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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 [40]
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Conversations with Sri Aurobindo [1]
Demeter and Persephone [1]
Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother [2]
Down Memory Lane [11]
Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother [12]
Early Cultural Writings [30]
Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo [9]
Education For Character Development [4]
Education and the Aim of human life [8]
Education at Crossroads [6]
Education for Tomorrow [6]
Emergence of the Psychic [8]
Essays Divine and Human [31]
Essays in Philosophy and Yoga [37]
Essays on the Gita [40]
Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo [25]
Evolution II [1]
Evolution and the Earthly Destiny [22]
Evolution, Religion and the Unknown God [7]
Evolving India [3]
Finding the Psychic Being [1]
From Man Human to Man Divine [9]
Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Gods and the World [3]
Growing up with the Mother [5]
Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 [15]
Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 [15]
Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3 [7]
Guidance on Education [11]
Health exercises for Women and Girls [1]
Hitler and his God [52]
How to Bring up a Child [3]
Hymns to the Mystic Fire [26]
I Remember [8]
Ideals of Auroville [1]
Images Of The Future [1]
In the Mother's Light [21]
India's Rebirth [6]
Indian Identity and Cultural Continuity [4]
Indian Poets and English Poetry [5]
Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother [4]
Innovations in Education [3]
Inspiration and Effort [13]
Integral Yoga - Major Aims, Methods, Processes and Results [5]
Integral Yoga of Transformation [4]
Integral Yoga, Evolution and the Next Species [2]
Integral yoga and Evolutionary Mutation [2]
Isha Upanishad [27]
Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Jayantilal's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Joan of Arc [2]
Karmayogin [46]
Kena and Other Upanishads [17]
Kirankumari's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Landmarks of Hinduism [7]
Learning with the Mother [8]
Lectures on Savitri [3]
Letters on Himself and the Ashram [35]
Letters on Poetry and Art [28]
Letters on Yoga - I [30]
Letters on Yoga - II [35]
Letters on Yoga - III [33]
Letters on Yoga - IV [40]
Life of Sri Aurobindo [10]
Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1) [21]
Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 2) [19]
Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3) [23]
Light and Laughter [6]
Lights on Yoga [3]
Listen with your Heart - Welcome the Mother [2]
Living in The Presence [9]
Madanlal Himatsingka's Correspondence with The Mother [2]
Man-handling of Savitri [3]
Mantra in Music by Sunil [2]
Marie Sklodowska Curie [1]
Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Memorable Contacts with The Mother [6]
Moments Eternal [9]
More Answers from the Mother [6]
Mother and Abhay [2]
Mother or The Divine Materialism - I [17]
Mother or The Mutation Of Death - III [10]
Mother or The New Species - II [17]
Mother steers Auroville [2]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Five [21]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Four [7]
Mother's Chronicles - Book One [1]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Six [20]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Three [5]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Two [1]
Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 [21]
Mother’s Agenda 1961 [13]
Mother’s Agenda 1962 [18]
Mother’s Agenda 1963 [19]
Mother’s Agenda 1964 [10]
Mother’s Agenda 1965 [20]
Mother’s Agenda 1966 [8]
Mother’s Agenda 1967 [15]
Mother’s Agenda 1968 [10]
Mother’s Agenda 1969 [21]
Mother’s Agenda 1970 [14]
Mother’s Agenda 1971 [10]
Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 [9]
My Burning Heart [1]
My Pilgrimage to the Spirit [15]
My Savitri work with the Mother [8]
Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma and Rebirth [6]
Mystery and Excellence of the Human Body [26]
Nachiketas [4]
Nagin Bhai Tells Me [3]
Nala and Damayanti [4]
Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo [37]
Nishikanto - the Brahmaputra of inspiration [1]
Notebooks of an Apocalypse 1973-1978 [1]
Notebooks of an Apocalypse 1978-1982 [1]
Notes on the Way [6]
Old Long Since [4]
On Art - Addresses and Writings [5]
On Education [35]
On Savitri [1]
On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri [13]
On The Mother [46]
On Thoughts and Aphorisms [31]
On the Path [2]
On the Way to Supermanhood [1]
Our Light and Delight [9]
Our Many Selves [12]
Overhead Poetry [5]
Overman [6]
Parables from the Upanishads [3]
Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother [5]
Parvati's Tapasya [1]
Passing Moments [2]
Patterns of the Present [6]
Perspectives of Savitri - Part 1 [20]
Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2 [18]
Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays [21]
Philosophy of Supermind and Contemporary Crisis [1]
Philosophy of Value-Oriented Education [5]
Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems [4]
Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother [2]
Prayers and Aspirations [6]
Prayers and Meditations [19]
Preparing for the Miraculous [3]
Principles and Goals of Integral Education [9]
Prithwi Singh's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Problems of Early Christianity [4]
Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga [9]
Questions and Answers (1929-1931) [32]
Questions and Answers (1950-1951) [23]
Questions and Answers (1953) [15]
Questions and Answers (1954) [20]
Questions and Answers (1955) [17]
Questions and Answers (1956) [21]
Questions and Answers (1957-1958) [23]
Recollections [1]
Record of Yoga [48]
Reminiscences [8]
Sanjiban's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Savitri [27]
Science, Materialism, Mysticism [8]
Seer Poets [5]
Selected Episodes From Raghuvamsam of Kalidasa [3]
Selected Poems by Nishikanto [1]
Significance of Indian Yoga [4]
Six Talks [2]
Socrates [5]
Some Answers from the Mother [11]
Some Letters from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother [1]
Spiritual bouquets to a friend [1]
Sri Aurobindo - A dream-dialogue with children [1]
Sri Aurobindo - His Life Unique [4]
Sri Aurobindo - The Poet [17]
Sri Aurobindo - The Smiling Master [12]
Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history [27]
Sri Aurobindo - some aspects of His Vision [8]
Sri Aurobindo And The Mother [6]
Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India [4]
Sri Aurobindo And The New World [1]
Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny [7]
Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga [5]
Sri Aurobindo and the Earth's Future [1]
Sri Aurobindo came to Me [11]
Sri Aurobindo for All Ages [12]
Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness [1]
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume I [5]
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume II [2]
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume III [3]
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume IV [10]
Sri Aurobindo's Humour [3]
Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine [13]
Sri Aurobindo's Message [5]
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects [6]
Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study [17]
Sri Krishna In Brindavan [3]
Sri Rama [6]
Sudhir Kumar Sarkar: A Spirit Indomitable [7]
Supermind in Integral Yoga [8]
Surendranath Jauhar's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Surya Namaskar [1]
Sweet Mother [4]
Synthesis of Yoga in the Upanishads [2]
Synthesis of Yoga in the Veda [3]
Taittiriya Upanishad [1]
Talks by Nirodbaran [8]
Talks on Poetry [21]
Talks with Sri Aurobindo [63]
Teilhard de Chardin and our Time [8]
The Adventure of the Apocalypse [11]
The Aim of Life [12]
The Ascent of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri [7]
The Birth of Savitr [3]
The Crucifixion [5]
The Destiny of the Body [29]
The Development of Sri Aurobindo's Spiritual System and The Mother's Contribution to it [1]
The Divine Collaborators [2]
The Future Poetry [32]
The Genius Of India [1]
The Gita and its Synthesis of Yoga [4]
The Golden Path [11]
The Good Teacher and The Good Pupil [21]
The Grace [1]
The Growth of a Flame [1]
The Hidden Forces of Life [15]
The Human Cycle [59]
The Indian Spirit and the World's Future [11]
The Inspiration of Paradise Lost [8]
The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo [23]
The Life Divine [47]
The Mind Of The Cells [1]
The Mother (biography) [16]
The Mother - Past-Present-Future [7]
The Mother Abides - Final Reflections [9]
The Mother on Auroville [6]
The Mother with Letters on the Mother [67]
The New Synthesis of Yoga [2]
The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo [3]
The Practice of the Integral Yoga [22]
The Problem Of Aryan Origins [7]
The Psychic Being [12]
The Renaissance in India [21]
The Revolt Of The Earth [1]
The Riddle of This World [4]
The Role of South India in the Freedom Movement [14]
The Secret Splendour [43]
The Secret of the Veda [27]
The Siege of Troy [1]
The Signature Of Truth [6]
The Spirit of Auroville [14]
The Story of a Soul [11]
The Sun and The Rainbow [12]
The Sunlit Path [8]
The Supreme [3]
The Synthesis of Yoga [69]
The Thinking Corner [8]
The Veda and Indian Culture [3]
The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo [14]
The Wonder that is K D Sethna alias Amal Kiran [2]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 1 [1]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10 [9]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 11 [6]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 2 [1]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 3 [6]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 4 [2]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 5 [5]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6 [9]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7 [12]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 8 [12]
The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 9 [3]
To the Heights [1]
Towards A New Social Order [7]
Towards A New Society [13]
Towards the Light [2]
Tribute to Amrita on his Birth Centenary [3]
Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo [12]
Uniting Men [2]
Varieties of Yogic Experience and Integral Realisation [4]
Vedic and Philological Studies [17]
Visions and Voices [1]
Visions of Champaklal [11]
Visions-Experiences-Interview [3]
Vyasa's Savitri [2]
Wager of Ambrosia [9]
What I Have Learnt From The Mother [1]
White Roses [6]
Words of Long Ago [18]
Words of the Mother - I [13]
Words of the Mother - II [15]
Words of the Mother - III [15]
Work - an offering [4]
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A National Agenda for Education [7]
A Philosophy of Education for the Contemporary Youth [3]
A Philosophy of Evolution for the Contemporary Man [5]
A Philosophy of the Role of the Contemporary Teacher [3]
A Pilgrimage to Sri Aurobindo [4]
A Pilgrims Quest for the Highest and the Best [8]
A Scheme for The Education of Bengal [7]
A Vision of United India [18]
A stream of Surrender : Minakshi-Amma [1]
Adventures in Criticism [5]
Alexander the great [2]
Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother [2]
Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic [26]
Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Among the Not So Great [14]
Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Ancient India in a New Light [7]
Arguments for the Existence of God [5]
Arjuna's Argument At Kurukshetra And Sri Krishna's Answers [4]
Aspects of Sri Aurobindo [17]
Aspiring Swan [1]
At the feet of Sri Aurobindo [1]
At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo [17]
Auroville references in Mother's Agenda [8]
Autobiographical Notes [35]
Bande Mataram [105]
Basic Asanas [3]
Beyond Man [17]
Bhagavadgita and Contemporary Crisis [6]
Blake's Tyger [2]
Blessings of the Grace [5]
By The Body Of The Earth or The Sannyasin [20]
By The Way - Part II [3]
By The Way - Part III [5]
Catherine the Great [4]
Chaitanya and Mira [3]
Champaklal - The Artist and a Yogi [2]
Champaklal Speaks [13]
Champaklal's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Champaklal's Treasures [8]
Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II [24]
Child, Teacher and Teacher Education [14]
Children's University [1]
Classical and Romantic [8]
Collected Plays and Stories [10]
Collected Poems [45]
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 [40]
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2 [25]
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 [35]
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 [36]
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 [31]
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 6 [3]
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 7 [29]
Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 8 [13]
Conversations with Sri Aurobindo [1]
Demeter and Persephone [1]
Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother [2]
Down Memory Lane [11]
Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother [12]
Early Cultural Writings [30]
Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo [9]
Education For Character Development [4]
Education and the Aim of human life [8]
Education at Crossroads [6]
Education for Tomorrow [6]
Emergence of the Psychic [8]
Essays Divine and Human [31]
Essays in Philosophy and Yoga [37]
Essays on the Gita [40]
Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo [25]
Evolution II [1]
Evolution and the Earthly Destiny [22]
Evolution, Religion and the Unknown God [7]
Evolving India [3]
Finding the Psychic Being [1]
From Man Human to Man Divine [9]
Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Gods and the World [3]
Growing up with the Mother [5]
Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 [15]
Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 [15]
Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3 [7]
Guidance on Education [11]
Health exercises for Women and Girls [1]
Hitler and his God [52]
How to Bring up a Child [3]
Hymns to the Mystic Fire [26]
I Remember [8]
Ideals of Auroville [1]
Images Of The Future [1]
In the Mother's Light [21]
India's Rebirth [6]
Indian Identity and Cultural Continuity [4]
Indian Poets and English Poetry [5]
Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother [4]
Innovations in Education [3]
Inspiration and Effort [13]
Integral Yoga - Major Aims, Methods, Processes and Results [5]
Integral Yoga of Transformation [4]
Integral Yoga, Evolution and the Next Species [2]
Integral yoga and Evolutionary Mutation [2]
Isha Upanishad [27]
Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Jayantilal's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Joan of Arc [2]
Karmayogin [46]
Kena and Other Upanishads [17]
Kirankumari's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Landmarks of Hinduism [7]
Learning with the Mother [8]
Lectures on Savitri [3]
Letters on Himself and the Ashram [35]
Letters on Poetry and Art [28]
Letters on Yoga - I [30]
Letters on Yoga - II [35]
Letters on Yoga - III [33]
Letters on Yoga - IV [40]
Life of Sri Aurobindo [10]
Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1) [21]
Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 2) [19]
Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3) [23]
Light and Laughter [6]
Lights on Yoga [3]
Listen with your Heart - Welcome the Mother [2]
Living in The Presence [9]
Madanlal Himatsingka's Correspondence with The Mother [2]
Man-handling of Savitri [3]
Mantra in Music by Sunil [2]
Marie Sklodowska Curie [1]
Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Memorable Contacts with The Mother [6]
Moments Eternal [9]
More Answers from the Mother [6]
Mother and Abhay [2]
Mother or The Divine Materialism - I [17]
Mother or The Mutation Of Death - III [10]
Mother or The New Species - II [17]
Mother steers Auroville [2]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Five [21]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Four [7]
Mother's Chronicles - Book One [1]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Six [20]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Three [5]
Mother's Chronicles - Book Two [1]
Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 [21]
Mother’s Agenda 1961 [13]
Mother’s Agenda 1962 [18]
Mother’s Agenda 1963 [19]
Mother’s Agenda 1964 [10]
Mother’s Agenda 1965 [20]
Mother’s Agenda 1966 [8]
Mother’s Agenda 1967 [15]
Mother’s Agenda 1968 [10]
Mother’s Agenda 1969 [21]
Mother’s Agenda 1970 [14]
Mother’s Agenda 1971 [10]
Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 [9]
My Burning Heart [1]
My Pilgrimage to the Spirit [15]
My Savitri work with the Mother [8]
Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma and Rebirth [6]
Mystery and Excellence of the Human Body [26]
Nachiketas [4]
Nagin Bhai Tells Me [3]
Nala and Damayanti [4]
Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo [37]
Nishikanto - the Brahmaputra of inspiration [1]
Notebooks of an Apocalypse 1973-1978 [1]
Notebooks of an Apocalypse 1978-1982 [1]
Notes on the Way [6]
Old Long Since [4]
On Art - Addresses and Writings [5]
On Education [35]
On Savitri [1]
On Sri Aurobindo's Savitri [13]
On The Mother [46]
On Thoughts and Aphorisms [31]
On the Path [2]
On the Way to Supermanhood [1]
Our Light and Delight [9]
Our Many Selves [12]
Overhead Poetry [5]
Overman [6]
Parables from the Upanishads [3]
Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother [5]
Parvati's Tapasya [1]
Passing Moments [2]
Patterns of the Present [6]
Perspectives of Savitri - Part 1 [20]
Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2 [18]
Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays [21]
Philosophy of Supermind and Contemporary Crisis [1]
Philosophy of Value-Oriented Education [5]
Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems [4]
Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother [2]
Prayers and Aspirations [6]
Prayers and Meditations [19]
Preparing for the Miraculous [3]
Principles and Goals of Integral Education [9]
Prithwi Singh's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Problems of Early Christianity [4]
Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga [9]
Questions and Answers (1929-1931) [32]
Questions and Answers (1950-1951) [23]
Questions and Answers (1953) [15]
Questions and Answers (1954) [20]
Questions and Answers (1955) [17]
Questions and Answers (1956) [21]
Questions and Answers (1957-1958) [23]
Recollections [1]
Record of Yoga [48]
Reminiscences [8]
Sanjiban's Correspondence with The Mother [1]
Savitri [27]
Science, Materialism, Mysticism [8]
Seer Poets [5]
Selected Episodes From Raghuvamsam of Kalidasa [3]
Selected Poems by Nishikanto [1]
Significance of Indian Yoga [4]
Six Talks [2]
Socrates [5]
Some Answers from the Mother [11]
Some Letters from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother [1]
Spiritual bouquets to a friend [1]
Sri Aurobindo - A dream-dialogue with children [1]
Sri Aurobindo - His Life Unique [4]
Sri Aurobindo - The Poet [17]
Sri Aurobindo - The Smiling Master [12]
Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history [27]
Sri Aurobindo - some aspects of His Vision [8]
Sri Aurobindo And The Mother [6]
Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India [4]
Sri Aurobindo And The New World [1]
Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny [7]
Sri Aurobindo and Integral Yoga [5]
Sri Aurobindo and the Earth's Future [1]
Sri Aurobindo came to Me [11]
Sri Aurobindo for All Ages [12]
Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness [1]
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume I [5]
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume II [2]
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume III [3]
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume IV [10]
Sri Aurobindo's Humour [3]
Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine [13]
Sri Aurobindo's Message [5]
Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects [6]
Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study [17]
Sri Krishna In Brindavan [3]
Sri Rama [6]
Sudhir Kumar Sarkar: A Spirit Indomitable [7]
Supermind in Integral Yoga [8]
Surendranath Jauhar's Correspondence with The Mother [3]
Surya Namaskar [1]
Sweet Mother [4]
Synthesis of Yoga in the Upanishads [2]
Synthesis of Yoga in the Veda [3]
Taittiriya Upanishad [1]
Talks by Nirodbaran [8]
Talks on Poetry [21]
Talks with Sri Aurobindo [63]
Teilhard de Chardin and our Time [8]
The Adventure of the Apocalypse [11]
The Aim of Life [12]
The Ascent of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri [7]
The Birth of Savitr [3]
The Crucifixion [5]
The Destiny of the Body [29]
The Development of Sri Aurobindo's Spiritual System and The Mother's Contribution to it [1]
The Divine Collaborators [2]
The Future Poetry [32]
The Genius Of India [1]
The Gita and its Synthesis of Yoga [4]
The Golden Path [11]
The Good Teacher and The Good Pupil [21]
The Grace [1]
The Growth of a Flame [1]
The Hidden Forces of Life [15]
The Human Cycle [59]
The Indian Spirit and the World's Future [11]
The Inspiration of Paradise Lost [8]
The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo [23]
The Life Divine [47]
The Mind Of The Cells [1]
The Mother (biography) [16]
The Mother - Past-Present-Future [7]
The Mother Abides - Final Reflections [9]
The Mother on Auroville [6]
The Mother with Letters on the Mother [67]
The New Synthesis of Yoga [2]
The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo [3]
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Letters on Yoga - I  >  Fate, Free Will and Prediction

