 |
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
Translated from the original French, the 313 prayers and meditations in this book are a record of the Mother's early spiritual life, written, in her own words, "during years of intensive yogic discipline". Most of the diary entries she selected for publication were from the period between 1912 and 1917. In an introductory note she says she intended them to serve as a spiritual guide for seekers aspiring to consecrate themselves to self-mastery and a complete surrender to and union with the Divine. Several of the translations were done by Sri Aurobindo and some others by disciples were revised by him.
Translated from the original French, the 313 prayers and meditations in this book are a record of the Mother's early spiritual life, written, in her own words, "during years of intensive yogic discipline". Most of the diary entries she selected for publication were from the period between 1912 and 1917. In an introductory note she says she intended them to serve as a spiritual guide for seekers aspiring to consecrate themselves to self-mastery and a complete surrender to and union with the Divine. Several of the translations were done by Sri Aurobindo and some others by disciples were revised by him.
This book records talks and conversations the Mother had with members of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and students of the Ashram school. They include comments on her essays on education and on three short works of Sri Aurobindo: Elements of Yoga, The Mother, and Bases of Yoga.
The Mother's commentaries on the aphorisms of Sri Aurobindo on works, knowledge, and devotion, explaining their meaning and showing among other things how Sri Aurobindo's apparent startling disregard for conventional morality is a means to emphasise how spiritual matters cannot be judged with the ethical mind.
This book is a collection of articles, messages, letters, and conversations of the Mother that touches on subjects like an educational discipline aimed at developing all the principal faculties of the individual, the various aspects of the teaching method known as the free progress system followed at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and the fundamentals of physical education, including the disciplines and attitudes helpful to developing a strong, healthy, and conscious body. Also included are three dramas written for the annual dramatic performance day.
In this correspondence with fourteen persons, disciples living in the Ashram and students of the Ashram school, the Mother answered general questions about life and Yoga.
As expounded in all ancient traditions and as is increasingly being rediscovered by modern medical research, the physical body is the gross material expression of a more subtle body. The body is surrounded by a nervous envelope through which disease must first penetrate before affecting the physical body. This book spells out in the words of the Mother the secret inner causes of health and disease. The methods of mastering the body's functioning in the light of a deeper knowledge of the subtler levels influencing the physical are expressed in direct, lucid language.
This book aims primarily to help the reader become aware of the influence and action of the soul in life and then to describe and clarify the various states of consciousness that pertain to the experiences of the soul. The selections were chosen to provide the reader with a mental understanding and clarity that can help identify the movements and influences of the psychic being and grow more conscious of which factors are helpful and which harmful "in fostering the awareness of one's soul". Finally, it aims to light the way beyond the initial discovery of the psychic being to an aspiration for the complete transformation of the external being, leading to a life governed only by the soul. This book, an expansion on the editor's previous compilation The Psychic Being, deals more extensively with the practical aspects of the subject.
The unpredictability of our moods, impulses, and emotions and the apparent randomness of happenings in our external lives are primarily due to the play of hidden forces at work in the world, forces of which we are almost totally unaware. This book is a compilation from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on these hidden forces and how they influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions and determine the course of events in life.
|
© 1999 - 2025 Copyright Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust |
