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Aurobindo advocated Universal Love 2007-11-22 08:32:00 Even though Aurobindo
was an intellectual giant, he did not ignore LoveLove is a glory from Eternity's spheresHe is still the Godhead that can make all changeLove should never cease to be upon the EarthLove is the bright link betwixt Earth & HeavenLove is the far Transcendent's angel hereLove is man's lien on the Absolute !The intellect is indeed great, but the ultimate triumph will be the Heart's. Read more:Universal
Let the whole world be happy 2007-11-20 09:47:00 "Imperfect is the Joy not shared by all ", wrote Aurobindo.I climb not to Thy everlasting dayAs I have shunned Thy eternal nightThy servitudes on earth are greater King,Than all the glorious liberties of Heaven,Too far Thy heavens for me from suffering men,Imperfect is the Joy not shared by all."Let the whole world be happy " prays the Eternal Law ( Sarve Janah Sukhino Bhavanthu ). For such a noble purpose, did He not consecrate His life to humanity ?
Suffering, a must for the Redeemer ! 2007-11-20 04:04:00 Aurobindo wroteHe who would bring the heavens hereMust descend himself into clayAnd the burden earthly nature bear And tread the dolorous way !Coercing my Godhead I have come Into this sordid earthIgnorant, labouring, human grown,Betwixt the gates of birth and death !Transforming Earth into a Heaven is difficult; and we have to sacrifice many personal comforts for such a noble purpose. We have to understand that this is the Law of the Way. Only after the shedding of all mortal dross can we be pure; and only by becoming pure can we hope to get Self ActualisationIn the void of Mind involuteThe fleeting Universe rises and floatsAnd sinks back into the current "I" Vivekananda - The Hymn of Cosmic Consciousness Read more:Suffering
Why did He create such a miserable world? 2007-11-16 00:59:00 Lord Buddha was aghast at the pain and suffering of this world. He turned his ire on the Lord and asked an important questions. How can the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate create
such a miserable world ?How can it be that BrahmCould make a world so miserableAnd if All Powerful, leave it so; He is not goodAnd if not All-powerful, He is not God !Aurobindo answered"A universe, eternally perfect, eternally manifesting the eternal perfection, will miss the joy of progress".If everything is perfect, Man, Earth, everything and was created as such initially, will we not miss the joy of progress? So then there were reasons why the Almighty created such an area of Evil & Chaos, deliberately flawing the perfection of His own material creation !
This world is in love with its own Ignorance ! 2007-11-16 00:52:00 We find that all Redeemers were treated badly by the world. Jesus, Socrates, Mansoor, Bruno etc. Why is it so?Aurobindo answersHard is the World Redeemer's heavy taskThe whole world becomes his adversary.Those whom he came to save are his enemiesThose he would redeems are his adversariesThis world is in love with its own ignoranceIts darkness moves away from the Saviour LightIt gives the Cross in payment for the Crown ! ( Savitri - The Book of the Redeemer) This is a benighted humanity or an ignorant race !A man who was about to become the Redeemer aks HeavenWhy should I throw my arms against the shut Heavens Or struggle against a mute inevitable FateOr hope in vain to uplift an ignorant raceWho hugs their lot and mocks the Saviour Light ? !
Life, the true field of our Yoga 2007-11-16 00:43:00 "Life, not a remotely silent or highly ecstatic uplifted Beyond, life alone is the field of our Yoga ", wrote the Master. He was highlighting the fact that the solution to problems is not escapism, but meeting them squarely and overcoming them.Our aim must be Self Actualisation and we should not be bothered about the hindrances on the path.Says he "We have to understand that the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the Final Realisation". We may be confronted by innumerable adversities, but we have to overcome them to arrive at the Goal. "This is the work of the Supramental Shakti, converting our obscure mentality into Her supramentality".A luminous heart of the Unknown is SheA power of Silence in the depths of GodShe is the Force, the inevitable Word,The magnet of our difficult AscentThe Light that leans from the unrealised vastsThe Joy that beckons us from the Impossible."This Supramental Shakti is at work, converting the mundane into the supramundane.
