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Spiritual Emptiness

Dec 19, 2019

SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)

For the past few days, I feel much too void or neutral...

There is no reason why the void should be a dull or unhappy condition. It is usually the habit of the mind and vital to associate happiness or interest only with activity, but the spiritual consciousness has no such limitations.

1.9 From Prayers and Meditations: August 11, 1914

Dec 19, 2019

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"Envelop this sorrowful earth with the strong arms of Thy mercy, permeate it with the beneficent outpourings of Thy infinite love."

Abolition of War

Dec 18, 2019

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The awakening must go much deeper ... before the psychology of nations will be transmuted into that something “wondrous, rich and strange” which will eliminate war and international collisions from our distressed and stumbling human life.

The Dark Inconscient Void, pp. 217-218

Dec 16, 2019

COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Aswapati now descends into the utter Inconscient to find its source of power and the key to its change.

12.3 Materialism and Spiritual Life

Dec 16, 2019

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.

Towards the Grim Solitude, pp. 216-217

Dec 15, 2019

COMMENTARY ON SAVITRI BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Aswapati now moves from dusk towards the Night. His face is turned away from all that is human and living and joyous and beautiful. His steps take him towards the grim solitude of the Night.

Savitri — “The Truth of Tomorrow”

Dec 14, 2019

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MOTHER BY MONA SARKAR (TEXT)

The Mother has explained in detail how Savitri can be a constant companion in our ascent towards the Truth. She has shown how to read Savitri, how to find there the answer to all our problems.

Intervals of Passive Peace

Dec 12, 2019

SRI AUROBINDO'S LETTERS TO NAGIN DOSHI (TEXT)

There are long plunges into the passive peace and silence and yet no dynamic action in spite of my rejection of ego-centricity.

It always happens like that so long as the nature is not ready for the continued dynamic action...

THE MOTHER’S SAVITRI: Book 7 Canto 6

Dec 11, 2019

Unutterably effaced, no one and null, A vanishing vestige like a violet trace, A faint record merely of a self now past, She was a point in the unknowable.