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Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Sri Aurobindo on truth, falsehood, error and the reason for evil on earth.

We have come not for Peace but for Victory, because in a world governed by the hostile forces Victory must come before Peace. (The Mother)

 

Contents

I. THE RIDDLE OF THIS WORLD

1. The Riddle of This World

II. THE TRUTH

1. What is the Truth
2. The Truth of Each Being
3. Truth Will Triumph
4. Falsehood and Truth
5. Choosing the Truth
6. Gradations of Truth
7. Let Us Serve the Truth
8. Truth in Speech
9. Truth in Science and Yoga

III. IGNORANCE AND FALSEHOOD

1. Ignorance – Its Origin and Nature
2. Ignorance – Its Remedy
3. Out of the Sevenfold Ignorance towards the Sevenfold Knowledge
4. The Origin of Falsehood, Error, Suffering and Evil
5. The Problem of Error
6. The Problem of Falsehood and Evil
7. Why are We Burdened With the Sense of Good and Evil?
8. Why is the Creation Made of Falsehood?

IV. THE VICTORY OVER HOSTILE FORCES

1. The Powers of Darkness and Their Workings
2. The Remedy
3. The Conquest of the Hostile Forces

V. YOGA AND HOSTILE FORCES

1. The Hostile Forces and the Difficulties of Yoga
2. Attacks by the Hostile Forces
3. Dealing with Hostile Attacks
4. How is one to meet Adverse Forces that are Invisible and yet quite Living?
5. Cling to Truth

 

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I had a clear vision of the two kinds of opposites in nature (not only in nature but in life) which almost everyone carries within himself: one is the possibility of realization, the other is the path chosen to attain it. There is always (it’s probably inevitable) the stormy path of struggle, and then there is the sunlit path. After much study and observation, I have had a sort of “spiritual ambition” (if it can be called that) to bring to the world a sunlit path, to eliminate the necessity for struggle and suffering: something that aspires to replace this present phase of universal evolution with a less painful phase. (The Mother)

The 1st part contains text excerpts from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The 2nd part is the complete edition of the Mother’s work “The Sunlit Path”. The 3rd part contains excerpts from Sri Aurobindo’s main work “Savitri”.

 

Contents

I. SOME REMARKS OF THE PATHFINDERS

1. The Hour of God
2. The Law of the Way
3. This is Thy Work and the Aim of Thy Being
4. The Burden of Humanity
5. Preparation of the Sunlit Path
6. Conditions to Follow the Sunlit Path
7. The Path of Integral Yoga – A Spiritual Adventure
8. The Path
9. The Sunlit Path to Divine Grace

II. MAKE OF THY DAILY WAY A PILGRIMAGE

1. The Call
2. The Value of Education
3. Morality, Religion, Yoga
4. Surrender, Self-Offering, Humility
5. Sincerity, Vigilance, Will-Power
6. Other Persons and Forces
7. Courage, Endurance, Effort
8. Receptivity and Aspiration
9. Concentration, Meditation, Work
10. The Divine Work
11. Peace and Quiet
12. The Spirit and the Psychic Being
13. The Ego and Self-Giving
14. Faith and the Grace
15. Controlling One’s Thoughts
16. Developing the Mind and Senses
17. Mundane Affairs
18. Words, Opinions, Judgments
19. Virtue, Purity, Freedom
20. Effort, Patience, Progress
21. The Divine, the World and Man

III. THE ODYSSEY OF THE PSYCHIC BEING

1. Introduction
2. The Breadths and Depths of Our Psychic Complex
3. The Awakening
4. The Influence of the Psychic Presence
5. After-Life and Rebirth
6. Natal Home of the Psychic Being in the World-Soul
7. The Two Dimensions of Psychic Growth
8. The Adventure of Ignorance
9. Odyssey of the Psychic Being on the Ocean of Inconscient
10. Central Conflict of the Psychic Being
11. The Divine Mother and the Psychic Being
12. The Psychic Being Calls the Divine Mother to Manifest in Matter

 

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A compilation from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the four aspects – Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati - and the twelve attributes of the Divine Mother – sincerity, humility, gratitude, perseverance, aspiration, receptivity, progress, courage, goodness, generosity, equanimity, peace.

"The Mother comes in order to bring down the supramental and it is the descent which makes her full manifestation here possible.

There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. The Mother stands for all three, but she is working here in the body to bring down something not yet expressed in this material world so as to transform life here – it is so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force.

