The Ideal of Forgiveness – A Story by Sri Aurobindo
In this story, originally written in Bengali, Sri Aurobindo reminds of the high ideal of forgiveness that marks the Aryan character.
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“Europe is the land of enjoyment, India of sacrifice”
Sri Aurobindo writes of the kindness, generosity, self-control, charity and other noble qualities that he witnessed in the convicts in Alipore Jail.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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