Practicing Higher Virtues as Aids to Evolution
We feature here three passages from Sri Aurobindo which give us a deep understanding of the inner significance of practicing higher virtues.
The Generous and the Avaricious
We feature here an excerpt from a conversation between a group of children and the Mother where she explains that both generosity and avarice are deformations of a higher truth.
The More Money We Have, the More We Need…
The Mother explains that money is a force of nature which creates harmonious balance if circulated and utilised for its true work.
Goodness in Sri Aurobindo’s Aphorisms
We feature here some comments of the Mother on three aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo. These words reveal for us a deeper meaning of practicing goodness toward all.
Vishnu’s Fourth Stride, from Humanity to Divinity
An offering for April 4 and April 24 – an essay summarising the new future which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother brought down with their Supramental Yoga.
The Manifestation of the Mother of Ananda
This offering for April 24, the date of second and final arrival of the Mother in Pondicherry, gives a peek into the Yogic work of the Mother.
Sri Aurobindo on the Essence of Ethics
Like others parts of our being, the ethical being is also a growth and a seeking towards the absolute, the divine, which can only be attained securely in the suprarational.
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.
Sri Aurobindo on the Principle of Evil
An answer to a question many ask – if there is a God and if He is All-love, sarvamaṅgalam, why does He create evil or, if He does not create it, why permits it.
The Perfection of the Kshatriya Soul-Force
Sri Aurobindo helps us understand the Kshatriya turn of the nature and the integral perfection it can arrive at with the Yoga of Self-perfection.
Psychic Being and Progress: Words of the Mother
These selections help us understand the relation of psychic being and soul, and the progressive quality of the psychic being.
Progress and Perfection: Words of the Mother
The deep influence of the Western intellectual frameworks of modernist and postmodernist kind have led the modern mind to look at both the words — Progress and Perfection — in somewhat narrow and limited manner and often in a superficial way. This has also led to a certain kind of mental prejudice and bias. These selections help us remove these intellectual cobwebs and gain a deeper dimension to these ideas of Progress and Perfection.
The Mahakali Aspect of the Divine Mother
As an offering on the Mother’s 144th birthday and given our theme of Progress, we focus on the Mahakali aspect of the Divine Mother.
Ancient Hindu Cyclical Theory of Evolution
Drawing upon some key insights from Hindu scriptures, Sri Aurobindo explains that the Hindu mind has never admitted the principle of linear progress in Nature.
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.
Sacrifice and Egoism – PART IV
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 individuals, communities, nations, from every direction and, …
“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?
Sacrifice and Egoism – PART I
The author reminds us that it is the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation that are the central practical concern of every human being striving to fulfil the purpose of his life on earth. The errors are inevitable; indeed, they are the means of fulfilment, the fertiliser by which the seed of the spirit is made to grow and fructify on the plane of human life.
Sacrifice and Egoism – PART II
The author writes that sacrifice is commonly thought of as leaving the participant worse off than he was – except for the anticipation of any calculated reward or quid pro quo. Or it may be associated with atonement or punishment for wrongs done. Nothing, of course, could be farther from the intention or effect of the sacrifice which is to be performed by the Spirit of Man if he is to achieve his true destiny.