THE PRESENT TENSION AND THE FUTURE POSSIBILITIES   A TALK BY THE MOTHER         One thing seems obvious, humanity has reached a certain state of general tension-tension in effort, in action, even in daily life-with such an excessive hyperactivity, so widespread a trepidation, that mankind as a whole seems to have come to a point where it must either break through the resistance and emerge into a new consciousness or else fall back into an abyss of darkness and inertia.         The tension is so complete and so widespread that something obviously has to break. It cannot go on in this way. We may take it as a sure sign of the infusion into matt

The Final Goal !         Q: Has creation a definite aim ? Is there something like a final end to which it is moving ?       No, the universe is a movement that is eternally unrolling itself. There is nothing which you can fix upon as the end and one aim. But for the sake of action we have to section the movement, which is itself unending, and to say that this or that is the goal, for in action we need something upon which we can fix our aim. In a picture you need a definite scheme of composition and colour; you have to set a limit, to put the whole thing within a fixed framework; but the limit is illusory, the frame is a mere convention. There is a constant co

 Humanity         Q: How can humanity become one?                                                                                                                                                   By becoming conscious of its origin.                                                                                                                                                                   Q: What is the way of making the conciousness of human unity grow in man ?         Spiritual education, that is to say an education which gives more  importance to the growth of the spirit than to any religious or moral  teaching or to the material so-called knowledge.  

   Sri Aurobindo's Interview with Dilipkumar Roy         Dilip: I have come to know... to ascertain rather... if I can be initiated... I mean I want to practice your yoga to start with, if possible.         Sri Aurobindo: You must tell me clearly what it is exactly that you seek, and why you want to do my yoga.         Dilip: Suppose I suggested — or rather suffer me to ask if you could help me in attaining or shall we say discovering, the object of life?.         Sri Aurobindo: That is not an easy question to answer, for I know of no one desideratum which is cherished equally by all, any more than I know of an object of life equally treasured by all. The object

    A Conversation with the Mother         Mother: Is it January?         Yes, Mother — it is January.         Read what is written here .       (Every month I used to take to Mother a large calendar on which flowers were         painted and on which She used to write a prayer)         "In this year of Sri Aurobindo's centenary, let us strive to be worthy of Him... " And then?         "...by following His teaching faithfully in order to prepare the advent of the       superman. Happy New Year.           " What flower is this? (pointing to the painted flower)         " Superhumanity ".           Eh?  

   Udar Pinto's Visit to Savitri Bhavan         How will Sri Aurobindo and the Mother come back?         I asked the Mother one day, "Mother, how will Sri Aurobindo come back? Will he be born?" Because I can't imagine Sri Aurobindo coming as a baby, I told Mother. She said, "No Udar, he will not be born, he will not come as a baby. He will come ready-made, projected into the world." Ready-made: that is, a complete being, that will remain like that: it will not grow older, it will remain constantly the same being. And in Savitri come these lines, in the canto called "The House of the Spirit and the New Creation":         In these new worlds projected he becme    A portion

    The Best Object and Idea for Meditation         Words of Sri Aurobindo         Q: What should be the object or ideas for meditation ?         Whatever is most consonant with your nature and highest aspirations. But if you ask me for an absolute answer, then I must say that Brahman is always the best object for meditation or contemplation and the idea on which the mind should fix is that of God in all, all in God and all as God. It does not matter essentially whether it is the Impersonal or the Personal God, or subjectively, the One Self. But this is the idea I have found the best, because it is the highest and embraces all other truths, whether

    The Best Object and Idea for Meditation         Words of Sri Aurobindo         Q: What should be the object or ideas for meditation ?         Whatever is most consonant with your nature and highest aspirations. But if you ask me for an absolute answer, then I must say that Brahman is always the best object for meditation or contemplation and the idea on which the mind should fix is that of God in all, all in God and all as God. It does not matter essentially whether it is the Impersonal or the Personal God, or subjectively, the One Self. But this is the idea I have found the best, because it is the highest and embraces all other truths, whether

    Petals of Divine's Love         (Some Answers from the Mother)         Dear Mother,         Lead me to thy own home in Truth... I offer thee my will of progressive submission and increasing adoration.         The way is opened, my dear child, and I am waiting for you with my arms wide to receive and enfold you affectionately.       With my love and blessings.         22 October 1938         Life of my life, I also want to come to you; for, in your arms alone will I have peace and joy and Ananda and the true truth end fulfilment of my life and being. But still... the way is not clear to me. And how shall I be ever able to climb to you

Is Sri Aurobindo's Teaching a New Religion?         Words of the Mother         Q: Many people say that the teaching of Sri Aurobindo is a new religion. Would you say that it is a religion?         People who say that are fools who don't even know what they are talking about. You only have to read all that Sri Aurobindo has written to know that it is impossible to base religion on his works, because he presents each problem, each question in all its aspects, showing the truth contained in each way of seeing things, and he explains that in order to attain the Truth you must realise a synthesis which goes beyond all mental notions and emerge into a transcendence beyond th