You are quite right. She [Madame Blavatsky] was an occultist, not a spiritual personality. What spiritual teaching she gave, seemed to be based on intellectual knowledge, not on realisation. Her attitude was Tibetan Buddhistic. She did not believe in God, but in Nirvana, miraculous powers and the Mahatmas. page 483 , Letters on Yoga , volume 22 , SABCL

The Gandharvas are of the vital plane but they are vital Gods, not Asuras. page 396 , Letters on Yoga , volume 22 , SABCL

Guru The attitude you have taken is the right one. It is this feeling and attitude which help you to overcome so rapidly the attacks that sometimes fall upon you and throw you out of the right consciousness. As you say, difficulties so taken become opportunities; the difficulty faced in the right spirit and conquered, one finds that an obstacle has disappeared, a first step forward has been taken. *To question, to resist in some part of the being increases trouble and difficulties − that is why an unquestioning acceptance, an unfailing obedience to the directions of the Guru was laid down as indispensable in the old Indian yogas − it was demanded not for the sake of the Gu

520 − Kali is Krishna revealed as dreadful Power and wrathful Love. She slays with her furious blows the self in body, life and mind in order to liberate it as spirit eternal. / Page 358, On Thoughts and Aphorisms - vol - 10 Mahakali and Kali are not the same. Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. page 390 , Letters on Yoga , volume 22 , SABCL

On Sri Aurobindo (From a meditation written on the day after the Mother first saw Sri Aurobindo) It matters little that there are thousands of beings plunged in the densest ignorance, He whom we saw yesterday is on earth; his presence is enough to prove that a day will come when darkness shall be transformed into light, and Thy reign shall be indeed established upon earth. O Lord, Divine Builder of this marvel, my heart overflows with joy and gratitude when I think of it, and my hope has no bounds. My adoration is beyond all words, my reverence is silent. 30 March 1914 *Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to anno

Wonderful Wordsmith Arvind Kumar sitting pretty with his magnum opus. (Photo: Akshay Lall) It was another busy day for Arvind Kumar. The young journalist at magazine publisher Delhi Press was at his wits’ end. While translating a short story into English, he couldn’t find the right words for a Hindi expression. That day in 1952, a freelance writer who’d come by took Arvind to a nearby shop in New Delhi’s Connaught Place and showed him a book, first published exactly a

MY DIARY-LEAVES   K. S. venkataraman 1928 August 13 Recently S. Doraiswamy gave a copy of Uma Sahasram for Sri Aurobindo's perusal who seemed to have deeply appre­ciated it. And the Mother expressed on her own: "If Ganapati Sastri is inclined to come for the August 15th Darshan he is welcome." It was communicated to Nayana¹ at Tiruvanamalai. Sri Ramana seems to have said 'When this sugges­tion by the Mother came unsought by Nayana, it must be a Daiva Sankalpam.'   August 15     Sri Aurobindo's birthday celebration on the Ashram — and all of us had the privilege of Darshan of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Nayana, though pessimistic at first, after he had the