You are rich only by the money that you give to the Divine Cause. The Mother Money A good trustee In your personal use of money look on all you have or get or bring as the Mother's. Make no demand but accept what you receive from her and use it for the purposes for which it is given to you. Be entirely selfless, entirely scrupulous, exact, careful in detail, a good trustee; always consider that it is her possessions and not your own that you are handling. On the other hand, What you receive fo

AN OFFERING A Compilation from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother SRI AUROBINDO SOCIETY Puducherry- 605 002 First Edition: 2007 ISBN: 81-7060-259-9 Writings and Photographs of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Puducherry Published by Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry Printed at All India Press, Puducherry PRINTED IN INDIA

Skilful hands, precise care, a sustained attention and one compels Matter to obey the Spirit. The Mother Material Things Rules In the most physical things you have to fix a programme in order to deal with them, otherwise all becomes a sea of confusion and haphazard. Fixed rules have also to be made for the management of material things so long as people are not sufficiently developed to deal with them in the right way without rules. Sri Aurobindo Waste Wanton waste, careless spoiling of physical thin

My help is always with you to help you in your progress and your work. The Mother The Worker -Work in the Ashram Yoga Yoga is communion with God for knowledge, for love or for work. Sri Aurobindo The object of the Ashram This Ashram has been created with another object than that ordinarily common to such institutions, not for the renunciation of the world but as a centre and a field of practice for the evolution of another kind and form of life which would in the final end be moved by a hi

Introduction Nature has been at work for millions and millions of years, creating numberless forms, constantly trying out, constantly exceeding her previous results. In man she has created a being endowed with a conscious will and having within him the potentiality to leap forward to the next step in evolution. In the words of Sri Aurobindo:*  "... all life, when we look behind its appearances, is a vast Yoga of Nature attempting to realise her perfection in an ever - increasing expression of her potentialities and to unite herself with her own divine reality. In man, her thinker, she for the first time upon this Earth devises self-conscious m

Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Sri Aurobindo The Divine Worker The liberated man The liberated man has no personal hopes; he does not seize on things as his personal possessions; he receives what the divine Will brings in, covets nothing, is jealous of none: what comes to him he takes without repulsion and without attachment; what goes from him he allows to depart into the whirl of things without repining

PART TWO It is no longer the transmutation through a new bodily organism which must precede the change of consciousness, but the reverse; consciousness by its mutation will necessitate whatever mutation is needed for the body. Man is a doubly involved being: below mind, a subliminal consciousness or subconscience; above mind, a spiritual superconscience. Consciousness is the central secret, life the outward indication. Evolving soul or psychic being: a higher evolution of manifested consciousness. The foundation of the pure spiritual consciousness is the first object in the evolution of the spiritual man. Evolution of mind to its greatest possible range. Each gradation contains the poss

PART FIVE Mind in its origin is a principle of light, an instrument put forth from the Supermind. Overmind, Intuitive Mind, Illumined Mind, Higher Mind - these and other levels of a spiritualised and liberated mentality are a result of the new evolutionary order. A new humanity is a race of mental beings with a perfected mind, a mind of light. The Mind of Light is a transitional passage from Supermind and superhumanity to an illumined humanity. There are two stages in the birth and ascension of the Mind of Light. A Mind of Light is a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting a direct knowledge. At its highest it would be capable of passing i

                                                                                                                          At the Crossroads: The Evolution of the Spiritual Being A compilation from Sri Aurobindo's writings At the Crossroads: The Evolution of the Spiritual Being A compilation from Sri Aurobindo's writings AUROVILLE First Published 1994 (Typeset in 11/13 New Times Roman) Compiled by Paulette Hadnagy Sri Aurobindo Ashram T

PART FOUR The spiritual change begins by an influence of the inner being and the higher spiritual mind assimilating the higher influences. In each change the inner being follows more readily; the outer being limps after. When the higher descends into the lower consciousness it alters the lower - but it is also modified and diminished by it, and vice versa. Below our most obscure physical consciousness is a sub-conscious being of immense potency. Behind our mind, life and conscious physical there is a large subliminal consciousness: innermental, inner vital, inner more subtle physical, supported by an inmost psychic existence. There lies a mass of pre-existent personalities which ar