... of settling things, but it is quite summary and inconclusive. All is free will or else all is destiny—it is not so simple as that. This question of free will or determination is the most knotty of all metaphysical questions and nobody has been able to solve it—for a good reason, that both destiny and will exist and even a free will exists somewhere—the difficulty is only how to get at it and make it... a relative. One can alter it for the better or the worse. Free Will and Determinism It is difficult indeed to make out what Planck means in these Page 510 pages 1 —what is his conclusion and how he arrives at it; he has probably so condensed his arguments that the necessary explanatory links are missing. The free will affair, I see by glancing through the previous pages, arises... to be his position. Certain scientific thinkers consider this uncertainty of individual behaviour to be a physical factor correspondent to the element of free will in individual human beings. It is here that Planck brings in the question of free will to refute the conclusion that it affects strict causality and the law of determinism. His argument, as far as I can make it out, is this: (1) The law ...

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Bhagavadgita and Contemporary Crisis  >  Law and Life

... which can rise above Prakriti, Nature, and can control the lower self. I am in search of that Free Will, and I am in search of that kind of work which will be in harmony with that Free Will. I think that when the Gita speaks of Swabhava and Swadharma, it really means to refer to the movement of Free Will emerging from the inner self, from the higher self, Swabhava, and to the law of development of... s of the Truth, agnir hota kavi kratuh satyash chitrashravastamah. "The significance of the antaratman becomes acutely meaningful to us when we consider the question of free-will. In fact, the question of free-will is supremely important for the student of law, since the entire institution of law assumes that every human being should voluntarily adhere Page 180 to law and that if... Gita is that of complete determinism of Nature. "And yet, Gita is not deterministic. It constantly appeals to the necessity of self-restraint and self- mastery. It underlines the concept of free-will to such a degree that Sri Krishna after giving his illuminating message, leaves Arjuna completely free to act according to his will, yathechhasi tatha kuru. What is the ontological basis for this ...

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The Life Divine  >  The Ascent towards Supermind

... tion. As his inner psychic or occult inner mental being came more to the front, there would be a strengthened power of choice, of sanction, a beginning of authentic free will which would grow more and more effective. But this free will would be mostly in relation to his own workings of Page 959 Nature; it would mean only a freer, fuller and more immediately perceptive control of the motions... imperfection due to a mixture of the old and the new consciousness. Still there would be an increasing mastery and knowledge and an opening to a higher being and a higher nature. Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination... and present self-formation of power of Nature or else it would be the cosmic or supreme Force that acted in it and there would be no personal initiation of action, no sense therefore of individual free will but only of an impersonal cosmic or supreme Will or Energy at its work. On the other line the being would feel itself a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Determinism of Nature

... different outlook. So it is with the levels of the human soul. What we now call in our ordinary mentality our free will and have a certain limited justification for so calling it, yet appears to the Yogin who has climbed beyond and to whom our night is day and our day night, not free will at all, but a subjection to the modes of Nature. He regards the same facts, but from the higher outlook of the... liberty which the soul receives by a contorted reflection of these two opposite truths in the developing mentality. It is the latter to which we ordinarily give, more or less inaccurately, the name of free will; but the Gita regards nothing as freedom which is not a complete liberation and mastery. We have always to keep in mind the two great doctrines which stand behind all the Gita's teachings with... the clear distinction between two levels of consciousness, two standpoints of action, that of the soul caught in the web of its egoistic nature and doing works with the idea, but not the reality of free will, under the impulsion of Nature, and that of the soul delivered from its identification with the Page 214 ego, observing, sanctioning and governing the works of Nature from above her. ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  All-Will and Free-Will

... The Superman Essays in Philosophy and Yoga All-Will and Free-Will His is surely a bounded soul who has never felt the brooding wings of a Fate overshadow the world, never looked beyond the circle of persons, collectivities and forces, never been conscious of the still thought or the assured movement of a Presence in things determining their march... to be overwhelmed by Fate or hidden Presence and reduced to a discouraged acquiescence,—as if the Power in things nullified or rendered superfluous and abortive the same Power in myself. Fate and free-will are only two movements of one indivisible energy. My will is the first instrument of my Fate, Fate a Will that manifests itself in the irresistible subconscious intention of the world. All error... and vain attempt at mutual exclusion in the united family of the Ideas and Powers that are convergently busy with the universe. Thus our thought erects a mysterious Fate or an equally mysterious free-will and insists that this or that must be but both shall not subsist together. It is a false and unreal quarrel. I have a will, that is plain; but it is not true that it is free in the sense of being ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Beyond the Modes of Nature

... Will and Knowledge. But a time must come in our progress when we are ready to open our eyes to the real truth of our being, and then the error of our egoistic free will must fall away from us. The rejection of the idea of egoistic free will does not imply a cessation of action, because Nature is the doer and carries out her action after this machinery is dispensed with even as she did before it came... difference Page 224 is the extent to which we associate our idea of self with the action of the will in Nature; when we so associate ourselves, we think of it as our will and say that it is a free will and that it is we who are acting. And error or not, illusion or not, this idea of our will, of our action is not a thing of no consequence, of no utility; everything in Nature has a consequence and... over its lower possibilities, and this is done in him when he associates his idea of self with the struggle of the higher guna to get the mastery, the predominance over the lower guna. The sense of free will, illusion or not, is a necessary machinery of the action of Nature, necessary for man during his progress, and it would be disastrous for him to lose it before he is ready for a higher truth. If it ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume I  >  1931

... 1931 I suppose I am silent, first, because I have no "free-will" and, secondly, because I have no Time. Page 64 Less metaphysically and more yogically, there are periods when silence becomes imperative, because to throw oneself outward delays the "work that has to be done." I suppose some day I will write about Free Will, but for the moment there is no effective will, free or otherwise... "Unity" of Kansas city, Charles Fillmore's Christian Healing and supramental Yoga pulling the same chariot would be a picture! I have not forgotten my promise to explain the sparkles to you. Free Will is still "under consideration." February 7,1931 Certainly, firmness and a little pbons kora [hiss] (of course, a quiet and courteous hiss) seem the best way of getting your money ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  July 1935

... forces is dependent and with those, for instance, who have gone away from here due to hostile influence—it was possible because this Something gave its sanction? No chance exists then and no free will. This free will of ours is nothing but being an instrument in the hands of forces while we think we are enjoying great freedom. And this play is again guided by Something? There is no question of res... whole working with all its multitudinous details—that one cannot do unless one is oneself in the cosmic consciousness and with some opening at least to the Over-mind. There is no such thing as "free" will, but there is the power of the Purusha to say "yes" or "no" to any particular pressure of Prakriti and there is the power of the mind, vital etc. to echo feebly or strongly the Purusha's "yes" or ...

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Life of Sri Aurobindo  >  Bibliography

... essays from the Karmayogin: "Man—Slave or Free?" (June 26, 1909), Page 395 "Yoga and Human Evolution" (July 3, 1909), "Yoga and Hypnotism" (July 17, 1909), "Fate and Free-Will" (January 29, 1910) and "The Principle of Evil" (February 26, 1910). The 1966 Edition contained, in addition, "The Need in Nationalism" (published as "Ourselves" in the Karmayogin , June... Vol. 26 Page 406 85. THE SUPERMAN Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1920 Three essays from the Arya: "The Superman" (April 1915), "All-Will and Free-Will" (March 1915) and "The Delight of Works" (August 1915). "The Superman" had earlier appeared in the Arya under the title "The Type of the Superman". SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation... Other Paths; Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga; Reason, Science and Yoga; Planes and Parts of the Being; The Divine and the Hostile Powers; The Purpose of Avatarhood; Rebirth; Fate and Free-Will, Karma and Heredity, etc. Volume 23 Letters on Yoga , PARTS Two AND THREE. Part Two: The Object of Integral Yoga; Synthetic Method and the Integral Yoga; Basic Requisites ...

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Savitri  >  'The Joy of Union - the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge of Death and the Heart's Grief'

...       HEART'S GRIEF '         'Fixt fate: Free will' is the seeming paradox at the heart of existence. Man has freedom of choice, but once the choice has been made, he cannot control the consequences. As we sow, so shall we reap. Is even the act of choice no real choice at all but an item of unalterable predestination? Is, then, 'free will' itself a delusion?   Man's hopes and longings... within him shapes his acts and rules; Its face and form already are born in him, Its parentage is in his secret soul:... Nature and Fate compel his free-will's choice. 257   Free will is a misnomer, then; yet this too is not the whole truth about the matter. The wages of sin, we know, is death; but Grace has limitless powers. By definition the Almighty is all-mighty; nothing is ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Human Will, Nature-Force and Divine Will

... then, by unison with the Will which is above Nature, complete. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Fate, Free Will and Prediction The only free will in the world is the one divine Will of which Nature is the executrix; for she is the master and creator of all other wills. Human free-will can be real in a sense, but, like all things that belong to the modes of Nature, it is only relatively real... so that it is difficult to predict anything exactly as one predicts material things that obey a rigid law. The plasticity increases with the growth of Mind so that man can have at least a sense of free will, of a choice of his action, of a self-movement which at least helps to determine circumstances. But this freedom is dubious because it can be declared to be an illusion, a device of Nature, part of ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Self-Surrender in Works - The Way of the Gita

... freedom which he cannot have unless he outgrows his mental separativeness and becomes the conscious soul in Nature. The only free will in the world is the one divine Will of which Nature is the executrix; for she is the master and creator of all other wills. Human free-will can be real in a sense, but, like all things that belong to the modes of Nature, it is only relatively real. The mind rides on... fortune and ill fortune, success and failure, we follow helplessly the iron or gilt and iron round of the wheel of Maya. At best we have only the poor relative freedom which by us is ignorantly called free-will. But that is at bottom illusory, since it is the modes of Nature that express themselves through our personal will; it is force of Nature, grasping us, ungrasped by us that determines what we shall... identity in knowledge, force, consciousness, act, joy of existence with the Divine Shakti; to feel a dynamic movement not dominated by mortal desire and vital instinct and impulse and illusive mental free-will, but luminously conceived and evolved in an immortal self-delight and an infinite self-knowledge. For this is the action that comes by a conscious subjection and merging of the natural man into the ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Perfection of the Mental Being

... It was the consciousness of this sanctioning control, this necessity of his consent, which made him in the ego-sense conceive of himself as a soul or mental being with a free will determining all his own becomings. Yet the free-will seems to be imperfect, almost illusory, since the actual will itself is a machinery of Nature and each separate willing determined by the stream of past action and the sum... to exercise a really free control. There is a duality of dependence, her dependence on his consent, his dependence on her law and way and limits of action, determination denied by a sense of free-will, free-will nullified by the actuality of natural determination. He is sure that she is his power, but yet he seems to be subject to her. He is the sanctioning ( anumantṛ ) Purusha, but does not seem to ...

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Vedic and Philological Studies  >  Notes on Root-Sounds

...      छन्दः      wish, fancy, liking, whim, free will.. meaning, purport .. subjection, control .. pleasure, delight .. poison (to cut, destroy) .. appearance, look, shape (cf metre .. to cut, divide, form, shape)      छन्दकः      protector      छन्दन      pleasing, charming छन्दित dt gratified, pleased.      छन्दस्      wish, fancy, will, pleasure, free will, intention           fraud, trick (to cover) ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Note on the Texts

... in The Ideal of the Karmayogin. Stead and the Spirits . Published in the Karmayogin , 27 November 1909. Stead and Maskelyne . Published in the Karmayogin , 1 January 1910. Fate and Free-Will . Published in the Karmayogin , 29 January 1910, and later in Man — Slave or Free? and The Need in Nationalism. The Three Purushas . Published in the Karmayogin , 12 February 1910, and later... editions were published in 1922 (lightly revised), 1944, 1950 and subsequently. The Superman . Published in the Arya under the title "The Type of the Superman" in April 1915. All-Will and Free-Will . Published in the Arya in March 1915. The Delight of Works . Published in the Arya in August 1915.   Page 598 Evolution First published ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  His Temperament and Character

... Keeping Silence I suppose I am silent, first, because I have no "free-will" and, secondly, because I have no Time. Less metaphysically and more Yogically, there are periods when silence becomes imperative, because to throw oneself outward delays the "work that has to be done". I suppose someday I will write about Free Will, but for the moment there is no effective will, free or otherwise, to ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  12 NOVEMBER 1939

... Supernal. The attributes of the Trinity are mentioned here. Charles Williams in the Figure of Beatrice , comments thus: "If there is God, if there is free-will, then man is able to choose the opposite of God. Power, Wisdom, Love, gave man free-will: therefore Power, Wisdom, Love, created the gate of hell and the possibility of hell." But Sri Aurobindo's point about the eternity of hell is not answered ...

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Education For Character Development  >  Methods of Education for Character Development

... child but the book, the teacher, syllabus and the examination. The methods which are most conducive to the development of the character of the child such as the methods of self-learning, exercise of free will, individualised pace of progress, etc., do not have even an elbow room. Indeed, if this is the system of education and if we are to remain content with this system of education, most important elements... needs to be done specially in that direction at the higher levels of education. But this argument misses the point that the important element in the development of character is the development of free-will and of the learner's free and rational acceptance of the value system and directions of the growth of character and personality. And this development can rightly be done only at the higher levels ...

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The Gita and its Synthesis of Yoga  >  Part One

... be required. If that Will acts, it is because it is free to act or not to act and to act without losing that status and poise in which there is no vibration of action. It is the discovery of that free will and of the method by which that will can be made operative through our individual consciousness that constitutes the methodology of Karma Yoga. It is because that operation is inconsistent with the... there is still fullness of consciousness and potency of such a nature that it is not obliged or necessitated to remain devoid of work; and in that status there is no desire to act, but there is a free will,— not obliged to work but capable of working and therefore expressive of work. Work that proceeds from that plane, — work that is not necessitated as in Prakriti, but work that proceeds from fullness ...