Horoscope of Sree Aurobindo 2007-11-14 22:44:00 He was born with Cancer rising, Jupiter and Mars in Cancer. Jupiter, the wisdom planet, was exalted in Cancer. Cancer represents the Heart of the Cosmic Man and Cancerians are tied and tuned to the Cosmic world.Jupiter is the planet of divinity and he has conferred Hamsa Maha Yoga, one of the best yogas in Astrology. The native born under Hamsa Yoga not only becomes religious, but will revive true Religion ! Due to the divine nature of Jupiter who had caused Hamsa Yoga, he had the confidence that every step was divinely ordained. The Roman emperor Augustus Caesar was, like him, born under Hamsa Yoga. A true Raja- Rishi or a Philosopher King, his reign was known as the Golden Age of Rome. Augustus founded the Religion of Numa, defined by Buchan as a probe into the mysteries of the Infinite and the Unknown.Like those ancient, orthodox Raja- Rishies, Aurobindo
had consecrated all his efforts to divinise humanity !Saturn was in Sagittarius, indicating that a foreign lady will join in his m Read more:Horoscope
Aurobindo, a Realist ! 2007-11-11 04:30:00 Shankara was an Illusionist; Aurobindo
was a Realist
( "Maya is real, because it is the Self's experience of the Self" )The term assigned by Sankara to the whole process of creation was Maya. Aurobindo, on the other hand, called it Leela or the play of the Divine. Leela includes the idea of Maya and exceeds it !" This is our Eternal Lover luring us to Himself, through all these flashy masks of Himself, through all this shimmering blazes of His eternal and ineffugable Self-Existence " said the Master !
Integral Yoga 2007-11-11 04:15:00 Long before Aurobindo, scholars were disputing which path to Godhead - the Four Noble Paths, Bhakthi, Jnana, Karma, Raja Yogas - was greater than the other.Aurobindo stressed that all paths are different branches of the Supreme Path, the Integral
Yoga. Universal Love is the quality needed for Bhakthi Yoga. Psychic control for Raja Yoga. The discriminatory intellect for Jnana and Selfless Action for Karma.Unless an aspirant develops all these qualities, how can he be eligible for Self Actualisation ?Integral Yoga, therefore, becomes one of the many ways for Self Realisation
Integral Knowlege 2007-11-11 03:56:00 Integral knowledge is a blend of vedantic and tantric knowledgeIt is only when we view the Supreme in his dual aspect - dual but inseparable - that the truth becomes manifest to the inner experience. Vedanta deals with the Sat aspect of Being ( Absolute Being ). Tantra deals with the Chit aspect of Being ( Absolute Knowledge ). Only a fusion of these two formidable sciences can pave the way for Integral Knowledge, averred the Master, Aurobindo Read more:Integral
Savitri Era blog 2007-11-10 22:06:00 Tusar N Mohapatra has sent this linkBlog: Savitri Era Post: The Mother and Sri Aurobindo are the most authentic teachers Link: http://savitriera.blogspot.com/2007/11/mother-and-sri-aurobindo-are-most.html
A literateur par excellence 2007-11-08 10:30:00 Aurobindo was a poet & nationalist. His epic poem "Savitri" is considered to be equal to Dante's Divina Commedia, Goethe's Faust or Milton's Paradise Lost. He dreamt of a divine principle " The Supermind " and wanted to draw it to earth. When Supermind manifests in matter, matter becomes supramentalised.His magnum opus is "The Life Divine". He was a universal individual who embraced a universal lifeSpirit shall see through Matter's gazeMatter shall reveal the Spirit's face !
