Talks in Hindi

This is a Q&A Session, a continuation of the talk TH 157 (the previous post).  Maya is a much-discussed and among the most ill-understood ideas in Indian thought. It has been variously defined. Here the speaker takes up this issue, the deeper sense and purpose of Maya and of creation itself with anecdotes and analogies.

Sri Aurobindo has crammed the whole worlds into the book which is known as Savitri. Savitri is  “Brahmagyan” – the highest knowledge.  The origin, purpose and the significance of creation, the truth behind and the approach towards it, this and everything else has been revealed by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. To read or listen to it, to be connected with it spontaneously gives us joy. In this talk, th...

This is a Q&A Session, following the main talk TH 155. Questions include the way of sadhana, dealing with weaknesses of nature, death and immortality.

Savitri is not just a legend or a symbolic poem. Savitri and Satyavan are conscious and living forces. Savitri is the Divine Mother and Satyavan, the human soul. So Savitri and Satyavan is the story of man and his quest for Divine perfection. Satyavan, though in the midst of darkness and ignorance pursues light, knowledge and love. The speaker explains and summarises the whole Savitri and its rela...

A brief story on Sri Aurobindo’s play by Alok Pandey in Hindi. Perseus the Deliverer is one of the longest play of Sri Aurobindo, the only play published in Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime. This is very symbolic and the Mother has given very interesting comments on this play. In Greek mythology there are three sons of God who rule over the worlds. Zeus the lord of sky, Poseidon-the lord of Sea and Hades,...

Talk by Alok Pandey at the celebration of 25th anniversary of Garden House Study Circle, Pondicherry (2015). The New World is already here. The question we have to ask is are we ready and what is needed to be ready for receiving the New World. The Mother has announced that the new world is born. It is taking its shape and all those who are open to it will experience the difference. To realize the...

There are some great secrets in the Gita. One of them is the descent of the Divine in matter. This is a unique secret. It is called the sacrifice of the Divine. A wider understanding is required to comprehend this secret. The incarnate divine breaks many so called truths and in their place establishes many new truths. He shows the path, inspires man for great heights, and comes close to the human...

Every time the divine incarnations come down to earth as avatars, they bring out a massive change in the earth consciousness both physically and subtly. Sri Ram came as the divine incarnation when the world and society was governed by evil powers, filled with ignorance and there was no clear direction for society and human relations. Sri Rama established a higher order in society and well defined...

God takes human birth again and again upon this earth, because there is a work to do and a road to be opened towards the future. Earth nature is full of ignorance and impurity. Every time the Divine takes a human form, it works to prepare the earth nature and carry it one more step towards the goal. Avatars destroy the old impurities and bring down the new truths.

Mother teaches us how to be truly grateful through Her own example. Reading lives of Mother and Sri Aurobindo itself is liberating. The Divine does not want Nirvana but He wants Divine Perfection and Transformation on earth. Sri Aurobindo says that the greatest secret given in the Gita is Love. Love has the power of Transformation; but Divine Love and not human love, as human love is mixed with eg...

It is believed in traditional yogas that a soul (atma-tatva) is captive in three kinds of jails in the lower nature (apara prakriti) – tamasic jail, rajasic jail, and sattwic jail; and slowly through the sattwic jail, it becomes free. But Sri Aurobindo says that this apara prakriti is nothing but the shadow of the Para Prakriti, and hence it can be transformed, of which all evolution is an endeavo...

The Divine is there at the center of a spiritualized society. The conception of the Divine should also be integral in the integral yoga. As we progress, the Divine make us experience His expanse (vistar). We should move from the lesser divine to the greater divine. Jagannath means indwelling Universal Godhead – It has four pillars – unity, freedom, knowledge, power. One should recognize spiritual...

Sri Krishna himself gave the Gita to Sri Aurobindo in Alipur jail and the strength of Gita entered into Him. Sri Krishna also gave a new Nirukta to Sri Aurobindo which helped Him in the interpretation of the Vedas. Sri Aurobindo was a mantra drishta. Mother has come to manifest Grace and not justice. Very few will survive if justice were to manifest. One of the works of the Avatar is to disclose t...

