A Talk in English (video)
This talk deals with some practical aspects of psychology as it relates to life problems, counselling etc., approached from a spiritual perspective, and is followed by Q&A.
At the Feet of The Mother
Spirituality
A Talk in English (video)
This talk was facilitated by Anurag Banerjee and delivered as a part of the seventh Subhash Kumar Mukherjee Memorial Oration, organised by the Overman Foundation on the 20th December 2019.
A Talk in Hindi (video)
One of the biggest knots and gaps in our spiritual understanding is with the material world itself. Why and how it has all come into existence. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have a luminous answer to this cosmic riddle.
SELECTIONS FROM CONVERSATIONS BY THE MOTHER (TEXT)
... insistence on the exclusive reality of the physical world, of physical pleasures, physical joys, physical possessions, is the result of the whole materialistic tendency of human civilisation. It was unthinkable in ancient times. On the contrary, withdrawal, concentration, liberation from all material cares, consecration to the spiritual joy, that was happiness indeed.
from Conversations by the Mother (text)
The path must be shown and the doors opened but everyone must follow the path, pass through the doors and go towards his personal realisation. The only help one can and should receive is that of the Grace which formulates itself in everyone according to his own need.
You have a guide for a part of the way but when you have travelled this part leave the road and the guide and go farther! This is something men find difficult to do.
What is exactly the nature of religion? Is it an obstacle in the way of spiritual life?
Religion belongs to the higher mind of humanity. It is the effort of man’s higher mind to approach, as far as lies in its power, something beyond it ... Religion may be divine in its ultimate origin; in its actual nature it is not divine but human.
Satsang with Dr Alok Pandey in Australia 04/17 (video)
Satsang with Dr Alok Pandey on the Psychic Being, including a passage from Savitri Book 7 Canto 5, The Finding of the Soul.
audio
Today we close the series of explorations on the evolution of a religious towards a spiritualized humanity with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s visions of the Future. As always these revelations are often seemingly cryptic and yet disclose a deep truth towards which we move.