Volume VI, Issue 7-8
Author: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Video: Suhas Mehra
Concept: Beloo Mehra
Editor’s Note: August 15 is a special day for all those who have turned to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. We celebrate the birthday of Sri Aurobindo, the Eternal Presence, the Maharishi, the Mahayogi, the Avatar who is guiding the onward march of Earth-consciousness to its inevitable destiny. But what should be the inner preparation with which we should approach this significant day? We don’t have to look far for an answer. Sri Aurobindo himself helps us in this regard.
We open the August 2025 issue with a special video curated for Renaissance featuring inspiring words from Sri Aurobindo. He gently guides us on how we can make every August 15 a definitive step in our inner progress on the Sunlit Path.
We have also included some important words of the Mother where she helps us clarify an essential point about “cause” and “effect.” These words are not to be missed by any aspirant on the path of Integral Yoga, or anyone who has turned to the teachings and vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
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The Full Address by Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo’s Birthday and the Birth of the Nation
The Mother Explains
Today, there came into my hands one of those greeting cards which people send on puja days or for the new year or other such festivals; and on this card was written something like this―I don’t recall the exact words―but anyway they were, “Greetings on the occasion of this memorable day of the birth of our nation.” It is sent by someone who, I think, proclaimed himself a disciple of Sri Aurobindo quite a long time ago….
That seemed to me one of those enormities which human stupidity alone can commit. If he had said: “On this memorable day of the birth of Sri Aurobindo and its natural consequence, the birth of the nation”, it would have been quite all right. But still, the important point was left out and the other mentioned, which is quite simply a consequence, a natural result: it had to be like that, it could not be otherwise.
But people always think like that, the wrong way up. Always. They take the effect for the cause, they glorify the effect and forget the cause.
And that is why the world walks on its head with its feet in the air. Quite simply, there is no other reason.