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A Follower of Christ and a Disciple of Sri Aurobindo  >  The Sequel

... hidden oneness with us subsists. I also don't see why the Aurobindonian God who is the All-free in consciousness-force cannot enjoy and exercise free-will in us who are ultimately limited projections of his own being under cosmic conditions - free-will which you regard as Page 139 responsible for human depravity and a host of ills and as exonerative of God. It is doubtful whether... Also, by judging Spinozism to be neither contradictory nor absurd in itself, Teilhard is shown to be quite ready to embrace pantheism provided it did not prevent human beings from exercising free will or experiencing salvation from their sins: in short, they must retain their soul-personality as distinct from the infinite "I" with whom they would get identified and thus absorbed by it in a final ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Fate and Free-Will

... Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Fate and Free-Will 29-January-1910 A question which has hitherto divided human thought and received no final solution, is the freedom of the human being in his relation to the Power intelligent or unintelligent that rules the world. We strive for freedom in our human relations, to freedom we move as our goal, and... the true Hindu teaching independent of Buddhistic influence, we shall find that it gives us a reconciliation Page 47 of the dispute by a view of man's psychology in which both Fate and Free-will are recognised. The difference between Buddhism and Hinduism is that to the former the human soul is nothing, to the latter it is everything. The whole universe exists in the spirit, by the spirit... or dharma. It is the king, Lord or Ishwara without whose consent nothing can be done by Prakriti. But the king is above the law and free. It is this power of sanction that forms the element of free will in our lives. The spirit consents not that itself shall be bound, but that its enjoyment should be bound by time, space and causality and by the swabhava and the dharma. It consents to virtue or sin ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  Some Reflections on Savitri

... evolution. Our spirit must be greater than Fate or Destiny or Law. In fact the question of Fate and Free-Will has been one of the knottiest problems of metaphysics, especially due to the love of the human mind for trenchant solutions. In this case the mind likes to have either Fate or Free-Will, one of the two as the supreme Force, thus refusing to see the complex play of forces that the universe... to Narad: Lend not a dangerous vision to the blind, The dire ordeal that foreknowledge brings. One doubts Perhaps the blindness of our will is Fate. 56 And what is free-will, if "man lives like some secret player's mask?" 57 He knows not even what his lips shall speak. For a mysterious Power compels his steps And life is stronger than his trembling soul ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume III  >  Correspondence 1936

... of settling things, but it is quite summary and inconclusive. All is free-will or else all is destiny—it is not so simple as that. This question of free-will or determination is the most knotty of all metaphysical questions and nobody has been able to solve it—for a good reason, that both destiny and will exist and even a free-will exists somewhere—the difficulty is only how to get at it and make it ...

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The Crucifixion  >  The Revelation to Moses

... did not affect the Jews. Yet Pharaoh only becomes more stubborn. But why did God harden Pharaoh's heart? Had God not hardened Pharaoh's heart, it would have deprived the Egyptian king of free will. Of course he would have then allowed the Hebrew slaves to go; not out of choice, but out of terror. By hardening Pharaoh's heart, the Egyptian king no longer feared the kind of physical devastation... obedience from a normal man. There was nothing, however, to stop Pharaoh from intellectually and emotionally recognizing the injustices he had inflicted on the Hebrew slaves, and then by his own free will letting them go. But moral responses were not Pharaoh's concerns. Here was a contest of power between him and the God of the Israelites. Only when the Egyptian firstborn started dying, did he, the... Pharaoh, finally realize that he was facing a Force immeasurably greater than his own. And perhaps being a firstborn himself, he wanted the Hebrews out in order to save his own life. It is only by free will that God expects humanity to follow His commands. Altogether, God sent ten plagues, the last of which is the most horrendous. The Passover Finally, the Passover (see Note) occurs. As the ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Divine Shakti

... which does not seem identical with our nature, but capable of a standing back from it, of a detached observation and criticism and creative use of it, and of a will which we naturally think of as a free will; and even if this be a delusion, we are still obliged in practice to act as if we were responsible mental beings capable of a free choice of our actions, able to use or misuse and to turn to higher... ego-sense which is part of the natural instrumentation and lives in the ego experience. The ego is in fact driven by the mechanism of Nature of which it is a part and the ego-will is not and cannot be a free will. To arrive at freedom, mastery and perfection we have to get back to the real self and soul within and arrive too thereby at our true relations with our own and with universal nature. In our active ...

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From Man Human to Man Divine  >  Introduction

... Is there any sense and purpose behind the march of humanity, and if so, what is it? What should be the goal of man the individual and of the human race? Is there any truth in the notion of human free-will, or is man a mere creature of circumstances? What is meant after all by God or the Absolute? Does he exist at all? And if he exists, is there any way of contacting him? What should be the proper relation... and more complex combinations of its constituent elements. He has also been told that he is purely a xxvii mechanical being, a creature made up of automatic reflexes. The problem of free-will has been given a new twist by the assertion that man is not, after all, such a free agent as he has supposed himself to be; he never is and never can be anything except the product of economic determinism ...

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From Man Human to Man Divine  >  Sri Aurobindo and the Crisis of Modern Man

... process of natural selection that was quite automatic; and, in particular, "instead of Adam, our ancestry is traced to the most grotesque of creatures." Finally, the problem of free-will has been given a new twist by the Marxist assertion that man is not, after all, such a free agent as he is supposed to be; he is not altogether the 'captain of his own soul' and capable of making... Is there any sense and purpose behind the march of humanity, and if so, what is it? What should be the goal of man the individual and of the human race? Is there any truth in the notion of human free-will, or is man a mere creature of circumstances? What is meant, after all, by God or the Absolute? Does He exist at all? And if He exists, is there any way of encountering Him? What should be the proper ...

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A Greater Psychology  >  Purusha and Prakriti: Soul and Nature

... which does not seem identical with our nature, but capable of a standing back from it, of a detached observation and criticism and creative use of it, and of a will which we naturally think of as a free will; and even if this be a delusion, we are still obliged in practice to act as if we Page 102 were responsible mental beings capable of a free choice of our actions, able to use or misuse... which is part of the natural instrumentation and lives in the ego experience. The ego is in fact driven by the mechanism of Nature of which it is a part and the ego-will is not and cannot be a free will. To arrive at freedom, mastery and perfection we have to get back to the real self and soul within and arrive too thereby at our true relations with our own and with universal nature. In ...

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A Greater Psychology  >  Index

... subliminal, 235-36, 240, 242 and visions, 242 symbolic, 235-36 Ego (self), 21, 25, 100, 120, 124-36 passim, 305, 361, 365-67, 374, 380-84, 386-87 in cosmic consciousness, 371-72 and free will, 104 and human development, 398-401 and individuality, 135-36, 348-49, 398-99 liberation from, 366-67, 370-74 passim, 383-84 in ordinary consciousness, 370-71 and the Overmind, 154 and... Social evolution Faith, and belief, 199-200 "blind faith", 203 central, 205 and doubt, 201 and experience, 202 and knowledge, 203-04 Frager, R., 390 Free will, 102-03 Frontal being, see Outer being Gita, 123fn, 65, 168 on meaning of Samadhi, 217 Gnosis, 142, 158 See also Supermind; Truth- Consciousness God, 138 ...

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Principles and Goals of Integral Education  >  Training in the Use of the Free Progress System

... r gives the animal two hard lashes and it immediately gathers speed and even trots for some time. Now our question is: Has the beast of burden gathered its speed voluntarily of its own "free" will and deliberate decision? The students will answer, and that too promptly, "Surely not — it is the alien will of the cart-driver which is at the root of the accelerated speed of the bullock." Very... anybody else's order. I am free and as a free being I decide to become silent and quit this place." And our purpose is adequately served. Now the question is: Did the boy stop crying of his own free will, exercising his own free choice? Surely not. He acted as a slave to my will without knowing it at all. And that is precisely our situation all the time during our daily life if we have not learnt ...

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Savitri  >  'The Word of Fate'

... but choose once. Narad now advises the king to allow the marriage to take place.         This raises a number of questions. What is predestination? If fixed fate is a fact, of what use is free will? What is fate, after all? Is there really no armour against fate? If all is predestination what is left of man's individuality?         Again, in the old story, Savitri not only defies fate... spiritual beings, that change can cancel or wholly remodel the graph of our physical fate." 199 The so-called finality of fate is thus not quite so final, after all. Fixed fate doesn't rule out free will. The perversity of the outer ego is not the source of this will; on the other hand, there is a deeper centre and it is from there the true self wills and achieves:   But the Will within, exceeding ...

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Six Talks  >  LIBERTY AND SELF-CONTROL

... is not to be done. Instead of being forced to do the right thing you are given the alternatives either to do the right or do the wrong, to choose between the two and choose the right thing of your free will. Here in the Ashram, the Mother has said very many times, you have been given almost infinite freedom. There are of course certain rules and regulations; naturally when you live in society and... yourself, do Page 42 the right thing. That is the true function of freedom — it is not freedom to do anything you like but to discipline yourself, to follow the right of one's own free will. A discipline here is not inflicted upon you, you are not ordered to do one thing and not to do another under pain of punishment, but you find the truth by yourself and for yourself and you do it ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  Liberty, Self-Control and Friendship

... is not to be done. Instead of being forced to do the right thing you are given the alternatives either to do the right or do the wrong, to choose between the two and choose the right thing of your free will. Here in the Ashram, the Mother has said very many times, you have been given almost infinite freedom. There are of course certain rules and regulations; naturally when you live in society and have... then you try and rectify yourself, do the right thing. That is the true function of freedom – it is not freedom to do anything you like but to discipline yourself, to follow the right of one's own free will. A discipline here is not inflicted upon you, you are not ordered to do one thing and not to do another under pain of punishment, but you find the truth by yourself and for yourself and you do it ...

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On The Mother  >  Words of the Mother

... from outside. IX Another question is the place for individual initiative in a world under the grip of the universal Will. If 'fixed fate' is the adamantine law, what's the scope for free will? Now such sharp oppositions - exercises in 'Either Or'­ are foreign to the structure of Reality which is a unity of linked-up relativities, a ladder of divers inter-connected planes of consciousness... authenticity and authority is the sanction from Above, for it is clear she speaks generally from an overhead level of direct understanding. Life, art and Yoga, morality, religion and spirituality, free will, destiny and Grace, all are set forth at once in their integral unity and in their proper inter-relationships. And the mahāvākyas - Be conscious! Remember and offer! Plunge into the Divine! - stand ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  The Conquest of Desire-Part-1

... Page 226 and desires of the evolving units, but not obtruding on the surface. It acts through the unconscious drive or the subconscious urge or, as in man, through desire and a delusive free will, in each individual unit. Hunger or desire is the distinctive stamp of this first stage. At the second stage the stress shifts on to unity. The full- fledged ego in man, smarting under the slavery... Will, at every step and moment of our life, that desire is finally conquered and the divine Will installed as the undisputed sovereign of our nature. It is then only that we can be said to have free will, for it is the divine Will alone that is free and sovereign. Detachment, equality and surrender, as the Mother teaches us, will achieve the conquest of desire, which has been the despair of ...

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In the Mother's Light  >  The Life of Life

... Page 275 destiny. The glib prating of the rule of reason and free will cannot carry him anywhere, so long as the ego is the effective centre of his nature and desire the motive of his actions. Unless a higher light dawns and begins to lead his nature, his reason can never be perfectly rational, nor his will a free will. It is the will of the ego that he mistakes for the will of his real ...

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Karmayogin  >  Karmayogin Writings in Other Volumes of the Complete Works

... Man—Slave or Free? Yoga and Human Evolution Yoga and Hypnotism The Greatness of the Individual The Process of Evolution Stead and the Spirits Stead and Maskelyne Fate and Free-Will The Three Purushas The Strength of Stillness The Principle of Evil The Stress of the Hidden Spirit Volume 17. Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad Volume 18. Kena and ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Chapter V: The Soul, Causality and Law of Nature.

... Sat-Purusha, Conscious Power of Conscious Being, & because that Conscious Being is infinite, absolute and unlimited in its possibilities and its Conscious Power infinitely, absolutely and illimitably a Free Will choosing freely Its own harmonies and not bound in their rhythms as though in fetters imposed by an alien will, forming, observing and using Its own laws and not compelled, enslaved and used by them ...

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Images Of The Future  >  Images of the future

... within us. We envision nothing beyond that harmony, taking it to be an end in itself, whereas it must be the means of opening ourselves to a consciousness and action by which our personality, of its free will, becomes indistinct in the interest of a harmonious collective individuality of which, until now, totalitarian systems have given us but a distorted idea. We shall cease to think in terms of me and ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  The Ballad of Savitri

... hast come as far As living creature may. Adieu! Let duty be thy guiding star, As ever. To thyself be true!" "Where'er my husband dear is led, Or journeys of his own free will, I too must go, though darkness spread Across my path, portending ill, 'Tis thus my duty I have read! If I am wrong, oh! with me bear; But do not bid me backward tread ...

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Psychology, Mental Health and Yoga  >  Mastery, Mental Health and Yoga

... freewill comes from ahamkara, the ego, which is itself part of Prakriti and subject to the forces of Prakriti. Thus * Austerity. Page 133 the will of the ego is not truly a free will, but a will determined by Prakriti, formed in us by the sum of its own past action or Karma. Therefore, the first step towards mastery is freedom of the Purusha from bondage to Prakriti by overcoming ...

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Evolution, Religion and the Unknown God  >  9: Sociobiology

... eugenics which were the fruits of social Darwinism, it is no wonder that the new ideas provoked an inimical reaction. Sociobiology was accused of being racist, genetically deterministic, abolishing free will, robbing the human being of its dignity, sexist, reactionary, and explaining injustice away. 17 The animosity against Edward Wilson, especially by American extreme leftists, reached the news desks ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume II  >  Correspondence 1934

... that it is difficult to predict anything exactly as one predicts material things that obey a rigid law. The plasticity increases with the growth of Mind, so that man can have at least a sense of free-will, of a choice of his action, of a self-movement which at least helps to determine circumstances. But this freedom is dubious because it can be declared to be an illusion, a device of Nature, part ...

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Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic  >  High Adventure in Historiography

... apart. This remarkable mind has taken virtually all knowledge for its domain and the clear ray of his piercing insight has probed not only profound issues of philosophy, such as the question of free-will or the spirituality of the future, but has investigated Einsteinian physics, detected Shakespeare's mysterious Dark Lady, Mr. W.H. and the Rival Poet, published 750 pages of poetry and followed ...

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Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic  >  Preface

... problems of biological thought; chronological researches in the history of ancient India and the beginnings of history for Israel; Christian traditions and the problems of Christianity; Fate and Free-will; comments and opinions about national and international issues and events; hundreds of letters to friends and admirers dealing with matters spiritual, yogic, literary, personal; ...

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The Life Divine  >  The Divine and the Undivine

... our will's hampered Page 419 struggle and fettered labour, takes from the point of view of the Divine in his self-workings the aspect of a just limitation of an omniscient power by the free will of that Power itself so that the surface energy shall be in exact correspondence with the work that it has to do, with its attempt, its allotted success or its destined because necessary failure, ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  Social Duties and the Divine

... touches only a very small number of women. It must be remembered that Indian social life has subordinated almost entirely the individual to the family. Men and women do not marry according to their free will; their marriages are mostly arranged for them while they are still children. Not only so, but the mould of society has been long of an almost iron fixity putting each individual in his place and expecting ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Surrender

... every mental being called man to assent or not to assent to the Divine leading—how else can any real spiritual evolution be done? All the play in this world is based on a certain relative free will in the individual being. Even in the sadhana it remains and his consent is necessary at each step—even though it is by surrender to the Divine that he escapes from ignorance and separateness and ego ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Nature of the Supermind

... of the spirit free in its self and using the circumstances of mind, life and body as admitted or self-chosen and self-figuring determinations of the spirit, using them in a free self-knowledge, a free will and power of being, a free delight of being. This is the essential difference between the ordinary mortal mind in which we live and the spiritual consciousness of our divine and immortal being which ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Ideal Law of Social Development

... own mental, economic and physical life; but it has to assimilate this material, subject it to the law of its own nature, change it into stuff of itself, work upon it by its own Page 70 free will and consciousness, if it would live securely and grow soundly. To have the principle or rule of another nature imposed upon it by force or a de-individualising pressure is a menace to its existence ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom

... indivisible whole: all work too is part of this divine indivisible whole. His personal action and its results can no longer be or seem a separate movement mainly or entirely determined by the egoistic "free" will of an individual, himself separate in the mass. Our works are part of an indivisible cosmic action; they are put or, more accurately, put themselves into their place in the whole out of which they ...

