Search for Light

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

The Mother

शिशुं न त्वा जेन्यं वर्धयन्ती माता बिभर्ति सचनस्यमाना।
धनोरधि प्रवता यासि हर्यञ्जिगीषसे पशुरिवावसृष्टः॥ ॥३॥
कूचिज्जायते सनयासु नव्यो वने तस्थौ पलितो धूमकेतुः।
अस्नातापो वृषभो न प्रवेति सचेतसो यं प्रणयन्त मर्ताः॥

Rig Veda 1.113

The mother bears thee like an infant child clinging cherishingly to thee, increasing thee to be a conqueror; headlong down over the dry land he goes rejoicing, he is fain to go like an animal let loose.(3)

Anywhere he is born new in eternal wombs; he stands in the forest hoary-old with smoke for his banner: a bull unbathed he journeys to the waters and mortals who are conscious lead him on his way. (5)

Satsang

…
The Mother

अमृतं मर्त्येषु ऋतावा ।

The Immortal in mortals, the possessor of the Truth.

Rig Veda (4.2.1)

Lotus Groove

Children and Devotees of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

Disciples, Sādhak, and Seekers

There are moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters of our being; there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first are periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes destiny; the second are spaces of time when much labour goes to the making of a little result. It is true that the latter may prepare the former, may be the little smoke of sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of God's bounty. Unhappy is the man or the nation which, when the divine moment arrives, is found sleeping or unprepared to use it, because the lamp has not been kept trimmed for the welcome and the ears are sealed to the call. But thrice woe to them who are strong and ready, yet waste the force or misuse the moment; for them is irreparable loss or a great destruction.

Sri Aurobindo
Book "The Hour of God"

In the eternity of becoming, each Avatar is only the announcer, the forerunner of a more perfect realisation. And yet men have always the tendency to deify the Avatar of the past in opposition to the Avatar of the future. Now again Sri Aurobindo has come announcing to the world the realisation of tomorrow; and again his message meets with the same opposition as of all those who preceded him. But tomorrow will prove the truth of what he revealed and his work will be done.

The Mother

Early inmates of the Ashram - 1923

The Mother by Sri Aurobindo

Top (left to right): Rajangam , Tirupati, Khitish, Nolini Kanta Gupta , Satyen alias Vindyeswari Prasad, Kanailal Ganguly, Bijoy Kumar Nag, Ambalal Balakrishna Purani and Nagaratnam. Centre: Punamchand, Champaben (Punamchand’s wife), Mrs. Kodandaraman andKodandaraman Rao. Bottom: Champaklal, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti alias Moni, K.Amrita and Manmohan.

- Early inmates of the Ashram

Give us a faith active and ardent, absolute and unshakable in Thy Victory.

The Mother
The Mother
The Mother
Written by The Mother
Since the beginning of the earth, wherever and whenever
there was the possibility of manifesting
a ray of consciousness, I was there.
Signed by The Mother

The surest way towards this integral fulfilment is to find the Master of the secret who dwells within us, open ourselves constantly to the divine Power which is also the divine Wisdom and Love and trust to it to effect the conversion.

Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pavitra 
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Nishikanto 
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pujalal

When someone is destined for the Path, all circumstances through all the deviations of mind and life help in one way or another to lead him to it. It is his own psychic being within him and Divine Power above that use to that end the vicissitudes both of mind and outward circumstance. - Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo

To concentrate most on one's own spiritual growth and experience is the first necessity of the sadhak- to be eager to help others draws away from the inner work. To grow in the spirit is the greatest help one can give to others, for then something flows out naturally to those around that helps them.

Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Champaklal. 
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Nolini Kant Gupta 
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Amrita  

Open to Sri Aurobindo's consciousness and let it transform your life.

- The Mother

A prayer, a master act, a king idea
Can link man's strength to a transcendent Force.

Sri Aurobindo

" O Thou
whom we must know, understand, realise,
absolute, Consciousness, eternal Law,
Thou who guidest and illuminest us,
who movest and inspirest us,
grant that these weak souls
may be strengthened and
those who fear be reassured.
To Thee I entrust them,
even as I entrust to Thee
our entire destiny."

The Mother

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

Lesson Image

Q : Sweet Mother, when we concentrate on one of your photos - there are many photos, each one with a different expression - does it make a difference for us, the one on which we concentrate?

 

If you do it purposely, yes, of course. If you choose this photo for a particular reason or that other one for another reason, surely. It has an effect. It is as though you were choosing to concentrate on one aspect of the Mother rather than another; for example, if you choose to concentrate on Mahakali or Mahalakshmi or on Maheshwari, the results will be different. That part of you which answers to these qualities will awaken and become receptive. So, it is the same thing. But somebody who has only one photo, whichever it may be, and concentrates, without choosing this one or that, because he has only one, then it is of no importance which one it is. For the fact of concentrating on the photograph puts one in contact with the Force, and that is what is necessary in the case of everyone who responds automatically.

The Mother

How can I make Sri Aurobindo's influence living and dynamic in my daily activities?


Be perfectly sincere and He will answer your call.

The Mother

One can see His Presence, hear his foot-falls, his rhythmic voice, ever vigilant, devoid of the encumbrance of the physical body. One day the sacrifice will bear fruit, what he had depicted in Savitri, will come true. For, what is, after all, Savitri if not the inner life- episodes of the Mother and the Master?

 

What he had pictured in the great epic has been faithfully enacted on the world-stage. The veil has fallen on the first part of that wonderful Drama and the sequel is being played behind the screen. The Fight with the last supreme Adversary has not ceased; if it has ended on the earth's battlefield in an apparent failure, it is raging as fiercely in the occult planes. When at the close of the Duel, the curtain will be lifted, we shall hear the sonorous recital of the Book of Death, we shall see materialised the Epilogue on the earth- stage, and throughout the world will echo and re-echo the embodied passionate cry of Victory: "I am here, I am here!"

-Nirodbaran
Sri Aurobindo Ashram nirodbaran
t-v-kapali-sastry t-v-kapali-sastry
sahana sahana

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
Sri Aurobindo Ashram T. Kodandarama Rao
Kanailal GangulyKanailal Ganguly
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Mrityunjoy

Parikrama Around Ashram 

The God's Abode