
To a civil services exam aspirant which books of Sri Aurobindo would you recommend☺️?
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

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

There is but One Power that operates in everything and everywhere. But its gets limited and distorted in its expression as it flows into the

When the Divine Mother willed to create, She brought out different aspects from the One Divine and distributed Her Knowledge and Power to each one

Yes. This is the beginning of the supramental transformation, the ascent of the individual consciousness into the Supermind and the descent of the Supramental Consciousness

The yoga of the Bhagavad Gita, if sincerely followed can provide a very good foundation for Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga. It can lead to the

She is asking us to collaborate with the Divine Will.
Human collaboration may well end up in behaving like a pack of wolves that collaborate

Sri Aurobindo notes this in the human cycle but we don’t have any further remarks of his on the issue in the evening talks.And in