Income and the Expenses The income and the expenses must balance; money must be found for the work of building up the Ashram. All the rest comes after. Sri Aurobindo ‘Champaklal Speaks’ P.236

To Buy Sometimes we go to the bazaar to buy our things. Is that good? One cannot make general rules. This depends on the spirit in which you make your purchases. It is said that you should have no desires – if this is not a desire, it is all right. You understand, there is no movement, no action, which in itself is good or bad; it depends absolutely on the spirit in which it is done. If, for instance, you are in a state of total indifference about what you have and what you do not (it is a condition a little difficult to realise, but after all one can attain it – a state of detachment: “If I have it, I have it; if I don’t, I do

Indispensable There was someone else also who told me: “Oh! I can absolutely do without anything at all" – we were speaking of a walking-tour with a minimum of baggage on the back (when you are compelled to carry it for miles on end, four or five kilometers a day, you try to reduce the weight of your bag as much as possible); so we discussed about what was indispensable and had to be put in the bag. He said his toothbrush. Another told me he needed a piece of soap, ( usually this spins around very simple tiny things of this kind). But here how many people there are who have never used soap, and that doesn’t prevent them from being clean! There are other ways of be

SRI AUROBINDO ON SPEECH   The organ of speech is an instrument of the physical-mental or expressive externalising mind. * * * Speech comes from the throat centre, but it is associated with whatever is the governing centre or level of the consciousness—wherever one thinks from. If one rises above the head, then thought takes place above the head and one can speak from there, that is to say, the direction of the speech is from there. * * * Pashyanti is evidently speech with the vision of Truth in it—Para is probably the revelatory and inspired speech. I a