodyfor its object.

24 November 1926 - the Day of Siddhi

In order to understand the importance of this day it is necessary to go back to Sri Aurobindo's experiences in jail in 1908-1909 and link them up with his experiences of 24 November 1926. We must also take into consideration what Sri Aurobindo wrote about his own sadhana to Barin in 1920.In the letter to Barin of April 1920 Sri Aurobindo described the stage of his yoga before

Why is there pain and suffering?

Question: Why is there pain and suffering? How should we deal with them, including physical illness? What happens when we seek for pleasure?Answer: Pain and grief are Nature's reminder to the soul that the pleasure it enjoys is only a feeble hint of the real delight of existence. In each pain and torture of our being is the secret of a flame of rapture compared with which our greatest