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The Silent Soul of the World

By on January 3, 2012 in poetry, sri_aurobindo

The silent Soul of all the world was there:
A Being lived, a Presence and a Power,
A single Person who was himself and all
And cherished Nature’s sweet and dangerous throbs
Transfigured into beats divine and pure.
One who could love without return for love,
Meeting and turning to the best the worst,
It healed the bitter cruelties of earth,
Transforming all experience to delight;
Intervening in the sorrowful paths of birth
It rocked the cradle of the cosmic Child
And stilled all weeping with its hand of joy;
It led things evil towards their secret good,
It turned racked falsehood into happy truth;
Its power was to reveal divinity.

- Sri Aurobindo

Savitri, Canto XIV – The World-Soul Page 291.

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A bliss lived in her heart too large for heaven

By on March 25, 2008 in sri_aurobindo

The immense remoteness of her trance had passed;
Human she was once more, earth’s Savitri,
Yet felt in her illimitable change.
A power dwelt in her soul too great for earth,
A bliss lived in her heart too large for heaven;
Light too intense for thought and love too boundless
For earth’s emotions lit her skies of mind
And spread through her deep and happy seas of soul.
All that is sacred in the world drew near
To her divine passivity of mood.
A marvellous voice of silence breathed its thoughts.
All things in Time and Space she had taken for hers; 

- Sri Aurobindo

Excerpt from Savitri

Book Twelve:  Epilogue The Return to Earth Page 716

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The Genius of India – film

By on February 20, 2008 in sri_aurobindo

The Genius of India is a film based on a talk given by Sri Aurobindo about India. Sri Aurobindo talks about the inner characteristics and soul of India and how the body of India may evolve.

“Spirituality is the Master-Key of the Indian Mind”

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Sri Aurobindo – A Tribute

By on September 8, 2007 in sri_aurobindo

Based on: Mohan Mistry’s song “Hey Ananta Divya Purush

Biography of Sri Aurobindo

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The Existence of God

By on May 28, 2007 in sri_aurobindo

 

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The Existence of God

 

"They proved to me by convincing reasons that God does not exist; Afterwards I saw God, for he came and embraced me. And now what am I to believe- the reasoning of others or my own experience? Truth is what the soul has seen and experienced; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion."

 

 

By: Sri Aurobindo

Photo by Unmesh Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

 

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“We Love what Common hearts repel”

By on February 6, 2007 in poetry, sri_aurobindo

"The truth mind could not know unveils its face,
We hear what mortal ears have never heard,
We feel what earthly sense has never felt,
We love what common hearts repel and dread;
Our minds hush to a bright Omniscient;
A Voice calls from the chambers of the soul;
We meet the ecstasy of the Godhead’s touch
In golden privacies of immortal fire."

Excerpt from "Savitri" by Sri Aurobindo, Book I, Canto Four, lines 78-85)

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The Genius of India – Video

By on January 21, 2007 in india, sri_aurobindo, videos

In an essay written in 1918 and entitled The Renaissance in India, Sri Aurobindo presents us with a masterly view of India’s culture through the ages — her essential spirit and her characteristic soul, her unique genius and powers which gave her her remarkably long periods of greatness and an unusually prolific creativity — that which allowed her to survive for so long when other ancient civilisations faded away. He explains the basis of her strength — that which enabled her to resist so many attempts at crushing her culture.

 

“Spirituality is the master key of the indian mind. the sense of infinity is native to it

- From video

See also: Genius of India at Auroville

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Poem – Cosmic Consciousnes

By on December 3, 2006 in inspiration, poetry, spirituality, sri_aurobindo

 

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Cosmic Consciousness

I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self
And Time and Space my spirit’s seeing are.
I am the god and demon, ghost and elf,
I am the wind’s speed and the blazing star.

All Nature is the nursling of my care,
I am its struggle and the eternal rest;
The world’s joy thrilling runs through me, I bear
The sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.

I have learned a close identity with all,
Yet am by nothing bound that I become;
Carrying in me the universe’s call
I mount to my imperishable home.

I pass beyond Time and life on measureless wings,
Yet still am one with born and unborn things.

By: Sri Aurobindo

Photo By: Phoolanjaya from: Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries

 

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Sri Aurobindo Quotes on Peace

By on November 5, 2006 in peace, quotes, sri_aurobindo

 

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"The first thing to do in the sadhana is to get a settled peace and silence in the mind.
Otherwise you may have experiences, but nothing will be permanent.
It is in the silent mind that the true consciousness can be built."

 

"When the mind is silent there is peace and in the peace all things that are divine can come.
When there is not the mind, there is the Self which is greater than the mind."

 

By: Sri Aurobindo

View: Biography of Sri Aurobindo

From: Search for light.org

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Sri Aurobindo – Extract from play

By on October 1, 2006 in inspiration, sri_aurobindo

silenceSri Aurobindo was a poet, philosopher and Spiritual Master.

In Sri Aurobindo’s early life he threw himself heart and soul into politics and the Indian independence Movement.

However at various times and particularly during a spell in prison, very powerful spiritual experiences came to Sri Aurobindo. These spiritual illuminations encouraged him to leave the political struggle to others and concentrate only on his future spiritual mission.

 

Extract from Play on Sri Aurobindo

(Bombay. After his address at a meeting of the Bombay National Union, Aurobindo returns to the residence of a friend. Standing on a balcony he looks out on the city.)

Aurobindo: “I see the whole busy movement of Bombay as a picture in a cinema-show, all unreal and shadowy. The entire material world is quite unsubstantial, void. Ever since I had the experience of the vacant state of Nirvana the silent Infinite alone has become real to me.”

enter Lele

- From “Descent of the Blue” – A Play by Sri Chinmoy on the life of Sri Aurobindo

See Bande Mataram translated by Sri Aurobindo.

See: Biography of Sri Aurobindo

 

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