“Man of Sorrow” is described in Savitri as well as Prayers and Meditations thus.
‘She ceased, and like an echo from below
Answering her pathos
Refusing to take treatment is fine but if it is done with a will to die, with a defeatist attitude, to cut short the thread
1) Yes. That is quite true. Besides these beings are very difficult to please. On the other hand the supreme Divine is the easiest to
Most of these considerations are peripheral. All kinds of people are everywhere and one has to learn to inwardly dissociate oneself from them as Vibhishan
These are beautiful questions which Sri Aurobindo has himself answered at great length. Here are the brief responses. Will be happy to elaborate further if
That is perhaps because he saw some possibility in him. After all there is a difference between someone living near a spiritual Master with easy
There has never been an Age of mankind when the Vedic Knowledge was not there. The Vedas is the Knowledge that has gone into creation,
The most important thing is the needed purification and inner concentration on the Divine Mother. Call Her Name with love. Sadhana is not a mental
These places were, at one point of time, powerful spots. Yogis often visited and lived there far from the maddening crowd and engaged in tapasya.
Sri Aurobindo does speak about the original four powers and aspects which are clearly the four aspects of the One Sacchidananda. These are namely Brahma
It means that you should now turn towards the future to fulfil your true spiritual destiny. Put your heart and mind more and more in
Chaturai or cleverness means trying to act smart with God as if one can fool or trick Him in your favor. Bhajan literally means to
It is the wisdom of the past, the yoga along whose lines you have moved in some earlier life, that has entered you. It is
The word เค เคเคถ (ansh) would be more appropriate and gender neutral than เคชเฅเคคเฅเคฐเค (putraha).
Amritasya anshaha, Anandasya anshaha.
In your deepest truth you are the Divine. It is true of everybody. But for the sake of the play, for the joy of the
What is traditionally called as mukti is a freedom from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. In Vedantic literature it is supposed to be
It is the inner motive that matters in spiritual life. One may stay away from an activity because one is afraid of meeting people, or
These phases come in every seeker’s path. It is the test of spiritual life if you want to put it that way. The test is