O Mortal, bear the law of pain 2007-12-02 03:50:00 O mortal, bear this great world’s law of pain,In thy hard passage through a suffering worldLean for thy soul’s support on Heaven’s strength,Turn towards high Truth, aspire to love and peace. A little bliss is lent thee from above,A touch divine upon thy human days:Make of thy daily way a pilgrimage,For through small joys and griefs thou mov’st towards God. Haste not towards Godhead on a dangerous road,Open not thy doorways to a nameless Power,Climb not to Godhead by the Titan’s road. Against the Law he pits his single will,Across its way he throws his pride of might. Heavenward he clambers on a stair of stormsAspiring to live near the deathless Sun. He strives with a giant strength to wrest by forceFrom life and Nature the immortals’ right;He takes by storm the world and fate and heaven. He comes not to the high world-maker’s seat,He waits not for the outstretched hand of GodTo raise him out of his mortality. All he would make his own, leave nothing free,Stretching his sm
Narad’s Five Songs and the Theme of Evolution in Savitri 2007-12-02 02:47:00 by RY Deshpande on Sun 18 Nov 2007 09:01 PM PST In the Book of Fate with which we are presently concerned, there is almost at its beginning a description of the evolutionary destiny of this creation. Narad is on his way from his home in Paradise and during the course of his journey to earth he sings five great sings, as to how things began, and about the cherished expectations of the divine glory and marvel taking birth here. We have already seen this theme in some details earlier, but let us have the complete passage for comparison with other passages connected with the concept of evolution that appears with different suggestions in different places in Savitri: (pp. 416-17) He beheld the cosmic Being at his task,His eyes measured the spaces, gauged the depths,His inner gaze the movements of the soul,He saw the eternal labour of the Gods,And looked upon the life of beasts and men. A change now fell upon the singer's mood,A rapture and a pathos moved his voice;He sang no more of ligh Read more:Evolution
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The Riddling Sphinx: Four passages from lSavitri 2007-12-02 02:08:00 Whence arose evil? Does it constitute the proof for the presence or otherwise of God? Every theology has its own pet answer and every philosophy a way to escape it. It is only the Gita who can hold the bull by the horns, can speak of God the Terrible on the Battlefield, the gory Battle of Life. But let us see in Savitri how the origin is traced and how in its wake other issues arise, arise in a subsidiary way. The puzzle formulated in the Sphinx-myth is one such subsidiary description. We shall see the four mentioned in the epic. But here is first the dark origin: (Savitri, pp, 222-23) When nothing was save Matter without soul And a spiritless hollow was the heart of Time, Then Life first touched the insensible Abyss; Awaking the stark Void to hope and grief Her palid beam smote the unfathomed Night In which God hid himself from his own view. In all things she sought their slumbering mystic truth, The unspoken Word that inspires unconscious forms; She groped in his deeps for an invisib
Sri Aurobindo unravels the Riddle in a letter to Maurice Magre 2007-12-02 02:07:00 by RY Deshpande on Tue 27 Nov 2007 05:49 AM PST Alexander Pope (1688-1744), poet and critic belonging to the Augustan period, wrote his famous Essay on Man during 1733-34. The opening part of the Essay is at times entitled as The Riddle
of the World, a phrase from the piece which runs as follows: Know then thyself, presume not God to scanThe proper study of Mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A Being darkly wise, and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast;In doubt his mind and body to prefer;Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;Alike in ignorance, his reason such,Whether he thinks too little, or too much;Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd;Still by himself, abus'd or disabus'd;Created half to rise and half to fall;Great Lord of all things, yet a prey to all,Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd Read more:Aurobindo
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Gloire a Toi, Seigneur 2007-12-02 01:34:00 This is Sri Aurobindo’s translation of the Mother’s prayer, Gloire a Toi, Seigneur (Glory to Thee O Lord).Glory to Thee, O Lord, who triumphest over every obstacle.Grant that nothing in us shall be an obstacle to Thy work.Grant that nothing may retard Thy manifestation.Grant that Thy will may be done in all things and at every moment.We stand here before Thee that Thy will may be fulfilled in us, in every element, in every activity of our being, from our supreme heights to the smallest cells of the body.Grant that we may be faithful to Thee utterly and for ever.We would be completely under Thy influence to the exclusion of every other.Grant that we may never forget to own towards Thee a deep, an intense gratitude.Grant that we may never squander any of the marvellous things that are Thy gifts to us at every instant.Grant that everything in us may collaborate in Thy work and all be ready for Thy realisation.Glory to Thee, O Lord, Supreme Master of all realisation.Give us a faith act
