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At the Feet of The Mother
AN AUDIO IN ENGLISH
Renunciation has often been regarded as an important corner-stone of spiritual life, and this has often led to the impression of a gulf between the spiritual and material existence. Today's talk is centered around the truth behind Renunciation, its real nature and place in the Integral Yoga.
COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
There are not only forces but beings whose very task is to oppose God. Creating chaos and confusion in the world they help the Night to triumph and disorder to harden into Law. They invoke the powers of darkness to sustain and strengthen them.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
The gods are still too few in mortal forms.” The Voice withdrew into its hidden skies. But like a shining answer from the gods Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri.
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MOTHER BY MONA SARKAR (TEXT)

... Mother, that’s what I am aspiring for: that you take charge of me and act through me.

Ah, that is different. When you have made the effort and you are able to open yourself to me, then only I will do everything, not for you personally....
SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)
With the help of magical formulas one may produce a certain result, but this result is necessarily limited and has no particular interest for those who, through their inner development, spontaneously receive powers of which they have a higher knowledge, not a mechanical one. It is not for someone who is truly a yogi; it has no interest except that of curiosity.
A Text in English
To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.
COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
In a sense there cannot be any enemy of God since all is He. But in the process of becoming and while discovering a dynamic principle of action we can see that there are forces and powers that are aligned to the Divine Will and help the great unfolding as also there are other forces that distract and pervert the original Will and oppose the great Plan.
SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)
Is it true that the dynamic descent has resulted badly in some sadhaks?

It seems to me that there are a fair number who have left because of that, like Bejoy, Nolinbehari etc. and others who fell in the same way, e.g. X. And yet that was not a full descent, but only a very little bit of a thing.

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
"O Force-compelled, Fate-driven earth-born race, O petty adventurers in an infinite world And prisoners of a dwarf humanity, How long will you tread the circling tracks of mind Around your little self and petty things?
COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
The spiritual life is full of its own dangers due to these forces of darkness and falsehood that chase and cling to an aspirant’s feet. A great persistence, vigilance and sincerity are needed to pass through the devious traps laid down by the forces of Evil on the way.
A Recitation (video)
A message from the unknown immortal Light Ablaze upon creation's quivering edge, Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours. An instant's visitor the godhead shone.
A Text in English
Man has created a system of civilisation which has become too big for his limited mental capacity and understanding and his still more limited spiritual and moral capacity to utilise and manage, a too dangerous servant of his blundering ego and its appetites.