It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos and the law of the cosmos – transforming it by a slow evolution. The greater transformation comes from the Transcendent above the universe, and it is that transcendent Grace which the embodiment of the Mother is there to bring into action." (Sri Aurobindo)

 

Contents

I. POWERS OF THE MOTHER

• Mother’s Symbol
• Three Ways of Being of the Mother
• Four Great Aspects of the Mother
• Other Great Personalities of the Divine Mother

II. TWELVE ATTRIBUTES OF THE MOTHER

• Introduction – Twelve Attributes
• Sincerity
• Humility
• Gratitude
• Perseverance
• Aspiration
• Receptivity
• Progress
• Courage
• Goodness
• Generosity
• Equanimity
• Peace

III. THE ONE WHOM WE ADORE AS THE MOTHER (Selections from Savitri)

• The Light of the Supreme
• Invocation
• Answer
• Incarnation
• The Birth of the Flame
• The Childhood of the Incarnate Flame (1879 – 1886)
• Youth
• The Journey
• 1914 – The Meeting
• Her Work
• Yoga
• Her Little World
• 1950
• 1956
• Bearing the Burden of Universal Love
• Night
• The Everlasting Day
• The Transformation

APPENDIX

• Sketch of the Mother’s Life

 

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The Lord and the world, even when they seem to be distinct, are not really different from each other; they are one Brahman. (Sri Aurobindo)

Creation is not a making of something out of nothing or of one thing out of another, but a self-projection of Brahman into the conditions of Space and Time. (Sri Aurobindo)

 

Contents

I. BRAHMAN: ONENESS OF GOD AND THE WORLD (Words of Sri Aurobindo)

1. Brahman – The Unity
2. Transitional Thought – The Many
3. The Running of the Gods
4. The Principle of Life
5. Transitional Thought – The Waters
6. The Vision of the Brahman

II. THE DIVINE AND THE WORLD (Words of the Mother)

1. Understanding the Creation and the Creator
2. A Story to Understand the How of Creation
3. Descent of the Divine Love and an Uninterrupted Ascent
4. How Were Gods and Goddesses Born?
5. Divine Mother – The Creatrix
6. The Creation Is Not an Illusion
7. The Creation Is Not a Bad Joke
8. The Creation Is Not a “Fall”
9. The Why of Creation
10. The Purpose of Creation
11. The Intention of Nature
12. The Goal
13. Some Childish Notions
14. The Idea of “God the Creator”
15. The Seventh Creation
16. The Creation of Equilibrium
17. No Beginning, No End
18. The Whither of Creation
19. What is Being Done in the Eternity of Time
20. Universe: The Manifestation of the Divine
21. Who is He?
22. If All is He, Why We Do Not Feel Him
23. Creation and the Creator Are Not Separate
24. The Cause and Remedy of All Deformations
25. The Universe is Essentially Delight
26. Is it the Best that Happens at Every Minute?
27. Why a Progressive Universe
28. Time and Space
29. Consciousness: The Fundamental Thing in Existence
30. Central Motive of Terrestrial Existence
31. A Consciousness Simultaneously Individual and Total
32. Unity in Diversity
33. Beings on the Other Planets
34. The Final Goal!

 

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This book is an attempt to develop a deeper insight and love for nature through her infinite moods and expressions; the rocks, the trees, the animals, the sun, the wind, the rain and the storm and to perceive in them the vibrant energy, the secret consciousness, the Divine presence.

 

Contents

I. THE CREATION

1. The Mother and Nature
2. He is in you, He is you
3. The Secret of Nature
4. Evolution in Nature

II. THE WORLD OF MATTER

1. Body of the God
2. Secret Consciousness
3. Love in Stones

III. THE WORLD OF PLANTS

1. Love and Aspiration in Plants
2. Contact with the Psychic
3. An Experience
4. Speaking Vegetable

IV. THE WORLD OF ANIMALS

1. Instinct in Animals
2. Wonderful Creatures
3. Do Animals have an Ill-Will?
4. Perversion begins with the Human Species
5. To Understand Animals

V. ONENESS WITH NATURE

1. Dialogue with Nature

VI. MAN, BEYOND MAN

1. The Striving of Animals
2. Man – the Higher Being
3. The Touch of Love
4. Already God is near, the Truth is close

 

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INTRODUCTION

Savitri, it has been said, is ‘the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo’s vision’.

Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), who was educated in England, was called upon to play many parts during his lifetime. He was a lecturer in French and English literature, a revolutionary nationalist and political leader, an editor and writer on philosophy, political theory and Indology, a literary critic, and a yogi and spiritual guide. However, it was as a poet that he consistently saw himself, and it was to the writing of poetry that he always reverted whenever the pressure of his other activities allowed. His first verses were published when he was a boy of about ten, and shortly before his death, in his 78th year, he was concentrating on the revision of his great epic, Savitri.

Of his poetic output, which included drama and translations, Savitri was his master-work, and in one form or another he was probably working on it for over fifty years. In his earliest version, it was simply a poetic retelling and elaboration of an episode from the Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata, in which, as in Euripides’ Alcestis, a devoted wife wins back her husband from the power of Death. Later in his life, after the intensive practice of his Integral Yoga had begun at Pondicherry, and following his meeting with a French spiritual seeker subsequently known as ‘The Mother’, Sri Aurobindo’s treatment of the Savitri motif changed so that it became the record of his own and the Mother’s spiritual experience, and the vehicle for his entire teaching. The legendary tale became symbolic of the conquest of Death and of the perfecting of human life on earth: its epic theme the adventure of consciousness evolving towards its fulfilment in Divinity.

The structure of the completed poem may be outlined briefly as follows. It begins with a symbol dawn – the summoning of consciousness asleep in matter – seen in an actual dawn, the dawn of Satyavan’s last day upon earth, and the awakening of Savitri his wife, and the summons to her to confront Satyavan’s mortal fate.

The following cantos of Books II and III tell of the events leading to this day of crisis. They describe the personal sadhana (yogic discipline) of Savitri’s father, Aswapati, before her birth. He is the ‘Traveller of the Worlds’, who systematically explores the many planes or dimensions of existence, personal and cosmic, which are subliminal to our norm al awareness. He remains unsatisfied in his search for the meaning of earth-life, which appears doomed to frustration and suffering.

Holding to his naked intent, Aswapati invokes the Transcendent in the person of the Divine Mother, and asks on behalf of humanity his boon,

For knowledge to enter the darkness of the world
And love to rule a realm of strife and hate.

He asks for an incarnation whose intervention may break the iron law of nature as it is.

Books IV to VI tell the story of the Divine’s response: the birth of Savitri, her growing up, her meeting with Satyavan and their mutual love. Narad, the heavenly sage, foretells Satyavan’s tragic death after twelve months, but Savitri remains undeterred in her choice. Books VII and VIII describe Savitri’s own sadhana to realise the Divine Consciousness, and how, on the fated day, Death comes and takes Satyavan’s life a s predicted.

Books IX to XI contain the great debate between Savitri and Death for the life of Satyavan. Defeated at last by the revelation of Savitri’s true nature, Death vanishes into the void from which he came. There remains a final dialogue between Savitri and an ‘ensnaring voice’, which offers her the false choice between heaven and earth, and urges her to enter the transcendent fields of light, since Nature is incapable of redemption. But Savitri is open to the aspiration and cry ‘of the magnificent soul of man on earth’ and refuses to abandon him for any personal salvation. In a superb climax of poetic inspiration Sri Aurobindo closes Book Eleven with the affirmation of the Divine Mother that Savitri has been speaking with Her own voice, and that she and Satyavan are ‘A dual power of God in an ignorant world’ born to lift earth-beings to immortality.

An Epilogue describes Savitri’s return home with Satyavan. It is the night succeeding the day on which he was to die. Together they await the breaking of a greater dawn.

A selection from the epic such as that which follows must inevitably be a personal one. It is hoped, none the less, that there will be advantages: newcomers to the poem will not have to face its daunting length of nearly 24,000 lines, while others who know and love the work may find here a more compact and portable edition of the finest passages. Ultimately the hope of all selectors and editors must be that their work will lead people to the source from which they have drawn.

In 1946 Sri Aurobindo told K.D. Sethna, who corresponded with him on the poem, that Savitri was to be ‘A sort of poetic philosophy of the Spirit and of Life’. It was not, however, to be a product of thought in the usual sense – not a kind of versified textbook on metaphysics. Sri Aurobindo once said, ‘It is out of a silent mind that I write whatever comes ready shaped from above’, so that Savitri is, rather, the poetic creation of a seer who was concerned with the age-old preoccupations: God, Light, Freedom and Immortality.

