"Mighty and mute the Godhead in him woke
And faced the pain and danger of the world.
He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:
He met with his bare spirit naked Hell."
Prof Ashok Aklujkar speaks on how the books written on history by K.D. Sethna—‘Ancient India in a New Light’ and ‘Problems of Ancient India’ gave a different chronology of ancient India with remarkable insights into the specific topic of the dating of the Ashokan edicts.
My soul regards its veiled subconscient base;
All the dead obstinate symbols of the past,
The hereditary moulds, the stamps of race
Are upheld to sight, the old imprints effaced.
On her birthday anniversary, we are recounting some episodes from life of Esha di (Esha Mukherjee), who came to the Ashram at the age of five and had a unique relationship with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, who loved her deeply.
"In that wide cynic den of thinking beasts
One looked in vain for a trace of pity or love;
There was no touch of sweetness anywhere,
But only Force and its acolytes, greed and hate"
The final talk of a three-part session by Prof. Mangesh V. Nadkarni at SAYFNA, New Jersey, in April 2000. Prof. Jagdish Vyas, who organized and hosted the venue, can also be seen in this video with his concluding remarks.
There is sometimes a natural tendency to compare Sri Aurobindo’s yoga with other yogas. Today we take a look at the experience of Kundalini awakening with regard to Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga.