Thus ends this marvelous passage describing the grand culmination of the soul’s journey. This close is not nirvana or extinction in the Divine but a divine perfection of life and a divine fulfillment of creation itself.
At the Feet of The Mother
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
Savitri has crossed the three realms in her inner being, namely the physical, vital and the mental consciousness. She now enters a deeper realm where the gods reside within and emerge from the soul as soul-qualities and powers that help the world.
I am quite unconscious of my nights. I do not remember any dreams even though there is a recollection of having seen something.
It does not matter much. The sleep consciousness can be effectively dealt with only when the waking mind has made a certain amount of progress.
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O marvel bird with the burning wings of light and the unbarred lids that look beyond all space,
One strange leap of thy mystic stress breaking the barriers of mind and life, arrives at its luminous term thy flight;
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In this talk, delivered to the Annual Convention of Sri Aurobindo Society held at Pondicherry on 13 August 1994, Dr. Mangesh Nadkarni analyses the problem of Hindu-Muslim unity in the light of Sri Aurobindo’s thought.
Sri Aurobindo compares the human soul to a sailor who sails through many lives and in the course of this journey discovers itself and the world. The world experiences are not just a means for the soul to discover itself but also a means for its self-fulfillment in the conditions of material existence.
In my last night’s dreams I saw two events [...] Both these predictions have become facts today.
One can see beforehand things that happen in the physical. One can see them on the vital plane or on the subtle physical, — but the subtle physical foreseeing is usually more exact and sure.
Celestial Winds, the album’s most active and layered piece, sweeps us away at once into a vast spiral eye, with wonders swirling around us, as we pass by many worlds on our way to returning home.
With what is the sexual impulse to be replaced? And of what Divine part is it a degradation?
The Divine Ananda in the vital and in the body. Ananda — which is the source of the Divine Creation.
"... Nothing remains of the past but a potent love which gives me the pure heart of a child and the lightness and freedom of thought of a god."
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Yesterday was the day of Sarasawati, one of the four days when the Mother would give special Darshan. In the Vedas She is described as the Goddess of Inspiration. We take up this aspect of Her and see how we can open to this aspect of the great Mother within us.
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
The great journey of life is the Purusha sailing through the fields of his experiences created by Nature. It is through this journey that he grows into his full stature. Sri Aurobindo gives us here the broad outline of this journey that the soul undertakes impelled by the currents and waves of nature.
The sixth track from the “magnum opus” of Lucette Bourdin – the “Horse Heaven” album.
During the working period the useless thoughts intrude and interrupt the contact of the outer with the inner being. To what special difficulty do you attribute this?
There is no special difficulty beyond what everybody feels, that of reconciling work with the inner concentration. It is a difficulty that has to be conquered, but for most it takes time to conquer. You must be able to work and keep the silence of the inner being.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey (AUDIO IN HINDI)
In the domain of the Mind, Savitri encounters beings, representing different aspects of the higher mind of humanity. One of them approaches her, asking her to be part of his religion. But Savitri stops not, since what she is looking for is not a doctrine or belief system but her own soul.