This point was emphasised by Sri Krishnaprem (Ronald Nixon) in an early review, when he Wrote, ‘Savitri is neither subjective fantasy nor yet mere philosophical thought, but vision and revelation of the actual structure of the Cosmos and of the pilgrim of life within its sphere.’ It is this visionary, revelatory element in Savitri that gives it its unique quality.

Such a poem is not to be judged by existing literary criteria, for it is something new. A critical reader, demanding an elliptical concision, may find it diffuse and of unacceptable length; he may react, too, against some variations on the same theme and the reiterated use of certain words, several of them seeming abstract.

The long poem, it is true, has become unfashionable, but Sri Aurobindo aimed, he said, ‘Not at a minimum but at an exhaustive exposition of [his] world-vision or world-interpretation,’ and the repetition, also, was deliberate; helping to create a cumulative resonance and generative mood. He was aware of its likely rejection by ‘the common reader’, and wrote that ‘A new kind of poetry demands a new mentality in the recipient as well as in the writer.’ This new type of reader ‘must be open to this kind of poetry, able to see the spiritual vision it conveys ...’ because Savitri is ‘the record of a seeing, of an experience which is not of the common kind and is often very far from what the general human mind sees and experiences.’

It is a help, in reading the poem, to approach it with as calm and silent a mind as possible, and to relate to it with as much receptivity as one can. It will then create its own mantric effect upon the mind, and lead in fact to a meditation. Indeed, the Mother once said, ‘To read Savitri is ... to practise yoga, spiritual concentration. One can discover there all that is needed to find the Divine.’

 

Contents

I. INTRODUCTION

1. Savitri – This Wonderful Prophetic Poem
2. Savitri – the Divine Mother
3. The Composition of Savitri

II. A VISION OF HIGHER REALMS THAN OURS

1. The Supramental Vision and Its Expression

III. THE CREATIVE WORD

1. Theory of the Mantra
2. Poetic Vision and the Mantra
3. The Poetry of the Future

IV. SAVITRI – THE DIVINE WORD

1. Savitri – The Sun-Word
2. Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol
3. Savitri – A Revelation
4. The Extraordinary Power of Savitri
5. Messages from the Mother

V. SAVITRI – THE SONG OF THE INFINITE AND ETERNAL (Selections from Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri)

1. The Book of Beginnings

Canto 1: The Symbol Dawn

1. Dark Beginning
2. The Revelation and the Flame
3. The God-Light
4. Mortality and the Eternal’s Touch
5. Savitri’s Inner Conflict
6. The Day of Satyavan’s Death

Canto 2: The Issue

1. The Many-Imaged Past
2. Savitri and the God of Love
3. The Immortal and the Snare of Time
4. A Magic Leverage
5. The Victory for God in Man

Canto 3: The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Soul’s Release

1. The Seer, Savitri’s Father
2. The Growing Divinity
3. Aswapati’s Growth into Larger Self
4. A Magical Accord
5. The Inner Planes
6. Time’s Drama
7. New Discovery
8. Silent Self
9. Beyond Thought
10. The Unseen Guide
11. Inspiration
12. The Universe as God’s Body
13. Release from Ignorance

Canto 4: The Secret Knowledge

1. Our Forgotten Vastnesses
2. In Great Lonely Hours
3. The Labour of the Earth Goddess
4. The Immortals Vision
5. Time’s Fulfilment
6. The Certitude of our Divine Destiny
7. Dream Truth
8. He and She
9. The Self-Determining Absolute
10. A Nameless Resident
11. The Voyager Soul

Canto 5: The Yoga of the King: The Yoga of the Spirit’s Freedom and Greatness

1. The Eternal’s Promise
2. The Tessellated Whole
3. Towards the Eternal
4. The Transforming Descent
5. Mind – A Mediator Divinity
6. The Hierarchy of Worlds

2. The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds

Canto 1: The World-Stair

1. The Ascending World Hierarchy
2. Ladder Towards Deity
3. The Mystery’s Process

Canto 2: The Kingdom of Subtle Matter

1. Earth-Nature’s Origins
2. Our Lives and Divine Intimations
3. Earth’s Forms and Man’s Art
4. The Finite Perfection and the Immeasurable

