The fact that suffering is an inevitable part of our journey does not cancel our urge to help and save. Rather often it is the sight of suffering that has given birth to kindness and compassion
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
Essays and Letters by Dr Alok Pandey on Yoga
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The usual worship of the gods and goddesses has no real place in the Integral Yoga practice since all are included in our worship and adoration of the Divine Mother.
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The technology and science have put us in a situation wherein we have an urgency to evolve spiritually.
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This is a question that does touch every sensitive heart especially since it strikes as a direct contradiction to our idea and conception of an essentially Divine world.
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The Divine realization is not something to be achieved and acquired, but forming a living and conscious bond with a living Presence.
What is required on one birthday and always is to be simple as a new born child who has complete trust in the Divine Mother.
Yoga is about the growing contact, closeness and eventually change of our consciousness by a progressive union with the Divine.
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It is religions that teach fatalism, not yoga. Yoga frees us from fatalism and the fixed scroll of destiny and its wheels under which we find ourselves perpetually crushed.
While Sri Aurobindo didn’t ask disciples to regard themselves as his equals or anything of the sort, at the same time he did not specifically instruct them in a set of dos and don'ts with regard to their relation with him.
Our errors are needed steps upon the evolutionary journey and our repeated mistakes are like exercises to strengthen our will.
All our worship, whether direct or indirect goes to the Supreme whose sanction is there behind the action of the gods.
One of the first things that awakens through yoga is the flame of discernment which is a faculty higher than reason. Its light separates the true from the false, reality from appearances and masks.
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It is only by the progressive awakening of the Body's consciousness to the higher divine forces that it can eventually escape the law and need of illness.
Pain is a state when our consciousness is intensely concentrated at one spot, be it physical or psychological. There are four things we can
do with it.
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Those who stand obstinately in our progress or come in the way by sapping all our time and energy meant for dedicating to the Divine and His Work, have to be quietly but firmly shunned.
We stand today at the threshold of a New Age. It is period of great upheavals and confusions, when the old bases get shaken so that a deeper and stronger foundation can be secured and the new things may manifest upon earth.