Articles in: Spiritual

The Mother’s Withdrawal

The Mother’s Withdrawal

1 / Nov 13, 2013 5:05 AM

(A talk given in Auroville, on 28th November 1973) It was last week that a friend spoke to me of […]

The Ideal Student

The Ideal Student

0 / Nov 13, 2013 4:01 AM

Once Rishi Dattatreya was asked by King Yadu who his teacher was. In reply this is what he said: I […]

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 […]

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, […]

Old Spirituality and the New Way

Old Spirituality and the New Way

0 / Aug 12, 2013 4:02 AM

(This is a transcription of a talk given by Alok Pandey) There is a poem by Sri Aurobindo – ‘One […]

The Divine Power behind Personal Effort

The Divine Power behind Personal Effort

0 / Jul 27, 2013 4:00 AM

Always indeed it is the higher Power that acts. Our sense of personal effort and aspiration comes from the attempt […]

Getting the Full Benefit of an Experience

Getting the Full Benefit of an Experience

0 / Jul 12, 2013 4:03 AM

… the experience precedes and transcends by far the formulation you give it in your mind. The experience comes before, […]

The Supreme Presence

The Supreme Presence

0 / Jun 29, 2013 4:03 AM

Sweet Mother, is there a spiritual being in everybody? That depends on what we call “being”. If for “being” we […]

He is in you – He is you

He is in you – He is you

0 / Jun 8, 2013 4:03 AM

A resplendent sun rises above the horizon. It is your Lord that comes to you. The whole world awakes and […]

The Formula of Success

The Formula of Success

0 / May 18, 2013 4:04 AM

We move in an age whence the boundaries of well-defined parameters appear to be crumbling. The physical sciences, on one […]

The Science of Living

The Science of Living

0 / May 4, 2013 4:01 AM

An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget […]

All in One

All in One

1 / Apr 20, 2013 4:04 AM

“…he [the seeker of the integral yoga] has felt a Divinity who is all these things, a Bringer of Light, […]

A New Paradigm of Man

A New Paradigm of Man

0 / Apr 6, 2013 4:06 AM

‘Yoga is nothing else but practical psychology.’— Sri Aurobindo Introduction and Scope Psychology is often defined as the science of […]

The Hour of Heroism

The Hour of Heroism

0 / Apr 6, 2013 4:02 AM

For centuries and centuries humanity has waited for this time. It is come. But it is difficult. I don’t simply […]

Is it always for the Best?

Is it always for the Best?

0 / Mar 18, 2013 5:05 AM

 We often hear it being said that whatever happens is always for the best. We use it sometimes to console […]

Spiritual Life in Mother’s Light

Spiritual Life in Mother’s Light

2 / Feb 21, 2013 4:10 AM

In the spiritual life, even more than in other fields since the possibilities and the pitfalls are greater here, a […]

The Mother: The Nature of Her Work

The Mother: The Nature of Her Work

0 / Feb 21, 2013 4:05 AM

“In the Divine, by the Divine all is transfigured and glorified; in the Divine is found the key of all […]

The Goal is Sure

The Goal is Sure

0 / Jan 5, 2013 4:00 AM

If you are in a state of conscious aspiration and very sincere, well, everything around you will be arranged in […]

Divine Guidance behind Life

Divine Guidance behind Life

0 / Dec 20, 2012 4:22 AM

I can only state my own knowledge founded not on reasoning but on experience that there is such a guidance […]

The Passing of Sri Aurobindo

The Passing of Sri Aurobindo

0 / Dec 5, 2012 5:06 AM

Sri Aurobindo left his body on 5th December 1950. We publish here an article written by K. D. Sethna in […]

The Day of Siddhi

The Day of Siddhi

1 / Nov 23, 2012 4:30 AM

In order to understand the importance of this day it is necessary to go back to Sri Aurobindo’s experience in […]

Delight of Being

Delight of Being

0 / Nov 23, 2012 4:00 AM

There comes a time when one begins to be almost ready, when one can feel in everything, every object, in […]

Leaving the Path

Leaving the Path

0 / Nov 9, 2012 4:00 AM

When one draws back from the path, one draws back for the present life or… In this, you see, there […]

How to Have the Experience

How to Have the Experience

0 / Oct 25, 2012 4:00 AM

We read, we try to understand, we explain, we try to know. But a single minute of true experience teaches […]

The Way to Think

The Way to Think

1 / Oct 25, 2012 4:00 AM

If you know the point of balance, You can settle the details. If you can settle the details, You can […]

The Journey so Far

The Journey so Far

0 / Sep 25, 2012 10:27 AM

Man is a strange creature, to say the least. A mix of demon and god, he is yet to find […]

Preserving Faith

Preserving Faith

0 / Sep 25, 2012 10:25 AM

Can faith be increased by personal effort? Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It […]

Pressure of the Spirit

Pressure of the Spirit

0 / Sep 13, 2012 3:45 PM

The mental intelligence and its main power of reason cannot change the principle and persistent character of human life, it […]