“The Progress to Knowledge—God, Man and Nature” (15-09-10) God struck me with a human hand; shall I say then, " i pardon Thee thy insolence, O God"? Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms23) “The Progress to Knowledge—God, Man and Nature” To rise out of the sevenfold Ignorance into the integral Knowledge is the progress of man's being; it is to grow in all his complex existence and consciousness into the full possession and enjoyment of his whole and his true being.—He starts with three categories, himself, Nature or cosmos and God, and though he tries to deny any two of these in order to affirm the third only, he cannot really succeed; for he is neither separate nor sufficient to himself,

The Supramental Evolution (14-04-10) Genius is Nature's first attempt to liberate the imprisoned god out of her human mould; the mould has to suffer in the process. It is astonishing that the cracks are so few and unimportant. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms214 ) The Supramental Evolution (continuation) of 7th April 2010) : But Intuition takes its proper form only when one goes beyond the mental into the spiritual domain, for there only it comes fully forward from behind the veil and reveals its true and complete nature. Along with the mental evolution of man there has been going forward the early process of another evolution which prepares the spiritual and supramental being.

THE HOUR OF GOD (17-01-10) THE HOUR OF GOD (The Supramental Yoga) …. The Supramental Yoga is at once an ascent towards God and a descent of Godhead into the embodied nature.   The ascent can only be achieved by a one-centred all-gathering upward aspiration of the soul and mind and life and body; the descent can only come by a call of the whole being towards the infinite and eternal Divine. If this call and this aspiration are there, or if by any means they can be born and grow constantly and seize all the nature, then and then only a supramental uplifting and transformation becomes possible. The call and the aspiration are only first conditions; there must be along with them and

Harmony (05-06-10) Harmony   Harmony: let us strive that the day may come when this will be the means and the end. Harmony is my aim and all that leads to harmony makes me happy. Integral harmony: harmony between things, harmony between people, harmony of circumstances and above all harmony of all aspiration directed towards the Supreme Truth. A harmonious collective aspiration can change the course of circumstances. Collective harmony is the work undertaken by the Divine Consciousness; It alone has the power to realise it. There is a deep and true consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. It is only in union with the Divine and in the Divine that harmony and peace can be est

The Stillness of the Mind (Na Kinchidapin Chintayet) (02-05-10) The Stillness of the Mind ( Na Kinchidapin Chintayet) …….. The stillness of the mind is prepared by the process of concentration. In the science of Rajayoga after the heart has been stilled and the mind prepared, the next step is to subjugate the body by means of asan or the fixed and motionless seat. The aim of this fixity is twofold, first the stillness of the body and secondly the forgetfulness of the body. When one can sit still and utterly forget the body for a long period of time, then the asan is said to have been mastered. In ordinary concentration when the body is only comparatively still it is not noticed, but there is

THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF YOGA (01-12-10) Because God has willed and foreseen everything, thou shouldst not therefore sit inactive and wait upon His providence, for thy action is one of His chief effective forces. Up then and be doing, not with egoism, but as the circumstance, instrument and apparent cause of the event that He has predetermined. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-131) THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF YOGA By YOGA we can rise out of falsehood into truth, out of weakness into force, out of pain and grief into bliss, out of bondage into freedom, out of death into immortality, out of darkness into light, out of confusion into purity, out of imperfection into perfection, out of self-

Cellular Mind and Physical Mind (18-04-10) Cellular Mind and Physical Mind …… Then what is the difference between this material mind and the physical mind? The physical mind is the mind of the physical personality formed by the body. It grows with the body, but it is not the mind of Matter: it is the mind of the physical being. For example, it is this physical mind which gives the character – the bodily character, the physical character – and which is in a large measure formed by atavism and by education. All this is called the “physical mind”.   …… But then, for example, this mind which is spontaneously defeatist, having all sorts of fears, apprehensions, always seeing the worst

MONEY (21-03-10) MONEY Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine. But like other powers of the Divine it is delegated here and in the ignorance of the lower Nature can be usurped for the uses of the ego or held by Asuric influences and perverted to their purpose. This is indeed one of the three forces ― power, wealth, sex ― that have the strongest attraction for the human ego and the Asura and are most generally misheld and misused by those who retain them. The seekers or keepers of wealth a

Difficulties of the Path (03-02-10) When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 297) Difficulties of the Path …..It is quite obvious that this world is full of suffering, and afflicted with transience to a degree that seems to justify the Gita's description of it as “this unhappy and transient world”, anityam asukham. The question is whether it is a mere creation of Chance or governed by a mechanical inconscient Law or whether there is a meaning in it and something beyond its present appearance towards which we move. If there is a meaning and if there is something towards which things are evolvi

The Message of the Gita (25-05-10) Shun the barren snare of an empty metaphysics and the dry dust of an unfertile intellectuality. Only that knowledge is worth having which can be made use of for a living delight and put out into temperament, action, creation and being. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms160)   The Message of the Gita “The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work itself that has to be done. For you must deeply feel that the fruits belong not to you but to the Master of the world. Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who ma