"There is a need within the soul of man
The splendours of the surface never sate;
For life and mind and their glory and debate
Are the slow prelude of a vaster theme..."
Remembrances of The Mother by Richard Pearson - an audio recording of one talk at the Hall of Harmony, and a transcript of another talk at Savitri Bhavan, both from 2001.
"... The seal of tears, the bond of ignorance,
He turned to find that wide world-failure’s cause.
Away he looked from Nature’s visible face
And sent his gaze into the viewless Vast,"
A conversation between Dr Alok Pandey and Narad (Richard Eggenberger) on the recent world events and the Wisdom working behind the external appearances. (CN22)
A video recording of the second conversation on Auroville and spiritual significance of its founding by Alok Pandey and Narad. Recorded in Pondicherry in 2014. (CN15)
The strength to save turns into the realm of our ego, the strength to plunder for our own sake, to love for our own sake, to use resources of nature for our own sake. At its extreme it creates in us the tyrant and the arrogant self-aggrandising Asura.