Talks in Hindi

Savitri is not a mental creation and hence cannot be understood by mere mental reasoning. This poem is of a revelatory nature, like a sunlight in which one can bathe and change, receive and be energized. It is the story of Light conquering Darkness, and of Love conquering Death. But what is Death? It is a shadow of God as He moves towards the Future. By limiting Himself or rather His manifestation...

Sri Aurobindo worked in different aspects of human consciousness and everywhere he established the needed lines along which humanity could grow and progress. The first work was freedom of India. He worked in Indian politics and laid all the large lines through which India will get freedom. We see the glimpses of this work in “Bande Mataram”, “Karmayogin” and “Dharma”. When the work’s success was a...

Sri Aurobindo’s yoga aims to establish the Divine Consciousness in matter. Even now It operates hidden behind and veiled as well as distorted by the outer and lower nature. The work is complex and vast. The whole creation strives for perfection. Sri Aurobindo tells us the four aspects of perfection – Shuddhi, Mukti, Shakti and Bhukti. Shuddhi makes our inner and outer nature open towards divine in...

Sri Aurobindo’s yoga is integral in nature, and knowledge, work and bhakti are its inevitable components. Whichever way we start, it slowly brings all the three streams and weaves them together. But the first thing to be done is to discover the secret soul, the psychic entity within man, and let all the three streams flow impelled by that. When it is psychic bhakti which brings the momentum in sad...

Spiritual life is a life dedicated towards God realization or the seeking after Truth and Peace and Bliss. Religious life is however different. It is not so much of a seeking but living according to some belief systems. Sometimes religious life can be a preparation for the spiritual but very often it stops our progress by keeping us tied to certain fixed and limited formulas. We confuse religious...

Love is the crown and fulfilment of yoga, says Sri Aurobindo. His writings are full of their emphasis on surrender and faith. Also we find that the Mother’s Diary, now printed as Prayers and Meditations, shows us by her own example the way of devotion and surrender. The Mother established this perfect and integral surrender first time in the earth consciousness and showed us the way too. The lock...

How to remain at the height of consciousness in the field of administration or when we are among people in the thick of activities? Each happening in life has a particular purpose. When we see the scenes and identify ourselves with them, we get exactly the experience that is embedded in the phenomenon. But if we can learn to watch it as a witness, as if as an outsider then we can remain unaffected...

This talk touches upon some of the salient aspects of spiritual living. Behind many accepted social or religious truths of human life we can see a spiritual truth. As the whole humanity is not ready to accept spiritual truths directly, they are given in different colours through social, moral or religious norms so that they are accepted. When these truths are followed without proper knowledge or o...

The talk dwells on various outlooks and attitudes one can take towards life and self and world, especially on the inner attitude behind our daily life. Our life is layered with many social, moral, religious and spiritual perspectives, but we are generally not conscious of them or unable to differentiate between them. The main difference is in the state of consciousness. When one wants to live a hi...

This talk throws light on the necessity and significance of right attitude. We have to be careful of our thoughts, as our outer circumstances in some way represent our inner state. Our personal suffering many a times is created by our ignorance. Life of human being is governed by natural laws that operate under Ignorance and prepare him for his spiritual development. The higher spiritual laws do n...

There are laws of life and creation. There are different laws for different layers of consciousness like physical world has physical laws, so too there are ranges of subtle worlds with their subtle laws. But spiritual law is above all these laws. The Mother wants to establish the highest divine Law here upon earth. There is a process through which this can be established with the collaboration of...

There is a difference between the ordinary life, religious life and the spiritual life. They are different not only in the goals and motives but also in processes and attitudes we have towards self and world and others. For example, from the stand point of yoga it is not important what you do but the consciousness in which it is done, says the Master. Change in outer life does not make a change of...

Generally there are three ways to look at life. First one is looking at the surface from the surface. The second one just goes a little behind and sees the motives behind the happenings. But the third one is to see life through a conscious inner eye. A sadhak needs to develop this inner vision and deeper seeing which is not dependent on surface happenings but goes to the heart of the matter. He sh...