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The Life Divine  >  The Problem of Life

... self-direction we are only instruments of what seems to us the Inconscient within us. This is what the old wisdom meant when it said that man imagines himself to be the doer of the work by his free will, Page 225 but in reality Nature determines all his works and even the wise are compelled to follow their own Nature. But since Nature is the creative force of consciousness of the Being ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The End of the Curve of Reason

... free play for the individual and restricted as much as might be the role of the State. Collectivism goes exactly to the opposite extreme; it will leave no sufficient elbow-room to the individual free-will, and the more it rationalises the individual by universal education of a highly developed kind, the more this suppression will be felt,—unless indeed all freedom of thought is negated and the minds ...

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Record of Yoga  >  29 - 30 September - 31 December 1914

... intervals of rest or change to other labour. The energy of the vijnana is permanent & equal, needs no rest and turns to other work in accordance not with interest of any kind or any necessity, but the free will of the Iswara. Page 763 At present there is the manomaya freedom of the paramahansa with the balabhava & jadatwa of the will that selects. The instrument does its work by the impulsion ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Man - Slave or Free?

... creation and slave of matter. He can only master matter by obeying it Secondly, the mind itself is a form of gross matter and not independent of and master of the senses. Thirdly, there is no real free will, because all our action is determined by two great forces, heredity and environment. We are the slaves of our nature, and where we seem to be free from its mastery, it is because we are yet worse ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Need of Military Unification

... liberty would be likely to be indisposed to war except in moments of great and universal excitement. War demands a violent concentration of all the forces, a spirit of submission, a suspension of free-will, free action and of the right of criticism which is alien to the true democratic instinct. But the democracies of the future are likely to be strongly concentrated governments in which the principle ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Drive towards Economic Centralisation

... But that authority in its impulse towards an undivided and uncontrolled gestation, a complete unification of powers must naturally desire not only to determine the expenditure according to its own free will, but to determine also the contributions of the society to the public purse both in its amount and in its repartition over the individuals and classes who constitute the nation. Monarchy in its impulse ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Leaving the Mother and the Ashram

... for your going; it is for you to decide in all freedom whether you will go or stay. But if you stay, there must be no more reproaches of this kind, since you will be staying entirely by your own free will and under no pressure from us. Nor can I allow the claim you seem to have made that the Mother must do what you want and she must not say to you or do anything that does not please you. That is a ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Human Relations and the Ashram

... touches only a very small number of women. It must be remembered that Indian social life has subordinated almost entirely the individual to the family. Men and women do not marry according to their free will; their marriages are mostly arranged for them while they are still children. Not only so, but the mould of society has been long of an almost iron fixity putting each individual in his place Page ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Life - A Mass of Vibrations

... The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 14 May 1951 Sweet Mother, I have not understood this: “At best we have only the poor relative freedom which by us is ignorantly called free will. But that is at bottom illusory, since it is the modes of Nature that express themselves through our personal will; it is force of Nature, grasping us, ungrasped by us that determines what we shall ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  3 October 1956

... unforeseen! Then there would no longer be any limits to the possibilities, to the unexpected, the marvellous; and one could hope for the most splendid, the most delightful things from this sovereignly free Will, playing eternally with all the elements and creating unceasingly a new world which logically would have absolutely nothing to do with the preceding one. Don't you think it would be charming? We ...

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The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo  >  Publisher's note

... D. Sethna's writings, he must have pronounced on each of them, but unluckily all his words are not available. However, the single verdict that is in our hands is extremely encouraging. Of "Free- will” in Sri Aurobindo’s Vision he conveyed through his disciple-scribe Nirodbaran the opinion: "It is excellent. In fact, it could not be bettered." The second spur to our publishing venture ...

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Sri Rama  >  Hanuman Conveys Sri Rama's Message to Sita

... Śrī Rāma and Laksmana, will give up their hold on life along with all the bears and monkeys. (61) Keeping (as I do) devotion to my lord in the forefront, 0 monkey, I do not wish to touch of my own free will the body of anyone other than Śrī Rāma, 0 jewel among monkeys! (62) That I was forced into contact with Rāvana was because, being helpless, without a protector and having lost control of myself, I ...

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Sri Krishna In Brindavan  >  Exile of Sri Krishna in Brindavan

... such spiritual personages are, through service of Him, seen to go about free from attachment and bondage, how can these accrue to Him who is the Supreme Lord, who has assumed a form out of His own free will for the good of the world? 36. The one Spirit that pervades the souls of these Gopīs, their husbands and all other beings — that universal Witness has assumed the form of Śrī Krsna for the sake ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  National and International

... t members of that one and single organism. No nation can hope henceforth to stand in its isolated grandeur – not even America or Russia. Subject or dependent nations too who are struggling to be free will be allowed to work out their freedom and independence, on condition that the same is worked out in furtherance and in collaboration with the ideal of human unity. That ideal has become dynamic and ...

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The Destiny of the Body  >  The Double Denial

... mother animals towards their offspring, have been sought to be accounted for in terms of biophysical determinism. Two conclusions follow by implication: first, there can be no such thing as 'free will' since mind can never function independently of bodily causation and, thus, nothing can occur in consciousness unless its neural-cerebral counterpart has first occurred in the brain; secondly ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Sadhana of the mind

... lead to various types of self-contradictions. And mind wonders confusedly how to reconcile the pairs of apparently 'irreconcilable' opposite truths; such as, personal effort and the action of Grace; free-will and determinism; law and miracles; causality and finalism; etc. (4)Mind is by nature exclusive in its tendency. It fails to hold all the facets of a truth in the bosom of a harmonised synthesis ...

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Child, Teacher and Teacher Education  >  Learning Teaching Process

... argument is further intensified when it is seen that an indispensable condition of the moral and spiritual development is secured only when the learner is given ample opportunities to exercise his free will. Learning by doing is being increasingly advocated. At the same time, it is being recognised that there are, for different categories of learners, different ways of learning. Some students ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of the Ideal of Human Unity

... possibilities which can even be perilous, as in any great adventure. Evolution, as Page 116 conceived by Sri Aurobindo, is a great adventure of consciousness, in which the operation of free will is a necessary component. It is against this background that the conflict between the individual and the collectivity needs to be understood. Human history may be considered as a long story ...

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Arjuna's Argument At Kurukshetra And Sri Krishna's Answers  >  Gita's karma Yoga Elimination of Desire from Action

... be required. If that Will acts, it is because it is free to act or not to act and to act without losing that status and poise in which there is no vibration of action. It is the discovery of that free will and of the method Page 18 by which that will can be made operative through our individual consciousness that constitutes the methodology of Karma Yoga. It is because that operation ...

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Sri Aurobindo for All Ages  >  XII: The Integral Yoga and the Ashram (1927-1938)

... Supramental Evolution Integral Yoga and Other Paths Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga Planes and Parts of the Being The Divine and the Hostile Powers The Purpose of Avatarhood Rebirth Fate and Free-Will, Karma and Heredity, etc. The second, third and fourth parts consist of letters concerned more directly with sadhana and there is no aspect of Integral Yoga which Sri Aurobindo has left uncovered ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  December 1935

... Free verse indicates verse free from the shackles of rhyme and metre, but rhythmic (or trying to be rhythmic) in one way or another. If you put rhymes, that will be considered a shackle and the "free" will kick at the chain. The rhythm and metrical arrangement is perfect on the iamb-anapaest basis. I only wanted to know whether that was what Amal intended. For the rhyme scheme of the poem is that of ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  On Discipline

... is an indispensable condition — a sine qua non. In the spiritual domain this was the procedure that was universally accepted and followed, although always in the name of individual freedom and free will protestant movements arose and flourished and traced their own way. But obedience to person is in the last analysis a symbol —symbol of obedience to a principle. The person signifies and embdies ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  On Discipline

... is an indispensable condition – a sine qua non. In the spiritual domain this was the procedure that was universally accepted and followed, although always in the name of individual freedom and free will protestant movements arose and flourished and traced their own way. But obedience to a person is in the last analysis a symbol – symbol of obedience to a principle. The person signifies and embodies ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  This Great Earth, Our Mother

... more and more conscious. Page 370 to be broken in order to start a move towards another harmony richer and higher, and this is done in the human consciousness by the growth of a free will in the individual that disobeys the established law. That is the great Disobedience of which Milton speaks so thunderingly in his famous epic poem and which is at the very centre of the Christian ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  The Stress of the Spirit

... position or velocity is an indeterminate, not because of the infinitesimal size of the quantum, their very nature is so; they are erratic in their own essence. And one can justifiably ascribe a kind of free will to these ultimate, almost immaterial material particles, although when they are in bundles or groups they behave quite reasonably and are very obedient to the law, but singly each possessess or is ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  The Story of Creation

... bring himself out of himself, witness himself in play – the Upanishad says, the One wished to have a second, a companion. to himself, sa dwitiyam aichhat. This power of self-objectification is a free-will given to the consciousness to move out of its original unified status and move abroad and away, as it liked. Thus the Supreme saw himself as his own power of self-manifestation, and that is the Mother ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Towards Applied Philosophy

... 222 Next, there could be a discussion on the multiple personalities in man and conflicts within man and how these conflicts can be resolved by harmonisation of personality. The question of free will and determinism can also be discussed in this connection. There are also other aspects of personality which need to be studied in this connection. These relate to multi-dimensional personality ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6  >  TOWARDS REDEMPTION

... others and other things. It is then that one has the feeling of want and asks for things he has not. He has shut out from his wingspread men and things, of his own accord, to enjoy his individual free will: he is now compelled to ask of them materials to enjoy, to grow and increase, Page 97 even to exist. On the other hand, if you enlarge yourself, if you identify yourself with all ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7  >  This Expanding Universe

... indeterminacy, the unexpected and the unforeseen have no place here. On the contrary, the sphere of manifestation is precisely the field of the sudden and the incalculable, that is to say, of free will. Things appear here that were not before, forces come into play that were not expected or even imagined. They all move along lines that shift and change continually. This is the status of becoming ...

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Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother  >  26 January 1969

... you. This wish is the reason why I do not want any illness. Not that I am hankering to live for ever! I should live as long as you find it necessary and when die let it be without illness and of free will, since illness, I gather, is not the Divine Dispensation. And faith, I believe, is the bulwark against illness. By faith, I understand faith in you, faith that you are the Divine. I have that ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Savitri - An Approach And A Study  >  Appendix - 3

... that wound" —Ahana P. 163 "angel of the House"—suggests a book of poetry by Coventry Petmore. Page 388 "A tool and slave of his own slave and tool, He praises his free will and his master mind And is pushed by her upon her chosen paths; Possessor he is possessed and, ruler, ruled, Her conscious automaton, her desire's dupe". —Book VII, Canto 4. ...

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Savitri  >  Index

... 19-26; his politics, 27-30; his philosophy, 30-39; his poetry, 39-55; the call of Savitri, 55-57; Sri Aurobindo on the recasting of Aswapati's travels, 84; Sri Aurobindo's views on 'Fixt Fate and free Will, 151-153; Sri Aurobindo's symbolism in the Savitri-Yama dialectic, 210-211; Sri Aurobindo's expansion and changes to the original legend,257-264; his ideas on the symbolic content of Savitri ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  The Supramental Manifesto

... some of the fallen angels ..apart sat on a hill retired. In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  The Psychic-The Delight-Soul

... psychic and live in it and from it is the only sun-lit path of progress for man. THE PSYCHIC GUIDANCE When spiritual knowledge develops, one begins to perceive that the proud idea of free-will which the human ego cherishes in its ignorance is nothing but a precious fiction. It is true that it is a practical and effective fiction, indispensable for the evolution of the individual in the ...

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Mother or The Divine Materialism - I  >  12: The Interregnum of the Mind

... incredible fabrics —a whole range of outfits. As Mother said, You see that, and everything is explained! Then the world of ideas starts looking like a transparent book. You may say, “Yes, it's free will” or "it’s Zen medita­tion" or “the world’s salvation,” but it is just a medieval fortress surrounded by lapping moats, unless it is a little burst of silver light in the midst of a concrete necropolis ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  Varieties of Yoga

... in knowledge, force, consciousness, act, joy of existence with the Divine Shakti; to feel a dynamic movement not dominated by mortal desire and vital instinct. and impulse and illusive mental free will, but luminously conceived and evolved in an immortal self-delight and an infinite self-knowledge. For this is the action that comes by a conscious subjection and merging of the natural man into ...

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Collected Poems  >  Kamadeva

... hid by the roses     The sweet Love lies, Has he wings to rise to his heavens or in the closes     Lives and dies? On the peaks of the radiant mountains if we should meet him     Proud and free, Will he not frown on the valleys? Would it befit him     Chained to be? Will you then speak of the one as a slave and a wanton,     The other too bare? But God is the only slave and the only monarch ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Karma, Will and Consequence

... is the real will and this outward thing only an instrumentation for a working out from moment to moment, a spring of the karmic mechanism. That inward will we find when we get back to it, to be a free will, not armoured in a separate liberty, but free in harmony with the freedom of the Spirit guiding and compelling Nature in all souls and in all happenings. This thing our outward mind cannot see easily ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  18 August 1954

... for her assistants and herself as a veiled actor." So this means that everything that happens here has already been staged on a higher plane. So everything is predestined Mother. Then there is no free-will? It is not like that. It is put like that and it is one particular way of seeing things. But in fact, it is... it ( After a silence ) It could be said with as much exactness, that at each moment ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  Forces of Action and Reaction and Destiny

... lines disappear, there is a more plastic freedom and wideness. Neither Karma nor Astrology therefore points to a rigid and for ever immutable fate. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Fate, Free Will and Prediction I must, however, guard against the idea that the signs and planets determine a man’s character or fate. They do not, they only indicate it, because the celestial & astral influences ...

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The Hidden Forces of Life  >  The Divine Grace

... is then the divine election which ensures the future. The only doubt is about the vicissitudes of the path and the time to be taken by the passage. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Fate, Free Will and Prediction … when I speak of the Divine Will I mean something different,—something that has descended here into an evolutionary world of Ignorance, standing at the back of things, pressing ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  8 February 1956

... 8 February 1956 Sweet Mother, I have not understood this: "At best we have only the poor relative freedom which by us is ignorantly called free will. But that is at bottom illusory, since it is the modes of Nature that express themselves through our personal will; it is force of Nature, grasping us, ungrasped by us that determines what we shall ...

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Karmayogin  >  The Viceroy's Speech

... in whose collision all hope of a peaceful Nationalism will disappear, if not for ever, yet for a long, a disastrously long season. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Fate and Free-Will Anandamath XIII Page 433 ...

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Letters on Poetry and Art  >  English Metres

... "Free" verse indicates verse free from the shackles of rhyme and metre, but rhythmic (or trying to be rhythmic) in one way or another. If you put rhymes, that will be considered a shackle and the "free" will kick at the chain. 10 December 1935 The Problem of Free Verse The problem of free verse is to keep the rhythm and afflatus of poetry while asserting one's liberty as in prose to vary the ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Group and the Individual

... speaking a profound truth even while it bases that truth upon a falsehood. The truth is that each really is the self-expression of the State in its characteristic attempt to subordinate to itself the free will, the free action, the power, dignity and self-assertion of the individuals constituting it. The falsehood lies in the underlying idea that the State is something greater than the individuals constituting ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Conditions of a Free World-Union

... principle; for not a mechanical division, but a living diversity would be its object. If this object is to be secured, the peoples of humanity must be allowed to group themselves according to their free-will and their natural affinities; no constraint or force could be allowed to compel an unwilling nation or distinct grouping of peoples to enter into another system or join itself or remain joined to ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Principle of Free Confederation

... natural grouping which feels its own separateness to choose its own status and partnerships, makes a clean sweep of these vital and physical grounds and substitutes a purely psychological principle of free-will and free choice as against Page 534 the claims of political and economic necessity. Or rather the vital and physical grounds of grouping are only to be held valid when they receive this ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  The Lord

... The Kavi is in the Manishi and upholds him in his working. But viewed by itself the realm of the Manishi would seem to be a state of plasticity, of freewill, of the interaction of forces, but of a free-will in thought which is met by a fate in things. For the action of the Manishi is meant to eventuate in the becoming of the Paribhu. The Paribhu, called also Virat, extends Himself in the realm of ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  Occult Knowledge

... whole working with all its multitudinous details—that one cannot do unless one is oneself in the cosmic consciousness and with some opening at least to the Overmind. There is no such thing as "free" will, but there is the power of the Purusha to say "yes" or "no" to any particular pressure of Prakriti and there is the power of the mind, vital etc. to echo feebly or strongly the Purusha's "yes" or ...

