Nirvana in the sense of freedom from Ignorance that comes by realisation of the Divine within through the psychic door is indeed the first step of Integral Yoga.
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
Essays and Letters by Dr Alok Pandey on Yoga
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She has come, assuming our mortal breath with the will to divinise clay. Her advent is the golden chance for us to fulfil our divine destiny. If only we could hold Her hand or rather let Her hold ours...
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I am not sure what category we can try to put him into since he defies and exceeds all of them.
There is something truly beautiful and uplifting and divine in the life and personality of Christ and Mother Mary. One can see in him the beautiful heart of Buddha combined with the devotion for God which was released by Sri Krishna upon earth.
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Silence is powerful in the sense that it is filled with infinity. It is akin to the zero state through which one passes on the way to the eternal consciousness in its dynamic aspects.
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had ushered the Age of Truth, the new Satya Yuga based on the Supramental Truth Consciousness. What it means is that the old world of hypocrisy and lip service to Truth will stand exposed.
The New World is growing silently and unseen in the human heart despite all the resistance and the confusion.
What we are witnessing today is a moment of transition. It is a twilight moment when light and darkness are mixed in such a way that they seem difficult to separate.
This is the New Birth that Religion awaits, a new birth into the Spirit, a new birth of God in the consciousness of man, shedding His attire of ritual and religion that is still a distance and assuming the spiritual robe that truly befits Him.
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The Mother declared boldly that the age of Religions is over. It is also a silent occult action wherein She was removing the scaffoldings of the Old World to prepare the New World.
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The analytical rational mind which is dependent heavily upon the senses may not comprehend but the eye of faith and the deeper intuitive sense in us understands.
It is important is to understand that surrender is a dynamic process and not a passive tamasic attitude wherein we refuse any effort and leave everything in the hands of the Divine.
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The significance of Sraddha, Suddhi Kriyas and many other such rituals were rooted in a kind of occult knowledge about the hidden forces that work from behind and influence our lives.
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It is enough to quietly meditate with an aspiration to call the Divine Presence and consecrate the house. One can pray for all who would be living here invoking Peace and Light.
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It is through the individual that the infinity of God can manifest in numberless varied forms of His becomings.
.. becoming true role models of selflessness and truthfulness and honesty and courage in our life we can help our children enter through one of the many doors into the Sanctum Sanctorum of the vast and complex temple of Sanatana Dharma.
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It is the imperative necessity of sacrificing oneself to annul the resistances of the earth nature that led to the event of 05th December 1950 which may well be termed as the last transition in Sri Aurobindo's life.
What does the Darshan mean now when the embodied Divine has withdrawn from the limits of our earthly sight we may ask? The Darshan days though still so far observed in the Ashram have a slightly different significance.