It seems outwardly that in integral yoga there is minimum rules, but in fact, the rules are very subtle and demand far more vigilance, and they are an inner necessity rather than outer imposition. Also, the outer rules may not be the same for each individual as each one’s nature and inner necessity are different. When someone is following outer rules mechanically, it does not also help much, as th...

‘The Chariot of Jagannath’ is an ideal that Sri Aurobindo envisaged and explained in his early Bengali writings of the same name. It is the symbol of the collective development of Society with the Divine at its centre. A society can move like a ‘ratha’ or chariot, towards its goal that is to manifest God in collective life provided it places the Divine at the centre and not some magnified image of...

One’s inner attitude determines the way of spiritual life, so the path of genuine evolution opens from within outwards rather than outside in. An inner initiation spontaneously happens with the growth of inner preparation and opening. It could come like a Mantra, or a sentence or an experience. The whole of our life gets its true meaning from this awakening. The whole orientation of our life turns...

The inner attitude of Faith, its’ meaning, significance and importance in sadhana. The challenges of life and how they enhance the need in faith and prepare for the spiritual journey. Along with faith we need Prarthana or prayer. Prayer must be living as mechanical prayer is hardly effective. To pray mechanically without faith and merely as a parrot-like lesson does not have strength to rise upwar...

Each time a chosen one faces a challenge, his faith is given a test, and he comes closer to the Divine if he has a profound Sraddha, a will made up of Faith and Love. In this yoga one needs faith that the Divine exists and will reveal Himself in response to our sincere aspiration by His own Grace. Once this fundamental faith is there, a thousand failures cannot stop him achieving the goal. All the...

This talk elucidates the limitations of human consciousness to open towards Divine light and how to turn towards true Freedom. Many parts of our being are not open to the Divine, few parts open themselves. We have to persist until they too open. Absence of fear and a complete surrender are the best conditions to be in whatever are the outer circumstances, and facilitate a wide opening. Recorded in...

Taking the truth of Vedanta as its base, Sri Aurobindo reveals us the Truth of future and the way of its manifestation. The whole creation is created by Ananda, dwelling in Ananda and proceeding towards Ananda. The way of Vedanta is to arrive at Knowledge by drawing oneself into the awareness of the Supreme Purusha. The way of Tantra leads us to Ananda through worship of Divine Power. We have to a...

The fundamental truth given to mankind by our scriptures is that the divine is everything, “Sarva khalidam brahma”. The question arises that if Divine is everything, then what is our role, what is Wisdom? What is transformation? Here Sri Aurobindo tells us that, though essentially everything is Divine in its origin and manifestation, the divine manifests gradually in a progressive way in the manif...

There are three kinds of life we live, ordinary, religious, and spiritual, and we evolve from one into the other. Two hemispheres of existence and how we remain limited unless we cross the border that would disclose to us the total truth. Difference between relative partial truths and the integral Vision of Truth. Vastness is liberating, but this vastness is not a fresh confusion of things but put...

The yoga should not be done with a heart full of despondency, rather it should be done with a happy inner attitude. There is a clear distinction between renunciation or Tyaga and asceticism or Sannyasa. The sign of progress and effort in the right direction is a growth of joy and peace within, accompanied with vastness and wisdom, not visions and voices. It is a growth towards Oneness and not a st...

Personal effort and surrender are often seen as contradictory processes of sadhana. But they are complementary processes and go together. Speaker tells us about the various levels of balance, types of effort with practical examples and the need for exercising choices. Personal effort in itself is not the end but the way for joy, harmony and growth of surrender. He also tells us what really is true...

The speaker starts with the story of Buddha and its inner meaning and significance. He draws the distinction between true renunciation, true vairagya which is impelled by a positive seeking, and a temporary state of disillusionment which is essentially a negative state without much force in it. Further in this talk Alok Pandey speaks about the need for balance and moderation on the path of yoga. S...