I had been afraid of meeting her. It had taken me six long weeks to get to this point because I was afraid of her. In some of her photographs we see how formidable she can be.
At the Feet of The Mother
Writings by Other Disciples and Contemporaries
Essays, Articles and Talk Transcripts
Bob Zwicker has worked in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives for 52 years, with particular responsibility for the Mother’s works.
The great Vyasa sat dejected by the river Saraswati, thinking to himself why he felt uneasy and unhappy. He had studied the scriptures, practised yoga, arranged and edited the Vedas, composed that great saga of human life, the Mahabharata and yet he had not found the peace [...]. The celestial sage Narada appeared before Vyasa and [...] told the great poet-sage that his inner unease was due to the fact that he had not sung the praise of the Lord, that he would get over the dejection by writing about the Lord and his Sport in a new work. Hence the Bhagavata.
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This account is based on conversations an author had with Dhanavanti at her studio.
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My soul is a chirayatri, eternally on pilgrimage, from life to life and when on earth, from day to day, moment to moment.
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... like babies, we had such faith, in our Mother, in Her new creation: everything was going to change, today, or may be tomorrow.
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In reading Savitri [...] we constantly soar upwards, ascending to levels of consciousness far beyond our normal ken. We can reach to terrestrial, universal and even cosmic states of consciousness. _
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Whether one is from America, from East or West, it doesn’t matter, the truth is the same for everyone. Only by surrendering to the divine Mother will they discover true and lasting happiness.
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Among all the experiments going on in the world, this experiment of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is possibly the most difficult because it aims at a collective realisation, with far-reaching goals.