Category: Spirituality

Prayers and Meditations is written for those who wish to consecrate themselves entirely to the Divine. Mother aspires for the day when She no longer would be able to say “I”, for She would be “Thou” (the Divine). Mother says that the error within us and the error we see around us is one and… Continue reading Notes from Mother’s Prayers and Meditations

It was the hour before the Gods awake. The epic poem “Savitri” written by Sri Aurobindo starts with the dawn of the day when Satyavan is going to die. The night is the darkest just before dawn. It was the hour when the night was the darkest. Here we can make an analogy between Gods… Continue reading Savitri – Line 1

Nati is to submit our soul to the will of God. Nati may be with 3 states:1. titiksha, 2. udasinata or 3. ananda. Nati may be with titiksha, feeling the sorrow but accepting it as God’s will. Or Nati may be with udasinata, rising above and considering both joy and sorrow as the working in… Continue reading Nati – accepting God’s will in all situations

Sri Aurobindo has written an epic poem “Savitri” which is over 700 pages and around 24,000 lines long. Savitri is the daughter of the Sun. She meets Satyavan and wants to marry him. However, she comes to know from sage Narada that Satyavan is destined to die in a year. Savitri still goes onto marry… Continue reading How can reading Savitri help our life?

Generally we express gratitude to either God or another person when good things happen in our life. Examples are when we get a promotion or our child passes the exam with flying colors, or we get over illness and our ushered into good health. But many times when bad things happen to us we end… Continue reading Total gratitude

Pure goodness is not when we have to make a choice between good and evil. Pure goodness can only exist in a heart which is incapable of evil. A person can move from evil to good through meditation. But to reach the self-existent good, man has to resort to consecration. Consecration is to offer both… Continue reading To be good one must be incapable of evil

The Upanishads are a great work of the Indian mind. The genius of the Indian mind has been very well expressed through the profound character of the spiritual revelation in the Upanishads. This shows that Indians have a unique mentality and unusual turn of the spirit. The Upanishads are a record of the deepest spiritual… Continue reading Introduction to the Upanishads by Sri Aurobindo

Can one go out of Time and Space?When one goes out of manifestation, we can go out of Time and Space. The moment the objective world was created, time and space were also created. To go out of it one must return to the origin that is go out of manifestation. So from the very… Continue reading Beyond Time and Space