Talks in Hindi

When the psychic unfolds, a range of experiences and states of consciousness can emerge. A deep and quiet devotion towards the Divine is an obvious sign. There is also the growth of soul-powers such as faith and gratitude, enthusiasm for the Divine Service, urge for progress, spontaneous intuitive knowledge awakening in the deeper heart etc. There is usually the descent of higher powers such as Pe...

To light the psychic fire is the most important initiation in human life. Before that human life is not much connected with the true goal of life. By yoga the being gets prepared slowly. Once the psychic fire is lit, then the whole life and its activities are offered to the Divine and nature gets progressively purified. It is called yajna. The more the being is prepared, the better they can receiv...

The whole life and its experiences are a preparation and the evolution of the psychic entity within us. Our ordinary nature has no free will, though it feels like it has. But it is an illusion. Free Will in the true sense starts only when we have found our soul, the psychic being within man. At the same time there should be an all-round growth, a progress in different parts of our nature. By the g...

In the way of God realization, the seeker follows different paths. Each yields a certain angle of vision. An ascetic concentrates on realizing the Divine by cutting away all other activities of life, physical or psychological. By not involving himself in the activities of nature and rejecting the movements of life he may arrive at some one-sided experience of the Divine. However this path is not g...

When we start to prepare ourselves for yoga, we have to prepare the background first. A firm background is necessary because the path of yoga is full of different experiences and lots of unpredictable challenges.  There are times of difficulty and times when everything seems to sail smoothly. One has to be prepared for challenges that actually come to help us grow. They are like a series of examin...

The story of Savitri comes in the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata. Yudhisthira asked Rishi Markendaya if there was any one who was more pious than Draupadi and had suffered more than her? And Rishi Markendaya told him the story of Savitri, who not only suffered more than Draupadi but also fought with destiny and conquered death. Then the sage tells the whole story of Savitri which was narrated in so...

The talk starts with addressing the difficulties of the yoga when one enters the Intermediate Zone. When we begin to come out of the limited boundaries of the individual ego, we enter in the field of cosmic Ignorance. The field of cosmic Ignorance is a mixed baggage of many real and unreal things where there is a chance of being deluded easily. The guidance of guru is the only safeguard there. Hum...

The process of evolution is to absorb the past elements and give them a new form which is conducive to the new element. It is an adaptation, assimilation and integration. First there was matter on earth. When Prana or the life energy came, it gave movement and expansion to it. When Mind came, it tried to balance prana by regulation, by creating order, by imposing limits. This brought in complexity...

This talk is based on Savitri Book Three, Canto Three. Aswapati has crossed the border of form and the formless and entered the Supramental realm. Even as he stands at the borders awaiting the Divine Will, suddenly he experiences the Presence and Power of the Divine Mother draw close to him. She then reveals to him the divine worlds and the supramental creation that exists in its own divine realm...

God is not limited by anything even though He dwells in everything. But our mind being limited turns everything, including the Divine Words into fixed dogmas. But then how to move on the Path of transformation that does not exclude anything in the end? Those who make rules to follow, they slowly start eliminating things. The natural result of elimination is nirvana, which is not the way of this yo...

It is difficult to have a perfect faith in the beginning. We start with a limited and often egoistic human faith. But as we proceed on the path, we that our narrowness transforms and wideness takes its place. We begin to understand the ways of the Divine and how His Presence is being revealed slowly in all this manifold creation. The Divine uses everything and occasion to fulfill his work. So we m...

There is a background and foreground of yoga. We as humanity are all tied with a common bond, which Sri Aurobindo calls ‘the human aspiration’. This is the common base of all the human beings. That is why man has always dreamed and tried for Perfection in individual and collective life through various means. He is born with this aspiration for exceeding his limits, for striving towards an unseen f...

Zeus, the principal god has decided the end of Troy. It is standing on the way of evolution, hence it must be brought down for a greater evolutionary impulsion to emerge out of its ruins. One part of the evolution cannot be too high and other parts too low. He asked Athena, the goddess of Intuition to rule the world in place of Apollo, the god of spiritual vision. Athena knows that, when mind will...

