15 AUGUST 1954   A DECLARATION   I want to mark this day by the expression of a long cherished wish; that of becoming an Indian citizen.  From the first time I came to India ― in 1914 ― 1 felt that India is my true country, the country of my soul and spirit.  I had decided to realise this wish as soon as India would be free.  But I had to wait still longer because of my heavy responsibilities for the Ashram here in Pondicherry.  Now the time has come when I can declare myself. But, in accordance with Sri Aurobindo's ideal, my purpose is to show that truth lies in union rather than in division.  To reject one

15 AUGUST 1958   The Mother's white light is the light of the Divine Consciousness; you are living more and more under it and it is that that is liberating you.        25 August 1934                                    SRI Aurobindo                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Previous                    

24th April 2005       24 April 2005   When things become confused outside , you must fix on your mind at once the rule of not judging by appearances  - refer all to the Mother's Light within with the confidence that all will be clear.                                                                                                                                                         Sri Aurobindo   Quand les choses au-dehors deviennent confuses, il faut aussitôt vous fixer pour règle de ne pas juger sur les appa­rences - de vous en remettre à la Lumière de la Mère au-dedans, avec la co

29th February 2004     THE GOLDEN DAY     29  FEBRUARY 2004   My soul and his indissolubly linked In the one task for which our lives were born, To raise the world to God in deathless Light, to bring God down to the world on earth we came, to change the earthly life to life divine.   Savitri                                         Sri Aurobindo     Mon âme et la sienne, indissolublement liées Dans l'unique tâche pour laquelle nos vies ont pris naissance, Pour élever le monde vers D

24 APRIL 1951   A day may come when she must stand unhelped On a dangerous brink of the world's doom and hers Carrying the world's future on her lonely breast, Carrying the human hope in a heart left sole To conquer or fail on a last desperate verge Alone with death and close to extinction's edge Her single greatness in that last dire scene, She must cross alone a perilous bridge in Time And reach an apex of world-destiny Where all is won or all is lost for man. In that tremendous silence lone and lost Of a deciding hour in the world's fate, In her soul's cli

24 November 2009   The ascent of man into heaven is not the key, but rather his ascent here into the spirit and the descent also of the spirit into his normal humanity and the transformation of this earthly nature. For that and not some post mortem salvation is the real new birth for which humanity waits as the crowning movement of its long obscure and painful course Sri Aurobindo        

17th November 2000       17 November 2000   If you follow your mind,  it will not recognise the Mother even when she is manifest before you. Follow your soul and not your mind, your soul that answers to the Truth, not your mind that leaps at appearances. Trust the Divine Power and she will free the  godlike elements in you  and shape all into an expression of Divine Nature. Sri Aurobindo     Si vous suivez vôtre mental, il ne reconnaîtra pas la Mère, même si elle se manifeste devant vous. Suivez votre âme et non votre mental, votre âme qui répond à la vérité et non votre mental qui saute sur les apparences ; confiez - vous à la pui

15th August 1995       15 AUGUST 1995     A miracle of the Absolute was born; Infinity put on a finite soul, All ocean lived within a wandering drop, A time-made body housed the Illimitable.   Sri Aurobindo Savitri     Un miracle de l'Absolu était né; L'Infini revêtait une âme finie, Tout l'océan vivait dans une goutte errante, Un corps fait de temps logeait l'Illimité.   Sri Aurobindo Savitri   Previous                                         Home                                               Next  

  21st February 2004         21 February 2004     Her heart's inexhaustible sweetness lured their hearts, A being they loved whose bounds exceeded their; Her measure they could not reach but bore her touch, Answering with the flower's answers to the sun They gave themselves to her and asked no more.   Savitri                                             Sri Aurobindo     L'inépuisable douceur de son cœur charmait leur cœur, Ils aimaient un être qui dépassait leurs limites ; Ils ne pouvaient atteindre sa mesure mais supportaient son toucher, Répondant comme la fleur qui

24th April 2004       24 APRIL 2004   A friend and yet  too great wholly to know, She walked in their  front  towards a greater light, Their leader and queen  over their hearts and soul, One close to their bosoms,  yet divine and far   Savitri             Sri Aurobindo     Une amie, et pourtant trop grande pour être entièrement connue, Elle- marchait devant eux vers une plus grande lumière, Leur guide et la r