It is for each one to find the goal. But in a general sense, as the Mother describes, the quality of our life will depend
The experiences of life, practically all of them are, in their last analysis, subject dependent. The same place, environment, situation can trigger different kinds, often
The doors are within us. It is upto us to keep them open or closed. In the body these are the senses. In the mind
She already had her identification with the Divine Mother, the Mother of the gods. That had happened already in 1914 as you will see in
Yes I understand that. There is a difficulty with the Indian mind also because we are accustomed to a certain spiritual outlook that often misses
Yes but the world is full of such things. Even great wars have taken place over women, wealth and power.
Here is a letter of Sri Aurobindo himself explaining this in response to a similar question.
‘In some of the Mother’s prayers which are
One should be pushing one’s efforts only and only towards the goal one has chosen. If the goal is high then nothing else would matter.
Atman literally means the Self with a capital S as different from the ego-self which changes as the field of nature changes. The true Self
The soul fully blossoming into a psychic being fulfilling its divine possibility is indeed the first peak, the highest point for the individual consciousness to
Nature creates things as symbols and representations of deeper truths. Deserts are the symbol of emptiness, just as snowy mountain peaks where nothing grows are
Some people have a knack or temperament for it. They attract the money power, partly because they have an inborn temperament for it, partly because
Earth here is used as bhoomi, the ground of creation, of the different worlds or lokas. The triple mystic Heaven is Sacchidananda. The seven earths
This is clearly an occult dream. Flying dream indicates that your consciousness came out of the body but was pulled back by weakness in the
Actually you have yourself answered it. There is something in you that seeks the Divine but there are parts of nature that refuse. The ‘loneliness’
I am glad you have the opportunity to serve Her in the center. It is indeed a privilege and a Grace to be able to
This division is in everybody. It is by sadhana that one becomes one-pointed. It takes long time. Faith, sincerity, aspiration and surrender hastens the process.
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have opened a very wide spiritual path on which each one advances based on one’s own temperament. If you feel