AuroMaa

Rama and the Soul of India 5: the Setting and the Context

Aug 9, 2020

It is important to re-establish the truth of the ancient Aryan world lest with the sinking of India the hope sinks and the world deprived of its psychic nourishment goes down into abysses of lust and greed after material power and money and immediate success.

16.2 The Art of Living

Aug 9, 2020

SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)

To live in the right way is a very difficult art, and unless one begins to learn it when quite young and to make an effort, one never knows it very well.

The Ideal of Marriage (RH 022)

Aug 9, 2020

VIDEO in Hindi

This talk by Dr Alok Pandey is based on the ideal of man-woman relationship.

Rama and the Soul of India 4: Spiritual Feminism

Aug 8, 2020

An essay in English (TEXT)

If Rama embodies the strength born out of a spiritual manhood, Sita embodies the strength born out of true love.

Sanatana Dharma 09: God and the Titans

Aug 8, 2020

VIDEO IN ENGLISH

This talk by Dr Alok Pandey is about two poles of One Existence, the luminous and the dark side of it.

2.08 The Very Key of Charity

Aug 8, 2020

an audio in english

We are like channels: if we do not allow what they have received to pour out freely, not only do they become blocked and no longer receive anything, but what they contain will spoil.

Rama and the Soul of India 3: Conversion of the Asura

Aug 6, 2020

An essay in English (TEXT)

Ramayana is not just about the killing of an Asura but trying and converting him back to his origin.

A Labour in the Night, p. 258

Aug 6, 2020

COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Now we labour in the Night of ignorance, but this labour too is not vain, it prepares us to receive the Sun. This passage is prophetic of the Supramental Light that shall break upon earth bringing the rhythms and powers of a New Consciousness.

Process of Evolution in the Light of Sri Aurobindo (TH 253)

Aug 6, 2020

A Talk in Hindi (video)

In this talk Dr Alok Pandey shares some views and insights on the future evolution as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.

Rama and the Soul of India 2: Rama and Sita – the Ideal Man and Woman

Aug 6, 2020

The Ramayana, at the center of which we find Lord Rama, the seventh Avatara of Vishnu, and Mata Sita, the Divine Mother in her gracious aspect of goddess Lakshmi, is essentially a story of love rather than of war.

The World Stair (SVH 10) Book 2 Canto 1

Aug 5, 2020

video in Hindi

This talk by Dr Alok Pandey is based on Book Two Canto One of Savitri where Sri Aurobindo gives us an overview of the Ladder of Consciousness.

Pavitra

Aug 5, 2020

Essays and Talks of Nirodbaran

One never came from a meeting with him without carrying away some sweetness, light and purity. Purity, sweetness and light were indeed his inborn psychic qualities. The name “Pavitra” given to him by Sri Aurobindo could not have been more appropriate. One could feel a white light wrapping him like a fine vesture wherever he went.

Rama and the Soul of India 1: The Purpose of Divine Advent

Aug 4, 2020

The epics reveal to us the road that man must take in his evolutionary journey. It is conjured in that one word, dharma which has fascinated the Indian mind since the Aryan forefathers moved through the mountains and plains and rivers flowing through the subcontinent we know today as India.

Rama and Sita – the Soul of India (TH 252)

Aug 4, 2020

A Talk in Hindi (video)

This brief talk by Dr Alok Pandey in Hindi is on the the ideal of dharma set forth by Rama and Sita as depicted in the epic Ramayana.

Conscious Evolution

Aug 4, 2020

TEXT IN ENGLISH

... each species must follow its own law of evolution. While evolution in animals is largely an unconscious process driven by instincts, the law of man is to choose and grow conscious.

The Story of Savitri and Satyavan (TH 251)

Aug 4, 2020

A Talk in Hindi (video)

The story of Savitri and Satyavan is an ancient Puranic legend narrated in the Mahabharata. As we know Sri Aurobindo's Master touch has uplifted this short legend into a cosmic epic poem of rhythmic beauty and divine truths.

Savitri Meets Satyavan (TE 269)

Aug 3, 2020

A Talk in English (audio)

This short talk picks up a beautiful leaf from Savitri (p. 393) when Savitri following her quest for the perfect partner who would share her work and mission meets Satyavan.

Helping the Country and the World at Large

Aug 2, 2020

... whatever be the place we occupy or the work given to us, let us do it with the spirit of service and dedication to the Divine, with the trust that all will be well and with a prayer for the good of all mankind. That things will change for the better is inevitable. It is embedded in the logic of creation.