"Well, his body did not seem to be made of flesh and bone but of some ethereal substance, so supple, so elastic, so resilient that nothing offered any resistance to it. It could pass through like a beam of the invisible light."
At the Feet of The Mother
Without the emptiness there can be no fullness.
How is it possible to have fullness and emptiness at the same time?I meant that in the higher consciousness that simultaneous experience was quite natural. It is the same with complete rest and full activity, — experience of infinite impersonality and of the true person. All these (and many other things also) are to the mind incompatible, but in the higher consciousness they go together.
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I am greater than the greatness of the seas,
A swift tornado of God-energy:
A helpless flower that quivers in the breeze,
I am weaker than the reed one breaks with ease.
A weekly sharing on Savitri by Alok Pandey (an audio recording in English).
Today I felt as if someone other than myself was carrying out my actions. Of course I was there, but in the background. Was it not the Mother’s Force?
What you say amounts only to some glimpse of the cosmic Force behind all the actions.
A talk and an interview by Georges van Vrekhem on Integral Yoga from 1998 and 2004, respectively.
Having revealed to us the essential Unity of creation because of the One Divine Presence within it, Sri Aurobindo now reveals to us also the fundamental unity between the static and dynamic aspects of Creation, that is to say, between the Divine Reality behind it and the Divine Force that has gone into it.
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The soul-consciousness is the golden thread running through the chain of light and when it comes forward and becomes dynamic it gradually engulfs and purifies what was its covering, the life, the mind and the body and reforms them in its own light and energy expressing and embodying its divine truth and fulfilment here below.
Lord, thou hast given me the happiness infinite... What being, what circumstances can have the power to take it away from me?
How is one to remain quiet within even while carrying on all kinds of activities?
By having a separate consciousness calm and silent within, separate from the mental, vital or physical activity.
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My soul’s wide self of living infinite Space
Outlines its body luminous and unborn
Behind the earth-robe; under the earth-mask grows clear
The mould of an imperishable face.
A talk and an interview by Georges van Vrekhem on Integral Yoga from 1998 and 2001, respectively.
"The body’s cells grow into something conscious, entirely conscious. [...] And this physical mind [...] has fallen silent, and in silence it has received inspiration from the Consciousness. And it has started praying again: the same prayers that were earlier in the mind."
I experience Love and Ananda, but they disappear after a while.
It is so with all spiritual experiences. The ordinary consciousness is not accustomed to hold them.
A fall in concentration is very upsetting.Fall of the concentration happens to everybody [...]
A prayer by Kapali Sastry, recited by Vasanti Rao. Preceded by a joint recitation of a traditional "refuge" sloka.
Though creation appears to our senses as a number of separate objects hung in Space and connected through the play of Time, behind all its variations and multiplicity, there is the One. It is the One Reality that has become the Many. This is the great secret we are here to discover.
An audio recording of a talk by Udar Pinto on November 29, 1973 in USA, and a transcript of another one, given a week later in Auroville.