Reflections on Guilt 2007-12-02 01:27:00 November 28, 2007 I’ve just discovered the website of psychotherapist, writer and poet Robert Augustus Masters. His system seems partially based on the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. I don’t agree with everything he says, of course, but I am stunned by the quality of his writing — what eloquence! It just reminds me of what a long way I have to go before learning to write with such elegance, beauty, and simplicity. Here is a sampling of his poetry:When Truth cameDid you crucify it in a field of facts?When you condemned the executionerDid you see in your hands the bloody axe?Such a deep art it isTo learn our lessons by heartWhile we roam in dreamlandHungry for HomeSince I often have a lot of neuroses related to guilt, I really enjoyed Robert’s essay, The Anatomy of Guilt. Here are some wise words from this essay:Put another way, guilt means that we get to again do whatever it is that seemingly generates our guilt — we permit ourselves to do it over and over again, even a Read more:Reflections
The Myth of the Hindu Right 2007-12-02 01:23:00 November 29, 2007 Dr. David Frawley of the American Institute of Vedic Studies writes, in an interesting essay, that what has been characterized as the “Hindu
right” in India is substantially different from “right wing” groups in other countries and cultures. The essay is entitled, The Myth of the Hindu Right
, and I quote from it below:The idea of the ‘Hindu right’ is largely a ploy to discredit the Hindu movement as backward and prevent people from really examining it. The truth is that the Hindu movement is a revival of a native spiritual tradition that has nothing to do with the political right-wing of any western country. Its ideas are spiritually evolutionary, not politically regressive.It’s a provocative and thought-provoking article, and it does undercut the fact that Western-inspired leftists generally tend to side with whoever they perceive as the “victims” or as the “minorities” without looking into the truth-value of the philosophies or worldviews of th
The Hindu Left? 2007-12-02 01:21:00 November 30, 2007 For another side to the issues covered in David Frawley’s article that I linked to in the previous post, read Whatever Happened to the Hindu
Left? by Ruth Vanita at the Infinity Foundation website. Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specializes in lesbian and gay studies, gender studies, and British and South Asian literary history. One of the focuses of her academic work is deconstructing the somewhat Gandhian stereotype that India has gone back and forth between arranged heterosexual marriages and ascetic celibacy. I quote from her article below:Here, the position of Muslim, Christian and Sikh leftists is somewhat different. Because these happen to be minorities in India, the left has to support their rights, hence there is somewhat less embarrassment attached to acknowledging these identities as a modern Indian leftist. Secondly, they do not have to carry the burden of being called backward polytheistic idol-worshipers. Secular feminist or
Our dark side, the negative aspect 2007-12-12 03:25:00 The hidden foe lodged in the human breastMan must overcome or miss his higher FateThis is the inner war without escape. wrote the MasterMany of us consider our dark side to be forbidden. We refuse to acknowledge its existence. The ancient Vedic Seers called our Negative Aspect as the dark form of Diti. This is ever at crossroads with our Positive Aspect, symbolised by the bright form of Aditi. The sons of Diti in Vedic Mythology became Daityas or Asuras and Aditi's sons became Adithyas.Have you ever looked at the Moon ? You see the bright side. Even when the Moon is full and brightens up the sky with its luminence, there is a dark side to the Moon. There is a dark side in us too, the dark form of Diti. We all experience Pride, sloth, jealousy, bitterness, envy, fears of the future, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of the Unknown. Dishonesty, anger, intolerance, disgust, hatred ... all these emotions we hide. Our Positive Aspect which longs for Eternal Life is ever at war with
The Redeemer's heavy task ! 2007-12-11 09:41:00 Yet till evil is slain in its own homeAnd Light invades the world's inconscient baseAnd perished is the Adversary ForceHe must still labor on, his work half donewrote the Master.The inner war within the human bosom was known to the Seers and they depicted in such epics like Iliad and the Odyssey, Ramayana and the Mahabharata.The Lust within man is the DuryodhanaThe Anger within man is the DussasanaThe Five Positive Elements represent the Pancha Pandavas. Truth, Dharma, Peace, Love and the Discriminative Intellect are the Five Positive Elements.The Discriminative Intellect is that which distinguishes the Real from the Non-Real, Being from Non_Being and is the Arjuna fighting with the background of Eternity, with the Self as the metaphysical ground.In Man, the negative and positive elements are in conflict and the Seer-Poets wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, just to depict this great battle within the human bosom.Unless the aspirant removes the mortal dr
Let us rise to the Divine Level ! 2007-12-24 06:55:00 The Absolute, the Perfect, the Alone,Our mask of imperfection has assumedHe has made this tenement of flesh his ownwrote the MasterWe are all embodiments of the Divine
Self. Existence - Consciousness - Beatitude, the eternal triad which is the Universe and which we are and the great secret which we must discover across our long evolutionary journey.He has assumed our mask of imperfection and it is He who is dwelling in us all. Puram vasathi iti purushah - He who resides in the body is called Purusha !He in his human measure has castThat to his divine level we might rise !Our life has only a symbolic value and it is good and necessary as a Becoming. All Becoming has Being as its Goal and fulfillment and He is the only Being !
