Search for Light

And man aspire to the Eternal’s light… — Sri Aurobindo

 

The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

देहि पदपल्लवम्

Let me worship the leaves of Thy lotus feet.

The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

"Even the body shall remember God...
Nature shall live to manifest secret God,
The Spirit shall take up the human play,
This earthly life become the life divine."

Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Selection From Works of The Mother

Selection From Works of Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo | The Mother

…

I stretch it out to Thee with both arms
in a gesture of offering
and I ask of Thee:
If my understanding is limited, widen it;
if my knowledge is obscure, enlighten it;
if my heart is empty of ardour, set it aflame;
if my love is insignificant, make it intense;
if my feelings are ignorant and egoistic,
give them the full consciousness in the Truth'.

The Mother

This yoga implies not only the realisation of God, but an entire consecration and change of the inner and outer life till it is fit to manifest a divine consciousness and become part of a divine work. This means an inner discipline far more exacting and difficult than mere ethical and physical austerities. One must not enter on this path, far vaster and more arduous than most ways of yoga, unless one is sure of the psychic call and of one's readiness to go through to the end.

Sri Aurobindo
The Mother

Since the mid 1920s to 1950, no photographs of Sri Aurobindo were taken. In April 1950 the famous French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, came to Sri Aurobindo Ashram and asked the Mother to permit him to take Sri Aurobindo’s photographs. When the Mother gave him permission, Henri Cartier-Bresson took a number of photographs of the various activities of the Ashram and also some photographs of the Mother. On Monday - Darshan Day 24 April 1950 , he took some photographs of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother giving Darshan to the Sadhaks and devotees.

Handwritten by Sri Aurobindo

The Mother

"Lead me from the unreal to the real.
Lead me from darkness to light.
Lead me from death to immortality."
So be it

- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
First Adhyaya (Chapter),
Third Brahmana,
28th Verse (1.3.28).

The sadhana of this yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, Mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self -opening can come.

Sri Aurobindo
The Mother
The Mother
The Mother
Hand-Written by The Mother
It is only in the
Divine that we can
find perfect peace
and total satisfaction.
With my Blessings .

Signed by The Mother

Mantra Given by Sri Aurobindo

The Mother

Om  Anandmayi Chaitanyamayi Satyamayi parame.

The prayers are mostly written in an identification with the earth-consciousness. It is the Mother in the lower nature addressing the Mother in the higher nature, the Mother herself carrying on the Sadhana of the earth-consciousness for the transformation praying to herself above from whom the forces of transformation come. This continues till the identification of the earth-consciousness and the higher consciousness is effected..... It is the Divine who is always referred to as Divine Mai^tre and Seigneur. There is the Mother who is carrying on the sadhana and the Divine Mother, both being one but in different poises, and both turn to the Seigneur or Divine Master.

Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo Ashram The Mother Humankind has always told stories. Through the years stories have been used to entertain, to reveal past history or to teach life's lessons. Complicated concepts taught with a story are more likely to be understood and remembered. 
Sri Aurobindo Ashram The psychic being is in the heart centre in the middle of the chest (not in the physical heart, for all the centres are in the middle of the body), but it is deep behind. When one is going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. - Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Physical culture is the best way of developing the consciousness of the body, and the more the body is conscious, the more it is capable of receiving the Divine Force that are at work to transform it and give birth to the New Race. - The Mother

Sri Aurobindo

Tracing the Footprints of the Infinite

 

Lines from Savitri - Today

ॐ हृदयस्य मौने दिव्यः स्वरः श्रूयते
Savitri Lines for Today

Sweet Mother, You have said that to be allowed to sit in Sri Aurobindo's room and meditate there, “one must have done much for Him”. What do you mean by that, Mother? What can one do for the Lord which will be this “much”?
To do something for the Lord is to give Him something of what one has, or of what one does, or of what one is. That is to say, to offer to Him one part of our goods or all of our possessions, to consecrate to Him one part of our work or all our activities, or to give ourselves to Him totally and without reserve so that He may take possession of our nature in order to transform and divinise it.... -

-The Mother

The Human Aspiration


The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation,—for it survives the longest periodsof scepticism and returns after every banishment,—is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the divination of Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality. The ancient dawns of human knowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration; today we see a humanity satiated but not satisfied by victorious analysis of the externalities of Nature preparing to return to its primeval longings. The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to be its last,—God, Light, Freedom, Immortality.

-Sri Aurobindo
The Mother

To walk through life armoured against fear, peril and disaster,
only two things are needed, two that go always together:
the Grace of the Divine
and on your side an inner state made up of
faith, sincerity and surrender.

Let your faith be pure, candid and perfect.

- Sri Aurobindo
From " The Mother "

The Divine Body


A divine life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage. But what will be the divine body? What will be the nature of this body, its structure, the principle of its activity, the perfection that distinguishes it from the limited and imperfect physicality within which we are now bound? What will be the conditions and operations of its life, still physical in its base upon the earth, by which it can be known as divine?
If it is to be the product of an evolution, and it is so that we must envisage it, an evolution out of our human imperfection and ignorance into a greater truth of spirit and nature, by what process or stages can it grow into manifestation or rapidly arrive? The process of the evolution upon earth has been slow and tardy—what principle must intervene if there is to be a transformation, a progressive or sudden change?

-Sri Aurobindo

Message for Today

ॐ शुद्ध चेतना एव मार्गदर्शकः
Today's message

Music For Today

 

The Mother

 

 

On Spirituality


.....spirituality is not a high intellectuality, not idealism, not an ethical turn of mind or moral purity and austerity, not religiosity or an ardent and exalted emotional fervour, not even a compound of all these excellent things; a mental belief, creed or faith, an emotional aspiration, a regulation of conduct according to a religious or ethical formula are not spiritual achievement and experience.

These things are of considerable value to mind and life; they are of value to the spiritual evolution itself as preparatory movements disciplining, purifying or giving a suitable form to the nature; but they still belong to the mental evolution,—the beginning of a spiritual realisation, experience, change is not yet there.

Spirituality is in its essence an awakening to the inner reality of our being, to a spirit, self, soul which is other than our mind, life and body, an inner aspiration to know, to feel, to be that, to enter into contact with the greater Reality beyond and pervading the universe which inhabits also our own being, to be in communion with It and union with It, and a turning, a conversion, a transformation of our whole being as a result of the aspiration, the contact, the union, a growth or waking into a new becoming or new being, a new self, a new nature.

-Sri Aurobindo
The Mother
Om namo bhagwate.
Mantra written by The Mother

The whole principle of this Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody and nothing else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, Truth-consciousness and Ananda of the Supramental Divine.

Sri Aurobindo

The Science of Living


An aimless life is always a miserable life.

Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.

To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs.

-The Mother

Birthday Message for You

 

Prayer of the Day

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Today's Prayer

A moment of quiet aspiration and offering.

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In the fall of 1934, a young man asked the Mother if she would write one sentence a day to him. When she agreed to do so, he presented her with a bound notebook in which to write. By filling up one page a day, the Mother completed the notebook in the course of six months. That handwritten book is now "The Lesson of Life".

The Lessons of The Life

For The Day

In The Mother's Handwriting

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