On Nightmares, Dreams and Guru’s Protection
Holding a perfect quietude and faith within oneself and also calling for the Guru’s help protects one from nightmares and other attacks during sleep.
Holding a perfect quietude and faith within oneself and also calling for the Guru’s help protects one from nightmares and other attacks during sleep.
These selections from Sri Aurobindo’s letters highlight the necessity of work in Integral Yoga and guide us on how to open to the Mother’s force.
The Mother emphasises that peace is essential in order to become receptive to the descent of divine force, light and inspiration.
Equality is one of the twelve qualities that the Mother says we must cultivate within ourselves and progressively deepen as we walk the Sunlit Path. Through our varied offerings we have delved into various dimensions of equality. We also attempt to highlight relevant passages which throw much-necessary light on how to grow in equality, a state of inner samatā.
Sri Aurobindo explains the true meaning of equality. His letter dealing with samatā and loyalty to truth is especially relevant for our present times.
“A divine action or even a perfect human action is impossible if we have not equality of spirit and an equality in the motive-forces of our nature,” writes Sri Aurobindo.
The first obvious step to equality in the nature, according to Sri Aurobindo, will be the conquest of our emotional and vital being, for here are the sources of greatest trouble, the most rampant forces of inequality and subjection, the most insistent claim of our imperfection.
All this equalisation of the nature – in vital, mind and will – is a preparation for the highest spiritual equality to take possession of the whole being and make a pervading atmosphere in which the light, power and joy of the Divine can manifest itself in man amid an increasing fullness, writes Sri Aurobindo.
The Mother explains two of Sri Aurobindo’s phrases – namely, “strong immobility of an immortal spirit” and “the equality of soul”.
Sri Aurobindo gives practical advice on cultivating equality with regard to a sadhak’s interactions and relations with others.
A conversation of Sri Aurobindo with a few disciples on cultivating an attitude of equality toward food in spiritual life.
This prayer from the Mother’s Prayers and Meditations instills an aspiration to give oneself to the Divine in peace, serenity and equanimity for Divine’s work to be done.
In these passages from ‘The Human Cycle’, we read Sri Aurobindo’s description of the gains made by an intellectual religion of humanity.
Sri Aurobindo describes the inadequacy of an intellectual religion of humanity in bringing forth a true democracy based on liberty, equality and fraternity.
Sri Aurobindo gives us a profound understanding of one of the most popularly quoted phrases from the Bhagavad Gita – योगः कर्मसु कौशलम् or “Yoga is skill in works.” A special offering on International Day of Yoga.
Is there an essential difference between Indian and Western understanding of the true spirit of the democratic trinity of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity?
The Mother speaks of the necessity of equanimity in the body to receive the divine forces. She explains how to practice bodily equality at the cellular level.
In these passages the Mother speaks of Equality as the most essential condition for Supramental realisation on the earth. Her words on the significance of equality as a quality to be cultivated for living in Auroville are worth deep reflection.
How to look at misfortune with a true attitude of equality? We share the Mother’s comment on one of the aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo about this. We also feature a few of Sri Aurobindo’s letters about the significance of equality when confronted with suggestions or attacks by hostile forces.