Wednesday, July 31, 2013

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

Monday, July 29, 2013

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

Sunday, July 28, 2013

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

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Adolf Hitler, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
















Mother's Agenda, Vol. 6January 12,
1965

(Regarding an old “Playground
Talk” of March 8, 1951, in which Mother spoke of the being that possessed and
“guided” Hitler: “Hitler was in contact with a being whom he considered to be
the Supreme: that being would come and give him advice and tell him all that he
had to do. Hitler would withdraw into solitude and wait long enough to come

Sunday, July 21, 2013

29 February 1956 : The Supramental Manifestation in Sri Aurobindo Ashram























The Mother has the concrete experience of the
descent of the Supramental Consciousness on Earth on February 29,1956.



The Golden Day

‘The lights had been turned off at the
Playground after the reading of some passages from The Synthesis of Yoga and
the children's questions. They all sat on the ground in a semicircle around
her. One heard the sea in the distance, and the

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Aju Mukhopadhyay's "Insect’s Nest and Other Poems" : Book Review by Prof. Santanu Banerjee













Aju Mukhopadhyay is a renowned bi-lingual poet and writer who has authored a dozen books in Bangla and almost equal number of volumes in English. Currently he lives in Pondicherry, a place that has been hallowed by the spiritual presence of one of the most illustrious sons of Bengal-Sri Aurobindo.Mukhopadhyay’s latest book of verse entitled Insect’s Nest and Other Poems is neatly