Psychic Being and Progress: Words of the Mother
These selections help us understand the relation of psychic being and soul, and the progressive quality of the psychic being.
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Progress and Perfection: Words of the Mother
The deep influence of the Western intellectual frameworks of modernist and postmodernist kind have led the modern mind to look at both the words — Progress and Perfection — in somewhat narrow and limited manner and often in a superficial way. This has also led to a certain kind of mental prejudice and bias. These selections help us remove these intellectual cobwebs and gain a deeper dimension to these ideas of Progress and Perfection.
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The Mahakali Aspect of the Divine Mother
As an offering on the Mother’s 144th birthday and given our theme of Progress, we focus on the Mahakali aspect of the Divine Mother.
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Ancient Hindu Cyclical Theory of Evolution
Drawing upon some key insights from Hindu scriptures, Sri Aurobindo explains that the Hindu mind has never admitted the principle of linear progress in Nature.
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Sacrifice and Egoism – PART III
The author highlights the dangers of half-lights and small illuminations on the paths of the spirit. He also gives a simple test by which the value and true origin of experiences and phases of change of consciousness may be estimated.
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Sacrifice and Egoism – PART IV
Continued from Part III If any proof were needed of the immanence and validity of the law of sacrifice in our universe, we have only to look about us to see it demonstrated everywhere. The blows of fate, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that fall upon individuals, communities, nations, from every direction and,
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“Only One Force Acting in the World”
What is the nature of the Divine Force? What are the conditions for its working? Can the divine force help develop new powers, bring in new knowledge, change the character?
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Sacrifice and Egoism – PART I
The author reminds us that it is the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation that are the central practical concern of every human being striving to fulfil the purpose of his life on earth. The errors are inevitable; indeed, they are the means of fulfilment, the fertiliser by which the seed of the spirit is made to grow and fructify on the plane of human life.
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Sacrifice and Egoism – PART II
The author writes that sacrifice is commonly thought of as leaving the participant worse off than he was – except for the anticipation of any calculated reward or quid pro quo. Or it may be associated with atonement or punishment for wrongs done. Nothing, of course, could be farther from the intention or effect of the sacrifice which is to be performed by the Spirit of Man if he is to achieve his true destiny.
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Aspiration is to be Developed, Tended, Kept Awake and Living
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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Agni, the Divine Will-Force, the Priest of the Sacrifice
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
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
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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Sri Aurobindo on Isha Upanishad – Part 6
The last 2 verses of Isha Upanishad are Rishi’s powerful invocations to Gods Surya and Agni who alone can uplift him and open still higher vistas of Light and Power leading to the final goal of Immortality while still living on earth for a full span of life.
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Siddhi Day, the Descent of the Overmind God
Presented here is an eye-witness account of the evening of November 24, 1926, along with the Mother’s explanation of the true significance of this siddhi for the new manifestation.
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Yogic Initiation and Aptitude – No Free Pass
We find here deeper meaning of spiritual call, initiation, adhikāra and the importance of endurance and steadfastness in the path of the Integral Yoga.
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Sri Aurobindo on Isha Upanishad – Part 5
Explaining verses 15 and 16, which invoke the Sun God, the author illustrates the close relationship that exists between the Upanishads and the Veda.
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Goddess Durga and the Festival of Devi: An Inner Meaning (Part 1)
Though outwardly the festival of Durga Puja symbolizes the victory of Truth over falsehood, this 3-part essay explores the festival’s deeper, inner significance concerning the process of individual and cosmic evolution.
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