Canto 3: The Glory and the Fall of Life

1. The Heavens of Light

Canto 4: The Kingdoms of the Little Life

1. The Formless Yearning
2. The Birth of Sense

Canto 5: The Godheads of the Little Life

1. The Deeper Vision of the Spirit
2. The Divine Influx

Canto 6: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life

1. Death – A Passage to New Worlds
2. The Certitude of God’s Descent

Canto 7: The Descent into Night

1. Life: Its Obverse and Reverse Faces
2. The Abysm of Hell

Canto 8: The World of Falsehood, the Mother of Evil and the Sons of Darkness

1. Aswapati Crosses the World of Falsehood

Canto 9: The Paradise of the Life-Gods

1. The Life Heavens

Canto 10: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind

1. The Human Ascent
2. Reason and the Infinite
3. Great Thoughts

Canto 11: The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind

1. The Spirit of Mind
2. Eternal Truth

Canto 12: The Heavens of the Ideal

1. The Deathless Rose
2. Our Hidden Centres
3. The Deathless Flame

Canto 13: In the Self of Mind

1. The Source of Knowledge
2. The Mind-Self

Canto 14: The World-Soul

1. Entry into the World-Soul
2. The Interval Between Birth and Birth
3. The Supreme Power

Canto 15: The Kingdoms of the Greater Knowledge

1. Overmind and Oversoul

3. The Book of the Divine Mother

Canto 1: The Pursuit of the Unknowable

1. The One

Canto 2: The Adoration of the Divine Mother

Self and World

1. The Everlasting Yes
2. The Experience of the All-Beautiful
3. The Vision of the Supreme Mother
4. The Descent of the Mother-Might

Canto 3: The House of the Spirit and the New Creation

1. Aspiration
2. The Universal Soul

Canto 4: The Vision and the Boon

1. The Advent of the Divine Mother
2. Aswapati and the Divine Mother
3. Savitri and Her Mission

4. The Book of Birth and Quest

Canto 1: The Birth and Childhood of the Flame

1. The Cycle of the Seasons
2. Savitri’s Body

Canto 2: The Growth of the Flame

1. The Truth of Ethics and Philosophy
2. The Divine Word
3. Towards Love’s Universality

Canto 3: The Call to the Quest

1. The Working of the Mantra

Canto 4: The Quest

1. Savitri’s Memory-Waking Quest
2. Divine Providence
3. Yogis and Nature
4. The Fateful Search

5. The Book of Love

Canto 1: The Destined Meeting-Place

1. The Meeting-Place

Canto 2: Satyavan

1. The Meeting
2. The Significance of the Meeting
3. The Truth of Love
4. Fitness to Receive Love
5. Affinity Revealed

Canto 3: Satyavan and Savitri

1. The Recognition
2. Satyavan’s Inner Sight and Hearing
3. Satyavan’s Deepening Vision of the Soul
4. Satyavan Finds the Key to Transformation
5. The Gold Link
6. The Marriage Garland
7. The All-Embrace

6. The Book of Fate

Canto 1: The Word of Fate

1. The Descent of Narad
2. His Vision of the Future
3. The King’s Plea to Narad
4. Man’s Tragic Struggle
5. The Mystery of Pain
6. Narad Describes Satyavan
7. Savitri’s Resolute Will

Canto 2: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain

1. World Pain and Its Necessity
2. End of the Law of Pain
3. Origin of Death and Fate
4. The Working of Providence
5. Narad on Death as the Spirit’s Opportunity
6. The Heroic Strength

7. The Book of Yoga

Canto 1: The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart’s Grief and Pain

1. Joy and Grief

Canto 2: The Parable of the Search for the Soul

1. Mind’s Restlessness
2. The Persistent Past

Canto 3: The Entry into the Inner Countries

1. The Mission of the Avatar
2. Savitri Enters the Inner Worlds
3. Life’s Nether Realms

Canto 4: The Triple Soul-Forces

1. Savitri to the Three Soul-Forces

Canto 5: The Finding of the Soul

1. The Search for the Soul
2. The Finding of the Soul
3. The Rising of the Serpent Power

Canto 6: Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute

1. Autumnal Mellowness
2. An Upsurge of the Inconscient
3. The Saviour’s Labour
4. Introversion
5. Mystic Visitations
6. The Mystery of the Genius
7. The Stilling of Thought
8. Nirvana

Canto 7: The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness

1. Unreal Reality
2. Enlightenment

8. The Book of Death

Canto 3: Death in the Forest

1. Satyavan’s Death

9. The Book of Eternal Night

Canto 1: Towards the Black Void

1. A New Birth of Consciousness
2. Savitri’s Spiritual Stature
3. The God of Death
4. Savitri in the Forest
5. Savitri Pursues Death in the Occult Planes

