M V Nadkarni – Writings

As Savitri says, with our present imperfect consciousness, immortality would be a hell, not a heaven. So first of all we need to realise the immortality of our soul. Once we have realised the immortality within, then we need to transform our body[...]

Comments of Dr. Mangesh Nadkarni made on 7 March 2001 in conversation with two Bombay businessmen, who asked several questions on how to attain a living communion with the Divine. Dr. Nadkarni has edited the transcript for publication.

Comments of Dr. Mangesh Nadkarni made on 7 March 2001 in conversation with two Bombay businessmen, who asked several questions on how to attain a living communion with the Divine. Dr. Nadkarni has edited the transcript for publication.

An interview with Prof. Mangesh Nadkarni, taken by Prof. P. N. Paranjpe.

Sri Aurobindo has given humanity the highest ideal that was ever conceived. The ideal of a divine life on earth may be difficult and its accomplishment distant. But Sri Aurobindo has shown that the inner being of man everywhere is preoccupied with it. And he has shown that it is the only solution.

The world is preparing for a great change; and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are our safest guides to this new world.The time has surely come for us as Indians to throw away the coloured glasses of our inherited and borrowed prejudices and to make an honest attempt to understand what they have been saying.

According to many liberal thinkers, spirituality is a regressive state of mind [...] they regard it as a dead weight around the neck of the country and believe that the sooner we get rid of this this dead wood of the past, the easier it will be for us to build a modern and progressive India. This paper is an attempt to look at this entire question of spirituality ...

The United States is a superpower only in the external world since its wealth hides a spiritual poverty and a growing psychological and social unrest. No mere technological superpower can properly guide our world; it also needs the guidance of a spiritual superpower. India has the potential to be this spiritual superpower, but it will require great effort on its part to realise this potential.