AuroMaa

The Struggle of Life, pp. 136-137

Dec 14, 2018

The real struggle of life is not the struggle for survival or competing with other forms but rather, the struggle against the Inconscient resistance that deforms and denies. This is also the root of suffering that life experiences in bird and beast and man.

Loss of Memory in Sadhana

Dec 13, 2018

My mind has almost lost its power of memory. Can’t remember anything.

There is very often a complaint of this kind made during the course of the sadhana. I suppose that the usual action of memory is for a time suspended by the mental silence or else by the physical tamas.

Longings for The Mother (5): Mother Dear, Mother Sweet!

Dec 12, 2018

Mother Dear, Mother Sweet, grant that Your closeness, Your nearness, Your presence, Your love now come as a realisation, a settled fact of consciousness as an essential element of its nature.

Explorations in Savitri 094, pp. 246-248

Dec 12, 2018

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)

A huge inertness is the world's defence, Even in change is treasured changelessness; Into inertia revolution sinks, In a new dress the old resumes its role; The Energy acts, the stable is its seal: On Shiva's breast is stayed the enormous dance.

Savitri Study Class 23-03 “The Divine Mother’s Love for Her Children”, pp. 612-613

Dec 11, 2018

Death ends his retort mocking love and disdaining man. But Savitri replies giving a glimpse of the divinity that is working in her bosom. She shows him what Love truly is and not what it has become under Death’s dark influence.

Part 4: A Giant Dance of Shiva

Dec 11, 2018

During the Second World War families came seeking refuge at the Feet of the Divine Mother. But as is Her Way, the Divine Mother turned this challenge into a divine opportunity to initiate a new project of preparing the children for the coming Future.

Soul’s Scene

Dec 11, 2018

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Impassible she waits long for the sun’s gold and the azure, The sea’s song with its slow happy refrain’s plashes of pleasure, — As man’s soul in its depths waits the outbreaking of the light and the godhead And the bliss that God felt when he created his image.

Sri Aurobindo in Bengal, Part 7

Dec 10, 2018

Sri Aurobindo was now saddled with a double responsibility — the editorship and general control of the Bande Mataram, and his work as the Principal of the National College. Both of these works entailed hard labour, but in both he achieved unexampled success.

Explorations in Savitri 093, pp. 245-246

Dec 10, 2018

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)

A technician admirable, a thinker crude, A riveter of Life to habit's grooves, Obedient to gross Matter's tyranny, A prisoner of the moulds in which it works, It binds itself by what itself creates.

The Deformation, pp. 135-136

Dec 9, 2018

The dark deforming power that opposes the Divine plan takes hold of the force of life in its beginnings upon earth and twists it into something dark and even ugly.

Savitri Study Class 23-02 “Vanity of the Ideal”, pp. 609-612

Dec 9, 2018

Death continues his gospel condemning man’s hopes for the Ideal as sheer vanity and a fantasy. He tries to show the ‘harsh reality’ of earthly life to Savitri to discourage her from pursing her quest for making Earth a home for Heavenly truths.

4.1 Trees and Flowers

Dec 9, 2018

... in flowers it is [...] a spontaneous movement, a very special vibration. So, if one is in contact with it, if one feels it, one gets an impression which may be translated by a thought. That is how I have given a meaning to flowers and plants

Self Knowledge

Dec 8, 2018

The source of all true strength is the self; our body and mind are only channels for the manifestation of the inner force; yet we rely on our bodily and mental efforts for our work and thus waste our life in vain and fruitless labour.

Longings for The Mother (4): How Do You Do, Mother?

Dec 8, 2018

Mother, grant us the will and capacity to turn to You again and again to know about You more and more in the varying situations of life and existence, offer our heart’s love to You ...

2.03 Turning Our Whole Life in a Conscious Sacrifice

Dec 6, 2018

All our actions, not less the smallest and most ordinary and trifling than the greatest and most uncommon and noble, must be performed as consecrated acts. [...] Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must be a sacred offering in a temple ....

Part 3: A Seed in Endless Time

Dec 6, 2018

The Ashram and the School are held together by the power of Her Love. This is the secret Power of transformation that is ever at work in this geographically small but psychologically immense field of spiritual evolution created by the Mother.

The Intellect and its Training

Dec 6, 2018

There is a great mass of necessary information about the world, one’s body, the evolution of the earth, the history of the human race that one ought to learn and then also the training of the intellect to deal rightly with facts. [...] To neglect one’s studies as R and S have done is therefore a mistake.

The Birth of Life, p. 135

Dec 5, 2018

Life emerges out of matter as if out of some dark obscure cave. Thus begins the slow ascension of life towards her divine home. In the process she carries matter transforming it into shapes and forms closer and closer to the divine Idea.