Ascetic methods are things like repeated fasting, compelling yourself to endure the cold… in fact, to torture your body a little. This indeed gives you only a spiritual pride, nothing more. It masters nothing at all.
At the Feet of The Mother
An Essay by Dr Alok Pandey in English
... neither the Mother nor Sri Aurobindo had any need to suffer. Fully conscious of Their Divinity and Immortality they could have easily withdrawn anytime from the earth.
TEXT IN ENGLISH
Each is given his place in the vast cosmic labour and the indication of the place we must occupy in the great cosmic plan can be found in our deeper inmost heart.
Aswapati moves through this plane of the Gods. It is powerful and mighty yet not the complete Truth that he is seeking. This is the plane where most yogis stop, mistaking it for the highest. But Aswapati must go further.
Video in English
This webinar with Dr Alok Pandey is centred around developing positive aspects of life and securing them.
VIDEO IN HINDI
Here all is consciously linked to all in a matrix of spiritual oneness. It is a marvellous creation, the original plan or blueprint of creation before it fell into ignorance and error and division and pain.
Video in English
Sri Aurobindo's poem gives us a new and unique perspective on Death.
An interview with Tehmi Masalawalla by Anie Nunnally
Tehmi Masalawalla, a gifted poet, teacher, translator of Mother’s Questions and Answers and Satprem’s Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, was one of the first to reside in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram’s Golconde residence from as early as 1947.
Text in English
Read it with faith, a little every day as Their supreme Prasad and all that is needed to understand will develop and all that is needed will be done.
Video in English
The four Powers of the Mother are four of her outstanding Personalities, portions and embodiments of her divinity through whom she acts on her creatures, orders and harmonises her creations in the worlds and directs the working out of her thousand forces.
Audio in English
New adaptation is tilted towards a complete hold of the Spirit over Matter, so that the Spirit decides how matter should respond and the Matter is completely responsive to the Spiritual will. The only thing that counts towards this is the Grace Above and the call and response from our soul and nature below.
Text in English
Two are the paths through which man can climb towards Godhead. One is through his secret by discovering his psychic being through love, devotion, surrender. Another is through the mind climbing up through higher and higher planes by tapasya. Human strength and will are still too weak to take up this climb.
A TALK BY DR ALOK PANDEY (VIDEO IN ENGLISH)
Sri Aurobindo's poem 'Life and Death' opens for us a perspective on life and death not as two opposites but as two different modes of existence.
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
A TALK BY DR ALOK PANDEY (VIDEO IN HINDI)
This webinar touches upon some core aspects of the Divine Life.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (VIDEO IN HINDI)
This talk is a part of a webinar based on Book Six of Savitri.
The Mother: Past-Present-Future
Yesterday morning I wrote to the Mother, asking what had happened on February 29. I opined that it was something connected with the Supermind’s gripping the physical vital. In the evening after tennis the Mother passed by, smiling — and said: “You are behind by a century.”
There is another route as well that climbs from the mind towards the House of Truth - the path of arduous tapasya towards the High Beyond.