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Ancient thought has always admired the exceptional, the extreme, the superhuman type of humanity. In India they are called as the Vibhuti, the Western world, the Genius. But what really constitutes the phenomenon of genius in any field? What is its relation to the Yoga of the world as it unfolds itself? The Gita does indeed declare it as the Vibhuti Yoga and gives it a place of just importance in...

Writings of Sri Aurobindo. This is a summary of CWSA 34.

Starting a new series in Hindi on Sri Aurobindo’s ‘The Synthesis of Yoga’. Today we covered Introduction, Chapter One entitled ‘Life and Yoga’

Starting a new series of overview talks on the Mother’s Collected Works.

-  Sharing experiences – Sankhya and multiple purushas – Reading Sri Aurobindo – Meaning of the term Psychic being – More on the psychic being – The Mother’s Yoga in the physical – Ultimate Goal of the spiritual seeker – Sadhana and sickness – Making choices and the Divine Will – Dealing with situations. – Wars – Getting rid of attachment. – Story of Ghatotkach and Abhimanyu – Soul’s true aspirati...

In this talk we briefly touch upon the lineage of kings whose descendants were the first to rule over Bharatvarsh even before it was so named.

Sri Aurobindo represents that rarest of the rare type of super-humanity who beautifully combined and synthesized within his single personality what we find as opposites. Poetry and Literature on the one side, Sri Aurobindo has in his personality also an astute scientist who has experimented day and night with the workings of the spiritual Force and their results in the laboratory of his room in Po...

Writings of Sri Aurobindo. This is a summary of CWSA 33.

This is the second of two talks on CWSA Vol. 32.

This talk touches upon some of practical aspects of the Integral Yoga.

This talk dwells on personality traits of an ideal teacher.

A series of talks by Prof. Mangesh V. Nadkarni on Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri in Pondicherry in 1995.

A series of talks by Prof. Mangesh V. Nadkarni on Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri in Pondicherry in 1995.

A series of talks by Prof. Mangesh V. Nadkarni on Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri in Pondicherry in 1995.

This talk is about the soul and its journey.

India, in her days of spiritual greatness tried to not only explore the various lanes and by lanes and highways of the Spirit but also laboured in many ways to integrate the spiritual life with the material. Before the doctrine of Mayavada with its attendant disastrous consequences took hold of the Indian mind, there was a great stress of life turning into a play-field of the higher consciousness....

This talk gives a brief account of some of the fundamental principles of the Integral Yoga.

Q&A on the Soul’s Journey, Human Evolution and Conceptions of God

This talk is about the various approaches man has taken towards the intended spiritual evolution.

This is the first of two talks on CWSA Vol. 32.

This talk is based on CWSA Vol 31 Transformation of Human Nature in the Integral Yoga

On the present condition of man, his inner contradictions and the source of his hope. We read the following passage from Savitri : “Assailed on earth and unassured of heaven, Descended here unhappy and sublime, … The high gods look on man and watch and choose Today’s impossibles for the future’s base.” [Savitri: 336-339]

Book One Chapter 9 of The Life Divine – a summary (part 2). This is a concluding talk of the first Study Camp on this book with Alok Pandey.

Sometimes it is good to look back and try to see and understand how the Ashram life shaped itself in the beginning with the early disciples. Quite naturally the Mother was at their centre and their life revolved around Her. Like flowers opening to the sun, they gave themselves to Her Love and blossomed under Her care. Today we take a glimpse at life of Sahana di (17th May 1897 – 06th Apr 1990), wh...

Book One Chapter 9 of The Life Divine – a summary (part 1)