The Ideal Friendship
0Human affection is obviously unreliable because it is so much bound up with selfishness and desire; it is a flame […]
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Musings on Surrender
1“True Surrender enlarges you; it increases your capacity; it gives you a greater measure in quality and in quantity which […]
The Pale Blue Dot
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Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have spoken a lot about the Earth and our spiritual journey and ultimate goal, and […]
The Other Point of View
0A student asked Suzuki Roshi why the Japanese make their teacups so thin and delicate that they break easily. “It’s […]
The Ideal Student
0Once Rishi Dattatreya was asked by King Yadu who his teacher was. In reply this is what he said: I […]
The Formula of Success
0We move in an age whence the boundaries of well-defined parameters appear to be crumbling. The physical sciences, on one […]
The Way to Think
1If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can […]
Inner Technology
0There is an outer technology of machinery and equipment which has made human life a little more comfortable. A lot […]
How is a Paradigm Formed?
0A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on the […]
More with Less
0We buy use and throw. Often we buy much more than we actually need. The whole consumerist culture is based […]
An Invaluable Gift
0There was once a king who decided to distribute costly robes amongst his nobles. One of them, given to fits […]
The Two Roads
0The Mother says that there is infinitely greater joy in giving rather than receiving. Whenever pleasure is felt for the […]
Spiritual, Religious and Personal Beliefs
0If we earnestly pursue the search for the spiritual dimension of man (and his health), we find ourselves far removed […]
Delays are not Denials
0Sri Ramakrishna walked across the paddy-fields in the vicinity of the Dakshineswar Temple. A few disciples were with him. To […]
Askesis for Knowledge
0The logical intelligence of man is a great obstacle for realising spiritual truths and in leading a religious life. This […]
Building Sandcastles
1A little boy is on his knees scooping and packing the sand with plastic shovels into a bright blue bucket. […]
Life on the Fast Lane
0The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways , but […]
Laughing with the Lord
0God’s laughter is sometimes very coarse and unfit for polite ears; He is not satisfied with being Moliere, He must […]
Pearls before Breakfast
0A man sat in a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold […]
The Power of Money
0Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars […]
Hell
0One who speaks untruth goes to Hell like one who, when he has done a thing, says: “I did not […]
The Path
0The best of all paths is the Eightfold Path; the best of all truths is the Fourfold Truth; the best […]
Pleasure
0One who gives himself entirely to what is unprofitable, who does not give himself to what is profitable, who sacrifices […]
Walking as Tirtha (pilgrimage)
0‘You road I enter upon and look around. I believe you are not all that is here, I believe that […]
Happiness
1Among those who hate, happy are we to live without hatred. Among men who hate, let us live free from […]
The Individual
0For nine thousand years society has depended upon its members as individuals for those creative achievements of mind and spirit […]
The Awakened One (The Buddha)
0He whose victory has never been surpassed nor even equalled—which path can lead to Him, the Pathless, the Awakened One who […]
Old Age
0Why this joy, this gladness, when the world is forever burning? O you who are enveloped in shadows, why do […]
Punishment
0All tremble when faced with punishment; all fear death. Seeing others as ourselves, do not strike, do not cause another […]
The Success of Failure
0It has been said in spiritual traditions that success is often a harder test to pass than failure. Truly, if […]
