The most foolish thing is to turn away from the Divine out of fear. They panic because they fear losing their ego and their limited

It is a few centuries old legend of a Shaiviite Siddha who was the patron saint of the area now known as Auroville. Once when

It is definitely the play of the mind making you feel like this. The only truth, if at all, could be that turning towards Sri

Thoughts are not formed by the individual brain or mind but received from several cosmic agencies. The reading of Savitri opened the doors of your

It means that he overcame the first battle, the inner battle, though of course, as Sri Aurobindo would always say, it happened as a gift

These lines from Savitri, Book Two Canto Seven, The Descent into Night, reveal the action of the forces of darkness upon earth nature. These forces

I am not sure about the exams and what kind of questions they ask but in general The Human Cycle gives a good glimpse of

First about the facts. Sri Aurobindo did not speak of Sri Ramkrishna as an Avatar in the sense of the Gita. In fact Sri Ramakrishna

It is the spirit of the Age, of Kali, that he had absorbed within himself since it was precisely this shadow that hung over the

The position of the materialist is that matter alone is real and all other experiences are imaginary or unreal.

The position of the typical

No, that is not the right way to look at it. Sri Krishna’s flute enchants the soul and draws it towards God. The Mother’s music

es the way is a conscious surrender of one’s individuality with an aspiration. The nature of the aspiration then determines what way this individuality will

You may tell them that a symbol stands for the truth of the thing that it is a symbol of. Thus for example the flag

This is something that i struggled with for a while as to how could I see the Beloved in the Mother or bring before Her

True love for God is best described in Sri Aurobindo’s own words as below. ‘To love God, excluding the world, is to give Him an

Yes, they in fact complement each other. The Gita declares that a complete mastery is not possible without the touch of the Eternal. The Mother

The veil of Maya even over the greatest Gods of the Overmind means that they too do not know the Supreme. Though they act under

This something within that Sri Aurobindo is referring to are those deeper parts in us that are under the psychic being’s influence. It is this