At the Feet of The Mother

Thoughts from Sri Aurobindo

This is a book of twenty eight short passages from major works of Sri Aurobindo, intended to draw reader’s interest to the original works. Published in 1950 by Kishor Gandhi.

Safety on the Summits

Jan 31, 2020

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.

The Present Crisis of Humanity

Jan 26, 2020

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.

The Present Question

Jan 13, 2020

A Text in English

A new, a difficult and uncertain beginning might have to be made in the midst of the chaos and ruin after perhaps an extermination on a large scale, and a more successful creation could be predicted only if a way was found to develop a better humanity or perhaps a greater, a superhuman race.

Ideals and Modern Politics

Dec 26, 2019

A Text in English

The pure application of ideals to politics is as yet a revolutionary method of action which can only be hoped for in exceptional crises; the day when it becomes a rule of life, human nature and life itself will have become a new phenomenon, something almost superterrestrial and divine. That day is not yet.

Abolition of War

Dec 18, 2019

A Text in English

The awakening must go much deeper ... before the psychology of nations will be transmuted into that something “wondrous, rich and strange” which will eliminate war and international collisions from our distressed and stumbling human life.

Force and the Present Social Order

Dec 10, 2019

A Text in English

"While man remains what he is, force, in spite of all idealisms and generous pacific hopes, must remain the ultimate arbiter and governor of his life, and its possessor the real ruler."

War and Destruction and Soul-Force

Nov 8, 2019

from Sri Aurobindo's writings (TEXT)

"It is not enough that our own hands should remain clean and our souls unstained for the law of strife and destruction to die out of the world; that which is its root must first disappear out of humanity."

The Modern Philistine

Nov 2, 2019

"It is his [the sensational man] coming which has been the precipitative agent for the reshaping of the modern world. If a Lenin, a Mussolini, a Hitler have achieved their rapid and almost stupefying success, it was because this driving force, this quick responsive acting mass was there to carry them to victory..."

The Modern Economic View of Life

Oct 24, 2019

The thought-power of the society, almost its soul-power — if it has any longer so unsubstantial and unproductive a thing as a soul — is not in its religion or its literature, although the former drags on a feeble existence and the latter teems and spawns, but in the daily Press, primarily an instrument of commercialism and governed by the political and commercial spirit and not like literature a direct instrument of culture.