Lord, thou hast given me the happiness infinite... What being, what circumstances can have the power to take it away from me?
At the Feet of The Mother
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.
"Concentrate in the heart. Enter into it; go within and deep and far, as far as you can. [...] A fire is burning there, in the deep quietude of the heart. It is the divinity in you — your true being. Hear its voice, follow its dictates."
"... the Infinite, the Vast lies behind and at the heart of all, without it nothing can exist or move. That is the supreme agent for creation and new creation—the Grace Divine. All the different elements are but varied formulations of one and the same divine Creative Energy. Therefore the Vedic Rishi declares: It is all one single reality, the sages give it different names."
A day will come when the harmony shall be achieved and all the country shall be, by its very life, the bearer of Thy word and Thy manifestation. But meanwhile my pen is mute to chant Thy praise.
Aspiration is intense in the morning, then diminishes, and in the evening the consciousness becomes calm and quiet. Is this the rule in such matters?
It is quite usual to have such periods in the day. The consciousness needs time for rest and assimilation, it cannot be at the same pitch of intensity at all times.
“Passing, passing,” said Sri Sastriar twitching his brow. “Who passed away and where? Not certainly Sri Aurobindo. The Master оf Integral Yoga is here, as intensely and as concretely as ever."
A prayer written by Kapali Sastry and recited by Vasanti Rao.
"Victory to Him, our Lord Sri Aurobindo, of entire parts!
Victory to the Sustainer of the worlds, the Mother Mira of white radiance!
To Their Integral Yoga all victory - may it manifest fully on earth!"
"I shall leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you."
The greatness of a person is the greatness of the Impersonal in him. He has little concern about himself. His thoughts, feelings and acts are in relation to a wider frame of reference. The wider the frame, the higher the status of the being; there is an ascending scale in the structure of human life and society.