Well Done, Chidambaram! A true feeling of comradeship is the salt of political life; it binds men together and is the cement of all associated action. When a political leader is prepared to suffer for the sake of his followers, when a man, famous and adored by the public, is ready to remain in jail rather than leave his friends and fellow-workers behind, it is a sign that political life in India is becoming a reality. Srijut Chidambaram Pillai has shown throughout the Tuticorin affair a loftiness of character, a practical energy united with high moral idealism which show that he is a true Nationalist. His refusal to accept release on bail if his fellow-w

The rose is not the only beautiful flower, there are hundreds of others; most flowers are beautiful. There are degrees and kinds of beauty, that is all. The rose is among the first of flowers because of the richness of its colour, the intensity of sweetness of its scent and the grace and magnificence of its form. page 499 , Letters on Yoga , volume - 22 , SABCL

Purity is to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. ⁂ Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily, purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from sexual passion and impulse. ⁂ The Divine Purity is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic. ⁂ Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pure, in the ignorance everything is subject to impurity

/He met Brahmananda on the banks of the Narmada for advice on national education activities./ Sri Aurobindo saw Brahmananda long before there was any question of national education activities. Brahmananda never gave him any counsel or advice nor was there any conversation between them; Sri Aurobindo went to his monastery only for /darśana/ and blessings. Barin had a close connection with Ganganath and his Guru was one of the Sannyasis who surrounded Brahmananda, but the connection with Ganganath was spiritual only. /During the Baroda period Sri Aurobindo met, one by one, Sri Hamsa Swamp Swami, Sri Sadguru Brahmananda a

Q: We have been wondering why you should have to write and rewrite your poetry —for instance, " Savitri" ten or twelve times — when you have all the inspiration at your command and do not have to receive it with the difficulty that faces budding Yogis like us. *A:* That is very simple. I used Savitri as a means of ascension. I began with it on a certain mental level, each time I could reach a higher level I rewrote from that level. Moreover I was particular — if part seemed to me to come from any lower levels I was not satisfied to leave it because it was good poetry. *All had to be as far as possible of the same mint.* *In fact Savitri has not been regarded by me as a poe

Nothing Is Dearer than Her Service Thereare times in a nation’s history when Providence places before itone work, one aim, to which everything else, however high andnoble in itself, has to be sacrificed. Such a time has now arrivedfor our motherland when nothing is dearer than her service,when everything else is to be directed to that end. If you willstudy, study for her sake; train yourselves body and mind andsoul for her service. You will earn your living that you may livefor her sake. You will go abroad to foreign lands that you maybring

All energies put into activity – thought, speech, feeling, act – go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or another, and the nature and its actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself sooner or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their effects. It is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed will are also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reactio

The cosmic Force is under the control of the overmind. The supermind does not act on it directly – whatever comes down from there is modified so as to pass through the overmind and take a lesser form suitable to the plane on which it acts, mental, vital or physical. But this intervention is exceptional in the ordinary play of the cosmic forces. The cosmic spirit contains the supermind, but it keeps it above and works for the present between the overmind and the physical. It is only when the Ignorance is removed that the supramental becomes directly a dynamic part of the workings of cosmic Nature here. Till then there are only reflections of it. page 1082, Letters on