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Sri Aurobindo

Religion in India

Religion is always imperfect because it is a mixture of man’s spirituality with the errors that come in trying to sublimate ignorantly his lower nature.

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In one of the videos, you mentioned that Sri Aurobindo’s basic Sadhana was completed by 1918. In another, there was a talk about His higher Sadhana. If I remember correctly it was like when He experienced Parbrahm, He went in solitude, started higher Sadhana for bringing that consciousness into matter. Mother said there are three ways to serve: 📖🙏🏻 […]

Sri Aurobindo’s personal sadhana is documented to some extent in Records of Yoga, especially the section on Yoga chatusthya. Its practical side is given in

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I’ve been intoxicated/moved by this bhajan(Hirna) of Kabir Das ji since the time I heard it at the camp for the first time. This might not be the best transliteration & translation, but could you please help briefly explain these verses in the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s Yoga? What does the deer denote, and what are the 3 forests, 5 hunters, 5 deer and 25 does? Thank you! 🦌🎶🙏🏻 […]

Yes it is a beautiful bhajan and was sung in a soulful way in the Camp. Here is the deeper mystic sense of this poem

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Respected Sir, Sri Aurobindo had once wrote in a letter to Barin in 1920 about the “ten limbs of the body of this Yoga”. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, in his famous book, “Sri Aurobindo: A Biography and a History,” has also dedicated a chapter on the subject in Chapter 23. I want to know precisely actually what does it mean. 🧘📖

The ten limbs have intrigued many as he didn’t expliitly mention the details of the ten limbs. What he did write in detail was the

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I would like to share something interesting that I noticed. Recently, I completed reading the Bhagavad Gita. I noticed that the number of the last verse in the book, is the same as the Mother’s birth year. The number of the last verse where Sri Krishna speaks is Sri Aurobindo’s birth year. Could there be a significance to this? 📖✨

That is a very interesting observation. I don’t think anyone has mentioned it. I have myself not noticed this. But apart from congratulating you for

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