AuroMaa

2.04 Constant Inward Remembrance

Dec 19, 2018

Whatever we see and hear, whatever we touch and sense, all of which we are conscious, has to be known and felt by us as That which we worship and serve; all has to be turned into an image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead ....

Longings for The Mother (6): Mother, We are Sorry, Very Sorry, Indeed!

Dec 18, 2018

... for our past failures, failures to recognise that You are always compassionate and loving, failure to follow Sri Aurobindo’s advice ‘Open and receive’ and indulging in a childish demanding, claiming, blaming attitude we are very very sorry indeed.

Explorations in Savitri 096, pp. 250-252

Dec 18, 2018

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)

There dawns no light of heavenly certitude. A million faces wears her knowledge here And every face is turbaned with a doubt. All now is questioned, all reduced to nought.

Ascent

Dec 18, 2018

video

One with the Transcendent, calm, universal, Single and free, yet innumerably living, All in thyself and thyself in all dwelling, Act in the world with thy being beyond it.

The Role of India in the New Creation (TH 209)

Dec 18, 2018

A Talk in Hindi (video)

India can become a catalyst in the process of the New Creation. But it is important that India understands its own true heritage. India’s true destiny is to be the Guru of the world, but first it must acquire once again the knowledge of the Spirit, not through book reading but by direct inner experience.

The Jail of Ignorance (TE 108)

Dec 18, 2018

A Talk in English (video)

It is first talk of the retreat "The Dialogue with Death, and Quest for Immortality", July 2015 at SAYFNA (www.sayfna.org).satsang with Dr Alok Pandey.

Sri Aurobindo in Bengal, Part 8

Dec 17, 2018

Sri Aurobindo accepted non-violent passive resistance as a policy, and not as a cramping and crippling principle. Violence can be employed in self-defence or for the protection of the oppressed

A Settled Anarchy, p. 137

Dec 17, 2018

Sri Aurobindo reveals to us vividly the early beginnings of life, the birth or rather the evolution of sense contacts, instincts, the seemingly unconscious will to live and survive in a beautiful, enigmatic, dangerous world.

Openness

Dec 17, 2018

Light is there all around us; we live, move and have our being in light. But our mechanical thoughts and notions hide the light from us; our doubts and misgivings prevent us from accepting the truth when it comes. Thus, we pass our life in darkness and ignorance.

Foundations of Indian Culture 1 (TH 208)

Dec 16, 2018

A Talk in Hindi (video)

What really is Indian culture? What we see today is a mixture of many currents and streams and forces and practices. But behind it all is the core of Indian culture burning like a flame of aspiration ever bright and high.

4.2 Insects and Animals

Dec 16, 2018

... the first expression of love in living beings is the desire to devour. One wants to absorb, desires to devour.

Explorations in Savitri 095, pp. 248-250

Dec 15, 2018

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)

"All life to harmonise by thought's control, She with the huge imbroglio struggles still; Ignorant of all but her own seeking mind To save the world from Ignorance she came."

THE MOTHER’S SAVITRI: Book 1 Canto 4

Dec 15, 2018

Our souls can visit in great lonely hours Still regions of imperishable Light, All-seeing eagle-peaks of silent Power And moon-flame oceans of swift fathomless Bliss And calm immensities of spirit space.

The Struggle of Life, pp. 136-137

Dec 14, 2018

The real struggle of life is not the struggle for survival or competing with other forms but rather, the struggle against the Inconscient resistance that deforms and denies. This is also the root of suffering that life experiences in bird and beast and man.

Loss of Memory in Sadhana

Dec 13, 2018

My mind has almost lost its power of memory. Can’t remember anything.

There is very often a complaint of this kind made during the course of the sadhana. I suppose that the usual action of memory is for a time suspended by the mental silence or else by the physical tamas.

Longings for The Mother (5): Mother Dear, Mother Sweet!

Dec 12, 2018

Mother Dear, Mother Sweet, grant that Your closeness, Your nearness, Your presence, Your love now come as a realisation, a settled fact of consciousness as an essential element of its nature.

Explorations in Savitri 094, pp. 246-248

Dec 12, 2018

Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on Savitri (VIDEO)

A huge inertness is the world's defence, Even in change is treasured changelessness; Into inertia revolution sinks, In a new dress the old resumes its role; The Energy acts, the stable is its seal: On Shiva's breast is stayed the enormous dance.

Savitri Study Class 23-03 “The Divine Mother’s Love for Her Children”, pp. 612-613

Dec 11, 2018

Death ends his retort mocking love and disdaining man. But Savitri replies giving a glimpse of the divinity that is working in her bosom. She shows him what Love truly is and not what it has become under Death’s dark influence.