Stories, teachings and more from Auroville, India.
Themes in this talk
• One reality, multiple manifestations;
• Integral Yoga: approach by all paths;
• The supreme man and the divine man;
• Miracles and the logic of events
About the project
Mirra Alfassa,…
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• The significance of numbers;
• Numbers; astrology; true knowledge;
• “Divine’s Love” flowers for Kali puja;
• Is personal effort egoistic?;
• Desire, aspiration and progress;
• Determ…
Themes in this talk
• Personal effort; egoistic mind;
• Man is like a public square;
• Nature’s work;
• Ego needed for formation of individual;
• Adverse forces needed to make man sincere;
• Determinisms o…
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• The first movement in Yoga;
• Interiorisation; finding one’s soul;
• The Vedic Age;
• An incident about Vivekananda;
• The imaged language of the Vedas;
• The Vedic Rishis; involution…
Themes in this talk
• The Divine and the universal Teacher;
• The power of the Word;
• The Creative Word; the mantra;
• Sound, music in other worlds;
• The domains of pure form, colour and ideas
About the …
Themes in this talk
• The rhythms of time;
• The lotus of knowledge and perfection;
• Potential knowledge;
• The teguments of the soul;
• Shastra and the Guru’s direct teaching;
• “He who chooses the Infin…
Themes in this talk
• The rhythms of time;
• The lotus of knowledge and perfection;
• Potential knowledge;
• The teguments of the soul;
• Shastra and the Guru’s direct teaching;
• “He who chooses the Infin…
Themes in this talk
• The problem of transformation;
• Evolution; man and superman;
• Awakening need of a higher good;
• Sri Aurobindo and earth’s history;
• Setting foot on the new path;
• The transformat…
Themes in this talk
• The problem of transformation;
• Evolution; man and superman;
• Awakening need of a higher good;
• Sri Aurobindo and earth’s history;
• Setting foot on the new path;
• The transformat…
Themes in this talk
• Science and Ignorance;
• Knowledge, science and the Buddha;
• Knowing by identification;
• Discipline in science and in Buddhism;
• Progress in the mental field and beyond it
About th…
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• Literature and the taste for forms;
• The characters of “The Great Secret”;
• How literature helps us to progress;
• Reading to learn; cheap, vulgar books;
• The commercial mentality…
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• Politics and finance;
• “The Great Secret”; its purpose;
• World politics;
• America and Russia;
• The evolutionary curve;
• The Divine working during war;
• India’s role in the world
A…
Themes in this talk
• Work, a school of experience;
• Life as an illusion: Buddha and Shankara;
• Action expressing an inner realisation;
• Avatars of Vishnu and Shiva; Buddha;
• Taking interest in things…
Themes in this talk
• Choosing the work in sadhana;
• Education; learning through experience;
• Never make rules;
• True rest is an ascent into the Light;
• Reading “Classics Illustrated”;
• Vulgarisation …
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• Concentrating on photographs of Mother;
• Self-awareness; kinds of meditation;
• Concentration and meditation;
• Contemplation and concentration;
• Poetry is the sensuousness of the …
Themes in this talk
• How to meditate
About the project
Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, was Sri Aurobindo’s partner and counterpart in every way. They had the same spirit…
Themes in this talk
• Nothing is impossible in principle;
• Psychic contact and psychic influence;
• Occult powers; adverse influences; magic;
• Magic, occultism and Yogic powers;
• Hypnotism and its effe…
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• Concentration on the heart-centre;
• Rising beyond the mind;
• Mistaking vital feelings for the psychic;
• “To dry up the heart”;
• Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate;
• Knowing wh…
Themes in this talk
• Concentration on the heart-centre;
• Rising beyond the mind;
• Mistaking vital feelings for the psychic;
• “To dry up the heart”;
• Concentrate, concentrate, concentrate;
• Knowing wh…
Themes in this talk
• The Impersonal Divine;
• Escaping from the influence of others;
• Surrender to the Divine brings perfect freedom;
• “The Divine gives Himself”: its meaning;
• The Impersonal Divine; …