10th January 1939 Disciple : My friend "X" has begun to give medicine to some of my patients. Sri Aurobindo : So, you have your "o-Allo" alliance or axis! Talk on opathy was going when the Mother came. Mother : Do you know about a school of opathy in Switzerland which is very famous in Europe? It prepares medicines also. They have books in which symptoms are grouped together and remedies are indicated for a group of symptoms. It is a very convenient method; only, you have to have the book; or good memory. But are you allowed to practice opathy without license? Disciple : Oh, yes. No license is required in India. Disciple : But Dr. S was telling that using

26th December, 1938. Four disciples were seated on the carpet talking in low whispers at about 5. 30 P. M. One of the group broke into suppressed laughter  in the course of the talk. At 6. 30 P. M. we all assembled by the side of Sri Aurobindo, He looked round and referring to the laughter  asked : "What was the divine descent about?" Disciple : X. had his usual outburst of laughter. Sri Aurobindo : Oh, it was the descent of Vishnu's ananda. Disciple : It is very peculiar how I break out into uncontrolled laughter  so easily. Formerly, I used to weep at the slightest provocation. I think because I live in the external consciousness only I laugh so easily. Is i

APRIL 1940 25th April, 1940 R was talking to C in the train that his difficulty was about accepting Mother, because he said they used to meditate together and therefore he found it difficult to accept her. Disciple : Nobody ever meditated with the Mother before the Ashram came into existence in 1926. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, even then in the beginning there were very few people. Disciple : Mother used to meditate with Sri Aurobindo only. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, but that was individual. She was coming to me and her position was special even from the very beginning. There was no comparison between others and Mother. There were people in the Ashram who thought that Mo

MARCH, 1940 Undated Disciple : Does this article show any change in Barin's attitude? Sri Aurobindo : It depends. He says what is uppermost in his mind, and what suits him at the moment, according to his moods. But it may be a change in his attitude, but difficult to say if there is any progress. The change may be due to his having failed in every thing after going from here and the Ashram growing out since. That may have impressed him. It may be due to mental causes also. Disciple : He admits that he had fallen from the path and his attitude towards Mother. Disciple : Somebody said that he used to speak highly of the Mother. Disciple : No, he was critical.

May, 1940 20th May, 1940 Disciple : Why Hitler says that he wants to finish this campaign before August 15th*? Sri Aurobindo : That's a clear indication, if an indication was necessary, that he is the enemy of our work. Disciple : Is it that he fears that descent might take place on August 15th which might make his work more difficult? Sri Aurobindo : This force does not believe in Divine descent, but it is a sort of challenge that, "I will finish my first decisive victory before August 15th". That shows the nature of the conflict. Disciple : It does not seem to be only one being. It seems to be a camp. Sri Aurobindo : yes. But this is the leading (s

17th January, 1939 Photographs of Harnath (Pagal) and Kusum Devi were shown to Sri Aurobindo. A declaration from Matushri Page – 138 Kusum Haranath – that she was the Supreme Power and that Harnath was one of her forms, was read. Sri Aurobindo : That is the Tantric doctrine. Disciple : But Harnath was a Vaishnava. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, but the doctrine she has proclaimed is not Vaishnava doctrine, it is Tantric. Disciple : Is it true? Sri Aurobindo : In principle it is true; for the Supreme Shakti is the Divine Consciousness and all the gods are from her. It is she who gives out the gods – Shiva and others. It is said that even Shiva cannot act u

22nd  January, 1939 Sri Aurobindo opened the topic by asking : –"What about D's fast?" He was told yesterday that D was going to fast on his birth-day i.e. to-day. But he had forgotten all about it. Disciple : I hear he has taken bread and butter in the morning and at mid-day a light meal. Sri Aurobindo : Fasting with bread and milk! Disciple : There are people who believe that bread and milk can be taken while fasting. (Laughter) Sri Aurobindo : That is also the custom in Bengal, I believe. That reminds me of a story. Nevinson went to see Tilak and met him in Dhoti. While describing the meeting he said :  Mr. Tilak received me naked in his cloth. (Laugh

15th December 1938 Disciple : You told me Dr. R. uses mental intuition. So there may be various levels of intuition. Sri Aurobindo : By mental intuition I mean the Intuition which comes from Above. Don't get mixed in the mind. I don't say that mental intuition is not correct but it is always limited because of the mixture. There is also the vital influence which very often becomes mixed up with one's desires. Disciple : How to get the intuition? By calmness of mind? Sri Aurobindo : Calmness is not enough. Mind must be silent. Disciple : It will then take a long time. Sri Aurobindo : Can't say. Can take a short time, or a long time. Disciple : Bu

INTRODUCTION The question which Arjuna asks Sri Krishna in the Gita (2nd Chap.) occurs pertinently to many about all spiritual personalities. "What is the language of one whose under­standing is poised ? How does he speak, how sit, how walk ?" Men want to know the outer signs of the inner attainment—the way in which a spiritual person differs outwardly from other men. But all the tests which the Gita enumerates are inner and therefore invisible to the outer view. It is true also that the inner or the spiritual is the essential and the outer derives its value and form from the inner. But the transformation about which Sri Aurobindo writes in his books has to take pla

13th January, 1939 The Mother was present when X put the following question to her. Disciple : Mother, is it a sin to kill bugs, mosquitoes, scorpions etc.? "Ask Sri Aurobindo"; The Mother replied smiling. "When I came here I used to drive them away by yogic force. Sri Aurobindo did not approve of it." Sri Aurobindo : Because one is making friendship with them in that way. What is the sin? If you don't kill them they will go and bite some other people and won't it be a sin to you? Disciple : But they have life, Sir? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, they have. Page – 118  Disciple : And, if one kills them? Sri Aurobindo : Well, what happens? Discip