LET THE ALL-CONSCIOUSNESS DECIDE (16-11-11) With the present morality of the human race a sound and durable human unity is not yet possible; but there is no reason why a temporary approximation to it should not be the reward of strenuous aspiration and untiring effort. By constant approximations and by partial realisations and temporary successes Nature advances. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms 336)   LET THE ALL-CONSCIOUSNESS DECIDE I am fully convinced that the confusion [ in the world] is there to teach us how to live from day to day, that is to say, not to be preoccupied with what may happen, what will happen, just to occupy oneself day by day with doing what one has to d

The Science of Living (02-03-11) Shrink not from the Dionysian cry & rapture within thee, but see that thou be not a straw upon those billows Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-236) The Science of Living Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself. To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their r

GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO (20-07-11) Governments, societies, kings, police, judges, institutions, churches, laws, customs, armies are temporary necessities imposed on us for a few groups of centuries because God has concealed His face from us. When it appears to us again in its truth & beauty, then in that light they will vanish. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-319) GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO   (continued from 13th July)This, however, cannot be done at once or in a short time or by any rapid or miraculous transformation. Many steps have to be taken by the seeker before the supramental descent is possible. Man lives mostly in his surface mind, life and body, but there is an inne

The Supreme Divine (16-01-11) The Supreme Divine ……… All taken together, it is a constant birth of things in Time, udbhava, of which the creative energy of Karma is the principle. All this mutable becoming emerges by a combination of the powers and energies of Nature, adhibhūta, which constitutes the world and is the object of the soul's consciousness. In it all the soul is the enjoying and observing Deity in Nature; the divine powers of mind and will and sense, all the powers of its conscious being by which it reflects this working of Prakriti are its godheads,adhidaiva. This soul in Nature is therefore the ks)ara purus)a, it is the mutable soul, the eternal activity of the Godhead: the

Vanity Closes You Up (21-09-11) Life and action culminate and are eternally crowned for thee when thou hast attained the power of symbolising & manifesting in every thought & act, in wealth getting, wealth having or wealth spending, in home & government & society, in art, literature and life, the One Immortal in this lower mortal being. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Ahorisms 204) Vanity Closes You Up There is nothing that closes you up more than vanity. When you are self-satisfied, you have that kind of vanity of not wanting to admit that you lack something, that you make mistakes, that you are incomplete, that you are imperfect, that you are… There is something in the nature, you know, wh

GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO (27-07-13)  Human pity is born of ignorance & weakness; it is the slave of emotional impressions. Divine compassion understands, discerns & saves. Sri Aurobindo (Thoughts and Aphorisms-528) GUIDANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO (continued from 20th July)…There are many things belonging to older systems that are necessary on the way — an opening of the mind to a greater wideness and to the sense of the Self and the Infinite, an emergence into what has been called the cosmic consciousness, mastery over the desires and passions; an outward asceticism is not essential, but the conquest of desire and attachment and a control over the body and its needs, greeds and instin

April 29, 1973 (Mother sees Sujata. Sujata enters Mother's room after sitting a long time outside, in front of Mother's door, engrossed in the English translation of the "Sannyasin." Mother takes her hands.) Your contact is most pleasant, my child, I can tell you that. Most pleasant. Page 406

March 3, 1973 We have nothing for the next Bulletin, no "Notes. (silence) One would like to know if one is on the right path ... What path? Your path, the path to the new consciousness. (Mother indicates that she does not want to talk) For the moment, the real Force - the real Force - is in silence. (Mother plunges in) Page 373

April 14, 1973 (Mother is very short of breath, she seems to be in pain.) My nervous system is being transferred to the Supramental. It feels like ... you know, what people call "neurasthenia" [[Mother may have used this term in its original Greek root meaning: "strengthless nerves." Unless she meant "neuralgia" in its broader sense. ]] - they have no idea what it is; but the entire nervous system is.... It's worse than dying. [[We recall Mother also saying, "When people come into my room with ill thoughts, all the nerves are tortured." ]] Yes, Mother. But I think ... I think I can transmit the divine Vibration. Oh, yes, definitely! Will you tell me if you feel it? Bu

February 1, I914 I TURN towards Thee who art everywhere and within ail and outside ail, intimate essence of all and remote from ail, centre of condensation for ail energies, creator of conscious individualities: 1 turn towards Thee and salute Thee, O liberator of the worlds, and, identified with Thy divine love, I contemplate the earth and its creatures, this mass of substance put into forms perpetually destroyed and renewed, this swarming mass of aggregates which are dissolved as soon as constituted, of beings who imagine that they are conscient and permanent individualities and who are as ephemeral as a breath, always alike or almost the same, in their diversity, repeating