The Mother would usher the New Year with Her music and a message. It is a beautiful way to start the New Year this way.
Also to feel one’s inmost aspiration in the deep quietude, reinforce it with the fuel of renewed determination and faith in the future. Since it is a collective convention one should add to one’s own prayer, a prayer for the earth and humanity especially for the future.
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The Bhagawat Purana is written by a Rishi no less than the calibre of Vyasa. The entire Purana is profound in its depth, spiritual and occult understanding. To take it literally is to rob it of its real sense. The gopa and gopis are the divine souls who came down with Sri Krishna to open the path of bhakti, of utter abandonment and surrender to the Divine for man to follow…
The Saptachatustya described in the Records of Yoga is the program given to Sri Aurobindo as part of his personal sadhana.
Its general version applicable for every sadhaka has been described in The Synthesis of Yoga in the book on the yoga of self-perfection…
The Gita gives us the complete answer to this problem.
First thing is to take up an activity that is in line with your swabhava, your innate temperament. If one does not know that then one should study oneself, one’s interests, tendencies, natural qualities and capacities and try to see how they can be best put to use in the work you are doing…