Transformation of Physical- Illness (01-05-11) Transformation of Physical- Illness Attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or response in the nature, − like all other things that come and have got to be thrown away, they come from outside. If one can feel them so coming and get the strength and the habit to throw them away before they can enter the body, then one can remain free from illness. Even when the attack seems to rise from within, that means only that it has not been detected before it entered the subconscient; once in the subconscient, the force that brought it rouses it from there sooner or later and it invade

Love and the Triple Path (16-02-11) If thou wouldst not be the fool of Opinion, first see wherein thy thought is true, then study wherein its opposite and contradiction is true; last, discover the cause of these differences and the key of God's harmony. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 122) Love and the Triple Path WILL, knowledge and love are the three divine powers in human nature and the life of man, and they point to the three paths by which the human soul rises to the divine. The integrality of them, the union of man with God in all the three, must therefore, as we have seen, be the foundation of an integral Yoga. Action is the first power of life. Nature begins with force an

Human Relationships (20-03-11) Human Relationships Opinions of Others Don't let anything from outside approach and disturb you. What people think, do or say is of little importance. The only thing that counts is your relation with the Divine. *** It is always regrettable when one is open to the influence of another person. One shouldn't admit any influence except that of the Divine. *** To feel hurt by what others do or think or say is always a sign of weakness and proof that the whole being is not exclusively turned towards the Divine, not under the divine influence alone. And then, instead of bringing with oneself the divine atmosphere made of love, tolerance, understanding, pa

The Ego and the Dualities (03-07-11) The Ego and the Dualities If all is in truth Sachchidananda, death, suffering, evil, limitation can only be the creations, positive in practical effect, negative in essence, of a distorting consciousness which has fallen from the total and unifying knowledge of itself into some error of division and partial experience. ……… Sri Aurobindo SABCL Vol 20 Page-51 ………… To enlarge the sense-faculties without the knowledge that would give the old sense-values their right interpretation from the new standpoint might lead to serious disorders and incapacities, might unfit for practical life and for the orderly and disciplined use of the reason. Equally,

Pride and Vanity (14-09-11) Death transformed becomes Life that is Immortality; Cruelty transfigured becomes Love that is intolerable ecstasy; Ignorance transmuted becomes Light that leaps beyond wisdom and knowledge. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Ahorisms 92) Pride and Vanity For the sage or the saint who is quite infatuated with his own importance and his own worth, and full of pride and vanity, there is not much chance that the Divine will manifest in him, for there is no place for the expression of the Divine! There is no place except for the important personality of the wise man and his moral worth. Naturally, there is a state in which one may be perfectly pure, perfectly wis

The Destiny of the Individual (20-11-11) The Destiny of the Individual By the Ignorance they cross beyond Death and by the Knowledge enjoy Immortality. . . By the Non-Birth they cross beyond Death and by the Birth enjoy Immortality. Isha Upanishad. Verses 11, 14 AN OMNIPRESENT Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience to those remotest antinomies which lose themselves on the verges of the Ineffable, the Reality is one

Express Only the Highest Truth (08-06-11) Systematise we must, but even in making & holding the system, we should always keep firm hold on this truth that all systems are in their nature transitory and incomplete. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 75) Express Only the Highest Truth There is only one way of acting truly, it is to try at each moment, each second, in each movement to express only the highest truth one can perceive, and at the same time know that this perception has to be progressive and that what seems to you the most true now will no longer be so tomorrow, and that a higher truth will have to be expressed more and more through you. This leaves no room any longer fo

Soul and How to find it? (06-02-11) Soul and How to find it? Soul and Psychic being A distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine – none could exist without that. But it is quite possible to have a vital and physical being without a clearly evolved psychic being behind it. Still, one cannot make general statements that no aboriginal has a soul or there is no display of soul anywhere. Sri Aurobindo SABCL Vol.22,pages 293-294 The psychic is the spark of the Divine involved here in the individual existence. It grows and evolves in the form of the psychic being – so obviously it canno

What do you want the Yoga for? (25-10-11) When I saw others than Krishna and myself in the world, I kept secret God's doings with me; but since I began to see Him and myself everywhere, I have become shameless and garrulous. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Ahorisms 437) What do you want the Yoga for? “What do you want the Yoga for? To get power? To attain to peace and calm? To serve humanity? “None of these motives is sufficient to show that you are meant for the Path.” Questions and Answers 1929 (7 April) The main trouble is that you think with words, but these words are empty of meaning; most of the time they are mere words – you talk of the Divine, you talk of the Supreme, you talk

Offer up everything to the Divine (09-02-11) The acceptance of poverty is noble & beneficial in a class or an individual, but it becomes fatal and pauperises life of its richness& expansion if it is perverted into a general or national ideal. Athens,not Sparta,& expansion if it is perverted into a general or national ideal. Athens,not Sparta, is the progressive type for mankind. Ancient India with its ideal of vast riches & vast spending was the greatest of nations; modern India with its trend towards national asceticism has finally become poor in life & sunk into weakness & degradation. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 195) Offer up everything to the Divine Yoga means union with the