Canto 2: The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness

1. Night Threatened by Light
2. Savitri’s Challenge to Death

10. The Book of the Double Twilight

Canto 1: The Dream Twilight of the Ideal

1. Night the Shadow of Day
2. Twilight of the Gods
3. A Dream World

Canto 2: The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal

1. Love, the Rapturous Core of Suns
2. Savitri’s Great Promise

Canto 3: The Debate of Love and Death

1. The World as God Fulfilled
2. The Tangle-Dance of the One
3. The Growth of the Inner Light
4. The Graded Ascent of Love
5. Savitri on Love Linking Earth and Heaven
6. Savitri’s Universal Heart
7. Psychic Fire

Canto 4: The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real

1. Savitri, God and the World
2. Beyond Law
3. Most Bound Most Free
4. The Overhead Planes
5. Transformation – Its Phases

11. The Book of Everlasting Day

Canto 1: The Eternal Day: The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation

1. God’s Everlasting Day
2. The Delights of the Purified Heart
3. The Dance Celestial
4. Spirit – An Upsoaring Bird
5. Revelation of the Supreme Divine
6. The Divine’s Promise
7. Savitri’s Universal Love
8. Savitri’s Supplication
9. Ordinary Humanity
10. Savitri and Satyavan – Their Appointed Work
11. Savitri and the Supreme Lord
12. The Supreme Lord to Savitri
13. The Things to Come
14. The Descent to Earth

12. Epilogue

Canto 1: The Return to Earth

1. Back to Life

APPENDIX

1. A Brief Introduction to Savitri
2. References

 

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“In a profound sense it is the call and attraction of the future that makes the past and present, and that future will be more and more seen to be the growth of the godhead in the human being which is the high fate of this race that thinks and wills and labours towards its own perfection. This is a strain that we shall hear more and more, the song of the growing godhead of the kind, of human unity, of spiritual freedom, of the coming supermanhood of man, of the divine ideal seeking to actualise it self in the life of the earth, of the call to the individual to rise to his godlike possibility....” (Sri Aurobindo)

“If a spiritual unfolding on earth is the hidden truth of our birth into Matter, if it is fundamentally an evolution of consciousness that has been taking place in Nature, then man as he is cannot be the last term of that evolution: he is too imperfect an expression of the Spirit, Mind itself a too limited form and instrumentation; Mind is only a middle term of consciousness, the mental being can only be a transitional being. If, then, man is incapable of exceeding mentality, he must be surpassed and Supermind and superman must manifest and take the lead of the creation. But if his mind is capable of opening to what exceeds it, then there is no reason why man himself should not arrive at supermind and supermanhood or at least lend his mentality, life and body to an evolution of that greater term of the Spirit manifesting in Nature.” (Sri Aurobindo)

“Each time we try not to be ordinary men, not to live the ordinary life, to express in our movements, our actions and reactions the divine Truth, when we are governed by that Truth instead of being governed by the general ignorance, we are apprentice-supermen, and according to the success of our efforts, well, we are more or less able apprentices, more or less advanced on the way.” (The Mother)

“A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the key-note, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence. This significance is concealed at the outset by the involution of the Spirit, the Divine Reality, in a dense material Inconscience; a veil of Inconscience, a veil of insensibility of Matter hides the universal Consciousness-Force which works within it, so that the Energy, which is the first form the Force of creation assumes in the physical universe, appears to be itself inconscient and yet does the works of a vast occult Intelligence.” (Sri Aurobindo)

“Spiritual rebirth means the constant throwing away of our previous associations and circumstances and proceeding to live as if at each virgin moment we were starting life anew.” (The Mother)

 

Contents

I. REBIRTH AND EVOLUTION

1. Rebirth
2. The Reincarnating Soul
3. Rebirth, Evolution, Heredity
4. Rebirth and Soul Evolution
5. The Significance of Rebirth
6. The Ascending Unity
7. Involution and Evolution

II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPIRITUAL MAN

1. The Philosophy of Rebirth
2. The Order of the Worlds
3. Rebirth and Other Worlds – Karma, the Soul and Immortality
4. Man and the Evolution
5. The Evolution of the Spiritual Man

