LET THE ALL-CONSCIOUSNESS DECIDE (16-11-11) With the present morality of the human race a sound and durable human unity is not yet possible; but there is no reason why a temporary approximation to it should not be the reward of strenuous aspiration and untiring effort. By constant approximations and by partial realisations and temporary successes Nature advances. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 336)   LET THE ALL-CONSCIOUSNESS DECIDE I am fully convinced that the confusion [ in the world] is there to teach us how to live from day to day, that is to say, not to be preoccupied with what may happen, what will happen, just to occupy oneself day by day with doing what one has to d

The Science of Living (02-03-11) Shrink not from the Dionysian cry & rapture within thee, but see that thou be not a straw upon those billows Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-236) The Science of Living Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself. To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their r

GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO (20-07-11) Governments, societies, kings, police, judges, institutions, churches, laws, customs, armies are temporary necessities imposed on us for a few groups of centuries because God has concealed His face from us. When it appears to us again in its truth & beauty, then in that light they will vanish. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-319) GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO   (continued from 13th July)This, however, cannot be done at once or in a short time or by any rapid or miraculous transformation. Many steps have to be taken by the seeker before the supramental descent is possible. Man lives mostly in his surface mind, life and body, but there is an inne

The Supreme Divine (16-01-11) The Supreme Divine ……… All taken together, it is a constant birth of things in Time, udbhava, of which the creative energy of Karma is the principle. All this mutable becoming emerges by a combination of the powers and energies of Nature, adhibhūta, which constitutes the world and is the object of the soul's consciousness. In it all the soul is the enjoying and observing Deity in Nature; the divine powers of mind and will and sense, all the powers of its conscious being by which it reflects this working of Prakriti are its godheads,adhidaiva. This soul in Nature is therefore the ks)ara purus)a, it is the mutable soul, the eternal activity of the Godhead: the

Vanity Closes You Up (21-09-11) Life and action culminate and are eternally crowned for thee when thou hast attained the power of symbolising & manifesting in every thought & act, in wealth getting, wealth having or wealth spending, in home & government & society, in art, literature and life, the One Immortal in this lower mortal being. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Ahorisms 204) Vanity Closes You Up There is nothing that closes you up more than vanity. When you are self-satisfied, you have that kind of vanity of not wanting to admit that you lack something, that you make mistakes, that you are incomplete, that you are imperfect, that you are… There is something in the nature, you know, wh

GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO (27-07-13)  Human pity is born of ignorance & weakness; it is the slave of emotional impressions. Divine compassion understands, discerns & saves. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-528) GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO (continued from 20th July)…There are many things belonging to older systems that are necessary on the way — an opening of the mind to a greater wideness and to the sense of the Self and the Infinite, an emergence into what has been called the cosmic consciousness, mastery over the desires and passions; an outward asceticism is not essential, but the conquest of desire and attachment and a control over the body and its needs, greeds and instin

The Great Discovery (12-12-10) The Great Discovery   The starting-point is to seek in yourself that which is independent of the body and the circumstances of life, which is not born of the mental formation that you have been given, the language you speak, the habits and customs of the environment in which you live, the country where you are born or the age to which you belong. You must find, in the depths of your being, that which carries in it a sense of universality, limitless expansion, unbroken continuity. Then you decentralise, extend and widen yourself; you begin to live in all things and in all beings; the barriers separating individuals from each other break down. You think

A Talk By The Mother On Savitri (24-03-10) This world was built by Ignorance & Error that they might know. Wilt thou abolish ignorance and error? Then knowledge too will perish. Thou canst not abolish ignorance & error, but thou mayst transmute them into the utter & effulgent exceeding of reason. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-90) A Talk By The Mother On Savitri It does not matter if you do not understand it — Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always a

THE HOUR OF GOD (17-01-10) THE HOUR OF GOD (The Supramental Yoga) …. The Supramental Yoga is at once an ascent towards God and a descent of Godhead into the embodied nature.   The ascent can only be achieved by a one-centred all-gathering upward aspiration of the soul and mind and life and body; the descent can only come by a call of the whole being towards the infinite and eternal Divine. If this call and this aspiration are there, or if by any means they can be born and grow constantly and seize all the nature, then and then only a supramental uplifting and transformation becomes possible. The call and the aspiration are only first conditions; there must be along with them and

Yoga: for the sake of the Divine (07-02-10) Yoga: for the sake of the Divine Question: Will you say something to us about Yoga? What do you want the Yoga for? To get power? To attain peace and calm? To serve humanity? None of these motives is sufficient to show that you are meant for the Path. The question you are to answer is this: Do you want the Yoga for the sake of the Divine? Is the Divine the supreme fact of your life, so much so that it is simply impossible for you to do without it? Do you feel that your very raison d'être is the Divine and without it there is no meaning in your existence? If so, then only can it be said that you have a call for the Path. This is the first