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Record of Yoga  >  1 - 31 January 1913

... The Mahakali action is apparently established & sanctioned, but not yet justified by results. 13 January 1913 Dasya is of four degrees,—first, the dasya of the servant who obeys of his own free will or for a hire and can always refuse obedience; secondly, the dasya of the lover who might disobey, but does not & in a way cannot; thirdly, the dasya of the yantra, which cannot disobey, but is worked ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Following a Hostile Influence

... he freely chooses to place the responsibility upon another in whom he trusts. No one has the Page 108 right to impose himself as a religious or spiritual guide on others against their free will. You have no claim at all to dictate to X or Y either in their inner or their outer life. It is again the confusion and incoherence of your mind in its present state that prevents you from recognising ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Psychology of Self-Perfection

... complete subjection to Nature, but as it rises higher in the scale, it awakes to a sense of something in itself which can command Nature; but it is only when it arrives at self-knowledge that this free will and control becomes a complete reality. The change effects itself through process of nature, not therefore by any capricious magic, but an Page 628 ordered development and intelligible ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1971  >  November 24, 1971

... himself before God unless he freely chooses to place the responsibility upon another in whom he trusts. No one has the right to impose himself on others as a religious or spiritual guide against their free will. You have no claim at all to dictate to X or Y either in their inner or their outer life. It is again the confusion and incoherence of your mind in its present state that prevents you from recognising ...

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A Centenary Tribute  >  Sri Aurobindo's Vision-S. Murali

... personality, a sublimation of the vital, the ojas , as we would term it in Indian psychology. Yeats gave free access to the poetic mind and allowed the complete free play of the creative to surface at free will from whichever levels. In another short poem fancifully titled "A Drinking Song", he writes of the dying of sexual energies that cause physical morbidity:   Wine comes in at the mouth ...

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The Golden Path  >  Amal Kiran

... for his MA when he arrived at the Ashram in 1927. He gave up all formal education after joining the Ashram.) The interest in the science of materialism with its theories and debates regarding free will vs. predestination, continued for a time but would soon change. A new way of thinking was on the horizon. His girlfriend, at that time, spoke to him of a Bengali yogi and devotee of Sri Krishna who ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Twelve: Krishna and the World of the Gods

... Devata [a God] or the other.’ To fathom this gives a deep insight into the glorious destination awaiting each of us and which is the aim of the evolutionary adventure we have undertaken of our own free will and choice. Regrettably, the aspirants of the newly formed Ashram were not yet ready for that stupendous transformation which would have made them into overmental beings on Earth. About these days ...

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Patterns of the Present  >  5: Science, Scientism, Modern Technology

... As Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA in 1953, has suggested: ‘“You”, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.’ And yet something else may be needed – not some divine spark or soul, but some as yet unknown ...

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Sri Aurobindo came to Me  >  Introduction

... even the quiet atmosphere of an Ashram of Yoga. His intellect was indeed keyed to a different note of controversy than was mine: I was argumentative about problems like unity and multiplicity, free-will and determinism, the personal God and the impersonal Absolute, and wanted the supra-sensible to be logically of a piece, amenable to analytic systematisation, while he had the sceptic's hesitation ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  June 15, 1968

... we have time to translate? One piece, maybe... to give ourselves the illusion of having done something! Mother takes up the translation of a text by Sri Aurobindo: "This question of free-will and determination is the most knotty of all metaphysical questions and nobody has been able to solve it—for a good reason that both destiny and will exist and even a freewill exists somewhere; the ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 2  >  Some Perspectives of the Savitri Upakhyana

... his body and others are universal agents in the deep and occult play. There are conflicting forces, and there is fate, and there is the circumstance in the working of Time; yet the individual's free-will is the primary factor in moulding and shaping his destiny. Of course, very characteristically, Vyasa does not speak of these metaphysical factors in his little narrative, but it is neither the ...

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Perspectives of Savitri - Part 1  >  The Legend of Savitri With Some Departures Made by Sri Aurobindo

... supporting her husband from behind. On the other hand, in Sri Aurobindo's presentation the queen, though full of human frailty, plays a crucial role in the discussion and raises subtle points of fate and free will in human transactions. Note 5 (p. 532.) In Sri Aurobindo's Savitri we see Narad asserting the divine will behind this marriage and, though apparently tragic, makes it firm. ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Correspondence with Rene’

... for your going; it is for you to decide in all freedom whether you will go or stay. But if you stay, there must be no more reproaches of this kind, since you will be staying entirely by your own free will and under no pressure from us. Nor can I allow the claim you seem to have made that the Mother must do what you want and she must not say to you or do anything that does not please you. That is elation ...

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Sri Aurobindo to Dilip - Volume II  >  Correspondence 1935

... to live apart. Under French law here m Pondicherry the husband's right of compulsion does not exist. And the value of the letter remains undiminished so long as she does not live again of her own free will with her husband or does not pledge herself or offer to forgive his offence and resume the old relations. If she does either, then the letter has no further value and she will lose the hold it ...

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A Philosophy of the Role of the Contemporary Teacher  >  The Role of the contemporary teacher

... done in that direction at the higher levels of education. But this argument misses the point that the important element in value-oriented development of personality is the development of learner's free will and of his free and rational acceptance of the value-system and directions of the growth of personality. And this development can rightly be done only at the higher level of education, when the learner ...

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The Crucifixion  >  Introduction -Jesus and the Theme of Love

... kings of the kingdom of heaven, which has made you poor in goods but exalted in virtues. (Rule of St. Francis, 1223) As with several other religions, Christianity believes that humanity has free will and each of us can choose our thoughts and actions. To enter upon a life of agape. Love of God, humanity and all of God's creation before the love of oneself, is to choose a path that has been and ...

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Sri Rama  >  Introduction

... to abdicate? Kingship was not a privilege, not an ornament which one could decide to enjoy or renounce at the king's own personal choice of pleasure. Kingship was conferred on the king by the free will of the people and the king was bound to serve and protect the people as an imperative duty. The choice to abdicate the throne was not available to Sri Rama. It cannot be said that Sri Rama was so ...

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Gods and the World  >  Glossary of proper names and Greek and Latin terms

... in the heel by which she held him. She later tried to prevent him from participating in the war by disguising him as a girl on Scyros. Discovered there by Odysseus, he came to Troy of his own free will and not as a vassal of Agamemnon. With his army of Myrmidons he took many towns in the Troad, including Lyrnessus where he captured Breseis. When Agamemnon took Breseis from him, Achilles withdrew ...

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Child, Teacher and Teacher Education  >  Can Values Be Taught

... not the child but the book, the teacher and the syllabus. The methods which are most conducive to the development of the personality of the child such as the methods of self-learning, exercise of free will, individualised pace of progress, etc., do not have even an elbow room. Indeed, if this is the system of education and if we are to remain content with this system of education, most important elements ...

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A National Agenda for Education  >  A National Agenda for Education

... educational system must provide all the necessary facilities, support and required atmosphere, it would be for the students themselves to make the right use of the aids provided to them. It is by their free will that they have to grow up into self determining individuals striving constantly towards excellence, not only in respect of studies, but also in respect of integral development of personality, — physical ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1  >  ASPIRATION - CONCENTRATION - WILL - SURRENDER

... ideas to the Truth. The will for opening may itself be affected by these things.         You have said: "But it is not so easy for it to be free." Anyhow one has to make an effort for a free will. How can one succeed?       By persistent aspiration, rejection of all that is in the way.         When can the will work straight on the object from the Sahasradala? Page ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7  >  The Problem of Evil

... is evidently one movement out of many (actual and possible), that it follows its own law which is not the same elsewhere, that if the principle on which this universe has been created is that of free will, then you cannot prevent the disorderly movement from happening until a knowledge comes and illumines the choice. If one is free to choose, one may choose the wrong thing, not necessarily the right ...

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Reminiscences  >  The World War-1939-1945

... order to ensure a dire efficiency and a grim order in practical life. Those that have stood against this Dark Force and its overshadowing menace—even though perhaps not wholly by choice or free-will, but mostly compelled by circumstances —yet, because of the stand they have taken, now bear the fate of the world on their shoulders, carry the whole future of humanity in their march. It is of ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6  >  THE STORY OF CREATION

... himself, Page 19 witness himself in play—the Upanishad says, the One wished to have a second, a companion to himself, sa dwitiyam aichhat. This power of self-objectification is a free-will given to the consciousness to move out of its original unified status and move abroad and away, as it liked. Thus the Supreme saw himself as his own power of self-manifestation, and that is the ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 5  >  THE MEASURE OF TIME

... and elsewhere. The mind divides where there is no division, puts tilings against each other where there is Page 15 perfect compatibility and harmony. Determinism and Indeterminism, Free-Will and Mechanism are contradictions set up by the mind and have no real objective existence. From a certain view-point, on a certain level of consciousness things appear to move in a rigid frame of ...

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The Mother Abides - Final Reflections  >  Freedom

... not do it, overtly or occultly, but she said that she saw no value in such "good behaviour". She wanted each one to feel the need for an inner discipline and to act on that basis out of one's own free will. This feature may be observed in everything that she wrote, everything that she created. Freedom from fear, freedom from the compulsion of authority, freedom from any type of imposition are ...

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Towards A New Society  >  National And International

... ent members of that one and single organism. No nation can hope henceforth to stand in its isolated grandeur—not even America or Russia. Subject or dependent nations too who are struggling to be free will be allowed to work out their freedom and independence, on condition that the same is worked out in furtherance and in collaboration with the ideal of human unity. That ideal has become dynamic and ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  Matter Aspires

... creative act is a revelation, an intrusion of a truth, a reality from another plane, of quite a different order, into the rigid actuality and factual determinism.. Man's secret person is a sovereignly free will. A machine is wholly composed of actualities-the given-and brings out only a resultant of the permutation and combination of the data: it is a pure deduction. But there is another even more ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2  >  Aldous Huxley

... humanity in general that 'splashes about in the lower ooze' but those who have a sufficiently developed inner spiritual life. There is a quotation from Lao Tzu put under the heading "Grace and Free Will": "It was when the Great Way declined that human kindness and morality arose". Page 132 We fear Mr. Huxley has completely missed the point of the cryptic sentence. He seems to take it ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  The Measure of Time

... fact which is otherwise and elsewhere. The mind divides where there is no division, puts things against each other where there is perfect compatibility and harmony. Determinism and Indeterminism, Free-Will and Mechanism are contradictions set up by the mind and have no real objec­tive existence. From a certain view-point, on a certain level of consciousness things appear to move in a rigid frame of ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  The World War

... ensure a dire efficiency and a grim order in practical life.   Those that have stood against this Dark Force and its over-shadowing menace – even though perhaps not wholly by choice or free-will, but mostly compelled by circumstances – yet, because of the stand they have taken, now bear the fate of the world on their shoulders, carry the whole future of humanity in their march. It is of course ...

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Uniting Men  >  Extracts from Jean Monnet's Memoirs

... separate action by our ancient sovereign nations. We have long since passed the crossroads where we had choice of ways ahead. Since 1950, we have been engaged in the process of unification by our own free will, and no one has been willing or able to reverse it. If there are arguments, they are about means, not ends; and arguments are essential to progress. I have known this garden for thirty years, and ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  14 DECEMBER 1939

... reasoning. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, and a very practical reasoning too. (Laughter) PURANI: Even the thief is free because he acts freely. SRI AUROBINDO: How? PURANI: He decides out of his own free will. SRI AUROBINDO: But merely by reasoning he can't be free. If we apply the Gita, one is not free merely because one reasons about stealing, but if one can steal disinterestedly and with detachment ...

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Sri Aurobindo - A dream-dialogue with children  >  The Ashram Children And Sri Aurobindo’s Life—A Dream-Dialogue

... asuric powers. The poor human being is a mere puppet in their hands. But though he may be a puppet, there are certain factors that cannot be overlooked, such as the weight of his past Karma, his free-will and so on. Hence, it is the combination of all these complex forces that will tilt the balance for the individual here. If, for example, you walk on the path of truth, if your mind is preoccupied ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  Towards Redemption

... and other things. It is then I that one has the feeling of want and asks for things he has not. I He has shut out from his wing-spread men and things, of his I own accord, to enjoy his individual free will: he is now compelled to ask of them materials to enjoy, to grow and increase, I even to exist. On the other hand, if you enlarge yourself, I if you identify yourself with all, then you find all things ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  This Expanding Universe

... unexpected and the unforeseen have no place here. Page 304 On the contrary, the sphere of manifestation is precisely the field of the sudden and the incalculable, that is to say, of free will. Things appear here that were not before, forces come into play that were not expected or even imagined. They all move along lines that shift and change continually. This is the status of becoming ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  The Problem of Evil

... is evidently one movement out of many (actual and possible), that it follows its own law which is not the same elsewhere, that if the principle on which this universe has been created is that of free will, then you cannot prevent the disorderly movement from taking place until a knowledge comes and illumines the choice. If one is free to choose, one may choose the wrong thing, not necessarily the right ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  Bibliography

... Yoga and Other Paths; Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga; Reason, Science and Yoga; Planes and Parts of the Being; The Divine and the Hostile Powers; The Purpose of Avatarhood; Rebirth; Fate and Free-Will; Karma and Heredity; etc. Volume 23 — Letters on Yoga, PARTS Two AND THREE. Part Two: The Object of Integral Yoga; Synthetic Method and the Integral Yoga; Basic Requisites of the Path; ...

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On The Mother  >  A God's Labour

... seemed to multiply. Most people wouldn't - or couldn't - understand the truth of the matter. As T. V. Kapali Sastry saw it: Page 342 Her choice is a free choice, Her Will is the only Free-Will. She chooses, accepts or rejects, not for any human reason but for Her own reason. An dthat Reason is Her own Will, free and far above all our human considerations of worthiness or unworthiness ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  The Ego-The Desire-Soul

... like an isolated iceberg among other icebergs upon the waters of the encompassing Subconscient, and, more often than not, moved and tossed by them, though it has always the delusive sense of its free will and independent initiative. It is in man that the work of individualisation seems to reach a climax, and that there is even a semblance of the fulfilment of the primordial Will of the Divine to conscious ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  The Integral Surrender

... carve out his own career as best he can by a series of clashes and compromises. He does not suspect that his egoistic individuality, asserting its separate existence and pluming itself upon its free will, is an ignorant tool of Nature, and that all its vaunted endowments of intelligence and independence of judgment, conscience and ethical instincts, are but instrumental gifts controlled and directed ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Five  >  Sister Nivedita

... the next day in the Amrita Bazar Patrika, and in The Statesman whose editor Ratcliffe was a friend of hers; in the letter she said that she was cutting off her relations with the Mission of her own free will. The Mission made the error of keeping too much to the forms of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. The authorities did not keep themselves open for new outpourings of their spirit, thus making the ...

