Talks in Hindi

This talk takes up few selected passages from Savitri related to Savitri’s choice of Satyavan, the prophesy by Narad and Savitri’s resolve to fight against fixed Fate. There are also question and answers on reading Savitri, Religious conversion, Meditation, Conserving energy etc.

This talk is based on Savitri Book Three Canto four wherein Aswapati passing through the doors of the Unknowable is face to face with the Divine Mother. She shows him the vision of the luminous future awaiting earth but also the unpreparedness of man to receive it now. It must be a long wait before it manifests. But Aswapati insists and asks as a boon that the Divine Mother Herself should come and...

Our so called understanding of creation and its purpose is vague and incomplete. Sri Aurobindo not only explains the why and wherefore but completes it by his revelations about the earth’s luminous future. By his very presence, he changed the direction of the whole nation in freedom movement. He established then the Divine mother in human time and space on earth. He redefined the relevance of man’...

Aswapati’s yoga is Sri Aurobindo’s own yoga. Savitri’s yoga is the yoga of the Divine Mother done in this terrestrial world . Aswapati as the representative of earth did sadhana till he got the darshan and assurance of Divine Mother granting him the boon of transforming this earthly life into a divine life. Sri Aurobindo himself did the sadhana for the whole creation and established the Divine Mot...

In the evolution of life, man stands with a mixture of qualities in his nature. Some parts are developed, open towards light and knowledge but some parts also like to stay in dark. This does not give much trouble when man is in ordinary consciousness. When man tries to be conscious and do sadhana, then these hidden parts resist and revolt and the ego and ignorance stands on the way. However by the...

When we take up yoga, difficulties arise for several reasons. All yoga is difficult and the integral yoga is especially so. Yet we have to face it in a yogic way. But as we walk with faith, sincerity and surrender the difficulties transform into opportunities by the touch of Divine Grace.

There is often a gap between the inner and the outer life. Sometimes we aspire and dwell in a beautiful consciousness inwardly but as we encounter outer life, we lose the inner state. This creates a gulf between the inner spiritual life and the outer material existence. However, physical things and places have their own significance and purpose. We have to connect to their divine essence.

A key Idea in the Integral Yoga is the Supermind. It is the infinite Truth Consciousness beyond the highest layer of the Mind. Though glimpsed by some rare seers standing atop the highest mental layers, the Supermind had been used as a door of final exit from the earthly Play. Sri Aurobindo however brought it down into the earthly play. It is this that has begun acting now and slowly transmuting t...

Unlike classical yogas, integral yoga accepts nature but purifies it and makes it ready for the divine. Our human nature is a distortion of the divine nature. There are several steps in the process. Finding of one’s psychic is the first milestone. Our present life here is the field of preparation. To move towards the goal, Service, love of the lord, remembrance and surrender of all the efforts to...

Life is the journey from a limited consciousness to the vast and infinite, from darkness to light and more light. But when we reject life since it is limited we also throw away the possibility of its progressive enlargement and transmutation into divinity. India suffered badly rejecting life and the purpose of creation. Life though distorted by Maya has a purpose. It prepares man for the higher tr...

The union of spirit and nature is the basis of yoga. Nature must be ready to express the spirit. Will is the central tool of ordinary man to make it happen. One has to collect the scattered threads of consciousness involved in many things, focus it on the goal, offering it continuously to the divine so that it becomes pure and strong. This is the path of will.

Maya in Indian context is understood in a confusing and vague way. Some great thinkers said the world is an illusion. Just by telling this, they could not justify the relevance of it. This illusion too serves a purpose in the great Play. It is the self-limitation of the Infinite. Sri Aurobindo explains that Maya is a limited and partial truth, often distorted in appearance. Instead of abandoning c...

The discovery of psychic being is an important milestone in the path of integral yoga. Our ordinary life is governed by mind, body and vital beings trying to satisfy their urges through our senses. These agents do not allow our true being (psychic) to come to the front and control the life. For that we need to train them. The Vital, especially the lower vital with its urges, habitual instincts and...

An intellectual curiosity is not enough to open the doors of true knowledge for us. We need a living quest, a thirst and seeking for Truth and Light. The urge to know the meaning of life should be the core of our existence. To have some experience, power, to serve humanity etc does not give sufficient reason to do yoga. Sri Aurobindo’s yoga demands the whole life and its activities so that it can...

Life is a mystery and a challenge at the same time. There is life in everything in this creation. That is why there is immense possibility. Life and death are two aspects of the same coin. Only when life comes up to a point when it cannot proceed further, it leaves the vehicle and takes another form. As there is life in matter also, that is why matter has possibilities. Life tries to manifest all...

We need to redefine ourselves because what we are now is the result of many conditionings done by others. One has to understand that the real individuality has to be explored by oneself only. The outside world and people provide generally a definition to our life and define it in terms of money and success in physical life. We are the creation of the universe and created by the greatest power. Do...

Surrender to the Divine Mother is central in the Integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo. The easiest way is to form the relation of mother and child. With all our limitations, shortcomings and demands of human nature, the Divine Mother leads us the way towards a wider and more enlightened path. Only sraddha and samarpan, faith and surrender then matters.

Yoga brings out new and unknown experiences in life. It is a vast field. But sadhana does not need any special time. We can offer each activity and accept the given situation as the part of sadhana. It does not depend on our so called understandings of life. Sadhana links man with the vastness of the Supreme. There is a child within us who knows how to progress continuously. That helps us to grow....

To discover truth we must either go deep within ourselves or high beyond the last summits of mind and thought. To ascend to That, each one faces the challenges according to one’s nature and strength. Mother’s story  the ascent to truth  beautifully displays these stages and its limitations. One has to be a true aspirant who can go beyond the satisfaction of personal ego and has the courage to reac...

The talk is based on the question of Renunciation or tyaga Renunciation is vaguely understood in general life. Offering some worldly things and having the pride of renunciation is obviously not enough to walk in this path of yoga. The more one offers his inner life to the divine, the better his outer life is arranged. Compassion, fellow feelings and friendship etc, the finer feelings are not forbi...

This talk deals with several questions. The relation between a man and a woman can be ordinary if it is lived for the satisfaction of ego and desire. However to find out divine principle in all relations is the purpose of yoga here. Though it is not easy, it is possible with the help of Grace. All the human relation then can be seen as a far off reflection or a shadow of true relation man can esta...

Though there is no hard and fast rule followed in integral yoga, yet the swiftest and safest way is self-giving. Give all you have, give all you do and lastly give all you are – this is what is asked in the path of supramental yoga. The rest is taken care of by the Lord of the yoga. This is the golden way by which surrender becomes spontaneous and transformation of nature becomes possible. This is...

Many suggestions come from different parts of being when man is in some difficulty. But there is one voice in us which comes from the depth of our soul. To listen to this voice and live according to this inmost truth is the path for man. This is swadharma. The same was given by Sri krishna to Pandavas. Faith means to adhere to the deepest core of our being where our truth and the Divine Presence r...

At the beginning of sadhana it is better to avoid TV or newspapers. These things create a bombarding of the senses which creates hurdles in the free flow of the divine energy. But when we grow in sadhana, anything can be molded or give way to our true aspiration. Ultimately we can discover the Divine in everything. But there are stages and steps and different rules apply at different stages of our...

Our words bind knowledge. Words like Sraddha and Faith are not limited to the meaning we often attribute to them. Sraddha is the very essence of man that ultimately reveals true knowledge. If everything is lost in life, sraddha alone can build back everything lost. But sraddha can be of different kinds as revealed in the Gita. No faith is blind unless it is stagnant in its narrowness. Sraddha cann...