Inner Fruit of the Avatar's Coming The inner fruit of the Avatar's coming is gained by those who learn from it the true nature of the divine birth and the divine works and who, growing full of him in their consciousness and taking refuge in him with their whole being, manmāy mām upāśritāḥ, purified by the realising force of their knowledge and delivered from the lower nature, attain to the divine being and divine nature, madbhāvam. The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He

Cave of Tapasya Bringing down the spiritual into the material A Will, a hope immense now seized his heart, And to discern the superhuman's form He raised his eyes to unseen spiritual heights, Aspiring to bring down a greater world.. . . His soul retired from all that he had done. Hushed was the futile din of human toil. . . . The Silence was his sole companion left. . . . A universal light was in his eyes, A golden influx flowed through heart and brain; A Force came down into his mortal limbs, A current from eternal seas of Bliss. . . . A living centre of the Illimitable Widened to equate with the

Footprints of God   CONTENTS   Pre-Content     The Mystery of Divine Birth       Part I   (Pre-Pondicherry Period: 15Aug 1872 —04 Apr 1910)   Light Was Born   Joyous Sacrifice   The Bridge Between Heaven and Earth   Nirvana and Beyond Nirvana   Vasudevam Sarvam Iti   The Revolutionary Yogi   Journey: Towards the New and the Unknown (04 April 1910)       Part II   (Pondicherry Period: 04 Apr 1910 — 05 Dec 1950)   Cave of Tapasya

Ploughing the Fields of Human Nature 1 Seer deep-hearted Seer deep-hearted, divine king of the secrecies, Occult fountain of love sprung from the heart of God, Ways thou knewest no feet ever in Time had trod. Words leaped flashing, the flame-billows of wisdom's seas. Vast thy soul was a tide washing the coasts of heaven. Thoughts broke burning and bare crossing the human night, White star-scripts of the gods born from the book of Light Page by page to the dim children of earth were given. * A Yogi who writes is not a literary man for he write

Nirvana And Beyond Nirvana Ascent: The Silence Into the Silence, into the Silence, Arise, O Spirit immortal, Away from the turning Wheel, breaking the magical Circle. Ascend, single and deathless: Care no more for the whispers and the shoutings in the darkness, Pass from the sphere of the grey and the little, Leaving the cry and the struggle, Into the Silence for ever.... "Sit down," I was told, "look and you will see that your thoughts come into you from outside. Before they enter, fling them back." I sat down and looked and saw to my astonishment that it was so; I saw and felt concretely the thought approaching as

-15_The_Pilot_Through­_the­_Passage.htm The Pilot Through the Passage Transiting through turbulent times The Iron Age is ended. Only now The last fierce spasm of the dying past Shall shake the nations, and when that has passed, Earth washed of ills shall raise a fairer brow. Sri Aurobindo His [Sri Aurobindo's] retirement from political activity was complete, just as was his personal retirement into solitude in 1910. But this did not mean, as most people supposed, that he had retired into some height of spiritual experience devoid of any further interest in the world or in the fate of India. It could not mean that, for the very principle of his

The Mystery Of Divine Birth God's Labour He who would bring the heavens here Must descend himself into clay And the burden of earthly nature bear And tread the dolorous way. Coercing my godhead I have come down Here on the sordid earth, Ignorant, labouring, human grown Twixt the gates of death and birth. I have been digging deep and long Mid a horror of filth and mire A bed for the golden river's song, A home for the deathless fire... . The Avatar: A dual phenomenon The Avatar is always a dual phenomenon of divinity and humanity; the Divine takes upon himself the human nat

The Bridge Between Heave And Earth Integral truth about the world and the Divine My own life and my Yoga have always been, since my coming to India, both this-worldly and other-worldly withTout any exclusiveness on either side. All human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space an

I Am Here A vision The Mother says: "Just see. Look at me. I am here comback in my new body, — divine, transformed and glorious. And I am same mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your own self, your progress and realisation, nor about others. I am here, look at me, gaze into me, enter into me wholly, merged into my being, lose yourself into my love, with your love. You will see all problems solved, everything done. Forget all else, forget the world. Remember me alone, be one with me, with my love...." Nolini Kanta Gupta A promise and a pledge: 7 December 1950 Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that T

-11_The_Divine_Mother ¹.htm The Divine Mother ¹ A conscious and eternal Power is here Behind unhappiness and mortal birth And the error of Thought and blundering trudge of Time. The mother of God, his sister and his spouse, Daughter of his wisdom, of his strength the mate, She has leapt from the Transcendent's secret breast... * The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show it to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine. It is a manifestation that takes place, a manifestation of a growing divine consciousness, not human turning into divine. The Mother was inwardly above the human