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SABCL - Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library

CWSA - Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo

CWM - Collected Works of The Mother

Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/The Feast of Youth.htm
The Feast of Youth * THIS is the first published book of a young poet whose name has recently and suddenly emerged under unusually favourable auspices. English poetry written by  an Indian writer who uses the foreign medium as if it were his mother- tongue, with a spontaneous ease, power and beauty, the author a brother of the famous poetess Sarojini Naidu, one of a family which promises to be as remarkable as the Tagores by its possession of culture, talent and genius, challenging attention and sympathy by his combination of extreme youth and a high and early brilliance and already showing in his work, even though still  immature, magnificent performance as well a
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/God, the Invisible King.htm
God, the Invisible King A REMARKABLE book with this title by the well-known writer -and thinker, Mr. H. G. Wells, has recently appeared, of which only a few extracts are before us, but these are sufficient to reveal its character and thought. It is on the part of the writer, speaking not for himself personally alone but as scribe to the spirit of his generation, a definite renunciation of the gospel of an all-sufficient rationalism, a discovery of God, a profession of faith in spirituality as the one lever by which mankind can rise out of the darkness and confusion of its present state into a more perfect living. He professes his faith in the God within, the invi
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/The Training of the Mental Faculties.htm
SEVEN The Training of the Mental Faculties THE first qualities of the mind that have to be developed are those which can be grouped under observation. We notice some things, ignore others. Even of what we notice, we observe very little. A general perception of an object is what we all usually carry away from a cursory half-attentive glance. A closer attention fixes its place, form, nature as distinct from its surroundings. Full concentration of the faculty of observation gives us all the knowledge that the three chief senses can gather about the object, or if we touch or taste, we may gather all that the five senses can tell of its nature and
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/Arya.htm
XI NOTES FROM THE "ARYA" "Arya" What is the significance of the name, "Arya" ?. THE question has been put from more than one point of view. To most European readers the name¹ figuring on our cover is likely to be a hieroglyph which attracts or repels according to the temperament. Indians know the word, but it has lost for them the significance which it bore to their forefathers. Western Philology has converted it into a racial term, an unknown ethnological quantity on which different speculations fix different values. Now, even among the philologists, some are beginning to recognise that the word in its original use expressed not a difference of race, but a difference of cult
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/The Mortal Nature.htm
THREE The Moral Nature IN THE economy of man the mental nature rests upon the moral, and the education of the intellect divorced from the perfection of the moral and emotional nature is injurious to human progress. Yet, while it is easy to arrange some kind of curriculum or syllabus which will do well enough for the training of the mind, it has not yet been found possible to provide under modern conditions a suitable moral training for the school and college. The attempt to make boys moral and religious by the teaching of moral and religious text-books is a vanity and a delusion, precisely because the heart is not the mind and to instruct the mind does not neces
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/The Human Mind.htm
A SYSTEM OF NATIONAL EDUCATION Some Preliminary Ideas ONE The Human Mind THE true basis of education is the study of the human mind, infant, adolescent and adult. Any system of education founded on theories of academic perfection, which ignores the instrument of study, is more likely to hamper and impair intellectual growth than to produce a perfect and perfectly equipped mind. For the educationist has to do, not with dead material like the artist or sculptor, but with an infinitely subtle and sensitive organism. He cannot shape an educational masterpiece out of human wood or stone; he has to work in the elusive substance of mind and respect the limits imposed by
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/The Psycholigy of Yoga.htm
The Psychology of Yoga * AS THE Indian mind, emerging from its narrow mediaeval entrenchments, advances westward towards inevitable conquest, it must inevitably carry with it Yoga and Vedanta for its banners wherever it goes. Brahmajnana, Yoga and Dharma are the three essentialities of Hinduism; wherever it travels and finds harbourage and resting place, these three must spread. All else may help or hinder. Shankara's philosophy may compel the homage of the intellectual, Sankhya attract the admiration of the analytical mind, Buddha capture the rationalist in search of a less material synthesis than the modern scientist's continual Annam Brahma, Pranam Brahma, but t
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/The Silence behind Life.htm
The Silence behind Life THERE is a silence behind life as well as within it and it is only in this more secret, sustaining silence that we can hear clearly the voice of God. In the noise of the world we hear only altered and disturbed echoes of it; for the Voice comes always - who else speaks to us on our journey? – but the gods of the heart, the gods of the mind, the gods of desire, the gods of sense take up the divine cry, intercept it and alter it for their purposes. Krishna calls to us, but the first note, even the opening power or sweetness, awakes a very brouhaha of these echoes. It is not the fault of these poor gods. The acce
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/The Secret Truth.htm
The Secret Truth ALL begins from the Divine, from the Eternal, from the Infinite, all abides in it alone and by it alone, all ends or culminates in the divine Eternal and Infinite. This is the first postulate indispensable for our spiritual seeking - for on no other base can we found the highest knowledge and the highest life. All time moves in the Eternal; all space is spread in the Infinite; all creatures and creations live by that in them which is Divine. This is patently true of an inner spiritual but also proves in the end to be true of this outer space and time. It is known to our inmost being that it lives because it is part of the Divine, but it is tr
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/The Hour of God_Volume-17/Sat.htm
V ESSAYS DIVINE AND HUMAN Sat WHAT is Truth? said Pilate confronted with a mighty messenger of the truth, not jesting surely, not in a spirit of shallow lightness, but turning away from the Christ with the impatience of the disillusioned soul for those who still use high words that have lost their meaning and believe in great ideals which the test of the event has proved to be fallacious. What is truth, - this phantom so long pursued, so impossible to grasp firmly, - that a man young, beautiful, gifted, eloquent and admired should consent to be crucified for its sake? Have not circumstance and event justified the half-pitying, half- sorrowful question of the Roman gove