In those high worlds, Aswapati witnesses the union of the two sides of One Existence, Idea and Force, Knowledge and Power, Vision and Will. It is a realm of divine Unity, a realm of where Wisdom and Will meet and become one.
At the Feet of The Mother
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
We have based our study of the political life of this “brightest star on the Indian firmament” on the fact, borne out by the unbroken tenor of his whole life and the essential unity of his vision, thought and action, that his politics was the politics of a Yogi, and not that of a mere politician.
Comments of Dr. Mangesh Nadkarni made on 7 March 2001 in conversation with two Bombay businessmen, who asked several questions on how to attain a living communion with the Divine. Dr. Nadkarni has edited the transcript for publication.
In the history of our universe there have been six consecutive periods which began by a creation, were prolonged by a force of preservation and ended by a disintegration, a destruction, a return to the Origin, which is called Pralaya.[...] But it has been said that the seventh creation would be a progressive creation
Accepting life, he has to bear not only his own burden, but a great part of the world’s burden too along with it, as a continuation of his own sufficiently heavy load. Therefore his Yoga has much more of the nature of a battle than others ....
Not only love and beauty and rapture but also power and grandeur are found in these Life-Heavens. Such was the glorious kingdom that Aswapati had entered, a space where love and joy bound all to all and made the ruler one with the ruled.
This is my appeal to the Mother: Either give me the psychic love or death. Let no third thing come to me — a final resolution.
That is altogether the wrong attitude. It is once more the vital coming in — it is not a psychic attitude.
... we go on in our old way wasting our time and energy, moving always but making no progress anywhere [...] It is by opening ourselves to Thy personal influence, Mother, that we can hope to conquer the obstinacy of our ignorant nature and rise to the glories of the life divine.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
The day has arrived when Satyavan is destined to die. With this brief Canto the story is reconnected with Book One Canto two following which we have been taken on a long journey through several books and cantos.
A recitation of Sri Aurobindo's Durga Stotra, originally written in Bengali (1909), in Sanskrit by Chinmayee Maheshwari.
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There are now celebrations in India of the manifestation of Durga and Kali. It is the worship of Shakti, the power behind all things. Today we focus on one aspect of Shakti, on Kali or the Power that moves and changes all Time.
Aravinda Maheshwari reads Sri Aurobindo's Hymn to Durga (1909).
The Life-Heavens are essentially worlds of Joy and beauty and love as also of power and glory. In this world strife was replaced by a harmonious embrace of opposites.
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
As many Indians, let alone foreigners, are not fully aware of the causes of the Partition of Bengal and the national forces that sprang up in reaction to it, we propose to pause upon it for a while before proceeding to take up the narrative of Sri Aurobindo’s political activities in the post-Partition period of the history of Bengal and India.
What is the “transcendent Mother”?
... the transcendent which is above creation, at the origin of creation; the universal which is the creation, and the individual which is self-explanatory [...] So these three aspects are also the three aspects of the divine Mother: transcendent, universal and individual.
An interview, recorded in 1999 (audio and video).