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At the Feet of The Mother

Liberty and Law

Democracy is by no means a sure preservative of liberty; on the contrary, we see today the democratic system of government march steadily towards such an organised annihilation of individual liberty as could not have been dreamed of in the old aristocratic and monarchical systems.
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The Present Reality, pp. 201. End of Canto Six.

This canto is about an intermediate stage through which evolution passes. It is a life no more centred around just food and mating and sleep. There is here a cry for change and glimpses of a higher and more beautiful life. But these passing glimpses do not endure nor have the power to transform our earthly existence.
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Explorations in Savitri 131, pp. 327-329

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
Life's rapture kept for ever its flame and cry. All that now passes lived immortal there In the proud beauty and fine harmony Of Matter plastic to spiritual light.
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10.5 “The Best Will Happen”

When you look back, all kinds of things which you did not understand when they happened to you, you realise as just the thing which was necessary in order to compel you to make the needed progress. Always, without exception. It is our blindness which prevents us from seeing it.
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Chapter 12. The Fate of a Brahmin’s Shikha

The shikha was scissored off clean by Nolini Kanta Gupta in obedience to Sri Auro­bindo’s order at about 2 a.m. on the altar of the temple at sacred Pondicherry in which Sri Aurobindo is the mūrti (deity). He performed this service when I was asleep.
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5.8 Workings of the Divine Shakti Should Not Perplex Us

"There can be for the seeker of the integral Yoga no clinging to resting-places on the road or to half-way houses; he cannot be satisfied till he has laid down all the great enduring bases of his perfection and broken out into its large and free infinities, and even there he has to be constantly filling himself with more experiences of the Infinite."
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Explorations in Savitri 130, pp. 325-327

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
He saw a hierarchy of lucent planes Enfeoffed to this highest kingdom of God-state. Attuning to one Truth their own right rule Each housed the gladness of a bright degree
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The Hope, pp. 200-201

There is in the heart of life a hope that one day it shall indeed be transfigured by some miraculous tough. Until then she must strive and suffer and toil. Such is the predicament of life upon earth and of man tied to creation’s fate.
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Consciousness and Energy

Are consciousness and energy really the same thing?

... Consciousness is that which is aware of things — energy is a force put in action which does things. Consciousness may have energy and keep it in or put it out, but that does not mean that ... it cannot stand back and observe the energy in action.

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God’s plunge into the Night, pp. 627-629 (SH 311)

A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Life and creation could have blossomed beautifully and happily but something has come in between our true divine nature and our fallen self. A shadow falls upon our life shutting our doors to the pure, simple, natural joy divine.
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Purulia Chhau (2012 performance in Auroville)

Chhau dance is an Indian tribal martial dance, popular in the Indian states of Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal.  The themes for these dances include local legends, folklore and episodes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata and other. Filmed and edited by Manohar, Auroville
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Freedom – Equality – Brotherhood

"Freedom, equality, brotherhood are three godheads of the soul; they cannot be really achieved through the external machinery of society or by man so long as he lives only in the individual and the communal ego."
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Explorations in Savitri 129, pp. 324-325

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
His words were syllables of the cosmos' speech, His life a field of the vast cosmic stir. He felt the footsteps of a million wills Moving in unison to a single goal.
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A Prophesy (New Creation or Catastrophe) HH 267

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There is a cry the world over pointing at the damage and the harm that we humans have caused to the earth. Several measures are being suggested, but we have to understand the deeper reasons. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo not only foresaw all this, but also shared the vision of the Future.
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5.7 Faith in the Divine Shakti and Her Workings

The circumstances that provoke our first entry into the path are not the real index of the thing that is at work in us. [...] if it is the spirit that has been touched, the inward soul that has received the call, the ´sraddha will remain firm and resist all attempts to defeat or slay it.
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