The irony of man that he believes himself to be what he is not and misses to be what he is meant to be.
At the Feet of The Mother
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Narad and Alok read together two passages from Savitri and dwell on them.
This talk is centred around one of the major experiences of Sri Aurobindo with Lele Maharaj in Baroda. Today's poems include Adwaita, Parabrahman, Nirvana and Surrender (their full text is listed inside).
We as souls have come from a supernal Light into this world of darkness to colonize and transmute Matter's Night. That is why despite everything we keep nurturing within us the dream of a perfect world. From the Light we come, and to the Light we go.
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A documentary, produced by Auroville Press in 2003.
Of course, the integral yoga does not depend upon observing or not observing these events, yet the Divine Mother uses every little door as an opening through which the Divine can enter a sadhak's consciousness and work within it.
Bengali Writings
Pity and compassion are different kinds of feeling, pity can be a feeling even contrary to compassion. ... Compassion is an Aryan attitude, pity an un-Aryan sentiment.
Karmayogin was launched by Sri Aurobindo on the 19th June 1909 six weeks after his acquittal from the Alipore trial case. The person who came out of the prison was a Jivanmukta and Karmayogi. The name of the journal that he now launched was perfectly apt.
Man’s nature is full of contradictions. His life is as if governed by contradictory wills which pull him in different directions.