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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 of different planes; miracles 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 spiritua...

Themes in this talk • 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; involutionary beings; • Involution and evolution 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 sam...

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 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 spiritual realisations and they worked for 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 Infinite…” 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 spiritual realisations and they...

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 Infinite…” 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 spiritual realisations and they...

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 transformation of animality; • The true reality of the universe; • Evolution; man, superman, the new race; • Mutual attitude of man and superman About the project Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother of the S...

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 transformation of animality; • The true reality of the universe; • Evolution; man, superman, the new race; • Mutual attitude of man and superman About the project Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother of the S...

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 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 spiritual realisations and they worked for th...

Themes in this talk • 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; • How to choose one’s books; • Learning to enrich one’s possibilities; • The attitude and general condition of men About the project Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashra...

Themes in this talk • 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 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 spiritual realisations and they work...

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; vulgarity; • Modern world: perversion and vulgarity; • Cinema as an instrument of education About the project Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, was Sri Aurobindo’s...

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 of everything in modern times 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 spiritu...

Themes in this talk • Concentrating on photographs of Mother; • Self-awareness; kinds of meditation; • Concentration and meditation; • Contemplation and concentration; • Poetry is the sensuousness of the spirit; • Beauty and truth in poetry; • Inspiration and men of genius; • Silence; inner state and in things; • Living withdrawn from the surface existence About the project Mirra Alfassa, known as...

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 spiritual realisations and they worked for the same goal; to bring the New Consciousness for mankind. Mother was a true Guru, and a Universal Guru in every way. Her teaching has something for everyone bec...

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 effects 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 spiritual realisations and they wo...

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 what one’s consciousness is; • Assimilation and dispersion; • Mother’s work at the Balcony Darshan and in the Playground; • The Mar Past and the Maring; • Heroism in the First World War About the p...

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 what one’s consciousness is; • Assimilation and dispersion; • Mother’s work at the Balcony Darshan and in the Playground; • The Mar Past and the Maring; • Heroism in the First World War About the p...

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; Nirvana; • The principle of the inner dimensions; • The paths of aspiration and surrender; • Linear and spherical paths and realisations About the project Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother of the...

Themes in this talk • Cosmic spirit and cosmic consciousness; • The wall of ignorance; unity and separation; • Aspiration to understand, to know, to be; • The Divine is in the essence of one’s being; • Oneness and multiplicity through division; • Realising desires through the imaginaton; • Realising things by self-giving to Divine Grace About the project Mirra Alfassa, known as the Mother of the S...

Satyavan has told Savitri how much she means to him. Now Savitri tells Satyavan how much she loves him, and how important their marriage is. Hand in hand they return home through the forest, as afternoon turns to evening. They are met along the way by a great resplendent company which has come to bring them all back to their palace in their kingdom. Death has kept his promises. Satyavan’s father’s...

As day turns to evening, Savitri awakens lying under a tree. Satyavan is still sleeping in her arms, held close to her breast, just as she held him when he died and Death came to take his soul away. Savitri feels a great change in herself. “A Power dwelt in her soul too great for earth, a bliss lived in her heart too large for heaven. Light too intense for thought and love too boundless for earth’...

Savitri has descended from the higher worlds of consciousness, carrying the soul of her beloved Satyavan in her own soul. The Supreme All-Consciousness told them how the Superman’s presence on earth will bring the Spirit’s presence forward in humanity and in Nature. Savitri has always said that she wants to bring God down to men and to make the earthly life the life Divine. Now the Supreme said th...

Savitri has come to the end of the long journey which started with Satyavan’s death in the forest. She followed Almighty Death as he led away the soul of Satyavan; all the while claiming her right to live with him on earth. She accomplished the vanquishing of Death. Then she rose to the high Heaven-Worlds, where she asked the Supreme All-Consciousness for their return to earth, and for his help in...

Now that Savitri has refused every offer and every suggestion made by the Supreme to get her to remain in the higher worlds, he sees that she is ready for him to grant her wish to return to earth with Satyavan and do her divinely destined work. He tells her, “O beautiful body of the incarnate Word, my thoughts are thine, I have spoken with thy voice. What thou hast chosen I choose. All thou hast a...

The Supreme has suggested that Savitri pass into Infinity with Satyavan. Now Savitri replies, “In vain thou temptst with solitary bliss two spirits saved out of a suffering world; … To raise the the world to God in deathless Light, to bring God down to the world on earth we came, to change the earthly life to life Divine”. The Supreme says that mankind is not ready for a rapid change. He cautions...