The irony of man that he believes himself to be what he is not and misses to be what he is meant to be.
At the Feet of The Mother
VIDEO IN ENGLISH
Narad and Alok read together two passages from Savitri and dwell on them.
This talk is centred around one of the major experiences of Sri Aurobindo with Lele Maharaj in Baroda. Today's poems include Adwaita, Parabrahman, Nirvana and Surrender (their full text is listed inside).
We as souls have come from a supernal Light into this world of darkness to colonize and transmute Matter's Night. That is why despite everything we keep nurturing within us the dream of a perfect world. From the Light we come, and to the Light we go.
Video in English
A documentary, produced by Auroville Press in 2003.
Video in Hindi
This brief Hindi reflection is about the role of effort vis-a-vis surrender.
Of course, the integral yoga does not depend upon observing or not observing these events, yet the Divine Mother uses every little door as an opening through which the Divine can enter a sadhak's consciousness and work within it.
Bengali Writings
Pity and compassion are different kinds of feeling, pity can be a feeling even contrary to compassion. ... Compassion is an Aryan attitude, pity an un-Aryan sentiment.
A Talk in Hindi (audio)
Though there is no hard and fast rule followed in integral yoga, yet the swiftest and safest way is self-giving. Give all you have, give all you do and lastly give all you are - this is what is asked in the path of supramental yoga.
Karmayogin was launched by Sri Aurobindo on the 19th June 1909 six weeks after his acquittal from the Alipore trial case. The person who came out of the prison was a Jivanmukta and Karmayogi. The name of the journal that he now launched was perfectly apt.
Man’s nature is full of contradictions. His life is as if governed by contradictory wills which pull him in different directions.
Audio in English
A weekly sharing on Savitri with Dr Alok Pandey
Video in English
This prayer of the Mother reveals to us how to leave behind the past and move towards the future.
TEXT IN ENGLISH
Most people do not even care to ask this question and hence their life is so miserably small regardless of their outer achievements.
VIDEO IN HINDI
In this passage we read about Savitri's victory over Death, which symbolises the release of human soul from ignorance and pain.
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.
An Essay by Dr Alok Pandey
When we look at this world in all its grim and sordid aspects (and there are plenty if we go down the lanes of history) then it is natural to blame it all on the Creator.
VIDEO IN HINDI
Why the future greets us with challenges and how one can be prepared for them and use them for progress.