Of Moral Violence and Gandhian Ahimsa
In addition to the article by M. P. Pandit we also include some remarks made by Sri Aurobindo in 1923 regarding the Gandhian method of Satyagraha of Ahimsa.
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Mankind’s Illusions about “The Passing of War”
Featured here are excerpts from Sri Aurobindo’s insightful essay titled ‘The Passing of War?’ which was written in the early months of World War I.
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“This is the Mother’s War”: Of WW2, Victory and Atomic Bomb
A few excerpts from the book ‘On the Mother: The Chronicle of a Manifestation and Ministry’, which speak of the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s yogic work in WW2.
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The Religion of Humanity and Democratic Trinity – Part I
In these passages from ‘The Human Cycle’, we read Sri Aurobindo’s description of the gains made by an intellectual religion of humanity.
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The Religion of Humanity and Democratic Trinity – Part II
Sri Aurobindo describes the inadequacy of an intellectual religion of humanity in bringing forth a true democracy based on liberty, equality and fraternity.
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The Mother on Gender Equality
The Mother traces the differentiation between masculine and feminine genders to the way the primordial cause of creation of the universe has been explained in many ancient traditions. She adds that both men and women are in several ways enslaved to each other. And to deal with the problem of superiority and inferiority, one must must free oneself from all the inner enslavement and treat both the genders with perfect equality.
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Practicing Higher Virtues as Aids to Evolution
We feature here three passages from Sri Aurobindo which give us a deep understanding of the inner significance of practicing higher virtues.
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Sri Aurobindo on Ego, Altruism and Self-development
These selections help us understand the psychological foundations of altruism, its limits and potentiality for facilitating true self-development of the being.
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“Europe is the land of enjoyment, India of sacrifice”
Sri Aurobindo writes of the kindness, generosity, self-control, charity and other noble qualities that he witnessed in the convicts in Alipore Jail.
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Vishnu’s Fourth Stride, from Humanity to Divinity
An offering for April 4 and April 24 – an essay summarising the new future which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother brought down with their Supramental Yoga.
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Sri Aurobindo on the Essence of Ethics
Like others parts of our being, the ethical being is also a growth and a seeking towards the absolute, the divine, which can only be attained securely in the suprarational.
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Sri Aurobindo on the Principle of Evil
An answer to a question many ask – if there is a God and if He is All-love, sarvamaṅgalam, why does He create evil or, if He does not create it, why permits it.
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The Perfection of the Kshatriya Soul-Force
Sri Aurobindo helps us understand the Kshatriya turn of the nature and the integral perfection it can arrive at with the Yoga of Self-perfection.
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Of Courage, Wars, and Evolution of the Earth
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother remind us that war will cease to exist when it becomes unnecessary to the evolution of the earth.
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On Conservation and Progress
Sri Aurobindo explains that when seen from an evolutionary perspective past, present and future are parts of a single movement of progress.
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Where is Agni? — The Colloquy of Agni and the Gods
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 Passing of Sri Aurobindo: Its Inner Significance – Part 1
December 5, 1950 is a momentous occurrence in the timeline of Supramental Yoga. Amal Kiran elucidates its deeper significance and the consequence in this four-part essay.
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The Passing of Sri Aurobindo: Its Inner Significance – Part 2
Were there any signs of the coming of Sri Aurobindo’s passing which as per the author can be seen as a culmination of a momentous deliberate fight whose implications can be read only by understanding a little of what the supramental light means?
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The Passing of Sri Aurobindo: Its Inner Significance – Part 3
The author writes: “A splendid heroism of selflessness is here, the vividest picture of a warrior Yogi who would take any risk, if thereby he could press closer to his objective and though the formula is “I conquer or perish” the frame of mind is one that might easily avail itself of a yet more audacious formula: “I perish to conquer.””
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The Passing of Sri Aurobindo: Its Inner Significance – Part 4
Amal Kiran writes: “In a most special sense, Sri Aurobindo the marvellously gifted and gracious person who was our Guru and whom we loved is still at work and a concrete truth is expressed by the Mother when she says: “To grieve is an insult to Sri Aurobindo who is here with us, conscious and alive.””
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