December, 2021 - Renaissance

Aspire Intensely but Without Impatience

Aspiration, Editorial, Twelve Soul-qualities / By Beloo Mehra / December 21, 2021

Aspiration is like an arrow, or like a flame rising upward. But it has to be tended, constantly rekindled. Its direction also needs to be reset when it tends to go here and there. It has to be purified so that no desire or demand gets mixed up with it. Its goal has to be kept in front, always. And what happens when it goes into hiding somewhere? How to light the fire again? And what about the Grace? Will Divine Grace help me rekindle my aspiration? These and many other questions have been explored in the variety of selections featured in this issue.

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Aspiration is to be Developed, Tended, Kept Awake and Living

Aspiration, Guiding Light, Spiritual Philosophy, Sunlit Path, Twelve Soul-qualities / By Sri Aurobindo and The Mother / December 21, 2021

These selections from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother emphasise that a single-minded effort is needed to keep awake the aspiration.

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Be Conscious of Your Inner Flame

Aspiration, Sunlit Path, Twelve Soul-qualities / By Sri Aurobindo and The Mother / December 21, 2021

We highlight a few gems from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother which offer some practical guidance for the aspirant on the path of Integral Yoga.

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Aspiration and the Psychic Being

Aspiration, Sunlit Path, Twelve Soul-qualities / By The Mother / December 21, 2021

The Mothers explains what it means to become conscious of one’s psychic being, and how the contact with psychic consciousness gives intensity and joy to the aspiration.

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Agni, the Divine Will-Force, the Priest of the Sacrifice

Aspiration, Scriptures, Spiritual Philosophy, Twelve Soul-qualities / By Sri Aurobindo / December 21, 2021

Agni, the Vedic godhead is the seer-will in the universe, the immortal worker in man, the primordial aspiration, the secret inhabitant of Matter and its forms.

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The Triple Agni in the Upanishads and the Triple Aspiration

Aspiration, Scriptures, Spiritual Philosophy, Twelve Soul-qualities / By Nolini Kanta Gupta / December 21, 2021

Nolini Kanta Gupta’s summary of the Triple Agni described in several Upanishads is followed by the Mother’s explanation of the triple aspiration.

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Where is Agni? — The Colloquy of Agni and the Gods

Aspiration, Human Evolution, Scriptures, Spiritual Philosophy, Tales and Stories, Twelve Soul-qualities / By Nolini Kanta Gupta / December 21, 2021

What is the symbolism of a Rig Vedic parable about Agni hiding in the Inconscience and only coming out when gods descend from above?

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The Human Aspiration – Deliberations on The Life Divine (1)

Aspiration, Book of the Month, Twelve Soul-qualities / By Ananda Reddy / December 21, 2021

From Dr. Ananda Reddy’s multi-volume series ‘Deliberations on The Life Divine’, we feature his contemplation on the first chapter, ‘The Human Aspiration’.

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The Human Aspiration – Deliberations on The Life Divine (2)

Aspiration, Book of the Month, Twelve Soul-qualities / By Ananda Reddy / December 21, 2021

In this first chapter, we get an overview of the eternal human aspiration that has been there since the beginning and promises to remain until the end. This is followed by a review of the apparent contradictions in present human life at present, which Sri Aurobindo explains are Nature’s own method of moving towards a harmony that will fructify ultimately in the transformation of mind, life and body through the light and power of a new consciousness, the emerging Supermind.

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Month: December 2021