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Abolition of War

Dec 18, 2019

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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.

The Dark Inconscient Void, pp. 217-218

Dec 16, 2019

COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Aswapati now descends into the utter Inconscient to find its source of power and the key to its change.

12.3 Materialism and Spiritual Life

Dec 16, 2019

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

... insistence on the exclusive reality of the physical world, of physical pleasures, physical joys, physical possessions, is the result of the whole materialistic tendency of human civilisation. It was unthinkable in ancient times. On the contrary, withdrawal, concentration, liberation from all material cares, consecration to the spiritual joy, that was happiness indeed.

Towards the Grim Solitude, pp. 216-217

Dec 15, 2019

COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Aswapati now moves from dusk towards the Night. His face is turned away from all that is human and living and joyous and beautiful. His steps take him towards the grim solitude of the Night.

Savitri — “The Truth of Tomorrow”

Dec 14, 2019

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MOTHER BY MONA SARKAR (TEXT)

The Mother has explained in detail how Savitri can be a constant companion in our ascent towards the Truth. She has shown how to read Savitri, how to find there the answer to all our problems.

Intervals of Passive Peace

Dec 12, 2019

SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)

There are long plunges into the passive peace and silence and yet no dynamic action in spite of my rejection of ego-centricity.

It always happens like that so long as the nature is not ready for the continued dynamic action...

THE MOTHER’S SAVITRI: Book 7 Canto 6

Dec 11, 2019

Unutterably effaced, no one and null, A vanishing vestige like a violet trace, A faint record merely of a self now past, She was a point in the unknowable.

1.8 From Prayers and Meditations: June 2, 1914

Dec 11, 2019

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I am nothing but Thy inexhaustible love; I penetrate all things; living within the heart of each atom I kindle therein the fire which purifies and transfigures, the fire that never burns out ...

Force and the Present Social Order

Dec 10, 2019

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"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."