AN EXPERIENCE RECOLLECTED     A REPORT BY AMAL KIRAN     It was in 1963. Sehra was ill. I informed the Mother. Having acted as usual with her spiritual force she expected a result. But somehow the attack of asthma continued. Then a strange incident took place. I wrote to the Mother about it. On the night of January 13, racked by a terrible asthmatic spasm, Sehra was sitting on her bed with her legs hanging to the floor. She felt her feet were getting cold; so she wanted to put on her sandals. When she bent towards them she became aware of something at once very soothing and very energising. To her great surprise she faced the Mother'

-026_A Poet's Sincerity.htm "A POET'S SINCERITY"     A LETTER IN ANSWER TO A CRITICISM     I have kept you hanging for quite a time, I I am sorry, but couldn't help it, for I had a Himalaya of work on my hands. Having written this, I am visited by a scruple. Could I have justifiably penned a line of poetry like: A Himalaya of work on my frail hands? How would such a line fare face to face with the two criteria of AE's, which you endorse but which I have considered insufficient for "a poet's sincerity" if not even irrelevant in essence? Is my line prompted by "a passionate desire for truth" and can it pass the test: "Do I really believe this? Is this t

SRI AUROBINDO, OTHER TEACHINGS, THE BUILDING OF AUROVILLE     A LETTER     Your circular is full of goodwill and a sincere desire to bring about harmony. You seem to have come across Aurobindo-nians who tend to be more religious than spiritual in their attitudes. It is the usual religious mind that sets up one alleged revelation in opposition to the approaches of other religions towards God. But one who claims to do an Integral Yoga cannot be exclusive in this fashion or come out with cudgels against people who are not yet aware of what Sri Aurobindo stands for. No true Aurobindonian tries to bully or browbeat anyone into

TWO LETTERS FROM THE ASHRAM     MAY 12,1954   I wonder why you write: "Nobody mentions the Mother." Either my letters haven't reached you or else you don't read them rightly. I think they mention hardly anything except the Mother. Surely one need not speak of her directly in order to mention her. My letters are one long spiritual autobiography. And what is a spiritual autobiography from here except a various presentation of Mother-moodedness? What shall I say to your question about Sehra and me and the psychic being? Both of us live, each in an individual way, in something of its glow at least frequently if not all the time. But that i

-050_Sri Aurobindo's Home in the Subtle-Physical.htm SRI AUROBINDO'S HOME IN THE SUBTLE-PHYSICAL     A LETTER TO THE MOTHER WITH THE MOTHER'S REPLY     The Letter     Last night Amal told me that you had spoken of "a permanent home of Sri Aurobindo in the subtle-physical". At once my mind went back to a dream in last September.   This is how it ran:   I enter the Ashram and see that there is some difference in the building. I say, "Well, something has changed." And I see a staircase and climb up. I pass through a corridor upstairs towards a room at the end of it. In this room there are cupboards very high, reaching near to the ceiling. All th

SEX AND SPIRITUALITY     This is the article which has aroused a lot of curiosity ever since the publication of CHAMPAKLAL SPEAKS (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1975). In that book there is on page 58 the entry dated 5-11-1944: "While going back from Sri Aurobindo's room Mother said: 'Amal's article on sex is good, but it cannot be published in the ADVENT.'" The note which came to the author in Bombay from Sri Aurobindo through Nirodbaran was to the same effect: "Sri Aurobindo sends congratulations but finds the article unsuitable for the ADVENT." A bit of a riddle faces us in these pronouncements. It is solved when the precise reason for the res