Doing Good by Conquering Oneself
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother emphasise that the best way to do good for the world is to win victories over the weaknesses in our nature.
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From the Dhammapada: On Goodness and Vigilance
Highlighted are the Mother’s comments on selected verses from the Dhammapada emphasising vigilance over one’s feelings and thoughts.
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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 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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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 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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Having a Taste for the Supreme Adventure
These three selections from the Mother’s works speak of courage as one of the fundamental requisites for the path of sadhana.
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Get Rid of Fear, Distrust and Despair
The Mother emphasises the necessity of getting rid of fear, distrust, despair and face all challenges with courage if we aspire to walk the path of sadhana.
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To Face Everything in Life Without a Shudder
The Mother explains that true courage is courage with the full knowledge of all the possibilities and is ready to face everything without exception.
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Stories of Courage as Told by the Mother
The Mother used the art of storytelling most sweetly and effectively to inculcate higher and nobler values. Let us read a few of her stories on Courage.
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Arka, the ‘Courage’ Crown Flower
This flower-meditation on Arka, the ‘Courage’ flower beautifully blends some profound reflections on faith and sadhana with a story from the Mahabharata.
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Dare to Journey High (Poem)
This poem speaks of the “steely serenity” that we need to go through the ups and downs of life, and also of a spirit of boldness and courage and devotion with which to take everything as a means to rise higher.
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Sādhanā: “How Great Must be Thy Patience!”
Featured here is a selection from the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations, with an aspiration that this be the Light illuminating and purifying all our movements.
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Sacrifice and Egoism – PART III
The author highlights the dangers of half-lights and small illuminations on the paths of the spirit. He also gives a simple test by which the value and true origin of experiences and phases of change of consciousness may be estimated.
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Sacrifice and Egoism – PART IV
Volume III, Issue 2Author: A.L. Crampton Chalk Continued from Part III If any proof were needed of the immanence and validity of the law of sacrifice in our universe, we have only to look about us to see it demonstrated everywhere. The blows of fate, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that fall upon
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“Only One Force Acting in the World”
What is the nature of the Divine Force? What are the conditions for its working? Can the divine force help develop new powers, bring in new knowledge, change the character?
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“It isn’t the forces that are limited, it is the receptivity” – Words of the Mother
In this passage, the Mother speaks of how one may draw on the universal vital force and how one may increase the receptivity to the higher force.
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Receptivity to the Force for Work: Words of Sri Aurobindo
How to become more receptive to the yogic force as we walk the sunlit path of yoga of works? Sri Aurobindo gives us practical guidance.
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The Sword-Lily: Of Gladiators and Receptivity
The same word Gladius is the root for gladiator, a fighter who fights against wild beasts with the help of his sword. A sword by itself wields no strength, unless the hand that holds it has immense courage. While the gladiator has the courage to receive the wild beasts knowing he can fight against them with total strength and surrender, a man who is on a spiritual quest does the same and is no less than a gladiator.
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