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Nirvana and Human Consciousness by SRI AUROBINDO

Nirvana and Human Consciousness by SRI AUROBINDO

0 Dec 15, 2017 4:03 PM

In the following letters, Sri Aurobindo describes his major inner realisations. In the first letter, he describes his Nirvanic experiences […]

KARMA by the Mother

KARMA by the Mother

0 Jun 5, 2017 5:40 PM

(In this article, the Mother explains the consequences of one’s action—‘karma’—on the present and future births/lives and a very simple […]

Doing Away with Desire

Doing Away with Desire

0 Jun 29, 2016 4:03 AM

It is neither by moral precepts and observances, nor by a wide knowledge, nor by practising meditation, nor by a […]

The Importance of Finding the Strength Within

The Importance of Finding the Strength Within

0 Jun 29, 2016 4:01 AM

Life is often a struggle, outside and within. We are confronted with forces and circumstances which try to depress and […]

One Day (The Little More)

One Day (The Little More)

0 Feb 19, 2016 4:07 AM

One day, and all the half-dead is done, One day, and all the unborn begun; A little path and the […]

Action of the Supramental Force

Action of the Supramental Force

0 Feb 19, 2016 4:05 AM

Mother, this new force which is going to act, will it act through individual effort or independently of it? Why […]

Passing into the Supramental Consciousness

Passing into the Supramental Consciousness

0 Feb 19, 2016 4:03 AM

As the beginnings of the supramental life, which must be the next realisation in the unfolding of the universe, develop, […]

Life and Death

Life and Death

0 Jan 5, 2016 5:05 AM

Life, death, – death, life; the words have led for ages Our thought and consciousness and firmly seemed Two opposites; […]

The Ideal Friendship

The Ideal Friendship

0 Jan 5, 2016 5:04 AM

Human affection is obviously unreliable because it is so much bound up with selfishness and desire; it is a flame […]

Feelings as Experiences

Feelings as Experiences

0 May 6, 2015 5:04 AM

There is no law that a feeling cannot be an experience; experiences are of all kinds and take all forms […]

Descent of the Avatar

Descent of the Avatar

0 Mar 3, 2015 5:03 AM

The boy with the flute is Sri Krishna. The Lord descended into the world-play from the divine Ananda; his flute […]

The Divine gives Himself

The Divine gives Himself

0 Jan 29, 2015 4:05 AM

What is meant by “the Divine gives Himself”? It means exactly this: that the more you give yourself the more […]

Much Needed to Come Out of the Animal

Much Needed to Come Out of the Animal

0 Nov 24, 2014 4:03 AM

…the only thing which is very important for the moment is the change of consciousness. And don’t think that this […]

Judging

Judging

0 Sep 3, 2014 5:01 AM

Unless your vision is constantly the vision of the Divine in all things, you have not only no right but […]

Historicity of Krishna

Historicity of Krishna

0 Aug 5, 2014 5:03 AM

They say that the gospels are forgeries and Krishna a creation of the poets. Thank God then for the forgeries […]

Progress on the Path

Progress on the Path

0 Jun 12, 2014 4:00 AM

Sweet Mother, when we make an effort to do better but don’t see any progress, we feel discouraged. What is […]

Offer the Shadow

Offer the Shadow

0 May 14, 2014 4:05 AM

Examine thyself without pity, then thou wilt be more charitable and pitiful to others. – Sri Aurobindo Very good! It […]

To Walk Through Life

To Walk Through Life

0 Apr 16, 2014 4:06 AM

To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always […]

The Constant Mantra

The Constant Mantra

0 Mar 12, 2014 4:03 AM

If you desire only the Divine, there is an absolute certitude that you will reach the Divine, but all these […]

I Am With You

I Am With You

0 Feb 20, 2014 4:04 AM

“I am with you.” What does it mean exactly? When we pray or struggle with a problem within ourselves, are […]

The Most Essential Condition

The Most Essential Condition

0 Feb 1, 2014 4:03 AM

It is then by a transformation of life in its very principle, not by an external manipulation of its phenomena, […]

Rising above the Subhuman

Rising above the Subhuman

0 Jan 11, 2014 4:04 AM

The course of evolution proceeding from the vegetable to the animal, from the animal to the man, starts in the […]

Immortality

Immortality

0 Dec 14, 2013 4:25 AM

I have drunk deep of God’s own liberty From which an occult sovereignty derives: Hidden in an earthly garment that […]

The Importance of Sincerity

The Importance of Sincerity

0 Dec 14, 2013 4:04 AM

It is indeed possible even while fasting for very long periods to maintain the full energies and activities of the […]

The Need of a Spiritual Change

The Need of a Spiritual Change

0 Nov 13, 2013 4:05 AM

At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny; for a stage […]

The Power of No

The Power of No

0 Oct 19, 2013 4:02 AM

In the spiritual path, and also in our ordinary life, there are two questions, related to each other, which often […]

Orderly Work

Orderly Work

0 Sep 28, 2013 4:04 AM

This is a short story the Mother told the children at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram but it applies just as […]

No Politics

No Politics

0 Sep 28, 2013 4:03 AM

Sri Aurobindo withdrew from politics; and, in his Ashram, a most important rule is that one must abstain from all […]

Be Like the Elephant

Be Like the Elephant

0 Sep 14, 2013 4:01 AM

As the elephant on the battlefield endures the arrow shot from the bow, so also shall I patiently bear insult, […]

The Lord Knows Best What He Is Doing

The Lord Knows Best What He Is Doing

0 Aug 12, 2013 4:05 AM

I took my seat, it was almost time, perhaps half a minute before, and all of a sudden, without preparation, […]