The Infinitesimal Infinite 2008-02-14 10:13:00 Out of a still Immensity all came!These million universes were to itThe poor light-bubbles of a trivial game,A fragile glimmer in the Infinite
.It could not find its soul in all that vast:It drew itself into a little speckInfinitesimal, ignobly castOut of earth's mud and slime strangely awake,-A tiny plasm on a little globe,In the small system of a dwarflike sun,A little life wearing the flesh for robe,A little mind winged through wide space to run!It lived, it knew, it saw its self sublime,Deathless, outmeasuring Space, outlasting Time. Article Source :
Ascent 2008-02-14 10:11:00 by: Sri Aurobindo 1 - The SilenceInto the Silence, into the Silence,Arise, O Spirit immortal,Away from the turning Wheel, breaking the magical Circle.Ascend, single and deathless:Care no more for the whispers and the shoutings in the darkness,Pass from the sphere of the grey and the little,Leaving the cry and the struggle,Into the Silence for ever.Vast and immobile, formless and marvellous,Higher than Heaven, wider than the universe,In a pure glory of being,In a bright stillness of self-seeing,Communing with a boundlessness voiceless and intimate,Make thy knowledge too high for thought, thy joy too deep for emotion;At rest in the unchanging Light, mute with the wordless self-vision,Spirit, pass out of thyself; Soul, escape from the clutch of Nature.All thou hast seen cast from thee, O Wit Read more:Ascent
Aurobindo is like an ocean 2008-02-14 10:08:00 Joe Perez said... hi alan - i'm looking forward to reading more aurobindo next year. i feel a kinship with your thoughts on aurobindo, wilber, etc, but hesitate to comment more because my knowledge of aurobindo is superficial. but I have studied Hegel in some degree of depth, and I find Aurobindo
's prose to be more or less of the same difficulty. That is to say, extremely "abstract." And yet it is beautiful, more so than ... well, very much so. I hope you can find a way to communicate Aurobindo's genius in more plain language. joe 12:05 AMm alan kazlev said... Hi Joe, I have to say I have found ideas in your blog very helpful in further developing and widening my understanding of Integral and the Integral movement. Yes much of Sri Aurobindo's writings are heavy in style, perhaps because of
The sun before abysmal Night 2008-02-14 07:47:00 He who would save the world must be one with the world…His soul must be wider than the universeAnd feel eternity as its very stuff,Rejecting the moment's personality,Know itself older than the birth of Time,Creation an incident in its consciousness,Arcturus and Belphegor grains of fireCircling in a corner of its boundless self,The world's destruction a small transient stormIn the calm infinity it has become…Consent to be nothing and none, dissolve Time's work,Cast off thy mind, step back from form and name.Annul thyself that only God may be60: The sun before abysmal Night
A Spiritual Biography of Savitri A calm slow sun looked down from tranquil heavens…The night's gold treasure of autumnal moonsCame floating shipped through ripples of fairy air. And Savitri's life was glad, fulfilled
Varnamala 2008-02-14 07:40:00 Gangotri INVITATION With wind and the weather beating round me Up to the hill and the moorland I go. Who will come with me? Who will climb with me? Wade through the brook and tramp through the snow? Not in the petty circle of cities Cramped by your doors and your walls I dwell; Over me God is blue in the welkin Against me the wind and the storm rebel. I sport with solitude here in my regions, Of misadventure have me a friend. Who would live largely? Who would live freely? Here to the wind-swept uplands ascend. I am the lord of tempest and mountain, I am the Spirit of freedom and pride. Stark must he be and a kinsman to danger Who shares my kingdom and walks at my side. --(Alipore Jail 1908-09) REVELATION Someone leaping from the rocks Past me ran with windblown locks Like a startled brig
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