Happy New Year

Que la naissance de la nouvelle année soit une nouvelle naissance pour notre conscience! Laissant le passé loin derrière nous, courons vers un avenir lumineux.



- La Mère

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Let the birth of the New Year be the new birth of our consciousness! Leaving the past far behind us let us run towards a luminous future.



- The Mother

'Concept of Man in Sri Aurobindo's Poetry' : Book Review in "Organiser" Weekly

Change Yourself First

You can do nothing with others unless you are able to do it with yourself. You can never give a good advice to anyone unless you are able to give it to yourself first, and to follow it. And if you see a difficulty somewhere, the best way of changing this difficulty is to change it in yourself first. If you see a defect in anyone, you may be sure it is in you, and you begin to change it in

The call of the future

While on the one hand he attained the acme of his lifelong quest on December 5, 1950, it also became imperative for Sri Aurobindo on the other hand, to leave his body. We can never understand the inside story of this mystery, but this simultaneous victory and defeat constitutes a momentous event in the history of mankind. That the lever of the next evolution has been pulled successfully was

Christmas Messages by the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

( Christmas was designated by the Mother as the festival of the return of the Light .)


1962May the New Light illumine your thoughts and your lives,govern your hearts and guide your action.Blessings.
1963Joyeux Noel.Let us celebrate the Light by letting it enter into us.
1964If you want peace upon earth, first establish peace in your heart.If you want union in the world, first unify the

Inauguration of a Sugar Factory

I went to inaugurate the sugar factory the other day. I had an amusing experience.From the material point of view, it's almost hellish – the noise, the smell – a nauseating smell. I had to apply all my will not to be physically disturbed – they made me climb up narrow little stairs, go down, climb back up, look into deep pits. At some places there weren't even guardrails, so I had really to

Sri Aurobindo and the Future of Humanity by Georges Van Vrekhem

"The animal is a living laboratory in which Nature has, it is said, worked out man. Man himself may well be a thinking and living laboratory in whom and with whose conscious cooperation she wills to work out the superman1." Sri Aurobindo wrote these words almost a century ago in what is generally considered his magnum opus, The Life Divine. Today his name is not unknown, but the contents and