Poetry requires an inner hearing, the faculty of inspiration so to say, just as painting requires an inner vision, a faculty that reveals what is
The Secret of the Vedas was my first book too along with The Synthesis of Yoga. While it is no doubt a precious treasure (I
These lines specifically refer to the attacks by the forces of falsehood to which the sadhaks are prone during certain critical phases of the spiritual
The quest of Science is for Truth and Truth is indeed one of the aspects of the One Divine Reality. There are other aspects such
The Mother was referring to a possibility that was trying to manifest since the formation of Communist China in 1949. Sri Aurobindo also spoke about
The idea of living for the Divine, becoming an instrument of the Divine, must change into a living aspiration for the Divine. It is aspiration,
This is just the right way, to recognise what needs to change and then offer them to Her with the aspiration for the needed change,
No no no. Moral, ethical, social notions have little to do with the true spiritual life. There are number of examples of authentic spiritual Masters
Here is a prescription straight from the Lord and Master which would be the best for you. Frame it carefully in the inner chamber of
There is no truth in the Ashram hiring any teacher, secular or otherwise. No student is charged and no teacher is paid. Most of the
The experiences you describe are quite classical of the kundalini awakening as a result of the Mother’s Force touching the crown and descending from above
Chanting of God’s Name has a great power in it. The Name and the Sound contains the essential quality and the vibratory rhythm which embodies
Yes, all these things have been added much later and have no authority in the main Scriptures. It is a story added in some of
What we call as errors are part of the play. Just as a child who knows not to walk and stumbles while the parents look
The experiences of life, practically all of them are, in their last analysis, subject dependent. The same place, environment, situation can trigger different kinds, often
She already had her identification with the Divine Mother, the Mother of the gods. That had happened already in 1914 as you will see in
Here is a letter of Sri Aurobindo himself explaining this in response to a similar question.
‘In some of the Mother’s prayers which are
Atman literally means the Self with a capital S as different from the ego-self which changes as the field of nature changes. The true Self