This talk centers around the problem that man faces while tackling the forces of destiny upon earth. Is there really a divine destiny bequeathed to earth and men?
At the Feet of The Mother
Audio
Sri Aurobindo raises some questions that vex any awakened mind and for which we are given some stock answers in religious scriptures.
Personal effort and surrender are often seen as contradictory processes of sadhana, but they are complementary processes and go together. Various levels of balance and the need for exercising choices. Personal effort in itself is not the end but the way for joy, harmony and growth of surrender. A true surrender and the path of offering. How becoming wide and supple paves the way for growth into the immensity of the Divine Consciousness.
The story of Buddha and its inner meaning and significance. Distinction between true renunciation, vairagya impelled by a positive seeking, and a temporary state of disillusionment which is essentially a negative state without much force in it. The need for balance and moderation on the path of yoga. Tamas, rajas and sattwa, and necessity of first bringing the tamoguna and rajoguna under the control of Sattwa to achieve the mastery of nature.
Man has a double nature. His original truth is there within his soul and its radiance that is his true nature.
The Divine comes down in response to Earth’s aspiration.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Seer-King Aswapati looks at the world from those empyrean heights of the Spirit where Self and eternity alone are true. But slowly memory brings him back through the cry of once-loved cherished things.
The certainty of the Goal and the need for faith in Integral Yoga. The journey of this yoga through scenes and circumstances of inner and outer life, and its goal of bringing down and manifesting the Divine in the conditions of material life. Four fundamental steps in the process,— shuddhi, mukti, shakti and siddhi, and the triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender in achieving them.
The Divine becomes human to lift up the burden of man’s and earth’s fate.