MESSAGE TO THE ANDHRA UNIVERSITY1 You have asked me for a message and anything I write, since it is to the Andhra University that I am addressing my message, if it can be called by that name, should be pertinent to your University, its function, its character and the work it has to do. But it is difficult for me at this juncture when momentous deci­sions are being taken which are likely to determine not only the form and pattern of this country's Government and administra­tion but the pattern of its destiny, the build and make-up of the nation's character, its position in the world with regard to other nations, its choice of what itself s

I have the deepest respect for Indian languages and continue to study Sanskrit when I have time. The Sanskrit ought to be the national language of India. Blessings. 19 April 1971 Page – 383 The Sanskrit language is the /devabhāṣā /or original language spoken by men in Uttara Meru at the beginning of the Manwantara; but in its purity it is not the Sanskrit of the Dwapara or the Kali, it is the language of the Satya Yuga based on the true and perfect relation of /vāk /and /artha/. Everyone of its vowels and consonants has a particular and inalienable force which exists by the nature of things and not by development or human choice; t

Well Done, Chidambaram! A true feeling of comradeship is the salt of political life; it binds men together and is the cement of all associated action. When a political leader is prepared to suffer for the sake of his followers, when a man, famous and adored by the public, is ready to remain in jail rather than leave his friends and fellow-workers behind, it is a sign that political life in India is becoming a reality. Srijut Chidambaram Pillai has shown throughout the Tuticorin affair a loftiness of character, a practical energy united with high moral idealism which show that he is a true Nationalist. His refusal to accept release on bail if his fellow-w

The rose is not the only beautiful flower, there are hundreds of others; most flowers are beautiful. There are degrees and kinds of beauty, that is all. The rose is among the first of flowers because of the richness of its colour, the intensity of sweetness of its scent and the grace and magnificence of its form. page 499 , Letters on Yoga , volume - 22 , SABCL

Purity is to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. ⁂ Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily, purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from sexual passion and impulse. ⁂ The Divine Purity is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic. ⁂ Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pure, in the ignorance everything is subject to impurity

/He met Brahmananda on the banks of the Narmada for advice on national education activities./ Sri Aurobindo saw Brahmananda long before there was any question of national education activities. Brahmananda never gave him any counsel or advice nor was there any conversation between them; Sri Aurobindo went to his monastery only for /darśana/ and blessings. Barin had a close connection with Ganganath and his Guru was one of the Sannyasis who surrounded Brahmananda, but the connection with Ganganath was spiritual only. /During the Baroda period Sri Aurobindo met, one by one, Sri Hamsa Swamp Swami, Sri Sadguru Brahmananda a