Sri Aurobindo

“The time of religions is over. We have entered the age of universal spirituality, of spiritual experience in its initial purity.” (The Mother) “The Truth of the Divine which is the spiritual reality behind all religions and the descent of the supramental which is not known to any religion are the sole things which will be the foundation of the work of the future.” (Sri Aurobindo)

To tell the truth, if you live only a moment, just a tiny moment, of this absolutely sincere aspiration or this sufficiently intense prayer, you will know more things than by meditating for hours. (The Mother) – Prayer: There is a general tendency among certain intellectuals to undermine prayer as something religious and inferior. However a look at the spiritual history of man kind reveals that prayers have always been an integral part of spiritual living. There is a rationale and a process...

A compilation from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the four aspects – Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati – and the twelve attributes of the Divine Mother – sincerity, humility, gratitude, perseverance, aspiration, receptivity, progress, courage, goodness, generosity, equanimity, peace. "The Mother comes in order to bring down the supramental and it is the descent which makes her full manifestation here possible. There is one divine Force which acts in the...

Nachdem Sri Aurobindo sich 1926 nahezu vollständig von der Außenwelt und auch von dem persönlichem Kontakt mit seinen Jüngern zurückgezogen hatte, forderte er diese auf, sich mit ihren Fragen und Problemen schriftlich an ihn zu wenden. Das taten sie und „schrieben ihm über alles, über ihre Heimsuchungen und Hoffnungen, ihre dunklen Nächte und verhangenen Tage, über plötzlichen Jubel, seltsame Ängste und bleierne Depressionen – oder sie stellten Fragen über Probleme der Philosophie, der...

This is a collection of messages, talks and answers from the Mother which relate to Auroville. At the beginning there are some words of Sri Aurobindo on humanity and its present condition and need. “Auroville wants to be a universal township where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.” (The Mother)

“In a profound sense it is the call and attraction of the future that makes the past and present, and that future will be more and more seen to be the growth of the godhead in the human being which is the high fate of this race that thinks and wills and labours towards its own perfection. This is a strain that we shall hear more and more, the song of the growing godhead of the kind, of human unity, of spiritual freedom, of the coming supermanhood of man, of the divine ideal seeking to actualise...

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the aims and ideals of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. “Our aim is not, either, to found a religion or a school of philosophy or a school of Yoga, but to create a ground and a way of spiritual growth and experience which will bring down a greater Truth beyond the mind but not inaccessible to the human soul and consciousness. All can pass who are drawn to that Truth, whether they are from India or elsewhere, from the East or from the West. All may find great difficulties...

769 einzeilige Epigramme in deutscher und englischer Sprache aus Sri Aurobindos Epos Savitri. Es gibt verschiedene Arten von Epigrammen, von denen jedes seinen eigenen Zauber besitzt. Es gibt einige, die die Vergangenheit in einer eindrucksvollen Zeile zusammenfassen, andere, die hoffnungsvoll die Zukunft vorhersagen. Es gibt viele, die die Gegenwart in ihrer verwirrenden Fülle einfangen. Eine ganze Reihe davon sind Wahrnehmungen, die ganze Philosophien umreißen. Nicht wenige überwältigen den...

A compilation from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. "The rule in Yoga is not to let the depression depress you, to stand back from it, observe its cause and remove the cause; for the cause is always in oneself, perhaps a vital defect somewhere, a wrong movement indulged or a petty desire causing a recoil, sometimes by its satisfaction, sometimes by its disappointment. In Yoga a desire satisfied, a false movement given its head produces very often a worse recoil than...

Sri Aurobindo writes, that the ego‘s factories and marts surround the beautiful temple of the soul. The soul is a spark, a portion of the Divine and the centre of light in our being. Being divine in its nature, its qualities and powers are also divine. Beauty, harmony, love, joy and other verities of the Divine Truth are present wherever the soul is awake making the chamber of the soul a veritable temple. But we do not normally have access to this temple for around the soul there are formations...

Sri Aurobindos Buch «Die Mutter» wurde unter ganz besonderen Umständen geschrieben. Als sich Sri Aurobindo 1926 zurückzog und die Leitung des Ashrams der Mutter übertrug, bat er alle Sadhaka sich in Bezug auf Führung und Hilfe in der Sadhana an die Mutter zu wenden. Als er anordnete, dass fortan jeder Kontakt mit ihm nur über die Mutter stattfinden solle, wurde er von jenen, die lange vor ihr mit ihm zusammen waren, gefragt: «Ja, aber wer ist die Mutter?» Als diese Frage immer wieder gestellt...