Zeus was watching the great city of Troy and its people which was on the verge of destruction. Ordinary people unaware of the threat are busy in their normal life. Then he comes to his heavenly abode and watches the moods of gods. All the gods responsible for the different attributes discuss about the destiny of man on earth and their part to play. Poseidon, Apollo, Aphrodite, Athena, Hera, Eris –...

Here Sri Aurobindo reveals the feelings of most of the key characters of Ilion in his unique way. Most of the Greek warriors were full of passion, lust of blood and plundering. It was like an offering in the fire of passion in front of death god. Cyrus meets his father Achilles and Achilles advises his son of all good values of a great person. He advises him to tell what is right to the friend and...

The reason why the most glorious and developed city like Troy was destroyed is a very subtle one and Sri Aurobindo explains it at length. If any part of society develops too much at the expense of others, then Nature has a tendency to bring it down so as to ensure a more holistic development. The fall of the developed part is inevitable for the balance and growth of the whole society which must he...

Trojan war was fought upon earth, but it was decided by the gods to bring about momentous changes in Greece. The war and its outcome were decided on the subtle planes before being realized upon earth. Meanwhile, Paris was speaking to the general assembly of Troy and conveyed his decisions that he is not going to give back Helen as destiny has given her to him. If gods have designed the war, men mu...

The Trojan war was going on. For long nine years there was no decisive result. Achilles sent his messenger to Troy with the marriage proposal with Priam’s daughter. In between Achilles’ nephew took the armor and head gear of Achilles and went to war. Assuming him as Achilles, Hector of Troy killed him. Till then Achilles did not start the war. But now with anger he went into a rampage and killed l...

In this talk we see the three key words that Greece talked most – destiny, gods and man. The whole humanity struggled to understand the meaning, significance and the connection of these three words. In his epic poem Sri Aurobindo introduces a rather lesser known lady warrior from Asia by the name of Pentheselea who has come all the way simply to fight in a mortal combat with the unstoppable warrio...

This talk is the first of a series of talks based on Sri Aurobindo’s poem Ilion. Sri Aurobindo refers to this event as one of the four major events that have shaped humanity. Before three thousand years Greece had many small independent states. At that time Troy (Present Turkey) was very rich and the most advanced and powerful state. It is said that the city was built by gods. The prince of Troy,...

This talk is based on Sri Aurobindo’s poem Baji Prabhu. This poem is full of heroism and velour and is centered around the legendary Maratha warrior Baji Prabhu, the famous General of Shiva ji who won for him the fort of Singhgadh at the cost of his own life. Baji Prabhu, the Commander of the great Maratha king Shivaji was guarding a small gorge with just two hundred soldiers against and army of t...

Every word has some vibrations. Words like MA and OM has infinite power and comprehensive meaning. Sri Aurobindo released the power of the Word through the Arya and various other writings that are now available in the form of books such as ‘The Synthesis of Yoga’, ‘The Life Divine’, ‘The Human Cycle’ apart from his wonderful commentaries on ancient scriptures such as the Vedas, Upanishads and the...

This talk is based on Sri Aurobindo’s long poem ‘Love and Death’. This poem is inspired by the story of Ruru and Pramadvara as recounted in the Mahabharata. Ruru, the grandson of great Rishi Bhrigu and son of Sage Chyavan and the Titaness Puloma is married to Priyamvada (Sri Aurobindo has renamed Pramadvara to Priyamvada). Ruru loved her intensely. But it was not to be for long. Destiny has its wa...

When the divine takes a human form, he brings with him some precious gifts for his lovely daughter earth. These are the dreams that he implants in earth’s subtle atmosphere. When earth and man is ready these gifts will begin to reveal themselves. In his well-known message given on India’s Independence, Sri Aurobindo mentions five dreams. The first dream was the freedom of India, rather a free and...

When somebody asked the Mother some questions, the Mother advised him to read Sri Aurobindo where he can find all his answers. Indeed, Sri Aurobindo has answered all the questions humanity has ever had. Yet as the Mother says ‘Who can understand Sri Aurobindo? He is as vast as the universe and his teaching is infinite. The only way to know him; to come near him, is to love him and to give oneself...