These selected passages from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother give us practical guidance on how to handle the sources of disharmony in human relations in daily life. These sources include narrowmindedness, dislike and fault-finding in others.
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Beloo Mehra weaves together some insights on love and human relationships from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with examples from Indian literary tradition.
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The focus in this part is on nature of the human love and how it gets limited and distorted with impurities such as vital attractions, surface emotions, expectations and possessiveness. Human love can be taken as a practice ground to expand and purify oneself to receive the universal force of love.
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The author highlights the words of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to throw light on the origin and nature of parental love and love between family relations and friends. We also see how human love and relationships can never satisfy the deep thirst for love which can only be quenched by the divine love.
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How important are human relations in larger scheme of life and our spiritual destiny? A Zen story highlights the attitudes of detachment and equanimity.
Make Not a Bond of Love Read More »
Read selected words of Sri Aurobindo on himself on various subjects such as his difficulties in life and work and his reasons for leaving politics. Don’t miss his replies to questions on his past lives.
Sri Aurobindo on Himself: Life, Work, Past Lives Read More »
These selections help us understand the psychological foundations of altruism, its limits and potentiality for facilitating true self-development of the being.
Sri Aurobindo on Ego, Altruism and Self-development Read More »
Charity is often misunderstood and practiced ignorantly out of ego. Only a serene soul and self-mastery can lead to truly effective charity.
The Mother on True and Sublime Charity Read More »
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.
The Mahakali Aspect of the Divine Mother Read More »