Cultivate Goodness and Kindness toward Animals
The author summarises the right attitude of compassion, kindness and respect one must cultivate toward all living creatures.
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Goodness in Bhartrihari’s Nitishataka
Sri Aurobindo’s free renderings into English of Bhartrihari’s Nitishataka is a delightful reading. We feature a few verses related to the theme of Goodness.
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Pursuit of Goodness – A Resource for Teachers
This writeup featuring some aphorisms of Bhartrihari from his Nitishatakam, is included in a book titled “The Aim of Life.”
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Resolving the Inner Revolts by Calling the Mother
Shobha Mitra shares an incident when she was in the grip of jealousy which the Mother made completely disappear from her being.
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Goodness and Fragrance of Sweet Alison
Just like the fragrance of Sweet Alyssum, also known as Sweet Alison, spreads all around in the garden attracting honeybees, butterfliers and other pollinators, goodness also spreads its fragrance all around. Read a sweet story about goodness here.
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Sādhanā: To Transfigure Egoism into Goodness
This prayer reminds us to take refuge in Divine Love to transfigure our consciousness and manifest goodness.
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Major Somnath Sharma, PVC – The ‘Saviour of Kashmir’ (Part 2)
We continue with part 2 of the biography of Major Somnath Sharma, the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra in independent India.
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Courage Our Armour, Faith Our Sword, We Must Walk
We explore Courage through several viewpoints for it is an essential quality on the path of yoga of transformation – on individual and collective level.
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Having a Taste for the Supreme Adventure
These three selections from the Mother’s works speak of courage as one of the fundamental requisites for the path of sadhana.
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Sri Aurobindo on the Aryan Ideal of Courage
An important writing of Sri Aurobindo, published in Arya in September 1914, in which he answers the question – What is the significance of the name, “Arya”.
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Get Rid of Fear, Distrust and Despair
The Mother emphasises the necessity of getting rid of fear, distrust, despair and face all challenges with courage if we aspire to walk the path of sadhana.
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To Face Everything in Life Without a Shudder
The Mother explains that true courage is courage with the full knowledge of all the possibilities and is ready to face everything without exception.
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Of Life and War: Sri Aurobindo on Kurukshetra
Sri Aurobindo considers closely the situation from which the Gita arises, “in its largest bearings as a type of human life and even of all world-existence.”
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Stories of Courage as Told by the Mother
The Mother used the art of storytelling most sweetly and effectively to inculcate higher and nobler values. Let us read a few of her stories on Courage.
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Sādhanā: To Become a Truly Strong Being
This prayer from the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations, reminds us to break all the resistances and aspire to be a courageous instrument of the Supreme Mother.
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The Conquest of India by the English
Sri Aurobindo give us a deeper understanding of the principal reasons why the mighty India could be easily conquered by the British.
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On Courage and Nationalism
These bold and spirited passages from Bande Mataram give us a deeper view of nationalism based in courage — making them highly relevant for our times.
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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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Something of the Stuff of the Hero and of the Titan
Featuring a passage from Sri Aurobindo with the Mother’s commentary, which reminds of what is necessary at this critical moment of our evolutionary crisis.
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