Nirvana in the sense of freedom from Ignorance that comes by realisation of the Divine within through the psychic door is indeed the first step of Integral Yoga.
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
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She has come, assuming our mortal breath with the will to divinise clay. Her advent is the golden chance for us to fulfil our divine destiny. If only we could hold Her hand or rather let Her hold ours...
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I am not sure what category we can try to put him into since he defies and exceeds all of them.
There is something truly beautiful and uplifting and divine in the life and personality of Christ and Mother Mary. One can see in him the beautiful heart of Buddha combined with the devotion for God which was released by Sri Krishna upon earth.
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Silence is powerful in the sense that it is filled with infinity. It is akin to the zero state through which one passes on the way to the eternal consciousness in its dynamic aspects.
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had ushered the Age of Truth, the new Satya Yuga based on the Supramental Truth Consciousness. What it means is that the old world of hypocrisy and lip service to Truth will stand exposed.
The New World is growing silently and unseen in the human heart despite all the resistance and the confusion.
What we are witnessing today is a moment of transition. It is a twilight moment when light and darkness are mixed in such a way that they seem difficult to separate.
This is the New Birth that Religion awaits, a new birth into the Spirit, a new birth of God in the consciousness of man, shedding His attire of ritual and religion that is still a distance and assuming the spiritual robe that truly befits Him.