There is a mighty law of life, a great principle of human evolution, a body of spiritual knowledge and experience of which India has always been destined to be guardian , exemplar and missionary. This is the SANATAN DHARMA, the eternal religion. Under the stress of alien impacts she has largely lost hold of the structure of that dharma, but of its living reality. For the religion of India is nothing if it is not lived. It has to be applied not only to life, but to the whole of life; its spirit has to enter into and mould our society, our politics, our literature, our science, our individual character, affections and aspirations. To understand the heart of this

The /Times of India /like other Anglo-Indian journals of its class loses no opportunity for discrediting the Nationalist movement in Bengal. In the issue to hand it has an appreciative leader on the New Iron Industry initiated by the late Mr. J. N. Tata and now placed on a sound business footing as a Joint Stock concern with a handsome capital subscribed by the people of India. The /Times /has been constrained to admit that Indian capital is no longer shy and the spirit of enterprise too is much in evidence. The /Times /would not be itself if it omitted to mention that the Government has been doing its best to help the new industry thus giving a proof of its

-118_Krishna's color.html There are different Krishna lights – pale diamond blue, lavender blue, deep blue etc. It depends on the plane in which it manifests.... There is one blue that is the higher mind, a deeper blue belongs to the mind – Krishna's light in the mind.... All blue is not Krishna's light.... Diamond blue, Krishna's light in the Overmind – lavender blue in intuitive mind. Blue is also the Radha's colour. page 961, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL

ADWAITA People are apt to speak of the Adwaita as if it were identical with Mayavada monism, just as they speak of Vedanta as if it were identical with Adwaita only; that is not the case. There are several forms of Indian philosophy which base themselves upon the One Reality, but they admit also the reality of the world, the reality of the Many, the reality of the differences of the Many as well as the sameness of the One (bhedābheda). But the Many exist in the One and by the One, the differences are variations in manifestation of that which is fundamentally ever the same. This we actually see as the universal law of existence where oneness is always

A lotus flower indicates the open consciousness. The red lotus is the presence of the Divine on earth; the sun is the Divine Truth. It indicates the Divine manifestation on earth raising earth consciousness towards the Truth. The white lotus is the symbol of the Mother's consciousness, – it does not indicate any part of the individual consciousness. The opening of the lotuses in your experience means, I suppose, the opening of the true vital and physical consciousness in which the spiritual being (the Swan) can manifest with all the consequences of that opening. page 978, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL

Letters on himself and the Ashram His Life and Attempts to Write about It Knowing about Things in His Past For a long time I have wanted to hear something about the early days in Pondicherry from those who lived with you then. This morning I approached X and asked him. He agreed to tell me and a few friends some stories and anecdotes. Do you think it undesirable or objectionable in any way? Sri Aurobindo I do not know whether it is of much utility. Besides, it would be only myself who could speak of things in my past, giving them their true form and significance. But as you have arranged it, it can be done. 11 August 1933 On Writi

The tree is the symbol of subconscient vital. page 970, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL A bird is a very frequent symbol of the soul, and the tree is the standing image of the universe – The Tree of Life. page 978, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL The crown indicates the higher consciousness in its static condition, the wheel its dynamic action. The red light is the Power sent down to change the physical. The book indicates some kind of knowledge. The ears signify usually the place of inspired knowledge or else of inspired expression – red and gold mean truth and power joined together.

The Swan is a symbol of the soul on the higher plane. The swan is the liberated soul, the lotus is either the consciousness reddening to the colour of Divine Love or else the symbol of the Divine Presence on earth. page 978, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL The Hansa is the symbol of the being – it regains its original purity as it rises until it becomes luminous in the Highest Truth. page 979, Letters on Yoga , volume - 23 , SABCL