What we have learnt from The Mother Mother was always telling us : "I dwell in each one's heart. Try to become conscious of that. I am telling each one of you, in your heart, all that I have to say. Try to listen to that. Become truly yourself. Then all the rest will follow." I do not know how many of us have learnt it. But I believe this is what Mother had actually wanted us to learn. 26.4.93 Pranab

The Silent Revolution Sri Aurobindo and The Mother's Yoga is a silent Revolution - no preaching, no propagation. A Sadhak in this yoga ascends in his realisation from peak to peak silently like the rising sun. Perhaps he knows or perhaps he even does not know. Again each realisation has many levels and disparities. In a deep sleep as the psychic silently awakes, similarly in our deeper consciousness Sri Aurobindo and The Mother's Yoga Shakti awakes incessantly and works vigilantly, quietly opening one after another the hidden doors of our consciousness. The sadhaka at one time realises that he is not the same man as before. He has become a new man with a new conscio

The Path of Progress and Liberation If you observe you will see that one after the other, be it in the spiritual field of Sadhana or in the social or national field of administration, man has always sought the path of progress and liberation in all the ways possible. The force of knowledge, the force of philosophy, the force of thought and intellect in man can no doubt help him guide his practical life but they can also, on the contrary, cause imperfection by creating all kinds of problems in an unstable life. And so in trying to do good it succeeds in just the opposite.J" No political ideology, religious discipline, philosophical vision, intellectu

Spiritual Health What is health? The harmonious function of all the organs of the body is the explanation of a good health. A human personality consists of mind, vital and body with a soul or psychic being behind. Generally, the mind is full of fanciful ideas and incoherent thoughts. The vital has its own impulses. The body is full of inertia and tamasic habits. Our work is to silence the activities of the mind and the vital and open to the Power above for its manifestation. The body must learn to follow the rhythm of the soul. We should create the conditions in our outer personality so that the psychic from the depth of our heart could come forward and influence and

Essential Qualities The following qualities are essential for good performance in all the different branches of physical activities. 1.Good technique 2.Physical strength 3.Endurance 4.Improvement of those parts of the body that are lagging behind the others in strength, shape and development 5.Physical fitness and health 6.Strong and determined will 7.Constant aspiration for endless progress 8.Balanced and systematic hard work 9.A highest possible ideal 10.Courage to face and vanquish any situation that tries to spoil the ideal 11.Plasticity to adapt to any circumstance when needed and to recognise and correct one's mi

Our Yoga - The Perpetual Battle I think about this Ashram of ours where so many people have come attracted by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Yoga-sadhana. Some have become old, some are no more, some have lost their head. Some after staying here for some time have left. Some have got married and settled down to a worldly life. About these we normally say that they have deviated from the path of Yoga, that they are failures. However, I feel this is not the right way of looking at things. This Sadhana is a war. That is why we talk about the battles in Sadhana. Those who are drawn to the path of Sadhana are inevitably attracted by an inner pull of the soul. They

A CONVERSATION ON 12-04-2002 Q - Dada, you have written in your book that Mother gave you a present. But what does it exactly mean ? Dada - Yes, it was in 1968. I told Mother that I am receiving your present. She was very happy. She made the contact of outer personality with the psychic being inside. And it is permanent. It was permanently achieved. Whatever work one does the contact is always there. In the beginning the Mother told me that whenever it will appear that the contact has gone behind the veil, sit back in your chair and call me "Ma, Ma, Ma" and it will come back. Actually it was like this. Q - What is the effect of this contact or what does one feel when o

On Old Age and Death Question : Are old age and death in human life inevitable? Will they continue forever? Answer: How can I say that? Then the ideal of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and Their sadhana will remain incomplete! What man has eternally dreamt, yearned for, thought of, has to one day become true. This has been true from age to age. As death has existed for ever so has the desire in human mind and heart to overcome and conquer it and gain immortality. This inner yearning in man, this dream itself is proof that one day man will conquer old age and death. Sri Aurobindo and Mother's Sadhana will one day bring its realisation. On this subject, I wrote an articl

Physical Transformation Steps Towards Trans formation 1.Consciousness 2.Control 3.Mastery 4.Transformation Steps Towards Physical Immortality 1.Prolongation of youth and maintenance of health and physical fitness of the body for a very long period- to stop or slow down the process of deterioration. 2.Ichha Mrityu - death only when wished - Example of Bhisma in the Mahabharata - He must have reached the first step also. 3.Physical Immortality The Process 1.The psychic contact - this is the very first step. 2.Putting the whole being under the psychic guidance. 3.The vital and the mind must not rule over the bod

What is God and Why ? God is a conscious Being, who is present everywhere, who is all-powerful, who is all-knowledge and who is all-perfect. He cannot be recognised by the mind, understood by the intellect, known by the reason; He has to be felt in the heart. God expresses Himself through whatever is true, whatever is beautiful and whatever is good. He wants to express Himself through many. That is why He has created trees and plants, pests and insects, birds and beasts, animals and men, and this whole universe. Through the evolutionary process, He is taking everything towards His perfection, so that, ultimately, everything becomes Himself. In this whole univ