Nature Aspires Too — Words of the Mother
The Mother’s words describing the ardent aspiration seen in nature — in trees, animals and particularly the flowers — make for a delightful reading.
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“A Yoga like this Needs Patience”
In several letters written to his disciples, Sri Aurobindo emphasised unlimited patience and perseverance because Integral Yoga demands a complete transformation of outer nature.
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Man and Nature
This issue is an invocation to the Supreme Force that is the Love of the Divine for the Humanity and the Earth, the Love that carries within it the Force and Power to awaken in both – man and nature – to the deep, hidden yearning for their highest and truest Nature, their Divinity.
Nature and Love
The Mother, in these passages, speaks of the intense yearning, the deep love and longing of Nature, its ardent prayer to Light. The same Love can awaken in us, the humans, an aspiration to seek the Oneness within, the truest Light within.
Sri Aurobindo’s Love for Man and Earth -1
Volume 1, Issue 9Author: Rishabhchand Editor’s Note: This article was first published in Sri Aurobindo Circle in 1955, and is presented here in four parts. Rishahbchand walks us through selected poetic and prose writings (primarily poetry) of Sri Aurobindo to illustrate the deep love Sri Aurobindo, the Self-realised Purna Yogi, has for the man and
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Sri Aurobindo’s Love for Man and Earth – 2
Sri Aurobindo’s love of man and earth is a love of God in man and earth, or rather of God as man and earth. That he did not develop it but was born with it, will be amply illustrated and confirmed by his writings, prose and poetical. No greater lover of man has ever been born, – of the entire being of man, and not only of his soul; and no greater prophet of man’s divine destiny.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Love for Man and Earth – 3
A dizzy height of lyrical magnificence is reached in the ‘Rose of God’, the crest-jewel of Sri Aurobindo’s shorter mystical poems, the iridescent Mantra of supra-mental transformation. His love of man and earth attains here a depth and concentrated intensity of expression which makes the poem at once an invocation and a revelation, a prayer, a prophecy and a promise.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Love for Man and Earth – 4
Sri Aurobindo’s love for man and earth is not humanism, idealistic or realistic; it is not an outcome of an emotional or imaginative idealism, nor an overflow from the widened heart of Spirit-touched sainthood. It is more than compassion and more than even the spiritual emotion born of inner identity. It is a beatific blossom of a complete and constant identification with the Divine who is everywhere, in Matter and Life as much as in the silent Spirit; and it is this union and identification that makes Sri Aurobindo declare in the inspired strain of the Vedic Rishis, “Matter is Brahman”
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