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About Matter in The Life Divine

About Matter in The Life Divine … the body is from the beginning the soul’s great difficulty, its continual stumbling-block and rock of offence. … The body is the obscure…
Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 23: The Refusal of the Ascetic

Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 23 The Refusal of the Ascetic All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman and the Self is fourfold. Beyond relation, featureless,…
Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 22: The Materialist Denial

Apropos of Two Vast Negations — 22 The Materialist Denial He energised conscious-force (in the austerity of thought) and came to the knowledge that Matter is the Brahman. For from…
Our Almond Tree

Our Almond Tree You asked me: “What’s that sound?” Yes, it seemed quite unusual, loud. I went to the courtyard, Even past our almond tree, And looked around. True, there…
I shall pour sunlight

I shall rebuild the pyramids, the medallions, Enthuse continents with ensigns of approbation, In streets and marts sing epics of the son of flame, Compose a piece and name it…
Bird-watching at Sarasota

Bird-watching at Sarasota Celery Fields Sarasota Florida sarasotaaudubon.org
A Call from Tutārī

तुतारीची पुकार पुकार दिली होती अप्रतिम तुतारीने, यशस्वी, महत् इच्छेची, डोंगरमाथ्याहून; म्हणत होती आहे त्या ढगांच्या पलीकडे गूढ स्रोत न थांबणाऱ्या अस्मानी नदीचे; पूर्वापार उदात्ततेचे प्रख्यात रहस्य घेऊनि वाहते ती,…
A Happy New Year to All from Auroville

A Happy New Year to All No human will can finally prevail against the Divine’s Will. and the Victory is ultimately certain.The Mother (New Year’s message 1955) This wonderful world…
New forms are needed

In the beginning was the Word “One has to have an integral vision and when that is absent arise all problems,” continued Leon. “In the beginning was the Word, and…
Bonne Année 2026

Bonne Année 2026 If this is she of whom the world has heard, Wonder no more at any happy change. ||158.20|| Her Love There is no infinity Wider than her…
Happy New Year 2026
A world’s desire compelled her mortal birth

A world’s desire compelled her mortal birth A world’s desire compelled her mortal birth ||5.1|| It is ages of ardent aspiration that have brought us here to do the Divine’s…
Her Love

Her Love There is no infinity Wider than her love. Even if you touch The edge of the bluemost, Or turn inward the eye’s sight, You cannot reach the bounds…
Satyavan — The Golden-Tower & The Future of the Earth by Pravir Malik

Satyavan — The Golden-Tower & The Future of the Earth We are skimming through Dr Pravir Malik’s new significant booklet on the way to publication, a welcome addition to the…
My Prestigious Name — A Poem in Marathi and English

माझे प्रतिष्ठित नाव इतिहास — ते तर नाव माझे प्रतिष्ठित, गाजलेले, धृढ, काळाच्या पुढे धावणारे; सुरुवात झाली होती देवमास्यापासून, अद्भुत, देण्या भक्कम कर्तुत्वाला चालना; न जुमानता त्या राकटी खोटेपणालाही केल्या…
Because I Cannot

Because I Cannot Because I cannot reach your sky, Your winged ecstasies Brought to me its blue Whose creative silence Is now the river’s song. Because I cannot know your…
The Mother about Paul Richard — Seven

The Mother about Paul Richard — Seven Archival Notes IN PONDICHERRY—1910 AND AFTER This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers of Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research. The writer,…
The Mother about Paul Richard — Six

The Mother about Paul Richard — Six Sri Aurobindo saw more clearly. He said—it was even the first thing he told the boys around him when I came in 1914…