Everything has an inner truth and an external form. The society of the lower existence is based upon division (Diti ki santan). It has struggle, competition and quarrel not only within itself but with other societies as well. To bring about order into this chaos rules and laws are made but they are temporary, incomplete and achieved with difficulty.  The structure of the ideal society is entirely...

Individual ego is required to individualize a human being. In the same way, collective ego is required to imbibe the impression of reciprocity (parasparta ka aabhas). We should embrace the truth in collective ego. The three types of human societies are sattwic society, rajasic society, and tamasic society run by sattwic ego, rajasic ego, and tamasic ego respectively. The sattwic ego brings knowled...

In this talk, the speaker reads and explains the Chariot of Jagannath written by Sri Aurobindo. The speaker explains the four wheels of this chariot which are unity, freedom, knowledge, and power.  The biggest enemy in our progress is the ego. Every situation becomes an opportunity to progress if the ego is removed. Both individual ego and collective ego are obstacles to the divine fullness. Indiv...

Nature is changing everything in the creation. Old body cells are replaced by new body cells with time. But then, why does the body still remains old? This is because Nature has kept this change in a groove. The change keeps revolving within this groove, and cannot go beyond it. Nature has purposely done this so as to maintain a balance between all species. The speaker discusses the process of clo...

Everything is connected to everything, and everything is connected to the Divine. Everything and everyone has a place and importance in the creation. Evil comes when things are not in their place. An illustration is the Chatur-Varna practiced in the past in a satvik society. It had a subtle truth, which was based on the reality of an inner life. The speaker explains how this truth got distorted ov...

Man should unite within himself before he can think of human unity. There have been failed attempts in the past to create an ideal society based on unity (Ekattva). Ekattva is the fundamental truth of the New Creation. Everything is contained in everything, and everything is of the Divine. As an illustration of the principle of Ekattva, the speaker narrates the story of Shikhidhwaja and Chudala, a...

When one has no jigyasa (seeking), then true knowledge does not come; one has only bookish knowledge. For example, without jigyasa, one knows superficially what is samarpan, but does he truly understands it? Sri Aurobindo says that the kind of Mother’s Samarpan to Him had never manifested in the history of mankind. We should read Mother and Sri Aurobindo with jigyasa, love, humility, and samarpan....

The speaker describes in detail how Mother comes to Pondicherry and meets Sri Aurobindo hundred years back. How wonderful would it be if we see Sri Aurobindo with the eyes of the Mother, and see the Mother with the eyes of Sri Aurobindo! The speaker explains how man is in the grip of ignorance and death. The Divine Mother comes and starts the work of liberating man from this ignorance.

In this conversation the speaker throws light on the crisis of Indian culture in the world context. Indian civilization for thousands of years discovered the reason and goal of life and established the high values in normal life. It established sanatana dharma, discovered all the science behind this material phenomenon and the spirit upholding them. But in the course of time, this land was attacke...

Nature has its way of playing and it takes very long time to progress. Man can excel the process by yoga and compress the thousands years’ work in just one life time. We have to focus the goal and organize all our movements towards the goal. There should be a process of purification and surrender. The great possibility of transformation of human nature into divine nature is such a great goal, huma...

The expectations of the outcome of meditation according to our mental calculation may not work. However no effort goes in vain. If possible one can find out a place in one’s own house and keep a positive atmosphere. Initially it helps to Practice meditation regularly and at a fixed place and time. Later it must become more and more spontaneous and independent of any outer conditions.

Meditation is one of the approaches to be in contact with the Divine. However instead of being practiced as a technique it should be dynamic and spontaneous. The meditator, the object of meditation and the process should be connected in a living relation. Our inner attitudes have an impact upon our outer activities. There are centers in our body which are like doors of energy towards higher and de...