The Problem of Life (12-01-11) The love of inaction is folly and the scorn of inaction is folly; there is no inaction. The stone lying inert upon the sands which is kicked away in an idle moment, has been producing its effect upon the hemispheres. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-121) The Problem of Life ….The whole crux and difficulty of human life lies here. Man is this mental being, this mental consciousness working as mental force, aware in a way of the universal force and life of which he is part but, because he has not knowledge of its universality or even of the totality of his own being, unable to deal either with life in general or with his own life in a really effecti

The Past: A Stepping-stone (01-06-11) There are times when action is unwise or impossible; then go into tapasya in some physical solitude or in the retreats of thy soul and await whatever divine word or manifestation. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 267) The Past: A Stepping-stone The more ready you are to leave behind all that you have experienced, in order to able to go towards something better and higher, the faster you will go; the more you drag the heavy weight of all the past which you don’t want to get rid of, the slower is your advance. All the past should always be simply like a stepping-stone or a ladder, something to lead you farther; it should not have any other use

Allow the Lord to do Everything (09-11-11) Practical knowledge is a different thing; that is real and serviceable,but it is never complete. Therefore to systematise and codify it is necessary but fatal. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Ahorisms 74)   Allow the Lord to do Everything This smile, this joy, this laughter are there, and such peace! Such full, luminous, total peace, in which there are no more conflicts, no more contradictions. There are no more conflicts. It is one single luminous harmony – and yet everything we call error, suffering, misery, everything is there. It eliminates nothing. It is another way of seeing. There can be no doubt that if you sincerely want to get out of i

WHO (26-01-11) The old writings call the Titans the elder gods. So they still are; nor is any god entirely divine unless there is hidden in him also a Titan. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-222) ►WHO◄ In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest, Whose is the hand that has painted the glow? When the winds were asleep in the womb of the ether, Who was it roused them and bade them to blow? He is lost in the heart, in the cavern of Nature, He is found in the brain where He builds up the thought: In the pattern and bloom of the flowers He is woven, In the luminous net of the stars He is caught. In the strength of a man, in the beauty of woman, In the laugh of a boy, in the

The Only Truly Effective Attitude (28-09-11) When I knew nothing, then I abhorred the criminal, sinful and impure, being myself full of crime, sin and impurity;but when I was cleansed and my eyes unsealed,then I bowed down in my spirit before the thief and the murderer and adored the feet of the harlot; for I saw that these souls had accepted the terrible burden of evil and drained for all of us the greater portion of the churned poison of the world-ocean. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Ahorisms 132) The Only Truly Effective Attitude Everyone can gauge, from the resistance he meets in his own being, the tremendous resistance which the world opposes to the work of the Grace. And it is only

The Divine is in You (18-05-11) Discipleship to God the Teacher, sonship to God the Father, tenderness of God the Mother clasp of the hand of the divine Friend, laughter and sport with our Comrade and boy Playfellow, blissful servitude to God the Master, rapturous love of our divine Paramour, these are the seven beatitudes of life in the human body. Canst thou unite all these in a single supreme &rainbow-hued relation? . Then hast thou no need of any heaven and thou exceedest the emancipation of the Adwaitin. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 475)   The Divine is in You If you could find, in each one of you, your psychic and unite with it, all the problems would be sol

TRANSFORMATION AND REVERSAL OF CONCIOUSNESS (28-12-11) I am not a Bhakta, for I have not renounced the world for God. How can I renounce what He took from me by force and gave back to me against my will? These things are too hard for me. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-409) TRANSFORMATION AND REVERSAL OF CONCIOUSNESS Formerly, when one spoke of transformation one meant solely the transformation of the inner consciousness. One tried to discover in oneself this deep consciousness and rejected the body and its activities like an encumbrance and a useless thing, in order to attend only to the inner movement. Sri Aurobindo declared that this was not enough; the Truth demanded that the

GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO (13-07-11)  When thou affirmest thy soul-experience & deniest the different soul-experience of another, know that God is making a fool of thee. Dost thou not hear His self-delighted laughter behind thy soul's curtains? Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-97) GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO Guidance of Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of India that behind the appearances of the universe there is the Reality of a Being and Consciousness, a Self of all things, one and eternal. All beings are united in that One Self and Spirit but divided by a certain separativity of consciousness, an ignorance of their true Self and Reality in the mind, life and body

The Cosmic Consciousness (21-08-11) The Cosmic Consciousness   TO REALISE and unite oneself with the active Brahman is to exchange, perfectly or imperfectly according as the union is partial or complete, the individual for the cosmic consciousness. The ordinary existence of man is not only an individual but an egoistic consciousness; it is, that is to say, the individual soul or Jivatman identifying himself with the nodus of his mental, vital, physical experiences in the movement of universal Nature, that is to say, with his mind-created ego, and, less intimately, with the mind, life, body which receive the experiences. Less intimately, because of these he can say “my mind, life, body,” he

Pity may be reserved, so long as thy soul makes distinctions. for the suffering animals; but humanity deserves from thee something nobler; it asks for love, for understanding, for comradeship,for the help of the equal & brother. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Ahorisms 185) Work in the World I have seen persons who had no pretensions of doing yoga, who were simply filled with enthusiasm by the idea of terrestrial transformation and of the descent of the Divine into the world and who did their little bit of work with that enthusiasm in the heart, giving themselves wholly, without reserve, without any selfish idea of a personal salvation; these I have seen making magnif