A Rare Interview of Sri Aurobindo

(This is a rare interview of Sri Aurobindo which he gave to a
correspondent of the Empire, a Calcutta-based daily
journal, on 15 August 1908. The interview took place in the Alipore
Magistrate’s Court on the date of Sri Aurobindo’s thirty-sixth birthday. The
spellings have been kept intact.)



Ever since the commencement of the trial until Saturday Arabindo
[Sri Aurobindo] has

Meeting with Sri Aurobindo

       It was unbearable for
me to stay in the demanding environment of Nasik, and I thought of visiting Pondicherry
and meeting the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. The students of this ashram were very
devoted and firm in the conviction that the way of life they led was supreme.
The day I arrived at Pondicherry there was a concert given by a famous musician
who was a disciple of Sri Aurobindo.

The Supramental substance and New Birth

I may say that by the very fact that you live upon earth at this moment… you absorb with the air that you breathe this new supramental substance which is spreading in earth’s atmosphere and it is preparing in you things you will manifest all of a sudden, as soon as you have taken the decisive step.

 Whether that will help you or not to take this decisive step is another question which has

'Concept of Man in Sri Aurobindo's Poetry' : An Interview with Dr. Jitendra Sharma by Khurshid Alam

                                                               














CLRI Que 1: Hi Jitendra, can you share the reason why you selected Sri Aurobindo Ghose’s works as your research topic while there are so many Indian writers in English? Particularly now there are a good number of Man Booker Prize winners also.Ans: Sri Aurobindo, a great politician, philosopher, freedom-fighter, mystic,

Meditation

Matrimandir@AurovilleThe capital period of my intellectual development was when I could see clearly that what the intellect said may be correct and not correct, that what the intellect justifies is true and its opposite also is true. I never admitted a truth in the mind without simultaneously keeping it open to the contrary of it. And the first result was that the prestige of the intellect was

Money Power

Q: Divine Mother, could we have a message from you to pass along to those in the United States who may be ready to aid in the fund-raising work we are doing? A: The Mother: Money is not meant to make money; money is meant to make the earth ready for the New Creation.  **********************************************************************************


”You must neither turn with an ascetic

" Bogus Ma Ki Jai" ("Victory to the false Mother")

Found the following anecdote as recounted in the booklet "Sidelights on The Mother" by M.P.Pandit :

A sadhak who was behaving erratically asked a young boy to shout " Bogus Ma Ki Jai" ("Victory to the false Mother")
Someone reported this to Mother and suggested that the sadhak might be sent away. Mother heard everything and remarked that it had proved good with some who were sent away. But one