III. YOGA AND EVOLUTION

1. Life and Yoga
2. The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga
3. Evolution and Yoga – One Movement and the Same Journey
4. What is Nature

IV. THE PSYCHIC – ITS NATURE, ROLE AND EVOLUTION

1. The Psychic Being
2. Role, Function and Action of the Psychic
3. Growth and Development of the Psychic

V. THE UNITY OF GOD, MAN AND NATURE

1. The Involved and Evolving Godhead
2. The Evolution of Consciousness
3. The Progress to Knowledge – God, Man and Nature
4. The Evolutionary Process – Ascent and Integration

 

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The time of religions is over. We have entered the age of universal spirituality, of spiritual experience in its initial purity. (The Mother)

The Truth of the Divine which is the spiritual reality behind all religions and the descent of the supramental which is not known to any religion are the sole things which will be the foundation of the work of the future. (Sri Aurobindo)

 

Contents

I. WORDS OF THE MOTHER

1. Difference Between Yoga and Religion
2. Nature of Religion
3. Is Religion an Obstacle to Spiritual Life?
4. A Fundamental Error in Religion
5. When You Come to the Yoga
6. Nature of Yoga
7. Freedom and Fatality: The Aim of Yoga
8. A Story of Two Clergy Men on a Boat
9. Atmosphere in Religious Monuments
10. Hell and Heaven Created by Religions
11. Renunciation and Nirvana Idea in Religions
12. Difference Between Morality and Spirituality
13. Is Sri Aurobindo‘s Teaching a New Religion?
14. The Future of Religions

II. WORDS OF SRI AUROBINDO

1. What is Spirituality?
2. Ordinary Life, Religious Life and Spiritual Life
3. What is Religion?
4. Questions and Answers
5. Religious Fanaticism
6. Religion as the Law of Life
7. The Spiritual Revolution

 

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First edition 2019

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother about the nature and value of money, the relationship between business and spirituality and the true attitude of the disciple towards money.

"Money represents a great power of life which must be conquered for divine uses. Therefore you must have no attachment to it but also no disgust or horror of it." (Sri Aurobindo)

 

Contents

1. Money and Commercialism
2. The Money-Force – Nature and Value
3. Money in Right and Wrong Hands
4. Money – The True Attitude
5. Asceticism and Poverty not our Ideal
6. Business and Spirituality
7. Handling the Force of Money – Mother’s Suggestions

 

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First edition 2020

The word “Consciousness” is among the most used word in both spiritual and scientific literature. At the same time it is also among the most misunderstood term. Yet Consciousness is central to everything in life. An understanding of what Consciousness is, both intellectu­ally and spiritually, is important to understand life and creation, the spiritual journey and the evolution of life itself. Given its immense importance in Sri Aurobindo’s yoga and the metaphysics of creation, this issue of ALL LIFE IS YOGA focus on this key word so that Light can be cast upon that which is actually the very source of Light!

 

Contents

I. WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS

• Quotation from Sri Aurobindo
• Power of Awareness and Dynamic Energy
• Awareness and Force
• Consciousness – A Fundamental Reality
• Scientific Views of Consciousness
• Consciousness and Phenomenon
• What is Consciousness
• Knowledge by the Identification of Consciousness
• Self-limitation of the One Consciousness
• Freedom and Predeterminism – Consciousness is Multidimensional
• Consciousness and Its Instruments
• Awake and Asleep Consciousness
• Different States of Consciousness
• Each Element is a Part of the Whole
• Individual and Universal Consciousness
• Stress of Consciousness Makes the Difference
• The Double Nature in Man
• The Environmental Consciousness Around the Individual
• Consciousness of the Body
• Zones of Consciousness
• The Centres of Consciousness or the Chakras
• Seat of the Divine Consciousness in Man
• Gnostic Consciousness

II. CHANGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

• Quotation from the Mother
• Become Conscious
• Consciousness Approach to Dealing With Difficulties
• Need for Including the Physical Consciousness
• Experiencing the Change of Consciousness
• Growth of Consciousness
• Finding the True Consciousness
• The Chick and the Egg
• Consciousness and Technique
• Being Above Suffering
• What Is Best For Us
• Keeping the Consciousness High During Activity
• Widening the Consciousness
• Identification Through Concentration
• Understanding Others
• Working Together
• Developing the Cosmic Consciousness
• Reversal of Consciousness
• Change Yourself to Change the World
• Change of Consciousness
• Divine Consciousness and Transformation