Category Archives: Sri Aurobindo

The One Whom We Adore as The Mother — Sri Aurobindo

The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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Spiritual Harmony — Sri Aurobindo

The inner loneliness can only be cured by the inner experience of union with the Divine; no human association can fill the void. In the same way, for the spiritual life the harmony with others must be founded not on … Continue reading →

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Indispensable Qualities — Sri Aurobindo

It goes without saying that the qualities you speak of are helpful in the approach to the spiritual path, while the defects you enumerate are each a serious stumbling-block in the way. Sincerity especially is indispensable to the spiritual endeavour, … Continue reading →

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