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Prayers and Aspirations  >  Free Me

... good, auspicious, pure,     sanctifying Darshan day, Free me, free me, free me, Free me, free me, free me, Free me from this, constantly, always, keep me free, Free even those who wish to be freed, free them, free them. Thy Grace alone will release us from all this. (2) Free us, free us, free us,     Keep us constantly and forever free from all this, (2) O Gracious Mother, shower Your... Prayers and Aspirations Free Me There is a chain of thinking about justice and injustice,     Done to each other. (2) I cannot forget, cannot forget,     This sugar-coated self-deception. 1 (2)     Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma... Ma...     O... Ma, shower Your Grace, shower Your Grace, O Supreme Mother and Lord, shower Your Grace,     shower Your ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  The Brahmin

... has no longing, who is free.   [29]   I call him a Brahmin who has no yearning, who has attained the highest knowledge, who is free from doubts, who has reached the profoundest immortality.   Page 250 [30]   I call him a Brahmin who has cast away the twin bonds of sin and virtue, who is free from grief, and free from impurity, who is... meditation, who is unmoved, free from doubt, free from needs, wholly withdrawn.   [33]   I call him a Brahmin who has cast off all desires, has no home and wanders free, who has exhausted all hankering.       [34]   I call him a Brahmin who has here below thrown out all thirst, who has no home and wanders free, who has exhausted all hankering... [3]   Him I call a Brahmin for whom there is neither the shore nor the shoreless, for whom both are non-existent, one who is free from fear, free from attachment.   [4]   Him I call a Brahmin who is given to meditation and is free from impurities, who has settled down and done what is to be done, the sinless who has attained the supreme Good.   Page 247 ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Craving

... passions are drawn back into the stream, like a spider caught in his own web. This too the wise cut off; renouncing the pleasures of the senses, free from craving, they take to the homeless life. Be free from the past, be free from the future, be free from the present. Cross over to the other shore of existence; when the mind is wholly delivered, you shall come no more to birth and death. ... bane of mankind. Therefore whatever is given to those freed from passions yields abundant fruit. Weeds are the bane of the fields; hatred the bane of mankind. Therefore whatever is given to those freed from hatred yields abundant fruit. Weeds are the bane of the fields; delusion the bane of mankind. Therefore whatever is given to those freed from delusion yields abundant fruit. Page 286... he is like a freed man who returns to bondage. What the wise call a strong bond is not made of iron, wood or rope; but the craving for jewels and ornaments, for wife and children, is a far stronger bond. The wise say that it pulls you downward, and though it seems to be loose, it is hard to be rid of. This too the wise cut off; renouncing the pleasures of the senses, free from craving, they ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The Demand of the Mother

... his words are true for all of us that aspire to liberate our Mother, whether we prove it by our lives or by our death. When her sons have learned to be free in themselves, free in prison, free under the yoke which they seek to remove, free in life, free in death, when the text of Upadhyay's words will receive their illuminating commentary in the actions of a people, then the chains will fall off of themselves... among us that will compel Swaraj to come. The kingdom of Heaven is within you; free India is no piece of wood or stone that can be carved into the likeness of a nation but lives in the hearts of those who desire her, and out of these she must be created. We must first ourselves be free in heart before our country can be free. "There is no British jail which can hold me," said the great Upadhyay before... offer his head at the feet of the Mother, did Bhavani in visible form stay his hand and give him the command to free his people. Those who have freed nations, have first passed through the agony of utter renunciation before their efforts were crowned with success, and those who aspire to free India, will first have to pay the price which the Mother demands. The schemes by which we seek to prepare the ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Notes on Freedom

... divine quality; it belongs to the Divine Consciousness. Nothing below that status is free or can be free – all are bound to the Cosmic Law, the inexorable law of Karma, the chain of global Causation. You are free when you are out of it and dwell with and in the Master of the causal ring. God alone is free. You are free only when you are united with God and your will merges in His Will and His Will manifests... Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 Notes on Freedom MAN is born free, – in his spirit, not in his body. The body is bound and all that is there in its frame of reference – the life and even the mind with their multiple movements. The spirit alone is free with all else that is there in its frame of reference. The mind and the life bound normally, because tied... the soul and self; the inferior nature can be rebuilt into the mode' of the higher nature; when this is done there is the reign of Supreme Liberty. The body's domain then in its formation becomes a free expression of the soul, the Divine Himself. It is the freedom of the inner being that brings about the freedom in the outer life. The deeper the inner freedom, the truer and the more real is the ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The United States of Europe

... centuries very much as the evolution of the free democratised nation governed the age which preceded ours. The dominant idea of the French Revolution was the formula of the free and sovereign people and, in spite of the cosmopolitan element introduced into the revolutionary formula by the ideal of fraternity, this idea became in fact the assertion of the free, independent, democratically self-governed... the world; imperialism is equally in the ascendant. Only a few European peoples at the present moment are nations confined to themselves; each is a nation free in itself but dominating over other human groupings who are not free or only partially free. Even little Belgium has its Congo, little Portugal its colonies, little Holland its dependencies in the eastern Archipelago; even little Balkan States... necessity. In freer conditions what was done partly and for a time by governments which the people have consented to invest with an absolute and temporarily irresponsible authority, may be done, when there is no pressure of war, wholly and permanently by the self-governing democratic State. In that case the near future of the human group would seem to be the nation, self-governing, politically free, but ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  The Canto of Desire

... your gift to one free from attachment: that is a truly fruitful act.   [24]   In a field the weed is the evil, in a human creature hatred is the evil: Make your gift to one free from hatred, that is a truly fruitful act.   [25]   In a field, the weed is the evil, in a human creature infatuation is the evil: Let your giving be to one free from infatuation:... in a trap: Therefore, to remove desire the aspirant seeks detachment of self.   [11]   He who desires Nirvana and has come out of desire and is free from desire and yet runs after it, behold, the man even when freed runs towards bondage.   [12]   The wise do not call that a strong bondage which is of iron or of wood or of rope, but that hankering for jewels...   [19]   Freed from desire, unattached, he knows the words and their meanings, he knows the collocation of the letters and their sequence: For the last time he has put on the body and is called the great Wise.   [20]   Almighty, all-wise am I; I am attached to no mode of conduct; I have renounced all: With no desire, I am free. Whom should I then approach ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Idea of a League of Nations

... the end for a free world-union. The most important of these, the result of the Russian Revolution born out of the war and its battle-cry of free nationality but contingent on the success and maintenance of the revolutionary principle, is the disappearance of Russia as an aggressive empire and its transformation from an imperialistic aggregate into a congeries or a federation of free republics. 1 ... dozen great empires. The war revived with a startling force the idea of free nationality, throwing it up in three forms, each with a stamp of its own. First, in opposition to the imperialistic ambitions of Germany in Europe the allied nations, although themselves empires, were obliged to appeal to a qualified ideal of free nationality and pose as its champions and protectors. America, more politically... politically idealistic than Europe, entered the war with a cry for a league of free nations. Finally, the original idealism of the Russian revolution cast into this new creative chaos an entirely new element by the distinct, positive, uncompromising recognition, free from all reserves of diplomacy and self-interest, of the right of every aggregate of men naturally marked off from other aggregates to decide ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  10 February 1951

... attachment—to any object or any mode of life. You must be absolutely free." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) I would like someone to tell me what he understands by "be absolutely free", for it is a very important question. I shall tell you why. Most people confuse liberty with licence. For the ordinary mind, to be free is to have the chance of committing every stupidity that one likes... likes, without anybody intervening. I say one must be "absolutely free", but it is a very dangerous advice unless one understands the meaning of the words. Free from what?—free from attachments, evidently. It is exactly that. It is the story of the Buddha 1 who answers the young man expert in all the arts, "I am an expert in the art of self-control. If men congratulate me or praise me, it leaves me... trust is capable of knowing what is good and what is bad, what is to be done and what is not to be done. And that is the best way of being free. Let your surrender to the Divine be entire and you will become completely free. The only way of being truly free is to make your surrender to the Divine entire, without reservation, because then all that binds you, ties you down, chains you, falls away ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  The Adept

... controlled, who has purged all pride and is free from taint.   [6]   One who follows the discipline is unshakable even as the Earth, even as the heavenly Pillar. He is like a lake free from mud, he is free from the cycle of births.   [7]   Calm is his mind, calm his words and acts. Perfect knowledge has freed him and all is calmed in him.   [8]... Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 The Adept   [1]   Pain exists not in him who has ended his journey, who has no grief, who is free in every way, released from all knots.   [2]   The heedful ever strive, they delight not staying at home. As a swan quits his pond, even so he moves away from home to home. ...

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Prayers and Aspirations  >  I am Unable to Give Up

... arranging circumstances     the Mother alone draws my attention (2)     Draws my attention,     the Mother alone draws my attention. Then the Mother Herself frees me,     frees me easily from them. Frees me from them, frees me, frees me.     I feel a great joy from this release,     I feel a great joy.     This way She makes me understand the real freedom, (2) The Mother alone is doing ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The Issue

... matter even to the value of a broken cowrie. The real issue for us Nationalists is something quite different and infinitely more vital. It is this, "Is India free?"—not even "Shall India be free?" but, is India free and am I as an Indian free or a serf bound to the service, the behest or the forced guidance of something outside and alien to myself and mine, something which is anatman, not myself? Am... talk of men that sleep or are in intellectual and moral bondage. We Nationalists declare that man is for ever and inalienably free and that we too are, both individually as Indian men and collectively as an Indian nation, for ever and inalienably Page 617 free. As freemen we will speak the thing that seems right to us without caring what others may do to our bodies to punish us for being... Am I, are my people part of humanity, the select and chosen temple of the Brahman, and entitled therefore to grow straight in the strength of our own spirit, free and with head erect before mankind, or are we a herd of cattle to live and work for others? Are we to live our own life or only a life prescribed and circumscribed for us by something outside ourselves? Are we to guide our own destinies or ...

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The Future Poetry  >  A Theory of True Quantity

... is possible that one day the impulse which created free verse may be justified; but, if so, it can only be done when a free form is achieved, a free rhythmic unity. For that end the best Page 352 work of Whitman would seem to point to a free but finely built quantitative rhythm as the most promising base. But, even at its highest, free verse is not likely to replace metre. ... illustrative of these and other forms, are added at the end of this appendix. There is one illustration of semi-free and one of free quantitative verse. An unconsciously quantitative free verse may be said to exist already in the writings of Whitman and contemporary modernist poets. In modern free verse the underlying impulse is to get away from the fixed limitations of accentual metre, its set forms... sometimes a free recurrence or dominance of certain measures, not laid down or fixed, but easy and natural,—which gives an underlying unity to the whole passage. In the instance taken from Shakespeare a remarkable persistence of four-foot measures, with occasional shorter ones intervening, builds up a grave and massive rhythmic feeling and imparts even a poetic motion to the unified whole. In free verse ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  Of the Pleasant

... One who is freed from the pleasant has no grief, and what is he to fear?   Page 225 [5]   Love gives rise to grief, love gives' rise to fear: One who is freed from love has no grief and how shall he have fear ?   [6]   Attachment gives rise to grief, attachment gives rise to fear; One who is freed from attachment... he have fear?   [7]   Desire gives rise to grief, desire gives rise to fear; One who is freed from desire has no grief and how shall he have fear?   [8]   Hunger gives rise to grief, hunger gives rise to fear; One who is freed from hunger has no grief and how shall he have fear?   [9]   One who has the right conduct ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Happiness

... hate, happy are we to live without hatred. Among men who hate, let us live free from hatred. Among those who suffer, happy are we to live with-out suffering. Among men who suffer, let us live free from suffering. Among those who are full of greed, happy are we to live without greed. Among the greedy, let us live free from greed. Happy indeed are we who own nothing. We shall feed upon delight... delight of detachment. Delight! Delight means to live in the Truth, to live in communion with Eternity, with the true Life, the Light that never fails. Page 253 Delight means to be free, free with the true Freedom, the Freedom of the constant, invariable union with the Divine Will. Gods are those that are immortal, who are not bound to the vicissitudes of material life in all its ... the Light, who live in the Power and the Knowledge; that is what the Buddha means, he does not mean the gods of religion. They are beings who have the divine nature, who may live in human bodies, but free from ignorance and falsehood. When you no longer possess anything, you can become as vast as the universe. 23 May 1958 Page 254 ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Small Free Unit and the Larger Concentrated Unity

... replaced in Europe the rich and free existence of the city and the tribe or else a rigid caste system such as the one that replaced in India the open and natural existence of the vigorous Aryan clans. Moreover, as we have already seen, the active and stimulating participation of all or most in the full vigour of the common life, which was the great advantage of the small but free earlier communities, is much... Mediterranean. In India the early communities were free societies in which the king was only a military head or civic chief; we find the democratic element persisting in the days of Buddha and surviving in small States in the days of Chandragupta and Megasthenes even when great bureaucratically governed monarchies and empires were finally replacing the free earlier polity. It was only in proportion as the... a progressive and increasingly perfected community, not only a strong mould of social life but the free growth and completeness of life itself within that mould. This cycle we must briefly study before we can consider whether the intervention of a new effort at a larger aggregation is likely to be free from the danger of a new recoil in which the inner progress of the race will have, at least temporarily ...

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Karmayogin  >  Bengal and the Congress

... aristocracy the jealousy of a close body discourages free opinion and its free expression; in a bureaucracy stereotyped habits of action and method lead to a fixed and inelastic way of thinking and difference of opinion, when tolerated, is kept by the exigencies of administration private and largely ineffective. It is democracy alone that demands free divergence of opinion in politics and open propagandism... be a National Congress when it is really a party organisation. If the Convention were to consent to a free election and a free constitution, the Nationalist party would not allow a matter of nomenclature, however important, to stand in the way of reunion. But the Convention constitution is not free. It is in the first place a close oligarchical constitution seeking to limit the right of election to... elected Congress the Nationalists would have no cause of complaint, for they would still be free to organise a party institution which would spread the knowledge and appreciation of democratic principles and get this limitation abrogated from within the Congress itself. But the Constitution is also not free in virtue of the eligibility to delegateship being limited to those who can sign a declaration ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Baruipur Speech

... and it is only when you understand that free within is free without, you will be really free. It is for this reason that we preach the gospel of unqualified Swaraj and it is for this that Bhupen and Upadhyay refused to plead before the alien court. Upadhyay saw the necessity of realising Swaraj within us and hence he gave himself up to it. He said that he was free and the Britishers could not bind him;... great that can make India subject; when we will say this, God will make us free. Herein lies the true significance of national education, boycott, Swadeshi, arbitration. Do not be afraid of obstacles in your path, it does not matter how great the forces are that stand in your way, God commands you to be free and you must be free. We ask you to give up the school under the control of the foreign bureaucracy... the country. Even in West Bengal it is working in Uttarpara and Baruipur. It is not our work but that of something mightier that compels us to go on until all bondage is swept away and India stands free before the world. Page 1037 ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Ish and Jagat

... up whenever it ceases to please him or be serviceable to his needs, so the Spirit is free to enter or go forth from its bodies and has power to build, destroy and rebuild whatever it pleases in this universe. The very universe itself It is free at any moment to destroy and recreate. God is not bound; He is the free and unopposed master of His creations. This word Ishá, the Lord, is placed designedly... they have no other reason for their existence. For habitation by the Lord is all this, everything whatsoever that is moving thing in her that moves. The problem of a perfect life upon earth, a life free from those ills of which humanity seems to be the eternal and irredeemable prisoner & victim, can only be solved, in the belief of the Vedantins, if we go back to the fundamental nature of existence;... ourselves in the modalities of Nature, must, if we would escape from her confounding illusions, realise the other pole of our existence, unqualified Spirit or God. By rising to the God within us, we become free, liberated from the bondage of the world and the snare of death. For God is freedom, God is immortality. Mrityum tírtwá amritam asnute. Crossing over death, we enjoy immortality. This relation of ...

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Bhagavadgita and Contemporary Crisis  >  Appendix-2

... adversity, who does not crave for happiness, -who is free from attachment, fear and honour, — he is the man of wisdom with intelligence fixed in equality. 2.56 He who is content with what he obtains without fever of strain, he who has transcended dualities, and he who is without envy and is equal in success and failure, he remains free even though engaged in action. 4.22 ... is dear to Me. 12.13-14 He by whom the world is not afflicted and whom the world cannot afflict, he who is free from joy, honour, fear and anxiety, he is dear to Me. 12.15 He who is devoid of wants, who is pure and efficient, seated high above and free from all trouble, and he who has renounced all egoistic initiative, and who is My devotee, - he is dear to Me. 12.16... APPENDIX-II Being equal minded towards happiness and suffering, gain and loss, victory and defeat, engage yourself in the battle. 2.38 Become, O Arjuna, free from dualities, ever-balanced, unconcerned with acquisition and preservation and seated in the inmost self. 2.45 Perform action, O Arjuna, being fixed in Yoga, renouncing attachments ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Constitution-making

... e of a party or to assure the orderly and harmonious procedure of a representative assembly in which conflicting opinions are to be allowed free entrance. In the former case the country at large is not interested in the result, for a party organization is free to make the arrangements most suitable to itself. But if the Congress is to be a Congress of all opinions and not of one section only, the ... rules observed in all free assemblies and to appeal to the full assembly if his right is unjustly denied. The Moderates desire to establish a sort of official oligarchy in the Congress; the leaders, officially recognised in previous years, must be implicitly obeyed; the voice of the President is to be absolute and final irrespective of the validity of his decision or the rights of free discussion. The ... master: his function is to administer the Page 917 rules of debate and not to make his own will and pleasure the law. There can be no doubt which attitude is in consonance with the practice of free peoples, the spirit of modern politics and the principles of democracy. Mr. Tilak has established his position by his articles in the Kesari and Mahratta with the most crushing completeness and ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Attachment to Others

... your sincerity. It is true that it is extremely difficult to keep free from vital mixture any close relation with human beings. But the remedy is not to cut all such relations, but to be constantly vigilant (on one's guard) and not to allow the vital attractiveness to rule one's actions. 29 August 1950 Keep yourself free from all human attachment and you will be happy. 6 June 1954 ... no [ ... ] friendships and intimacies, because in the subconscious vital, ties are established which form an obstacle to the sadhana. My dear child, my blessings are with you. A friendship free from desire and attachment might be the ideal solution, but to be carried out it requires a perfect mastery over oneself and an unshakable discipline of the vital and the body. And as for the moment... Remembrance is a dangerous ally of attachment. For the time being, it is better to keep quiet and concentrate on your inner development. Later, when you feel free from every trace of attachment, you will be able to resume your Page 284 correspondence spontaneously and without difficulty; it will then be useful and profitable. But the rule is always to realise yourself what you ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Pleasure

... grief; what is pleasing gives rise to fear. One who is freed from what is pleasing, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? Affection gives rise to grief; affection gives rise to fear. One who is freed from affection, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? Attachment gives rise to grief; attachment gives rise to fear. One who is freed from attachment, who feels no grief, what has he to fear... fear? Desire gives rise to grief; desire gives rise to fear. One who is freed from desire, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? Craving gives rise to grief; craving gives rise to fear. One who is freed from craving, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? Page 255 One holds dear a man who acts rightly, possesses intuition, who is righteous and knows the Truth, who fulfils... of fear disappears. It is the state in which one does not live for oneself but where whatever one does, whatever one feels, all movements are an offering made to the Supreme, in an absolute trust, freeing oneself of all responsibility for oneself, handing over to Him all this burden which is no longer a burden. It is an inexpressible joy not to have any responsibility for oneself, no longer to think ...

