Barindranath Chaki

Sri Aurobindo was the last Avatar in a human body.

That is what The Mother has said.

She has also said that Sri Aurobindo would return, but NOT in a human body — NOT in a body born as a human being or of a human being. And His return may even be as late as five hundred years from his departure.
I have said earlier also that according to The Mother, Sri Aurobindo was an emanation of the Supreme. He was / is an Avatar of The Supreme. He came to transcend the Overmind consciousness and to cause t… Continue

24. When I pine at misfortune and call it evil, or am jealous and disappointed, then I know that there is awake in me again the eternal fool.

[Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and Aphorisms]

When the consequence of some of our actions is not as expected, or when there is some setback, we consider it to be a misfortune. And also we call it an evil.

Further, often, as a reaction of the said misfortune, we find in ourselves jealousy and misfortune. When our interest is not felt or fulfilled, there… Continue

Sri Aurobindo on Gandhi

Sri Aurobindo expressed his views on Mahatma Gandhi mainly to his disciples. And some events do express their mutual understanding of each other. Quoted below are some of the sayings of Sri Aurobindo on the Mahatma.

July 23, 1923

A disciple: The Mahatma believes that non-violence purifies the man who practices it.

I believe Gandhi does not know what actually happens to the man’s nature when he takes to Satyagraha or non-violence. He thinks that me… Continue

21. Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom ?"
22. God struck me with a human hand; shall I say then, "I pardon Thee thy insolence, O God" ?
23. God gave me good in a blow. Shall I say, "I forgive thee, O Almighty One, the harm and the cruelty, but do it not again" ?
[Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and Aphorisms]

Forgiveness is a great virtue, it has been said. However, when there is the Supreme Realization, one has the iden… Continue

19. When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them.
20. God had opened my eyes; for I saw the nobility of the vulgar, the attractiveness of the repellent, the perfection of the maimed and the beauty of the hideous.

In the normal human consciousness, reason is mainly analytical. It divides, creating ‘opposites’ : good and bad, virtue and sin, beautiful and… Continue