November 26, 1912
What a hymn of thanksgiving should I not be raising at each moment unto Thee! Everywhere and in everything around me Thou revealest Thyself and in me Thy Will and Consciousness express themselves always more and more clearly even to the point of my having almost entirely lost the gross illusion of “me” and “mine”. If a few shadows, a few flaws can be seen in the great Light which manifests Thee, how shall they bear for long the marvellous brightness of Thy resplendent Love?…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on November 27, 2009 at 8:50pm —
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Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this consciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered around hi…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on November 25, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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What seems to me of more importance is to try to explain how things are worked out here. Indeed very few are the people who understand it and still fewer those who realise it.
There has never been, at any time, a mental plan, a fixed programme or an organisation decided beforehand. The whole thing has taken birth, grown and developed as a living being by a movement of consciousness (Chit-Tapas) constantly maintained, increased and fortified. As the conscious Force descends in matter and radiate…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on November 18, 2009 at 2:22pm —
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A CHANGE of this kind, the change from the mental and vital to the spiritual order of life, must necessarily be accomplished in the individual and in a great number of individuals before it can lay any effective hold upon the community. The Spirit in humanity discovers, develops, builds into form in the individual man: it is through the progressive and formative individual that it offers the discovery and the chance of a new self-creation to the mind of the race. For the communal mind holds thin…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on October 23, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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IN CONSIDERING Indian civilisation and its renascence, I suggested that a
powerful new creation in all fields was our great need, the meaning of the renascence and the one way of preserving the civilisation. Confronted with the huge rush of modern life and thought, invaded by another dominant civilisation almost her opposite or inspired at least with a very different spirit to her own, India can only survive by confronting, this raw, new, aggressive, powerful world with fresh diviner creations o…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on October 23, 2009 at 8:00pm —
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Dipawali is the Mahakali Puja Day.
“ Union and goodwill upon earth.
Behind the rigidity of the outward celebrations
there is a living symbol; it is this that we must remember.”
– The Mother
Happy New Year to all whose year begins with Kartik month :-
“ On this day, we take the decision to make
a decisive step towards the victory of truth.
Each year that passes should be
—and necessarily is—a new conquest.
Let a decisive step be taken this year
towards His Victory.” - The Mother
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Added by Lalit Kumar on October 17, 2009 at 12:06pm —
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MOTHER DURGA! Rider on the lion, giver of all strength, Mother, beloved of Siva! We born from thy parts of Power, we the youth of India, are seated here in thy temple. Listen, O Mother, descend upon earth, make thyself manifest in this land of India.
MOTHER DURGA! From age to age, in life after life, we come down into the human body, do thy work and return to the Home of Delight. Now too we are born, dedicated to thy work. Listen, O Mother, descend upon earth, come to our help.
MOTHER DURG…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on October 16, 2009 at 9:29pm —
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Think Green. Think Technology. Think Auroville
Monday, September 14, 2009
Deepa Kandaswamy
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Imagine what an incredible India we could create if we followed the example of Auroville. We would be self sufficient in power and basic needswith solar roofs, desalination plants, recycling and processing plants, wind turbines in the garden, hybrid vehicles, green communication, and e-governance. Nothing is free and we would require discipline. The fact Auroville has been successful…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on September 15, 2009 at 7:35pm —
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15 August 1909 - 15 August 2009
IN MY childhood before the full development of my faculties, I became conscious of a strong impulse in me. I did not realize what it was then, but it grew stronger and stronger as I gained in years till all the weakness of my childhood, fear, selfishness, etc., vanished from my mind. From the day of my return to the mother country, the impulse is surging forth in great force, and my set purpose and devotion are becoming more confirmed with the trials and oppress…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 17, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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The teaching of Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of India that behind the appearances of the universe there is the Reality of a Being and Consciousness, a Self of all things, one and eternal. All beings are united in that One Self and Spirit but divided by a certain separativity of consciousness, an ignorance of their true Self and Reality in the mind, life and body. It is possible by a certain psychological discipline to remove this veil of separative consciousness and become…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 15, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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(Compiled from notes and letters of Sri Aurobindo)
