FOREWORD LEAPING TO THE FUTURE Our sweet Mother has written three beautiful plays which give meaningful pointers to integral yoga. The third play, The Ascent to Truth, has a sub-title: 'A Dream of Life'. The play is a symbolic representation of the supreme need for perseverance. A group of people have come together "to find the truth". They have to ascend a mountain to get at it. There are seven stages in this ascent. One by one they fall back. The first to do is the Philanthropist as he cannot give up his attachment to the external world. At the sixth stage even the Ascetic decides to pitch his tent and not move further. He has gained personal salvation and so why should he worry ab

-12_Never saw but always remember (Rama Narayana).htm Never saw but always remember - Rama Narayana The whole universe remembers the Mother, because She is the Universal Mother. The whole world remembers Her because She is the Divine Mother. Amongst all I remember Her because She remembers me. Though She is in me and responsible for my becoming I know only when it influenced my surface consciousness. I was then a student of eighth class in 1971. I got the information about Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, got the address of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry and I started writing to Her and receiving blessings. An immense joy was sown into my integral being and the course of my life took a new directio

-04_Sri Aurobindo's Savitri lines.htm PART I CHAPTER-1 From Savitri: THEN suddenly there rose a sacred stir. Amid the lifeless silence of the Void In a solitude and an immensity A sound came quivering like a loved footfall Heard in the listening spaces of the soul; A touch perturbed his fibres with delight. An Influence had approached the mortal range, A boundless Heart was near his longing heart, A mystic Form enveloped his earthly shape. All at her contact broke from silence 'seal; Spirit and body thrilled identified, Linked in the grasp of an unspoken joy; Mind, members, life were merged in ecstasy. Intoxicated as with nectarous rain His

-46_Supermind - a force not to be taken lightly (Michael Miovic, M.D .).htm Supermind - a force not to be taken lightly - Michael Miovic, M.D. ... Yet even with all these spiritual boons - the revelation of the Divine Mother and a Darshan of Sri Aurobindo on the subtle physical plane, as well as many smaller reminders along the way that I shall not detail here - there remained a doubt lurking in the back of my mind. Like so many others who have read about Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, or perhaps even lived in their Ashram for some time, I was still perplexed by this thing called the "Supermind." What exactly is that? And how is it different from what the great saints and sages of India have already s

-43_My Birthday Aspiration (Shobha Mitra).htm My Birthday Aspiration Article by Shobha Mitra, from Awakening to the Beauty of the Future Issue dt September 2014 I went to see the Mother, taking a bouquet of flowers and the salwar-kameez for Her packed in a pasteboard box. She first took the flowers from my hand and looked at them attentively. She selected some from this bunch to give to me and kept these in Her hand. Then She had a look at the salwar-kameez, at the design and the embroidery and then exclaimed, "It's very beautiful! You have a fine aesthetic sense. Beautiful, my child. Would you like me to wear this for the evening?" "As you wish, Mother," I replied. "Then I will wear it this e

-30_Sadhak who progressed most in a year (Dyumanbhai).htm Sadhak who progressed most in a year Extracts from the article by Krishna Chakravarti published in Sabda Dyuman "The Luminous" - Karmayogi The Strength of Dyuman's character is his essential straightness of aim, fidelity to the highest he sees and intensity of will to receive the light and serve the Truth. -Sri Aurobindo, 10-04-1934 "If Dyuman and a few others had not made themselves the instruments of the Mother and helped her to reorganize the whole material side of the ashram, the Ashram would have collapsed long ago under the weight of mismanagement, waste, self-indulgence, disorder, chaotic self-will and disobedience.

-16_Meeting with the Mother - A remembrance from my childhood (Dr. Beena R. Nayak).htm Meeting with the Mother: A remembrance from my childhood Dr. Beena R. Nayak All can be done... .and the flame. The above lines of Canto One Book One - The Symbol Dawn from Sri Aurobindo's epic poem 'Savitri', expresses the whole and the sum total of the experience of meeting with the Mother at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry, signaling the end of a dark night into a beautiful dawn, of my spirit. I met Her at the end of my fourth standard in the summer vacation in 1970. My maternal grandfather, Bapa, who had become Her follower in the 1940s took me on a flying visit to Her for the April 24 Darshan

-09_She was looking at everyone one by one (Buvanasundari Sudharsan).htm She was looking at everyone one by one - Buvanasundari Sudharsan Just two days before, on Thursday, we were reading - every Thursday we are reading "Savitri" during Shraddhavan's classes-and this Thursday we were reading a line from "Savitri": All these inventions of the mind is just pebbles collected by a child on the sea shore. In the same way I feel that before this strong gathering I am a very small person. But even then I am Her child and I am proud that She had poured Her Grace on me when I was a teenager. Though my family was in Madurai, we were forced to move here by the higher Grace which made my father to move to Pond

-23_Nolini Kanta Gupta's first meeting with Sri Aurobindo.htm Nolini Kanta Gupta's first meeting with Sri Aurobindo Extracts from the book 'Reminiscences' It was during my stay at the Manicktolla gardens that I had my first meeting and interview with Sri Aurobindo. Barin had asked me to go and see him, saying that Sri Aurobindo would be coming to see the Gardens and that I should fetch him. Manicktolla was in those days at the far end of North Calcutta and Sri Aurobindo lived with Raja Subodh Mullick near Wellington Square in the South Calcutta area. I went by train and it was about four in the afternoon when I reached there. I asked the doorman at the gates to send word to Mr. Ghose - this wa

-24_Amrita's first darshan of Sri Aurobindo.htm Amrita's first darshan of Sri Aurobindo Extracts from the book 'Reminiscences' In 1905 I came to Pondicherry for study. In 1910 Sri Aurobindo also arrived here. What a coincidence! He came to the very town where I had come! I was full of joy thrilled with delight. A strong desire arose in me that I must see Sri Aurobindo. He had been there in our town for six months, very few knew of His arrival, but I knew of it in the third day itself. *** (...) Two years passed by. Finally one day, at about 6 in the evening, my friend Krishnaswamy Chettiar and I started from Muthialpet, a suburb of Pondicherry, - near about our present Sports Ground a