Category Archives: Travelling the Path

The Highest Secret of The Gita — Sri Aurobindo

The Gita insists that the nature of the action does matter and that there is a positive sanction for continuance in works, not only that one quite negative and mechanical reason, the objectless compulsion of Nature. There is still, after … Continue reading →

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Manhood — Sri Aurobindo

To fulfil God in life is man’s manhood. – The Destiny of Individual, Life Divine, CWSA, Sri Aurobindo.

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On Speech and Practice — Mother

It is good to read a Divine Teaching. It is better to learn it. The best is to live it. *** (Message for the inauguration of Sri Aurobindo’s Action) To speak well is good. To act well is better. Never … Continue reading →

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The Great Secret … — Mother

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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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Let Us Shun That Negligence — The Mother

Let us shun the paths that are too easy and ask no effort, the paths which give us the illusion of having reached our goal; let us shun that negligence which opens the door to every downfall, that complacent self-admiration … Continue reading →

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Grumble, If Your Nature Compels You To It, But Persevere — Sri Aurobindo

This Yoga is certainly difficult, but is any Yoga really easy? You speak of the lure of liberation into the extracosmic Absolute, but how many who set out on the path of Nirvana attain to it in this life or … Continue reading →

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These Things Become Marvellous Gifts — Mother

When things happen which are not what we expect, what we hope for, what we want, which are contrary to our desires, in our ignorance we call them misfortunes and lament. But if we were to become a little wiser … Continue reading →

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On Falsehood — Mother

For those who are eager to get rid of falsehood here is the way. Do not try to please yourself, do not try either to please others. Try only to please the Lord.Because He alone is the Truth. Each and … Continue reading →

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An Integral Transformation Is Gradually Realised in You — Mother

April 28, 1929 It has been said that in order to progress in Yoga one must offer up everything to the Divine, even every little thing that one has or does in life. What is precisely the meaning of that? … Continue reading →

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