They are not either or. One concentrates upon the Mother, in the heart or the head or above the head because one aspires for and
Yes it is a common experience on the path and the beautiful sign of a growing surrender and reliance on The Mother.
At the end of each year take out a selection of the most important ones. Keep them with a picture of the Mother in a
Sri Aurobindo was well conversant with Swami Dayanand’s work. He had high appreciation of him and saw his work on the Vedas as the beginning
It is no doubt an interesting confluence of history. Even more so because Augustus Caesar’s reign is recognised for bringing peace through the doors of
The principle behind this advice given by the Mother is that firstly, speech externalises the consciousness and throws out a lot of energy. Hence the
The Mother is the Mother of our souls. All souls have emerged from Her and are helped by Her in our long winding journey through
There have been instances of the Mother scolding for example to Amal Kiran, Nirod da, Priti Dasgupta and Amrita. She has herself mentioned that She
All of them are fine.
But it is best if at least one reads it in sequence once. A little each day, a page
Perhaps you have not dipped into the right sources or read material on Sri Aurobindo’s life. I would advice you to read the following biographies.
One can ask anything and everything from The Mother. But one has to leave it to Her to grant it or not, keeping the trust
It comes with practice. I myself encountered this difficulty initially since I used to practice, like most persons, concentration in the forehead. While shifting it
The first thing that we need to understand is that the Supramental does not work in the human way, its action is not based on
If you ask the simplest of answers, well calling Her Name, Maa Maa Maa Maa is enough. In fact faith is enough. The fact that
Yes. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have their permanent dwelling in the subtle physical plane. It is right behind the gross physical world (sthool jagat),
It was indeed a troubling incidence for everybody. It was a time when all over India there were many incidents immediately post partition. In Pondicherry
This seems to indicate that ‘Yasmin vijnate vijnati sarvam’ is only true about what is manifested by the Divine Mother in the universe as a
This happens because we are not made up of one piece. There are different parts in us and often they are in different degree of