Man has a double nature as described in the Gita. His true nature is what he has brought down from his true home, the Home of Bliss. But this true nature is covered up with another nature that has evolved and is still evolving through the circuits of mind and life and body, from the plant and animal to human existence. The desire to discover true happiness and freedom and love springs from his own deeper self. To discover it he has to go behind his surface nature as it stands today and find the secret soul. To live in his soul would give him the happiness he seeks.
At the Feet of The Mother
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‘Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history. Sri Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation. Thus we must shelter the eternal youth required for a speedy advance, in order not to become laggards on the way.’ The Mother
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.