THE FLOWERS   [1]   Who will conquer this Earth and this world of Death and the world of the gods as well?  Page – 204 Who will find out and show the Right Path even like an expert florist?   [2]   The Disciple will conquer the Earth and this world of Death and the world of the gods as well. The Disciple will find out and show the Right Path even like an expert florist.   [3]   He knows this body to be like foam, he recognises it to be of the same nature as a mirage. He cleaves the flowery shafts of the Tempter, he passes beyond the sight of King Death.  [4]   As a mighty flood overtakes a sleeping village, even so

A PARABLE OF SEA-GULLS   ON a sea-coast – a fairly large tract of land opening out on the vast sea and the infinite sky – among rocks and cliffs there lived a flock of sea-gulls, rather flocks of sea-gulls, – for they were almost innumerable, in hundreds and perhaps in thou sands – a whole colony of them. Have you seen a sea-gull, at least in a picture? This beautiful bird, spotlessly white end to end, and when in flight with outspread wings and its delicate supple body so pleasing, so wonderful to look at! Do you know their routine, their daily preoccupations? Of course, the first thing in the morning for them to do was to fly out and look for food. Their food is naturally

Index  ACHERON, 103 Aditi, 131-2 Adityas, the, 144­ Aesop, 21 Agastya, 74 Agni, 133, 138-40, 144 Ajdeb, 277 Algeria, 12 Amrita, 38, 192, 194 Andamans, the, II Androgyne, 296-7 Anu, 71n       Arabia (L'Arabie), 1I8 Arcturus, 297       Arjuna, 38, 68, 112 Asura, 148,272 Aswins, the, 144­ Ashram (Sri Aurobindo), Iin., 63, 70-1   BACH, Richard, 82n. –Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 82n. Bajula, 280 Bali, 148-9 Baroda, 10-11 Bengal, 11, 164-5, 281 Bhade,280 Bhaskara, Guru, 151 Bhasunaka, 77 Bhattacharya, Purnenduprasad, 172 Bhattacharya, Sanjoy, 175, 177

  A Note on Supermind   I SUPERMIND is not a function, an extended function of the mind as someone seems to have presumed. Is Life then a function, an extended function of Matter? Is Mind also in its turn" a function, an extended function of Life? With equal reason one might conclude that God is an extended function of man and even Heaven an extended function of Earth! A Sanskrit wit in trying to portray a pig for the benefit of one who has never seen the animal said (in joke or in earnest, one does not know): a pig is an elephant reduced or a mouse enlarged; it would be equally cogent or correct to say that the mind is the Supermind in reduced proportions or that the Sup

THE ADEPT   [1]   Pain exists not in him who has ended his journey, who has no grief, who is free in every way, released from all knots.   [2]   The heedful ever strive, they delight not staying at home. As a swan quits his pond, even so he moves away from home to home.   [3]   They who have no possessions, who live on measured food, who have realised the emptiness of things and the unconditioned Page – 210 freedom, their movement is hard to follow even as that of the bird in the air.  [4]   They whose longings have withered, who are indifferent to their food, who have realised the emptiness of things and the unconditi

OF THE WORLD   [1]   Do not follow the evil way. Do not cultivate a heedless mind. Do not choose the wrong view. Do not be of those who tarry in the world.   [2]   Arise. Do not be unmindful. Follow the Law of wise conduct. One who follows the Law knows felicity in this world as well as in the other.   [3]   Follow the Law of wise conduct, not that of wrong conduct. He who follows the Law knows Felicity in this world as well as in the other.   [4]   He who looks upon the world just like a bubble or a mirage, him King Death does not find out.   [5]   Come, contemplate the world as the colourful chariot of a king. On

The Golden Rule   TODAY I shall speak to you of the golden rule. When we were children we were taught, specially at school, at home too, certain golden rules. If you observe these rules you become good, good boys and good girls, you are loved and appreciated by all. These rules are simple and very commonplace; you know them all and must have tried them. For example such things as "speak the truth, do not tell a lie, obey your parents, respect your teachers, do not hurt anybody" etc., etc. That was the basis on which one was to build one's character, mould one's nature, prepare for a pure stainless noble life. They are good, these rules, so far as they go: but to say the truth,

More of Yajnavalkya     LAST time I told you the story of the great Rishi Yajnavalkya. But that was about the later Yajnavalkya when he had become a full-fledged rishi, a guru with an Ashram and disciples. Today I will tell you something of the earlier Yajnavalkya, the beginning of his rishihood, the start of his spiritual life. You know the structure of the old Indian society, it consisted of four castes, varnas, and four stages, āśramas. I shall speak of the āśramas now. Each individual person had to follow a definite course of life through developing stages. First of all, naturally, when you are a baby, in your early childhood, you belong to the family and remain with

Ashram Poets   HYMN TO THE MOTHER   Goddess Supreme, Mira! Creator of the Worlds, Nourisher of the Worlds, Benefactor of the Worlds! Mother! Goddess Supreme, Mira! The infinite mother of the Gods, the universal Goddess! The Home of the Worlds, thy gracious feet! Rays of the immeasurable light, descending from                 the divine family of the Gods, We shall take birth as the new race,    spreading wide thy force of light by our valour. A new humanity, a new race of beauty,    they bear in their eyes the tranquillity of thy eyes. Train all thy children, Mother, under thy training,         give them thy own initiation.