Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. page 424 , Letters on Yoga , volume - 22 , SABCL India must remain India if she is to fulfil her destiny. Page 862, Bande Mataram , volume 1, SABCL So with India rests the future of the world. Whenever she is aroused from her sleep, she gives forth some wonderful shining ray of light to the world which is enough to illuminate the nations. Others live for centuries on what is to her the thought of a moment. God gave to her the book of Ancient Wisdom and bade

The Truth-Consciousness is the foundation of the superconscient, the nature of which is the Bliss. It is the supreme of the supraconscient, /paramā parāvat,/ from which the being has descended, the /parama parārdha/ of the Upanishads, the existence of Sachchidananda. It is to that highest existence that those arise out of this physical consciousness, /ataḥ,/ who like the ancient Rishis enter into contact with the Truth-Consciousness.² They make it their seat and home, /kṣaya, okas./ Page 309, The Secret of the Veda , volume 10, SABCL

Dear Chitta, It is a long time, almost two years I think, since I have written a letter to anyone. I have been so much retired and ab­sorbed in my Sadhana that contact with the outside world has till lately been reduced to minimum. Now that I am looking outward again, I find that circumstances lead me to write first to you — I say, circumstances because it is a need that makes me take up the pen after so long a disuse. The need is in connection with the first outward work that I am undertaking after this long inner retirement. Barin has gone to Bengal and will see you in connection with it, but a word from me is perhaps necessary and therefore I se

Death is not a way to succeed in sadhana. If you die in that way, you will only have the same difficulties again with probably less favourable circumstances. The way to succeed in sadhana is to refuse to be discouraged, to aspire simply and sincerely so that the Mother's force may work in you and bring down what is above. No man ever succeeded in this sadhana by his own merit. To become open and plastic to the Mother is the one thing needed. Letters On Yoga , Volume-24 , SABCL Q: What is the difference between a death in the Ashram and a death outside? Does one get more benefit in the form of development of min

THE object of the yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine. Its object is not to be a great yogi or a Superman (although that may come) or to grab at the Divine for the sake of the ego's power, pride or pleasure. It is not for Moksha though liberation comes by it and all else may come, but these must not be our objects. The Divine alone is our object. page 503, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL

Tat savitur varam rupam jyotih parasya dhimahi Yannah satyena dipayet The power of Gayatri is the Light of the divine Truth. It is a mantra of Knowledge. The Gayatri mantra is the mantra for bringing the light of Truth into all the planes of the being. page 747, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL Let us meditate on the most auspicious (best) form of Savitri, on the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth. - Sri Aurobindo

* WE* published yesterday among our selections a full account of the life and death of Mustafa Kamil Pasha, the great Nationalist leader in Egypt, who has regenerated Nationalism in his motherland and will be remembered in history as the chief among the creators of modern Egypt. The early death of this extraordinary man will be a blow to the movement, but we must remember what we are apt to forget that the life-work of a great man often does not begin till he dies. Page 721-23, Bande Mataram , volume 1, SABCL Home

Forms of Government THE idea of a world-union of free nations and empires, loose at first, but growing closer-knit with time and experience, seems at first sight the most practicable form of political unity; it is the only form indeed which would be immediately practicable, supposing the will to unity to become rapidly effective in the mind of the race. On the other hand, it is the State idea which is now dominant. The State has been the most successful and efficient means of unification and has been best able to meet the various needs which the progressive aggregate life of societies has created for itself and is still creating. It is, besides, the

Suicide is an absurd solution; he is quite mistaken in thinking that it will give him peace. He will only carry his difficulties with him into a more miserable condition of existence beyond and bring them back to another life on earth. The only remedy is to shake off these morbid ideas and face life with a clear will for some definite work to be done as the life's aim and with a quiet and active c...ourage. Sadhana has to be done in the body, it cannot be done by the soul without the body. When the body drops, the soul goes wandering in other worlds − and finally it comes back to another life and another body. Then all the difficulties it had not

*Politics is always limited by party, by ideas, by duties also *− unless we prepare a government that has no party, a government that admits all ideas because it is above parties. party is limitation; it is like a box: you go into the box ( Mother laughs ). Of course, if there were some people who had the courage to be in the government without a party “We represent no party ! We represent India” that would be magnificent. Pull the consciousness up, up, above party. And then, naturally, certain people who couldn’t come into political parties − that ! that is truly working for tomorrow. Tomorrow it will be like that. *All this turmoil is because the country must take the