The Mother on True and Sublime Charity
Charity is often misunderstood and practiced ignorantly out of ego. Only a serene soul and self-mastery can lead to truly effective charity.
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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 Morality and Yoga
We often confuse or misinterpret the ‘good’ by limiting our understanding to a moral-ethical view of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, right and wrong. Sri Aurobindo wrote several letters explaining the core difference with between a moral life and spiritual life. A few are featured here.
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Of God, Universe, Good and Evil
These words of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother emphasise that Divine is beyond good and evil and that man moving Godwards must identify with the Divine.
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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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A Documentary on Peepal Farm, an Animal Rescue Farm
This documentary about an animal rescue farm reminds us of the Mother’s advice that one should always treat animals with respect, love and compassion.
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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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The Timeless Tradition of Storytelling – An Art that Educates, Inspires and Elevates (Video)
Deepa Kiran, award-winning storyteller of international repute and an experienced teacher-trainer in the art of storytelling shares about the power of storytelling.
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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सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः – May All be Free from Illness – 11
Read how walking or padayatra has been used traditionally and purposefully used in our culture with a deeper psychological or spiritual intent.
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