AuroMaa

8.7 Heaven and Hell

Jul 14, 2019

After death people enter the vital world, but those who do good go to paradise?

Where is your paradise? Who has taught you that? They have spoken to you of heaven and hell and purgatory? It is generally what religious priests say to the faithful to encourage them to do good. For it is a notorious fact that life is not more easy for the good than for the wicked; usually it is the contrary: the wicked succeed better than the good!

States of Consciousness

Jul 14, 2019

SATSANG WITH DR ALOK PANDEY IN AUSTRALIA 07/17 (VIDEO)

An interactive session with Dr Alok Pandey on topics including the sense of I, Krishna, God’s play etc.

The Idea behind the Force (TE 210)

Jul 13, 2019

A Talk in English (audio)

A Wonder Realm, pp.182-183

Jul 11, 2019

This higher vital world is stirred by profound energies and forces sublime that draw their impulsion from some deep source. Yet it is a reflected Truth, not the One original Reality and Power.

Mind and Its Enlightenment

Jul 11, 2019

You said, “What I write usually helps only the mind and that too very little, for people really do not understand what I write.”

It is because the mind by itself cannot understand things that are beyond it [...] Each mind puts its own ideas in place of the Truth.

The Key of Perfect Change (TE 209)

Jul 11, 2019

A Talk in English (video)

Fragment of a talk by Dr Alok Pandey at SACAR in February 2010

THE MOTHER’S SAVITRI: Book 4 Canto 2

Jul 10, 2019

A friend and yet too great wholly to know, She walked in their front towards a greater light, Their leader and queen over their hearts and souls, One close to their bosoms, yet divine and far.

The Materialist’s Denial, pp. 614-616 (SH 303)

Jul 10, 2019

A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)

Death takes the position of the stark materialist who refuses to see what escapes the senses. He admits only what he can outwardly experience through the senses and declares all else as an imagination or a hallucination. He refuses to admit the soul, taking it to be just a figment of mental conception.

“A Pilgrimage to Sri Aurobindo” by Amrita – Introductory Notes

Jul 10, 2019

This book is a translation of a memoir written in Tamil by K. Amrita, an early disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Amrita recounts the story of his childhood and student life, but always his central concern is his relationship with Sri Aurobindo and his efforts to come closer to him.

Poornata ki aor (TH 218)

Jul 9, 2019

A Talk in Hindi (video)

A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Odiya Nilayam for the children of Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Centre of Sundargarh.

Savitri Study Class 24-08 “The Call to the Strong in Spirit”, pp. 650-652

Jul 9, 2019

Death tries to twist the gospel of Peace to dissuade Savitri from changing the earthly laws. He uses truth to obstruct the coming of a greater Truth. But Savitri is determined. She knows her mission and calls the souls of the strong to this new Divine Work.

Two Lines of Human Evolution – a satsang with Dr Alok Pandey (TE 208)

Jul 9, 2019

A Talk in English (video)

There are two lines of evolution along which humanity can advance. One is the Asuric line which is primarily towards the capacities of his mental, vital and physical life. Another is the line of the Devas, the godlike climb of man which is a change of human into a diviner, nobler human being.

An Upsurge Towards Higher Things, p.182

Jul 8, 2019

In this realm we find life turning towards higher and greater things than mere earthly existence or survival of the body.

Ourselves

Jul 8, 2019

The West has put its faith in its science and machinery and it is being destroyed by its science and crushed under its mechanical burden. It has not understood that a spiritual change is necessary for the accomplishment of its ideals. The East has the secret of that spiritual change, but it has too long turned its eyes away from the earth. The time has now come to heal the division and to unite life and the spirit.

Savitri Satsang 099, pp. 173-174

Jul 8, 2019

A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).

The Essence of Spirituality

Jul 8, 2019

"... spirituality is not a high intellectuality, not idealism, not an ethical turn of mind or moral purity and austerity, not religiosity or an ardent and exalted emotional fervour, not even a compound of all these excellent thing"

8.6 The Domain of Death

Jul 7, 2019

The psychic being comes with a definite purpose to go through a set of experiences and to learn and make progress. Then if you leave before its work is finished it will have to come back to do it again under much more difficult conditions.

4.1 Prayer and Relations with the Divine

Jul 7, 2019

Necessarily in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, —in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there,—or remains only for the joy of the relation.