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At the Feet of The Mother

Blankness and Silence

SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)
Is any personal aspiration necessary during the state of blankness or self-forgetfulness?

Blankness is only a condition in which realisation has to come. If aspiration is needed for that, it has to be used; if the realisation comes of itself, then of course aspiration is not necessary.

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12.1 Understanding the World

Selections from Conversations by the Mother (TEXT)
"I think one of the greatest difficulties in understanding things comes from an arbitrary simplification which puts spirit on one side and matter on the other. It is this foolishness that makes you incapable of understanding anything..."
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Explorations in Savitri 143, pp. 345-348

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
One shall descend and break the iron Law, Change Nature's doom by the lone spirit's power. A limitless Mind that can contain the world, A sweet and violent heart of ardent calms Moved by the passions of the gods shall come.
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Twisted Truths, pp. 212-213

COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
Evil twists the truth. It uses its body, drives away the original spirit and then twists it beyond recognition. Such is its action upon nature and man.
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Meditation, Work, Education – Q&A Session

Satsang with Dr Alok Pandey in Australia 17/17 (AUDIO)
This interactive session first dwells on the processes of meditation and concentration, followed by a subject of educating children towards higher spiritual values.
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Action of World Forces

Sri Aurobindo's letters to Nagin Doshi (text)
Just as the opening to these universal forces has come naturally and by itself, I hope that the control over them will also come by itself in time.

To be conscious is the first step towards overcoming — but for the overcoming strength is necessary and also detachment and the will to overcome.

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Explorations in Savitri 141, pp. 343-344

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
"Although Fate lingers in the high Beyond And the work seems vain on which our heart's force was spent, All shall be done for which our pain was borne."
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The Dark Energies, p. 212

COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
It is the dark side of Prakriti, and accordingly Aswapati encounters in this realm the dark feminine energies. These forces of darkness are rampant in the world of glamour and are often used by the Asuras to destroy humanity and lead it towards death and sin.
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Explorations in Savitri 140, p. 343

DR ALOK PANDEY AND NARAD ON SAVITRI (VIDEO)
"At one with Nature and at height with heaven, A spirit vast as the containing sky And swept with ecstasy from invisible founts, A god come down and greater by the fall."
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Bad to Worse, pp. 211-212

COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)
The journey towards the heart of darkness seems endless. It moves from grey to dark and further towards the dark extreme of creation.
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