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Karmayogin  >  Khulna Speech

... make man no longer a slave, but to escape from bondage and to make human beings free. Hindu philosophy tries to go into the root of things. What is the real beginning of maya ? .... Whatever we may try, from the nature of the world we cannot escape from bondage. There is a knowledge, by attaining which we can become free. In the Gita we find that Srikrishna unites the Vedanta philosophy with the... The teaching of the Gita, if it is followed, delivers you from all possibility of sin, of sorrow. He says: "Take refuge in me. I shall free you from all evil. Do everything as a sacrifice to me." That is the goal towards which you move. The name of Hari will free you from all evil. This is the way in which Srikrishna has solved the problem put by Arjuna. Arjuna says: "It is my duty to fight for... act, yet be free from bondage? The Gita says that the man who has knowledge has to do exactly what other men do. He has to live as a man in his family, race and nation. But there is a difference which is internal and not external. By the internal difference he acts in communion with God; others act in pursuance of their desires. He knows by experience how a man can act when he is free from desire. ...

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Sri Aurobindo for All Ages  >  The Message of Fifteenth August 1947

... looked like impracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would... for All Ages The Message of Fifteenth August 1947 AUGUST 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural and spiritual future of humanity... future. Another dream was for the resurgence and liberation of the peoples of Asia and her return to her great role in the progress of human civilisation. Asia has arisen; large parts are now quite free or are at this moment being liberated: its other still subject or partly subject parts are moving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to be done and that will be done today ...

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Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo  >  Five Dreams

... looked like impracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would... Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo Five Dreams August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural and spiritual future of humanity. ... future. Another dream was for the resurgence and liberation of the peoples of Asia and her return to her great role in the progress of human civilisation. Asia has arisen; large parts are now quite free or are at this moment being liberated: its other still subject or partly subject parts are moving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to be done and that will be done today ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  Moksha

... dissolution, but its true meaning is freedom. He who is free from bondage, is free, is mukta. But the last bondage is the passion for liberation itself which must be renounced before the soul can be perfectly free, and the last knowledge is the realisation that there is none bound, none desirous of freedom, but the soul is for ever and perfectly free, that bondage is an illusion and the liberation from ...

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Work - an offering  >  Illusion

... absolutely free", for it is a very important question. I shall tell you why.     Most people confuse liberty with licence. For the ordinary mind, to be free is to have the chance of committing every stupidity that one likes, without anybody intervening. I say one must be "absolutely free", but it is a very dangerous advice unless one understands the meaning of the words. Free from what?... - free from attachments, evidently. The Mother Propaganda Mother does not set much value on propaganda, but still work of that kind can be her work. Only it has to come from her impulsion, be done with quietude, with measure, in the way she wants it to be done. It is from the inner being that it should be done in union with the Mother's will, not from the Vital mind's eager impulse. To ...

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Prayers and Aspirations  >  Do not See Faults

... (3) If you truly aspire (2) To lead a higher life, Do not blame others, (2) Never blame others. By the Gracious Mother's abundant Grace alone     We shall be free, we shall be free from this. (2)     She alone will free us. (2) Always invoke the Compassionate Mother's Grace, (2)     Always, the Compassionate Mother's Grace. (3) Om the Supreme Mother of Ananda,     Consciousness ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The New Thought

... is reported to have delivered himself of the following fatuity: "One of the most difficult experiments ever tried in human history was whether we could carry on personal government along with free speech and free right of public meeting", and he was cheered by the House. He might as well have said, "We are carrying on in India the most difficult experiment of hunting with the hounds and running with... similar topics, without the least fear of provoking any serious hostile criticism, and Mr. Morley has certainly taken his occasion by both hands. Any power or privilege in order to deserve the title "free" must be based on the authority of an independent people possessing the supreme and ultimate power of control over its own government. It is this fundamental fact of self-government that must be their... pleasure, the giving and the taking of it having not the least reference to the people's wishes. In fact the word "right" has no meaning in a subject country. A right can only be where the people are free, and signifies some inalienable incident of citizenship, the recognition of which is an absolute obligation on the Government. The things that masquerade in a country like India under the name of rights ...

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Collected Poems  >  Self

... spiritual, free,"     Then swore because his dinner was not ready. I asked him why. He said, "It is not me,     But the belly's hungry god who gets unsteady." I asked him why. He said, "It is his play.     I am unmoved within, desireless, pure. I care not what may happen day by day."     I questioned him, "Are you so very sure?" He answered, "I can understand your doubt.     But to be free is... is all. It does not matter How you may kick and howl and rage and shout,     Making a row over your daily platter. To be aware of self is liberty. Self I have got and, having self, am free." ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Problem of Uniformity and Liberty

... whole race. If, on the other hand, the formal unification of the race is effectuated by a combination of free nations and empires and if these empires strive to become psychological realities and therefore free organisms, or if by that time the race has advanced so far that the principle of free national or cultural grouping within a unified mankind can be adopted, then the danger of retrogression will... and effect whose working cannot be avoided except by taking care to found all use of authority on the widest possible basis of free consent. But by their very nature and origin the Page 407 regimes of unification thus introduced would be debarred from the free employment of this corrective; for they would have to proceed by compulsion of what might be very largely a reluctant material and... diminish, perhaps even abolish all forms of liberty which their experience found to be used for fostering the spirit of revolt or of resistance; that is to say, all those larger liberties of free action and free self-expression which make up the best, the most vigorous, the most stimulating part of human freedom. They would be obliged to abolish, first by violence and then by legal suppression and ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  The Inhabiting Godhead: Life and Action

... Therefore each human being is in his essence one with all others, free, eternal, immutable, lord of Nature. TRANSITIONAL THOUGHT Avidya The object of habitation is enjoyment and possession; the object of the Spirit in Cosmos is, therefore, the possession and enjoyment of the universe. Yet, being thus in his essence one, divine and free, man seems to be limited, divided from others, subject to Nature... of subjection with its attendant discord and suffering. That which is free, one and lord, does not desire, but inalienably contains, possesses and enjoys. THE RULE OF THE DIVINE LIFE Enjoyment of the universe and all it contains is the object of world-existence, but renunciation of all in desire is the condition of the free enjoyment of all. The renunciation demanded is not a moral constraint... Having by oneness with the Lord the possibility of an infinite free delight in all things, we do not need to desire. Being one with all beings, we possess, in their enjoyment, in ours and in the cosmic Being's, delight of universal self-expression. It is only by this Ananda at once transcendent and universal that man can be free in his soul and yet live in the world with the full active Life of ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Brahmin

... insight), all bonds fall away and he possesses the Knowledge. One for whom neither the inner nor the outer exist, neither one nor the other, who is free from fear and bondage, him I consider to be a Brahmin. One who is given to meditation and is freed of impurities, who is without stain, who has fulfilled his duty, who has attained the highest goal, him I consider to be a Brahmin. By day the... consider to be a Brahmin. One who has put aside liking and disliking, who is indifferent, who is freed from all attachment and all fetters, who has conquered all the worlds, this hero I consider to be a Brahmin. He who possesses the perfect knowledge of the birth and death of all beings and who is freed from all ties, he is a Blessed One, an Awakened One, him I consider to be a Brahmin. He whose... consider to be a Brahmin. Page 293 He who is without resentment, who bears reproaches, blows and chains, whose patience is his true strength, him I consider to be a Brahmin. He who is free from anger, who is faithful to his faith, good and without craving, who has mastered himself and taken a body for the last time, him I consider to be a Brahmin. He who is no more attached to the ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Message  >  Sri Aurobindo's Message to Free India

... Sri Aurobindo's Message Sri Aurobindo's Message to Free India* August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India, it marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural and spiritual future... like impracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she... Another dream was for the resurgence and liberation of the peoples of Asia and her return to her great role in the progress of human civilisation. Asia has arisen; large parts are now quite free or are at this moment being liberated: its other still subject or partly subject parts are moving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to be done and that will be done today ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Morleyism Analysed

... our dependency with the rights of free speech and free meeting". Personal government, absolute government, despotism, that is the supreme necessity which must be continued for ever even at the sacrifice of morality, justice and every other consideration. Subject to that necessity Mr. Morley proposes to allow a certain amount of free speech if that be possible. Free speech was harmless so long as the... self-government, free speech means seditious speech, and sedition is not consistent with the continuance of the absolute and personal British control. How then can free speech Page 535 and British despotism be combined? How can fire and water occupy the same space? That is the problem, which Mr. Morley refuses to believe insoluble, and he solves it by proclaiming the areas where free speech has... India on the great issue of Indian self-government. What does Mr. Morley mean by British rule? Not the British connexion, not the continuance of India as a self-governing unit in a federation of free peoples which shall be called the British Empire. No, Mr. Morley is quite as hostile to the Moderate ideal of self-government on colonial lines, modified Swaraj, as to the Nationalist ideal of Swaraj ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Causality, Change and Time

... Cause or Determiner, transcendent, self-existent and free from any necessity. For if we do not postulate a Free Cause, it is argued, we are led to infinite regress resulting in failure to show the necessity of the event in question and thus proving the absurdity of the idea of Causality. But on the other hand, so the argument continues, if there is a Free Cause, there will be a beginning of the causal series... that the causal series does imply a Free Cause; but it may also be pointed out that if the existence of the Free Cause is taken to imply a temporal beginning of the causal series we have to declare that to be impossible. For since the idea of beginning is valid only in Time, the idea of the beginning of the temporal or causal series is unthinkable. But if the Free Cause is transcendental and therefore... merely the actualisation of essence in manifestation; but the perfection of the essence does not depend upon its manifestation; it is already there eternally and permanently. Manifestation is only a free exercise of the omnipotent power of realising in Time what is already and essentially is eternally and timelessly. It is then by the recognition of the omnipotent Power, one with and inherent in ...

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The Aim of Life  >  A Free Man's Worship

... insight of our best moments. In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow-men, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death. Let us learn, then, that energy of faith which enables us to live constantly in the vision of the good;... Russell A Free Man's Worship Introduction As mankind drew nearer the twentieth century, we find an atmosphere that called for total freedom of the mind and spirit. The age of religion seemed to be drawing to a close. Even the morality derived from religion seemed to be receding into the background. The achievements of modern science, that confirmed the validity of the methods of free inquiry... is great still. And such thought makes us free men; we no longer bow before the inevitable in Oriental subjection, but we absorb it, and Page 293 make it a part of ourselves. To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things — this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship. And this liberation is effected ...

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Principles and Goals of Integral Education  >  On Discipline

... the right way the principle of "Free Progress" cannot but be automatically disciplined. And what is pleasing is that this discipline will come from within himself, a happy and highly beneficial self-discipline, and not something imposed upon him from outside by an alien authority, be he a teacher, a parent or a guardian. This imposed discipline cannot but stunt the free growth of a child and hamper the... side-effects of the "Free Progress" System of education. However, all the students may not be at once up to the mark of the teachers' expectation. For them, here are some words, words of admonition and warning: It seems necessary to draw once again the attention of Page 115 the students to the capital role that discipline should play in our "Free Progress" system of... of education. One has the right to be 'free' or even the possibility of becoming truly 'free' only if one is perfectly disciplined. Without genuine discipline, even the slightest self-control becomes impossible and one becomes all the time a mean slave of one's impulses and fantasies. But with discipline, you students have here all the opportunity for becoming constantly progressive. Never ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Categories of Love

... the spiritual, founded on the sense of the one and the Divine everywhere and the change of the personal into a wide universal consciousness, free from attachment and ignorance. What is the nature of the Divine Love? Can you say that it is in its nature free from all lower bondage, vast, pure and luminous? Divine love is of two kinds — the Divine love for the creation and the souls that are... folly, ignorance, attachment, passion and desire? And although one should offer the best thing of it in one's aspiration and opening towards the Divine, is it not absolutely necessary in order to be free from all ties and bondage, not to allow this human love and relation to grow? Human love is mostly vital and physical with a mental support. It can take an unselfish, noble and pure form and expression... are part of itself and the love of the seeker and love for the Divine Beloved; it has both a personal and impersonal element, but the personal is free here from all lower elements or bondage to the vital and physical instincts. 5) As a definition can it be said that the personal sense is that which affects the little human egocentric 'I' and all the consequence of its self-will, habits and notions ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  18 January 1956

... saw India free... Page 30 No, I did not see: I knew. You said to Sri Aurobindo: "India is free." Was India free as one whole or cut into two as it is at present? I meant specially what happened in 1947, that is, the withdrawal of foreign domination, that's all. Nothing but that, not her moral or spiritual freedom, I did not speak of that at all. I simply said she was free from foreign... will be realised inevitably, one can't escape even if one tries. Only, it may take a very long time. Mother, I was asking... (laughter) You said that India was free in 1915, but was she free as she is free now? Because India is not free as one whole. She is broken up. Oh! Oh! that's what you wanted to know. That... the details were not there. No, there must have been a possibility of its being... surface. It corresponds exactly to what I have already told you so often about the freedom of India. After going to a certain plane, I said to Sri Aurobindo, "India is free." I didn't say, "She will be free"; I said, "She is free." Well, between that moment when it was an accomplished fact and the time when it was translated into the material world on earth, how many years were necessary? It was ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  Soul's Freedom

... to be a Divine destiny for earth, it must be because of its free choice. There must be no pressure or even solicitude from any agent outside itself to compel it or force it that way. It must be a glad and spontaneous impulse from within to follow the line of destiny it has itself chosen. As the original birth of Ignorance was a free choice of   Page 101 Ignorance... mortal is chosen whom the Divine has already chosen, but that is another matter. Here upon earth we, mortal souls, are free agents, we choose or we do not choose. In any case if one is to possess truly something one must acquire it by one's exertion and in one's complete liberty. A free gift or an imposition even of a precious object is always something foreign and unnatural to it. One must learn to... to love a thing in order to have it wholly for oneself, it must be made part and parcel of one's being. And true love can exist only in free choice. Latterly the Mother was saying whenever the question of the descent of supermind was raised that there was no descent any longer: for, the thing has descended and it is here, it is no more a question of descent, that is to say, something arriving ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Ideal Solution - A Free Grouping of Mankind

... principle we have advanced, the arrangement of the world in a system of free and natural and not as hitherto of partly free and partly forced groupings. For a psychological unity could only be assured by a free assent of nations now subject to their inclusion in the imperial aggregate and the power of free assent would imply a power of free dissent and separation. If owing to incompatibility of culture, ... subtler force all others, however restless they may be, must succumb; however much they may seek for free particularist expression and self-possession within a larger unity, they must needs subordinate themselves to the more powerful attraction. For this very reason the basic principle adopted must be a free grouping and not that of some abstract or practical rule or principle of historic tradition or... The Ideal of Human Unity The Ideal of Human Unity The Ideal of Human Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XVIII The Ideal Solution - A Free Grouping of Mankind These principles founded on the essential and constant tendencies of Nature in the development of human life ought clearly to be the governing ideas in any intelligent attempt at the unification ...

