“To read Savitri is indeed to practise Yoga.”
After all that Sri Aurobindo had set forth in his major works, why he undertook another massive effort of literary creation, namely, Savitri?
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‘A Great Illuminative Power’ – Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry – Part 1
The author presents a few key facets of Sri Aurobindo’s poetry and poetics that she, a poet herself, finds most fascinating.
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A Splendour that Lit up the Suns
The author reminds that “if there is a highest point of meeting between Literature and Yoga, it has to be in the works of Sri Aurobindo.”
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Religion and Spirituality – Do the Two Ever Meet?
What is the nature of religion? And how is it connected with spirituality or yoga? This issue explores these and many other related questions.
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Religion – Helper or an Obstacle to Spiritual Life?
The Mother explains that religion can actually be a helper to those with spiritual destiny and sincerity of inner effort to realise the Divine.
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Religion, Yoga of Bhakti and the Conception of the Divine
Sri Aurobindo explains the commonalities and differences between popular religion and Yoga of Devotion. Fear of God, he says, has no place in true Bhakti.
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On Morality, Religion and Spirituality
We feature here a few selections from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother highlighting the important differences between a moral life, religious life and spiritual life.
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Attitude Toward Religion When You Come to Yoga
When one enters yoga, one must leave all the bondage and clingings of the past life. For a yogin, Divine alone is one’s religion, country, family, everything.
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Stilling the Mind and Tuning into Inner Silences
The author highlights the necessity of silencing the thoughts and vital movements as an essential foundation of the sadhana in the path of Integral Yoga.
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Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
Pointing out the nature of religion, the author highlights how religion while being a means of social cohesion can also become a source of conflict. He emphasises that because most religious oriented people tend to focus only on the external aspects, religion as such does not help in inner transformation. For that one must go on an inner search, the path of yoga.
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