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Words of the Mother: ".... A self-giving, that's what is needed to save the world! Mental faith isn't enough, psychic fervor is necessary – self-giving, self-abnegation…."
At the Feet of The Mother
Tuesday Talks
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How can one collaborate in curing the evil and ugliness seen everywhere? By loving? What is the power of love? Why doesn’t this Love come now?
We are in the midst of a great confusion and disorder. A number of problems besiege the Indian nation and the world in general. What can we do while humanity goes through this dark passage?
Yoga means union with the Divine. Yoga of the body, of the very cells to realize union with the Divine Perfection. We shall trace this most fascinating journey of the incarnate Divine upon earth.
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Are the laws that we experience in our everyday life are something fixed or are they merely habitual associations ?
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As always, the Mother and Sri Aurobindo open for us a wonderful door of Light that reveals to us the mystery of Death as seen by the very highest spiritual consciousness.
Will is a power of our being. It can be developed. Faith is a greater and more enduring power when true and arising from the depths of our being. It is a gift of Grace and needs to be treasured. The present talk is based on a portion from the Synthesis of Yoga titled ‘Faith and the Divine Shakti’.
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Will and Faith are the two main powers given to man to assist his journey of life. To succeed in his outer or inner life, man must cultivate these two.
The Mother: There are certain words whose resonance in the physical world is the perfect vibratory materialisation of the more subtle vibration produced by the thought in its own domain.
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Evolution of man and of sadhana is from the gross to the subtle, from the small and limited to the vast and universal. For each stage of human evolution there is a yoga appropriate to that stage. The Middle Path is avoiding both extremes in our application of the Yoga.
The one safety against the attack of forces hostile to Yoga is Humility. The other helpful qualities are sincerity and vigilance. The following talk is based on the need of this indispensable quality called Humility.
Based on two talks of the Mother in 1956 where She explains the essential differences between what is traditionally regarded as spiritual realization and the Integral Yoga.
We live in times of transition when one Age passes into another. These are times when as the Mother has revealed to us, the old bases are shaken. While on the one hand we see the crumbling edifices of old established institutions, on the other hand, we see an effort, however premature, at reconstruction.
We have entered an accelerated mode of evolution. The mind of the race that long accepted certain things is now disgusted with them and seeks to reject them completely. But what is the way and the process?
All genuine yogic experience affirms that the Divine Consciousness or the Divine state of Being is beyond the dualities such as those of good and evil, virtue and vice, pleasure and pain. But then man in his early approaches towards the divinity he seeks must necessarily pass through this duality. As experience dawns one upon another he draws closer to this great Realisation that the Divine is everything.
Each plane and part of the being offers its own resistances as we move through the vast and complex journey of the Integral Yoga. Matter responds with dullness and inertia, obscurity and tamas while the vital with impatience and restless impulsiveness. The mind too offers its own resistance to the transforming action of the Grace.