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A Mutual Debt Binds Man To The Supreme — Sri Aurobindo

The Absolute, the Perfect, the AloneHas called out of the Silence his mute ForceWhere she lay in the featureless and formless hushGuarding from Time by her immobile sleepThe ineffable puissance of his solitude. The Absolute, the Perfect, the AloneHas entered … Continue reading →

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The Theives of the Vital World — Mother

Dear Mother, For the past two days I have felt a great despair and sadness—so much that I think if it goes on for a few days more, it may be very difficult for me to get rid of these … Continue reading →

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I Wouldn’t Have Wasted My Time — Mother

I am even astonished that you don’t feel an intense need for it: “How can one know?” For you know—you have been told, told repeatedly, it has been dinned into your ears—you know that you have a divine consciousness within … Continue reading →

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Transforming The Vital: A Two-step Approach

Generally, all disciplines dealing with the vital being, its purification and its control, proceed by coercion, suppression, abstinence and asceticism. This procedure is certainly easier and quicker, although less deeply enduring and effective, than a rigorous and detailed education. Besides, … Continue reading →

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It is Not This, It is Not That — Sri Aurobindo

An Unknowable which appears to us in many states and attributes of being, in many forms of consciousness, in many activities of energy, this is what Mind can ultimately say about the existence which we ourselves are and which we … Continue reading →

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The Privilege of Humanity — Sri Aurobindo

God is That which is the All and yet exceeds and transcends the All; there is nothing in existence which is not God, but God is neither the sum of existence nor anything in that sum, except symbolically, in image to … Continue reading →

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Thou Must Reach Thy Own Summit — Sri Aurobindo

Question: “Thou must reach thy own summit,” says Sri Aurobindo. Is the summit the same for everybody or does each one have his particular summit? Mother: In the last analysis, it is always the same summit—the divine oneness which is … Continue reading →

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A Sincere Call — Even Once Is All It Takes

If you say to the Divine with conviction, “I want only You”, the Divine will arrange all the circumstances in such a way as to compel you to be sincere. Something in the being… “I want only You.”… the aspiration… … Continue reading →

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New Year Messages from The Mother

Let the birth of the New Year be the new birth of our consciousness! Leaving the past far behind us let us run towards a luminous future. *** Let us hope also that this year will not pass without bringing us … Continue reading →

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Divine is All You Need — Mother

There are disciplines which make it a rule (we don’t like rules, for they are always arbitrary and artificial) that one should receive absolutely nothing from anybody except the Divine or the Guru who represents the Divine. Some people would … Continue reading →

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