Mother with children

Big Change

What is the true significance of Birthdays?

"It is truly a special day in one's life. It is one of those days in the year when the Supreme descends into us - or when we are face to face with the Eternal - one of those days when our soul comes in contact with the Eternal and, if we remain a little conscious, we can feel His Presence within us. If we make a little effort on this day, we accomplish the work of many lives as in a lightning

The Mother on “Cinema”

      I remember that whenever the film "The Wizard of Oz" was screened inthe Ashram Playground, it used to rain.     Earlier, the Mother also used to watch films (censored) with chidren andAshramites in the Playground. If it rained, the Mother would not get up. Andnobody would get up unless the Mother got up.   It also reminds me that at times, when children requested Her for the success of

Sri Aurobindo on the spiritual value of poetry

The Word has power- even the ordinary written word has a power. If it is an inspired word it has still more power. What kind of power or power for what depends on the nature of the inspiration and the theme and the part of the being it touches. If it is the Word itself, - as in certain utterances of the great Scriptures, Veda, Upanishads, Gita, it may well have a power to awaken a spiritual

Power of Kali

Behind all destructions, whether the immense destructions of Nature, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the violent human destructions, wars, revolutions, revolts, I find the power of Kali, who is working in the earth-atmosphere to hasten the progress of transformation.All that is not only divine in essence but also divine in realisation is by its very nature above these

The Mother playing tennis and walking