What is characteristic of the higher mind?
It is a mind of thought and knowledge and spiritual perception but spontaneously seeing the truth.
At the Feet of The Mother
A Talk in English (video)
The third presentation at the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina (video and audio).
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)
A thousand icons they have made of her
And find her in the idols they adore;
But she remains herself and infinite.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Savitri follows Satyavan in his journey through the Night. She reaches the domain where strange subconscious moods and dream-like visages and phantoms stare at her. Death turns to her being and cries to her to return back and go no further than this.
In this concluding session of the Aug 2018 Savitri Study we take up some selected portions of Book Nine and Ten to briefly state the different conceptions of God as stated by Death and as revealed by Savitri.
audio
Mahasaraswati is the power of the Divine Mother who builds Perfectionю But what is Perfection, what does it mean and how we can open to this Perfection that is trying to express upon earth and in humanity?
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
A Talk in English (video)
The second presentation at the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina (video and audio).
A Talk in English (video)
An opening presentation of the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina (video and audio).
More and more souls are now ready or getting ready, having gone through the long process of evolution, to evolve under the direct sunlight of the Divine Consciousness. They need neither the brilliant veil woven by the gods nor the shadow that holds us back and strengthens our roots in matter until we are ready to climb further.
This thing which is evil now and in its present shape must be abandoned was once helpful and necessary to the general and individual progress. That other thing which we now regard as evil may well become in another form and arrangement an element in some future perfection. And on the spiritual level we transcend even this distinction
Creation is neither an accident nor a strange act of some inexplicable Maya. It is not Desire that gave birth to creation but Delight. Desire is only a distortion of the pure Bliss that is found at the very root of creation and on its peaks.
"I realised why even a sound and well-poised intelligence soon goes to pieces and tumbles into lunacy in such an imprisonment, and I realised, too, how, in this very condition one finds a rare opportunity for experiencing God’s infinite grace and attaining union with Him.... God, who is All-Good, turns even evil into supreme good." - Sri Aurobindo
Thy grace and sweetness and beauty have filled my whole life with gladness. In allowing me to offer my love to Thee and lay my heart’s homage at Thy feet, Thou hast given me the surest means of purifying myself and preparing for the immortal joy of the divine life.
... we feel that Your passing is an incident connected with the progress of the work and, as worthy disciples, see Your going in its spiritual bearings and learn to cultivate and strengthen spiritual connections and enjoy the true abiding relations.
This Canto deals with the slow and painful emergence of life involved in matter.
The first stir of mind is used by life for its own purposes. Later the mind will free itself and life also grow to look beyond our animal birth and present state of ignorance tied to the outward and the immediate.
A Talk in English (video)
Physicians routinely encounter the phenomenon of Death as also those involved with the care of Terminally ill. It brings us face to face with our human vulnerabilities and is indeed a great challenge. The present interaction with the medical fraternity takes on some of these issues.