Sri Aurobindo's Writings Archives - Page 29 of 37

‘The Mother’ – Chapter 6 (a) opening (text in Hindi)

Dec 31, 2020

Video in English with text in Hindi

Sri Aurobindo wrote this essay dealing with the four aspects of the Mother and related topics in the autumn of 1927 with the idea of publishing it in the booklet that eventually became The Mother. The essay was published as the sixth chapter of The Mother in 1928.

‘The Mother’ – Chapter 6 (a) opening

Dec 15, 2020

Video in English

The four Powers of the Mother are four of her outstanding Personalities, portions and embodiments of her divinity through whom she acts on her creatures, orders and harmonises her creations in the worlds and directs the working out of her thousand forces.

Sri Aurobindo & His Dreams for the Future of Mankind

Dec 4, 2020

A film, based on Sri Aurobindo's Independence Day Message of 15 August 1947. This video film illustrates five dreams from this message. Other texts by Sri Aurobindo are also used.

The Last Passages Dictated by Sri Aurobindo (Nirodbaran Recounts)

Dec 2, 2020

Text in English

He who has found his identity with God Pays with the body’s death his soul’s vast light. His knowledge immortal triumphs by his death.

‘The Mother’ – Chapter 5 (text in Hindi)

Nov 16, 2020

Sri Aurobindo wrote this piece as a letter to Punamchand Shah on 19 August 1927. Full text is attached.

‘The Mother’ by Sri Aurobindo in Her Voice, Chapter 5

Nov 15, 2020

If you want to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego. All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme....

‘The Mother’ – Chapter 4 (text in Hindi)

Nov 3, 2020

You must neither turn with an ascetic shrinking from the money power, the means it gives and the objects it brings, nor cherish a rajasic attachment to them or a spirit of enslaving self-indulgence in their gratifications.

‘The Mother’ by Sri Aurobindo in Her Voice, Chapter 4

Oct 27, 2020

Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine.

Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Hymn to Durga’ (Durga Stotra) in Bengali

Oct 25, 2020

Video clip in Bengali

Published in Dharma newspaper No. 9 in October, 1909, in Bengali. Recitation by Manoj Das Gupta, music by Sunil Bhattacharya, artwork by Ritam Upadhyay.