One Must Try to Become Like a Flower
We feature a most delightful conversation from the book ‘Sweet Mother: Luminous Notes’.
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Memory of a Seed (Self-remembering)
This reflection is reminiscent of the story where Uddalaka shows his son Shvetaketu the Truth of the Self by asking him to break open a seed.
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How Flowers Brought Me Closer to the Divine
The author recounts how flowers became the medium for the author to grow into a deeper relation with the Divine in her childhood.
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Inner Awakening to Nature, featuring Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ (with narration)
Nature mysticism and Romanticism in English Poetry go hand in hand. An example is William Wordsworth’s famous poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’.
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वो जो ब्रह्मांड सजाता है, वही तो लटें संवारता है Of Cosmos and Curl (Transl)
A reader’s translation of the editorial from last month’s issue. With this as her first offering for Renaissance, she is also joining our family of authors.
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I Found My God on the Trail
Read this beautiful account of the author’s experience of the Divine in Nature. The author is a practicing psycho-social counselor and an ardent trekker. She sees herself as a worshipper of the mighty mountains and the rivers.
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Experiencing the Divine through Nature’s Mandalas
Read about some contemplative practices which the author and her team at Creative School use regularly for both Education and Healing purposes.
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The One Who Fashions a Cosmos, and a Curl
The absolute Brahman manifests as the Ishwara, the one Eternal. It also manifests as the multiplicity of the One in the Jiva, the living creature. Thus creating the double aspect of Being and Becoming. What we call as the soul or psychic entity in the individual is an eternal portion of Brahman, the Ishwara. But what of the other parts in an individual which move, act, and grow in the plane of Ignorance? What of the world movements, the affairs of our lives and the struggles and conflicts therein? If all these are workings of the Nature, of which our human nature is an intrinsic aspect, what is the relation of Ishwara with the Nature? The current issue and the one following this will explore some aspects of the theme – Divine in Nature.
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God at the Beginning, God in the Middle, God at the End, God Everywhere
In highlighting the theme – Divine in Nature, these passages remind us that all that is is the manifestation of a Divine Infinite.
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From Nature to Supernature
What is the relation between the hidden Divinity in our nature and the evolutionary inner journey that is called Yoga when pursued consciously?
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Vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti and Karmayoga
These passages from Sri Aurobindo’s writings help us deepen our understanding of the phrase वासुदेवः सर्वमिति from the Bhagavad Gita (7.19).
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Nature, a Collaborator of the New Consciousness (Video)
What is meant by Nature’s consent to collaborate in bringing forth a new world, a New Creation? Read the Mother’s explanation and enjoy a video.
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“In Nature one can live in beauty, always”
We highlight a few conversations of the Mother in which she focuses on the Beauty aspect of the Divine that is expressed through flowers and all Nature. This also includes its subtler aspect, namely, fragrance.
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In the Playhouse of Infinite Forms
From Guru Nanak to William Blake and Kahlil Gibran, from Tagore to Sri Aurobindo — immerse yourself in the beautiful poetic expressions the author shares of the Immanent Divine, the Divine present in myriad forms in Nature.
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Environmentalist, Ask Thyself -Is Nature She or It?
Environmentalist movement must become a loving service to a divine Mother Nature inspired by a sacred and enlightened devotion.
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Only Her Grace Makes Us Remember Her, Always
We celebrate the Mother’s birthday and the anniversary of the Golden Day with a special issue on the theme – The Mother’s Grace.
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Difficulties and the Mother’s Grace
We feature a few letters of Sri Aurobindo which remind us that only the Mother’s Grace can pull us out of any darkness or despondency we may fall into as we walk the sunlit path of Integral Yoga.
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The New Consciousness and Human Attitude
In this conversation with a disciple, dated 2 May 1956, the Mother explains clearly what it takes to perceive the working of a new consciousness in the earth-atmosphere. She reminds that if want the new supramental consciousness to transform us, we must open ourselves and make an effort to progress.
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Selections from ‘Prayers and Aspirations’
Read a few selections from Champaklal’s book Prarthana ane Udgaro, translated into English from Gujarati under the title Prayers and Aspirations by Sudha and Don Fisher. A biographical note about the author is also included.
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Reminiscences of the Mother’s Grace
In our Book of the Month feature, we highlight some precious reminiscences of K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran). They speak the working of the Mother’s Grace. The precise reason for featuring these extracts in the current issue has to do with the connection to the Supramental Manifestation of 29 February 1956.
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