Sri Aurobindo began his practice of yoga in 1904. Even before this, several experiences had come to him spontaneously, "of themselves and with a sudden unexpectedness". There was, for instance, the mental experience of the atman or true Self, which he had while reading the Upanishads in London in 1892. The next year a "vast calm" descended upon him the moment he stepped on Indian soil after his long absence in England. This calm surrounded him…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 15, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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There were three sides to Sri Aurobindo's political ideas and activities. First, there was the action with which he started, a secret revolutionary propaganda and organisation of which the central object was the preparation of an armed insurrection. Secondly, there was a public propaganda intended to convert the whole nation to the ideal of independence which was regarded, when he entered into politics, by the vast majority of Indians as unpractical and impossible, an almost insane chimera. It w…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 15, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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(A message written by Sri Aurobindo for broadcast over All India Radio)
August 15th is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But it has a significance not only for us, but for Asia and the whole world; for it signifies the entry into the comity of nations of a new power with untold potentialities which has a great part to play in determining the political, social, cultural and spiritual future of humanity. To me personally it must natur…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 15, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872. In 1879, at the age of seven, he was taken with his two elder brothers to England for education and lived there for fourteen years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in 1884 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two years. In 1890 he passed also the open competition for the Indian Civil Service, but at the end…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 15, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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How simple our belief is
More we have money; more we can buy to consume more
And more we consume, more we will be happy.
The ultimate goal is to be happy
And we thought we could be happy with the help of money.
Each one of us has not enough money to buy as we wishes.
Money-difficulties generally make people dry
and even bitter, if not rebellious.
We are at the top of our suffocations
When money is missing, what best we can do to reduce our bitterness?
Can it be replaced by an effor…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 10, 2009 at 7:45pm —
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We have faith in Sri Aurobindo.
He represents for us something we formulate to ourselves with words, which seems to us the most exact for expressing our experience. These words are evidently the best according to us for formulating our experience.
But if, in our enthusiasm, we were convinced that they are the only appropriate words to express correctly what Sri Aurobindo is and the experience he has given us, we would became dogmatic and be on the point of founding a religion.
He, who h…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 8, 2009 at 3:20pm —
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The meditation rooms inside the twelve stone-clad 'petals' surrounding the Matrimandir carry the names and colours of the 'petals' in the Mother's symbol:
These are :
Sincerity ( Aster amellus ) ' Sinceerity is the key to the divine doors. - The Mother
Humility ( Agrostis nebulosa ) ' Adorable in its simplicity '. - The Mother
Gratitude ( Ipomoea carnea ) ' It is you who open all the closed doors and allow the saving grace to enter.'
Perseverance ( Calendula officinalis ) ' The decision to go…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 7, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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… 7th August is the birthday of the new spirit in India.
… especially on such a day as the 7th of August the responsibility was great. …
For all that there was a great importance in the nation’s response on the 7th of August. …
on the 7th August the strength of the
nation would be measured, not the numerical strength, but the moral strength which was greater than anything physical.
… must remember that it was a day of worship and consecration, when the Mother looked upon her assembled chil…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 7, 2009 at 12:03pm —
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7 August 1909 - 7 August 2009
The future belongs to the young. It is a young and new world which is now under process of development and it is the young who must create it. But it is also a world of truth, courage, justice, lofty aspiration and straightforward fulfilment which we seek to create. For the coward, for the self-seeker, for the talker who goes forward at the beginning and afterwards leaves his fellows in the lurch there is no place in the future of this movement. A brave, frank, cl…
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 7, 2009 at 12:01pm —
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The Union government will release a stamp next year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of revolutionary- turned-philosopher Sri Aurobindo's arrival in Puducherry.
Union minister of state for planning, parliamentary affairs and culture V Narayanasamy, said in a statement from New Delhi, said Union communications minister A Raja had assured a delegation of representatives from Sri Aurobindo Ashram in his presence that a special stamp would be released on April 4, 2010 to mark the occasion.
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Added by Lalit Kumar on August 3, 2009 at 3:50pm —
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