At the Feet of The Mother

Essays on Yoga

Sharing His Kingdom

Apr 10, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

It has been a great error of certain religions as well as of a strongly egocentric section of humanity to believe that God created everything for man’s pleasure and enjoyment. Rather we should say that He created all things for His delight.

A Step Towards Victory

Apr 9, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

We need not suffer this constant sense of a fatality that haunts our lives. We can recreate our fate each moment, rewrite the scroll of destiny, replace the script written by our trembling mind and heart with the script of the soul and thereby change a crisis, even a moment of inevitable death into a door of opportunity and a step towards victory.

The Key

Apr 8, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

It is indeed doubt and distrust, depression and despair, most of all fear that closes this inner door from where we can receive help beyond our imagination and stay always and under any and every circumstance with peace and a serene joy

The Great Departure

Apr 3, 2020

An article by Dr Alok Pandey on the occasion of 110th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s departure from Bengal for Pondicherry

The Tipping Point

Apr 3, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok (TEXT)

In a certain sense this whole virus affair is segregating humanity into at least two distinct parts. One that will introspect through this crisis and eventually emerge stronger and wiser. Another that will only end up with more and more fear and panic and loose the opportunity of reorienting its life.

The Life of Men

Apr 1, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

As we step aside from the whirl and vortex of everyday life, it is a chance to go still deeper into our souls, a chance to contemplate this wonderful Earth and us humanity upon it.

Closing Doors, Opening Hearts: Strangely Together in Our Isolation

Apr 1, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

We have come strangely together in our splendid isolation. We are being rewired no more through the divisive intellect but the great unifier, heart. We have closed our boundaries to others but our hearts have opened wide in a common bond of sympathy and oneness.

The Wounded, Healing Earth

Mar 31, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Resetting and Realigning Our Lives

Mar 30, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)

We must reconnect ourselves, reconnect not only with our own soul but also with the soul of Nature and the soul in all things. In this direction too we are being led by the secret Wisdom of Nature that has come garbed in the form of adversity.