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Category Archives: Thoughts to ponder
Aspiration in Plants — Mother
Have you never watched a forest with all its countless trees and plants simply struggling to catch the light—twisting and trying in a hundred possible ways just to be in the sun? That is precisely the feeling of aspiration in … Continue reading
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Knowledge By Unity With The Divine — Mother
Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything whatsoever through identification with it. But the divine consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects. For, mere awareness is not knowledge. To become aware of a vibration, for instance, … Continue reading
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You Know Still Less What Power You Are Serving — Mother
(Q) The Divine is everywhere. So if one serves humanity, one serves the Divine, isn’t that so? That’s marvellous! The clearest thing in this matter is to say: “The Divine is in me. If I serve myself, I am also … Continue reading
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Money is Like Water — Mother
Money is like water, to remain pure it must run. **** First of all, from the financial point of view, the principle on which our action is based is the following: money is not meant to make money. This idea … Continue reading
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Desire Is The Badge of Subjection — Sri Aurobindo
The cause of ego is that while by Its double power of Vidya and Avidya the Spirit dwells at once in the consciousness of multiplicity and relativity and in the consciousness of unity and identity and is therefore not bound … Continue reading
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Sadhana on the Level of the Mind — Sri Aurobindo
For one who wants to practise sadhana, sadhana must come first—reading and mental development can only be subordinate things. * Reading can be only a momentary help to prepare the mind. But the real knowledge does not come by reading. … Continue reading
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The Effect of Profound Books and Their Loss in Significance — By Sri Aurobindo
November 1936 Disciple: I read your Essays on the Gita twice or thrice before. But when I started reading it again, I found that there were many ideas in it which I had missed before. I think if I read … Continue reading
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To Give And Not to Demand is The Rule — Sri Aurobindo
Obviously to seek the Divine only for what one can get out of Him is not the proper attitude; but if it were absolutely forbidden to seek Him for these things, most people in the world would not turn towards … Continue reading
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Consecrate Your Life to The Realization of Something Higher — Mother
February 21 1958 Only those years that are passed uselessly make you grow old.A year spent uselessly is a year during which no progress has been accomplished, no growth in consciousness has been achieved, no further step has been taken … Continue reading
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Experience Comes Through Many Errors — Sri Aurobindo
The spiritual aim will recognise that man as he grows in his being must have as much free space as possible for all its members to grow in their own strength, to find out themselves and their potentialities. In their … Continue reading
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