Category Archives: Travelling the Path

Life – The Great Opportunity

 

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Travelling the Path – V. First step. Stepping back.

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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Travelling the Path IV – Make the Divine Discovery the Most Important Need. The Mother

I don’t know to whom I was mentioning this today (I think it was for a Birthday) … No, I don’t know now. It was to someone who told me he was 18 years old. I said that between the … Continue reading →

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Discovery of the Divine – Travelling the path alone – Part III. The Mother

“This is the first thing necessary – aspiration for the Divine.” Questions and Answers 1929 (7 April)  The first movement of aspiration is this: you have a kind of vague sensation that behind the universe there is something which is … Continue reading →

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Being on the Path – The Mother

What I call “being on the path” is being in a state of consciousness in which only union with the Divine has any value – this union is the only thing worth living, the sole object of aspiration. Everything else … Continue reading →

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Discovery of the Divine – Travelling the path alone – Part II. The Mother

People are occupied with outward things. That means that the consciousness is turned towards external things – that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does – instead of being turned inwards in order to find the … Continue reading →

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Discovery of the Divine – Travelling the path alone. The Mother

The goal is known to some extent, for most of those who have reached it have described it more or less clearly. But the supreme value of the discovery lies in its spontaneity, its ingenuousness, and that escapes all ordinary … Continue reading →

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Service to the Divine

January 1966      Whatever you do in life must be done as a service to the Divine and nobody else. Whatever you are, think or feel, you are responsible for it to the Divine and to nobody else. He … Continue reading →

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On Bhakti – Sri Aurobindo

IT is a misunderstanding to suppose that I am against Bhakti or against emotional Bhakti—which comes to the same thing, since without emotion there can be no Bhakti. It is rather the fact that in my writings on Yoga I … Continue reading →

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On Grace – The Mother

The Supreme’s power is infinite ― it is our faith that is small. 23 August 1954

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