Congratulations on the sparkles and the dreams. ... I think I have told you that the sparkles usually indicate an opening of the doors of the inner consciousness.
At the Feet of The Mother
Early Disciples
An audio in English
Sahana Devi's memoirs again and again show us the Love and Grace of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and Their way of dealing with the sadhakas difficulties and unique challenges.
Keep always confidence in the Mother’s care and love — trust in them and distrust every suggestion, every appearance that seems to contradict.
Poetry can start from any plane of consciousness, although like all art — or, one might say, all creation — it must always come through the vital if it is to be alive.
It is precisely this predominance of the vital in us that makes the necessity of passing through the desert. If the psychic were always there in front, the desert would be no longer a desert and the wilderness would blossom with the rose.
I am certainly not going to pronounce you unfit because you want the Ananda; on such grounds I would have to pronounce myself unfit, because I have myself wanted it and many other things besides.
The presence whose fading he regrets can only be felt if the inner being continues to be consecrated, and the outer nature is put into harmony or at least kept under the touch of the inner spirit.
The idea is that, being Omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, supreme, the Divine does not scorn to descend even into the lowest forms, the obscurest figures of Nature and animate them with the divine Presence, — that shows his Divinity.
Remember that an inner quietude, caused by the purification of the restless mind and vital, is the first condition of a secure sadhana.
Cast away from you these movements of doubt, depression and the rest which are no part of your true and higher nature. ... Be faithful and you will conquer.
The Divine gives itself to those who give themselves without reserve and in all their parts to the Divine.
... the Mother said: “Cease this asking about progress — feel the Divine everywhere and in everything — first feel it within yourself, i.e. whatever you do, you think, you talk, you act is all from the Divine ..."
On the approved day, ... I went up to Sri Aurobindo, put the rose garland round his neck and bowed down at his feet. He looked steadily on.
“More and more I fail to make a distinction between Thy work and my life, between my personality and the whole earth.”
Complete and pure faith in the Truth is the best of all protections.
Q: I am unhappy, I cannot control my movements, what shall I do?; A: Be sincere, always more sincere.
I am always there before you, open your eyes and you will see.
Q: What is “child path” in yoga? A: The child’s path is one of trust without discussion, complete dependence, surrender without reserve.