Transformation of the Vital (08-09-10) God's world advances step by step fulfilling the lesser unit before it seriously attempts the larger. Affirm free nationality first, if thou wouldst ever bring the world to be one nation. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms331) Transformation of the Vital …… This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspira

THE GITA AND SRI AUROBINDO'S MESSAGE (18-08-10) Nationality is a stride of the progressive God passing beyond the stage of the family; therefore the attachment to clan and tribe must weaken or perish before a nation can be born. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 333)  THE GITA AND SRI AUROBINDO'S MESSAGE It is not a fact that the Gita gives the whole base of Sri Aurobindo's message; for the Gita seems to admit the cessation of birth in the world as the ultimate aim or at least the ultimate culmination of Yoga; it does not bring forward the idea of spiritual evolution or the idea of the higher planes and the supramental Truth-Consciousness and the bringing down of that consci

The Integral Yoga and the Ordinary Life (22-08-10) The Integral Yoga and the Ordinary Life It is a lesson of life that always in this world everything fails a man - only the Divine does not fail him, if he turns entirely to the Divine. It is not because there is something bad in you that blows fall on you - blows fall on all human beings because they are full of desire for things that cannot last and they lose them or, even if they get, it brings disappointment and cannot satisfy them. To turn to the Divine is the only truth in life. Sri Aurobindo, SABCL, v24, p1639 Sadhana must be the main thing and sadhana means the purification of the nature, the consecration of the being, the openin

Receptivity: Open Yourself (16-02-10)  See God everywhere and be not frightened by masks. Believe that all falsehood is truth in the making or truth in the breaking, all failure an effectuality concealed, all weakness strength hiding itself from its own vision, all pain a secret & violent ecstasy. If thou believest firmly & unweariedly, in the end thou wilt see & experience the All-true, Almighty & All-blissful. Sri Aurobindo. (Thoughts and Aphorism 534) Receptivity: Open Yourself To be active is to throw the consciousness or force or movement from within outwards. To be passive is to remain immobile and receive what comes from outside… Now if you want to get true inspiration, inner g

Entry into The Inner Self (08-08-10) Entry into The Inner Self One effective way often used to facilitate this entry into the inner self is the sparation of the Purusha, the conscious being, from the Prakriti, the formulated nature. If one stands back from the mind and its activities so that they fall silent at will or go on as a surface movement of which one is the detached and disinterested witness, it becomes possible eventually to realise oneself as the inner Self of mind, the true and pure mental being, the Purusha; by similarly standing back from the life-activities, it is possible to realise oneself as the inner Self of life, the true and pure vital being, the Purusha; there is even a

The Human Aspiration (30-06-10) The strangest of the soul's experiences is this, that it finds, when it ceases to care for the image & threat of troubles, then the troubles themselves are nowhere to be found in one's neighbourhood. It is then that we hear from behind those unreal clouds God laughing at us. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms - 507) The Human Aspiration .....,.. We speak of the evolution of Life in Matter, the evolution of Mind in Matter; but evolution is a word which merely states the phenomenon without explaining it. For there seems to be no reason why Life should evolve out of material elements or Mind out of living form, unless we accept the Vedantic solution tha

The Object of Integral Yoga (16-06-10) One of the greatest comforts of religion is that you can get hold of God sometimes and give him a satisfactory beating. People mock at the folly of savages who beat their gods when their prayers are not answered; but it is the mockers who are the fools and the savages. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 60) The Object of Integral Yoga To find the Divine is indeed the first reason for seeking the spiritual Truth and the spiritual life; it is the one thing indispensable and all the rest is nothing without it. The Divine once found, to manifest Him, – that is, first of all to transform one's own limited consciousness into the Divine Consciousnes

The Divine Teacher (13-10-10) O Misfortune,blessed be thou; for through thee I have seen the face of my Lover. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 35) The Divine Teacher …… India has from ancient times held strongly a belief in the reality of the Avatara, the descent into form, the revelation of the Godhead in humanity. In the West this belief has never really stamped itself upon the mind because it has been presented through exoteric Christianity as a theological dogma without any roots in the reason and general consciousness and attitude towards life. But in India it has grown up and persisted as a logical outcome of the Vedantic view of life and taken firm root in the consciousness

The Process of Avatarhood (22-09-10) When thou hearest an opinion that displeases thee, study and find out the truth in it. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 301) The Process of Avatarhood WE SEE that the mystery of the divine Incarnation in man, the assumption by the Godhead of the human type and the human nature, is in the view of the Gita only the other side of the eternal mystery of human birth itself which is always in its essence, though not in its phenomenal appearance, even such a miraculous assumption. The eternal and universal self of every human being is God; even his personal self is a part of the Godhead, mamaivāmśah, – not a fraction or fragment, surely, since we cann

The Fear of Death (19-05-10) Every law, however embracing or tyrannous, meets somewhere a contrary law by which its operation can be checked, modified, annulled or eluded. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms125) The Fear of Death Generally speaking, perhaps the greatest obstacle in the way of man's progress is fear, a fear that is many-sided, multiform, self-contradictory, illogical, unreasoning and often unreasonable. Of all fears the most subtle and the most tenacious is the fear of death. It is deeply rooted in the subconscient and it is not easy to dislodge. It is obviously made up of several interwoven elements: the spirit of conservatism and the concern for self-preservation so a