HA To turn to the Divine is the only truth in life. —Sri Aurobindo Moksha, i.e., the liberation of the Soul from the dominance of Prakriti was considered the highest goal of life from time immemorial. In fact, after the Vedic age and during the period of the Upanishads when the Vedic ritualistic practices fell into disuse and the Jnana kanda came into prominence in our spiritual seeking, the sole objective was to get rid of the subjection of the embodied soul to Prakriti or executive nature. This was behind the whole of Shankara's philosophy of Adwaitavad. He emphasised the existence of the Soul or Atman to the exclusion of the whole of the phenomenal nature because it was s

-18_A Letter On Sri Aurobindo^s Life Divine.htm A LETTER ON SRI AUROBINDO'S LIFE DIVINE Even if Life Divine appears too difficult for you to understand, I can only ask you to persevere with it so that, light of understanding may dawn upon you one day. I am compelled to accept whatever Sri Aurobindo writes as true and authentic and have only to realise their truth by practice and practical application in life. Even if one understands his writings intellectually, they are of no use unless and until you practise them in actual day-to-day life. Otherwise, all remain in the intellectual domain and are useless for the purpose of life. You can never be sure of understanding the Life Divine in all' its detail

SRI AUROBINDO—A SHORT INTRODUCTION Sri Aurobindo does not perhaps need any introduction now at this late stage. He has already become like his own SAVITRI a legend and a symbol. Still to those of us who have not known much or studied much of Sri Aurobindo, this small introduction may prove useful. Sri Aurobindo is unique in this sense that in history of culture both of East and West, there is none who can compare with or come near him in learning and scholarship. If only we take account of the vastness of his erudition, neither Plato nor Shankara nor both of them together approach him although at the initial stages of his life, he had to learn from both

THE SECRET OF THE ALLIES' SUCCESS IN WORLD WAR II (Few realise that the age-old adage, "Man proposes and God disposes", is the quintessence of wisdom distilled by the sages. The truth of the adage can never be questioned because it bears the testimony of countless generations of men. Human will is always impotent before the Will of the Divine who has always the final decision in all matters terrestrial and supra-terrestrial. If in spite of the glaring impotency of human" will, men still believe that they are all-mighty and all-knowing, it only betrays their folly, ignorance and arrogance. Instances of such movements of the human ego are not

  Dyuman "The Luminous" Karmayogi by Krishna Chakravarti Author : Krishna Chakravarti. Source: Krishna Chakravarti's A Garland of Adoration. Courtesy : Overman Foundation. Dear Friends, Chunibhai Patel (19.6.190319.8.1992) was a Gujarati sadhak who was renamed 'Dyuman' ("the luminous one") by Sri Aurobindo on 24 November 1928. He visited Pondicherry for the first time on 11 July 1924 and surrendered himself to Sri Aurobindo. He became an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in May 1927. He was in charge of the Dining Room and looked after the

-30_letter_27.5.1958 .htm Below are extracts from letters written to a Dutch friend with whom Janina lived first in Palestine and later in Germany. The letters describe her impressions of the Mother and about her life experience in the Ashram. 27.5.1958 Our patient left and I have again more time. We have finished the big cleaning of the house with streams of water, which in this heat was quite pleasant. Tomorrow X will give me a mango from Bombay. They are the best mangoes in the world, introduced there some centuries ago by Portuguese from Goa. She gets parcels from her husband. What a pity that I do not have a husband! Oh, my felicity grows and grows.

To My Lord Supreme Never could I give my eyes to Thy Eyes light-giving, Nor feel he touch of Thy Golden Hand's Grace, Thy Hand's my Lord, while on earth Thou wast living - Never could I prostrate myself before my Lord's Face. But I loved Thee always and I was Thine When with me in my anguished land Thou didst throw Thy Soul, When to my tears in grief Thou didst chain Thy Cry. Thou hast not forgotten, my Lord, I know. And then, when the fierce pride of the Dark and its wrath Into Thy cells Thou didst suck in to transform into Light, That Light came shining on my sorrow path Where fear, where pain were creeping, and despair of Night. Now, in

Introduction Janina was born in Lvov, Poland, on the 18th of July 1909. Her father, Jan Stroka, was an engineer, her mother, Jadwiga Krasuska, a teacher. Janina was the younger of their two daughters. After her secondary school examination in Zakopane, she entered the University of Cracow and in 1933 received her M.A. degree in pedagogy and psychology. During the six following years she worked as a teacher in a teachers' training college. In 1939, when the Nazis invaded Poland, the intelligentsia was advised to leave the country as there was fear of genocide. Janina was among th