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Category Archives: Thoughts to ponder
The Significance of Archetype and its Origins — Mother
What is “the heavenly archetype of the lotus”? It means the primal idea of the lotus. Each thing that is expressed physically was conceived somewhere before being realised materially. There is an entire world which is the world of the … Continue reading
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Words of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo on War
The Words of The Mother O men! How can you utter the sublime word “Peace” when there is no peace in your hearts? The War is over, so you say, and yet everywhere man is slaying man and Cain still … Continue reading
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Transcending Liberation and Birth — Sri Aurobindo
Transcendence is the goal of the development, but it does not exclude the possession of that which is transcended. The soul need not and should not push transcendence so far as to aim at its own extinction. Nirvana is extinction … Continue reading
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Our Difficulties Show The Way To The Divine
The nature of your difficulty indicates the nature of the victory you will gain, the victory you will exemplify in Yoga. Thus, if there is persistent selfishness, it points to a realisation of universality as your most prominent achievement in … Continue reading
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How to Understand The Divine?
It is not by your mind that you can hope to understand the Divine and its action, but by the growth of a true and divine consciousness within you. If the Divine were to unveil and reveal itself in all … Continue reading
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For Whom is The Integral Yoga Intended?
The integral Yoga is especially intended for those who have realised in themselves all that man can realise and yet are not satisfied, for they demand from life what it cannot give. Those who yearn for the unknown and aspire … Continue reading
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Significance of Birthdays — Mother
Below is a spoken comment of the Mother which was noted down from memory by the sadhak and later read to the Mother Mother: It is your birthday tomorrow? Sadhak: Yes, Mother. Mother: How old will you be? Sadhak: Twenty-six, … Continue reading
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Yoga Not As Important Part of Life, But The Whole of Life — Sri Aurobindo
All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual consciousness and a greater and diviner being. No Yoga can be successfully undertaken … Continue reading
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You Must Always Step Back Into Yourself — Mother
Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your own body, and when you meet some unpleasant being similarly projected you get upset. … Continue reading
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All That Happens is Not, in Fact, Divine — Mother
In conclusion, I should like to draw your attention to one point, for it very frequently obstructs true union. It is a great error to suppose that the Divine Will is always acting openly in the world. All that happens … Continue reading
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