VIDEO IN ENGLISH
Dr Alok Pandey shares views on the perceived antagonism between the spiritual and material life in the light of the Santana Dharma.
At the Feet of The Mother
REFLECTIONS ON PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS OF THE MOTHER (VIDEO)
This prayer reveals to us the feeling of need for the Divine that leads one straight to the goal without any complexities and perplexities.
COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
Step by step in a most logical way Sri Aurobindo reveals us the paradox of Science and the limitation of Reason to give us a true understanding of ‘Reality’.
A NINE PART SERIES OF REFLECTIONS BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
The Gita is His teaching of the various ways and means through which man can and must align to this Divine Will that is operating within us and within the world.
A TALK BY DR ALOK PANDEY (VIDEO IN HINDI)
Today we take up the first part of Book One Canto Four titled the Secret Knowledge. This talk is focused on the soul and the Divine Grace that helps us in our journey.
an audio in english
... let us become the living cells of the organism we want to bring forth, and let us not forget that on the value of its cells will depend the value of the collective being and its action, its usefulness in the work of universal harmony.
Essays and Talks of Nirodbaran
It was my great good fortune to have Sri Aurobindo as my guru. In my exploration of spiritual history I have not come across any other guru who can be compared to him. He was not only guru, but also the Divine in a human body, the last Avatar, the supramental Avatar according to the Mother. A synthesis of two cultures, oriental and occidental — poet, philosopher, politician, linguist, literary critic — he was also the yogi who might well say: “I have drunk the Infinite like a giant’s wine.”
SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)
Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation. Perhaps, looking from this stand-point, there will be found very few true artists; but still there are some and these can very well be considered as Yogis.
Video
Today we reflect upon one of the three core processes of integral yoga, namely aspiration.
A NINE PART SERIES OF REFLECTIONS BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
Each of the main characters in the Mahabharata represents one such archetype of humanity who stands either on the side of the intended progress or who resists the human advance by its obstinate refusals, denials or simply inaction, when destiny demands it to act aligned to the Time Spirit. We can take them one by one.
A nine part series of reflections by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)
Mahabharata can be seen and understood at many levels and each is valid and complements the others. Most outwardly it represents a crisis which humanity undergoes from time to time that have the potential to plunge it into abysses of destruction, setting the clock of human evolution backwards by a few centuries if not millenniums.
COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
Though Reason is presently the highest mental faculty available to man, it has several limitations. It fails when it makes claims to discovery of Truth.
A Talk in English (video)
A webinar on Perseverance, a much needed quality for the yoga. A question on obstinacy is also taken up in the end.
An essay by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)
He is with us through the change of seasons since His work is never finished. He is with us from birth to death, and He is with us when we depart to other domains. We rest in Him at the end of our life and return after receiving His nourishing touch.
VIDEO IN ENGLISH
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey from the 'Sanatana Dharma' series
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MOTHER BY MONA SARKAR (TEXT)
You do not know how privileged you are. For it is He — the Supreme — who is with you, who is guiding you, showing you and watching over you, telling you so many things, teasing you and playing with you. He is always with you. A fall does not touch Him.... If only the effort is there.... It is He who has descended in your midst to transform you and lift you out of ignorance.
A Talk in English (video)
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey takes up the subject of life and death as seen from a spiritual perspective. Followed by questions 'Practical means to find the soul,' 'Physics and metaphysics', 'Buddhist and other perspectives of the individual soul'.