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Principles and Goals of Integral Education  >  Problems in Free Progress System

... Principles and Goals of Integral Education VI Problems in "Free Progress" System If we adopt the system of "Free Progress" in imparting education to the students in our school, some basic problems arise and confront the teachers and the organisers, and they demand satisfactory solutions. Here, for example, is one of them which was placed before... all-surrounding atmosphere charged with spiritual force, which has an effect even if it is not perceived or felt." (Ibid., p. 175) Now the puzzling question of a particular teacher who wrote: " 'Free Progress' education being essentially an education governed and guided by the soul of the individual, I am, as a teacher in our school, confronted with a serious personal problem of apparent contradiction... It is something to be lived much more than to be taught." (Ibid., p. 176) Page 64 One Specific Problem: The Problem of the Multitude If one adopts the "Free Progress" System in any Centre of Education, the organisers and those in charge of teaching are bound to encounter a serious problem, the problem of an inordinately large number. Normally, many, many ...

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On The Mother  >  Free Progress

... the paramountcy of Truth, by the innermost Law of things. The new thrust given to education at the Centre was the sovereign dynamic of Free Progress, Pupils were now free to choose what subjects they liked, cultivate intensely what areas they chose, and they were free also to take or not to take examinations even in the subjects of their choice. Although the different stages of education were to be graded... moving towards a new symphony of aspiration and achievement. III As regards the Free Progress system itself, it was far easier to misunderstand or misrepresent it than to grasp all its implications and possibilities and set them forth convincingly in merely logical categories. How exactly free was this Free Progress system? The discipline of freedom could be far more exacting than the rule of... secondary, and tertiary or collegiate - this was to be no steel-frame classification, for pupils would be free to take some subjects at one level and others at other levels. In the Higher Courses there were the traditional faculties (Arts, Science, Engineering, etc.), but again pupils were free to opt for courses from more than one faculty. The new atmosphere of almost unlimited freedom had as a rule ...

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Principles and Goals of Integral Education  >  Free Progress in Education

... V "Free Progress" in Education "Free Progress" is a key concept of immense import in the educational vision of the Mother. But what does she mean by this free progress of an individual student at SAICE? She was once specifically asked this question. One of her children asked her: "Mother, would you please define in a few words what you mean essentially by 'free progress'?" The... and persistent in one's effort. One of these steps is to grow Page 54 into a truly rational being who seeks after truth at any cost and whose reasoning intelligence is made really free and is no more under the subjugation of his physical and vital instincts, desires and passions. "Mano... prana-sarira-neta", "Mind should be the leader of the vital and the physical", and not the... writing which is worth quoting. Every teacher should ponder over the implications of what the Mother has said here if he would like to prepare his students to become fit candidates for making their free progress genuine and effective. This is what the Mother said concerning the proper bringing up of the children and young adults: "It is an invaluable possession for every living being to have ...

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The Mother Abides - Final Reflections  >  The Soul's Freedom

... Divine destiny for earth, it must be because of its free choice. There must be no pressure or even Page 14 solicitude from any agent outside itself to compel it or force it that way. It must be a glad and spontaneous impulse from within to follow the line of destiny it has itself chosen. As the original birth of Ignorance was a free choice of Ignorance, even so the return of Ignorance... mortal is chosen whom the Divine has already chosen, but that is another matter. Here upon earth we mortal souls are free agents, we choose or we do not choose. In any case if one is to possess something truly, one must acquire it by one's exertion and in complete liberty. A free gift or an imposition even of a precious object is always something foreign and unnatural to it. One must learn to... to love a thing in order to have it wholly for oneself; it must be made part and parcel of one's being. And true love can exist only in free choice. Latterly the Mother was saying, whenever the question of the descent of supermind was raised, that there was no question of descent any longer, for the thing has descended and it is here; it is no more a question of descent, that is to say, of something ...

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Early Cultural Writings  >  Message for National Education Week (1918)

... or in vision. We want not only a free India, but a great India, India taking worthily her place among the Nations and giving to the life of humanity what she alone can give. The greatest knowledge and the greatest riches man can possess are hers by inheritance; she has that for which all mankind is waiting. But she can only give it if her hands are free, her soul free, full and exalted, and her life... life dignified in all its parts. Home Rule, bringing with it the power of self-determination, can give the free hands, space for the soul to grow, strength for the life to raise itself again from darkness and narrow scope into light and nobility. But the full soul rich with the inheritance of the past, the widening gains of the present, and the large potentiality of her future, can come only by a system... for Home Rule. It should not Page 411 be difficult to secure its intellectual sanction or its voice for National Education, but much more than that is wanted. The support it gives must be free from all taint of lip-service, passivity and lethargic inaction, evil habits born of long political servitude and inertia, and of that which largely led to it, subjection of the life and soul to a blend ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Our False Friends

... famine in the land? Is it because we are free to think and act that the Partition of Bengal has been carried out in the teeth of an unanimous and protracted opposition? The disarming of a whole people is another incontrovertible evidence of their freedom. They are not allowed the use of arms because they are free. Their manhood is repressed because they are free. They are converted into so many harmless... evidence against them? Is it in consequence of this freedom that a highly respectable accused at Rawalpindi is taking his trial on Page 662 a sick-bed? Is it in the exercise of their rights as free citizens of the British Empire that Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh have been deported without even the mention of the charge against them? This freedom is perhaps responsible for the banishment of an ...

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Champaklal - The Artist and a Yogi  >  Graphic Designs

... about them and are far from being conventional patterns or mere decorative motifs. Below are some of his works.) (Ref: Champaklal as an artist. 1st Edition. P: 22 Free Hand Design Free-hand Design. A Free-hand Design. Done with colour felt-pen incorporating the letters M and A (Mother and Sri Aurobindo). (Ref: Champaklal as an artist. 1st Edition. P: 86) Sketch after ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 8  >  Spirits in Trees

... Spirits in Trees You told us the other day that there are spirits who remain bound to trees. How are they to get free ? Why should they get free? You told us how the spirits in the trees got freed when someone was kind to them and said prayers on their behalf. Yes, but that was in the story. It was a Christian legend and put in that way to... that is to say, the support of its life-power, to which the vital being of the dead man is drawn as its physical support and shelter. There is no question of forced imprisonment and a desire to be freed. Are they not harmful, these spirits? In what way? Usually they do not seem to be so. But we hear stories of people who are possessed by them and troubled and tortured. ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Spirits in Trees

... Spirits in Trees You told us the other day that there are spirits who remain bound to trees. How are they to get free? WHY should they get free? You told us how the spirits in the trees got freed when someone was kind to them and prayed on their behalf.. ... Yes, but that was in the story. It was a Christian legend and put in that way to illustrate... that is to say, the support of its life-power, to which the vital being of the dead man is drawn as its physical support and shelter. There is no question of forced imprisonment and a desire to be freed. Are they not harmful, these spirits? In what way? Usually they do not seem to be so. Page 28 But we hear stories of people who are possessed by them and troubled and tortured ...

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Record of Yoga  >  Undated Script, c. 1927

... open and submissive. The identity is not yet there because the strength and knowledge are not sufficiently full and they are not full because the supermind is not yet free. It will be free soon. All is ready. It will be free from today. [3] More and more the opposition is furious, more and more the higher power insists. The opposition is effective in bringing three Page 1354 ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - Sparks from the Rigveda's Hymns to Agni

... art thou, Fire, priest of our offering, free  Wideness within us, lavish the sky glow! As a wheel's nave contains the spokes, so thou  Containest all the golden gods in thee!   Priest-souls, to win that laughing Sea of Sight,  By their vast ranging have uncovered all The hidden rivers voiceful with the Light.   Inmost felicity free of every form  Leaps forth fire-tongued... the keepers of the blinded word, Thy comrades once, now muttering crookedness?  The heart of sacrifice, the head that bows Gain the King-Bull in whom all life is stored— Wide fear-free pasture of the shining cows— That honeyed World, Richness still left, the unplumbed Excess!   No whirler of a brute and stupid Ring, A senseless Law whose cycles fruitless roll, ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  The Fifteenth of August 1947

... or how far or how soon this connection will be fulfilled, depends upon this new and free India. Page 477 [Short Version] [2] August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political... looked like impracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would... submitted was found to be too long for the allotted time-slot. Sri Aurobindo revised it, and the shorter version ( pages 478-80 ) was broadcast on 14 August 1947. August 15th is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But it has a significance not only for us, but for Asia and the whole world; for it signifies the entry into the comity of ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Karma and Freedom

... there arises the idea of a free and infinite Will, a Will of illimitable potentiality which determines all these innumerable marvels of its own universal becoming or creation in Space and Time. That means the absolute freedom of a Spirit and Power which is not determined by Karma, but Page 344 determines Karma. Apparent Necessity is the child of the spirit's free self-determination. What... natural condition. This law would be in phenomenon or as seen in a superficial view of its sole outward machinery an apparent chain of necessity, but in fact it would be a free self-determination of the Spirit in existence. The free self and spirit would be there informing all the action of material energy, secretly conscient in its inconscience; his would be the movement of life and its inner spirit... necessity and to move under a leaden constraint and compulsion. This is the aspect of the unthinking world of Force and Matter in which we live; and even in ourselves, in man the thinker, how little is free from some kind of present constraint and of compelling previous necessity! So much of what we are and do Page 339 is determined by our environment, so much has been shaped by our education ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 5  >  AT THE ORIGIN OF IGNORANCE

... : the momentum of the free movement carried the individual formation beyond the range of its sense of unity and identity with all and the One. More and more it isolated itself, limiting itself to its own orbit and to its own fund of energy. This isolation, it must be noted, occurs at the origin without any sense of perversity or revolt or disobedience on the part of the free entity, as the legend ... however implies Page 1 freedom of movement in the Unique. In other words the very character of variability is the absolute freedom of the variables; the play consists precisely in the free choice and self-determination of the partners, the differentiated units. For a formation in the Divine Consciousness, an individualised formulation of its being must necessarily have the Divine's own... its urge crosses, as it were, a borderline, passes from the safe zone within the Divine's own status into a different zone, creates it, as a matter of fact, by that overzealous and self-concentrated free movement. But, as I have said, there is no premeditation or arri è re pens é e or "bad will" or spirit of contradiction there at the origin of the deviation. It is no original sin: it is a spontaneous ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  Sartrian Freedom

... ignore the fact that the free being is not an isolated phenomenon in the world; it exists along with and in the company of others of the same nature and quality. Indeed human society is that in essence, an association of freedoms, although these movements of freedom are camouflaged in appearance and are not recognised by the free persons themselves. The interaction between the free persons, the reflection... being then consist of a conglomeration (ensemble) of such freedoms. And that is the whole reality of I man, his very essence. We have said that a heavy sense of responsibility hangs upon the .free Purusha: but it appears the Sartrian Purusha is a divided personality. In spite of the sense of responsibility (or because of it?) he acts irresponsibly; for, acting otherwise would not be freedom. ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  At the Origin of Ignorance

... momentum of the free movement carried the individual formation beyond the range of its sense of unity and identity with all and the One. More and more it isolated itself, limiting itself to its own orbit and to its own fund of energy. This isolation, it must be noted, occurs at the origin without any Page 169 sense of perversity or revolt or disobedience on the part of the free entity,... unity. Multiplicity, however, implies freedom of movement in the Unique. In other words, the very character of variability is the absolute freedom of the variables; the play consists precisely in the free choice and self-determination of the partners, the differentiated units. For a formation in the Divine Consciousness, an indi­vidualised formulation of its being must necessarily have the Divine's own... its urge crosses, as it were, a borderline, passes from the safe zone within the Divine's own status into a different zone, creates it, as a matter of fact, by that overzealous and self-concentrated free movement. But, as I have said, there is no premeditation or arrière pensée or "bad will" or spirit of contradiction there at the origin of the deviation. It is no origi­nal sin: it is a spontaneous ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  Panacea of Isms

... pure forms and for their own sake are things man holds dear to his heart. Without them life loses its charm and significance. Mind and sensibility must be free to roam, not turned and tied to the exclusive needs and interests of physical life, free, that is to say, to discover and create norms and ideals and truths that are values in themselves and also lend values to the matter-of-fact terrestrial life... economic – and claim and vindicate them. Nor is it sufficient for men to r become merely useful or indispensable– although happy and I contented –members of a collective body. The individual must be free, free in his creative joy to bring out and formulate, in thought, in speech, in action, in all the modes of expression, the truth, the beauty, the good he experiences within. An all­-round culture, a ... successful. As a matter of fact, Communism is best taken as a symptom of the disease society suffers from and not as a remedy. The disease is a twofold bondage from which man has always been trying to free himself. It is fundamentally the same "bondage which the great French Revolution sought most vigorously and violently to shake off – an economic and an ideological bondage, that is to say, translated ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  23 JANUARY 1939

... own movement. Real liberation comes when the Purusha awakes and feels itself free and lord. NIRODBARAN: But generally the Purusha is bound. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, usually the Purusha consents to Prakriti. But it can refuse consent and stand apart. It can be free only by getting out of the evolution—that is, by being free from the working of the ego and nature-personality. The Cosmic Spirit is... vital and other personalities. NIRODBARAN: If one could act without responsibility one would be free. SRI AUROBINDO: It is not easy. You can try and see. You may say you are not responsible but internally you will feel that you are. In order to be free from this responsibility you must become free first in consciousness. There are three ways of attaining that freedom: first, by separating the... the Purusha from Prakriti and realising its freedom from it; second, by realising the Self, Atman or Spirit free from the universe, the cosmic nature; third, by identifying with the Transcendent above—realising the Paramatman. You can also have freedom by merging with the Shunyam, the Void, of the Buddhists. SATYENDRA: In the second and third ways, does the Purusha remain the witness? SRI AUROBINDO: ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1970  >  June 3, 1970

... But that's already very advanced. At the beginning, you said that Aurovilians have come "to escape moral conventions, etc., but not to give free rein to licentiousness...." Yes, that's right ( Mother writes ): 2) One lives in Auroville to be free from moral and social conventions; but that freedom must not be a new slavery to the ego, its desires and ambitions. Is that all? It's enough... It'll become something interesting! That's the basis. Then there's the third paragraph. You said, "The Aurovilian must free himself from the idea of personal possession." But it's not the "idea," it's the "sense"! ( Mother writes ) 3) The Aurovilian must free himself from the sense of personal possession. For our transition in the material world, what is indispensable to our life and... ...racial, hereditary appearances. But then, we should tell them that there IS a discovery to be made, because many don't know it at all! ( Mother laughs ) In the center, there is a free being, vast and knowing, which awaits our discovery and must become the acting center of our being and our life in Auroville. Page 224 Then, after that, shall we put this ( Mother points ...

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The Sunlit Path  >  Virtue, Purity, Freedom

... is what's remarkable: that when one is perfectly surrendered to the Divine one is perfectly free, and this is the absolute condition for freedom, to belong to the Divine alone; you are free from the whole world because you belong only to Him. And this surrender is the supreme liberation, you are also free from your little personal ego and of all things this is the most difficult—and the happiest... the open under the pretence of liberation from ordinary conventions and ordinary reason. One can be free only by soaring to the heights, high above human passions. Only when one has achieved a higher, selfless freedom and done away with all desires and impulses does one have the right to be free. But neither should people who are very reasonable, very moral according to ordinary social laws,... number of qualities that are considered pure and worthy of existence. In some people... this virtue becomes dry, arid, grey, aggressive and it finds fault everywhere, in everything that is joyful and free and happy. The only way to make life perfect—I mean here, life on earth, of course—is to look at it from high enough to see it as a whole, not only in its present totality, but in the whole of the ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  15th September 1940

... to the apparent ego in nature – though free. 2. or, he may open equally to Cosmic forces and acts as Bala, Jada, Pishacha or Unmatta.* 3. or, he may be one with the Divine and act and would be free not to act. In case he acts, he is the individual centre of the Cosmic for Divine action. He is one with the Divine yet remains a different self – yet free. Cosmic forces would be available to him ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  15 June 1955

... coconut which moves in the shell, which is free inside, no longer attached to the envelope and moving freely within. That's what I have heard; it is the image for there being no attachment any more. You have seen this, when a coconut becomes completely dry, the nut inside is no longer fixed to the shell; and so when you move it, it moves inside; it is completely free, it is absolutely independent of the... the ordinary being and ordinary life, the Purusha is subjected to Prakriti, to the external Nature, he is her slave. So Sri Aurobindo says that it is not enough to free oneself from this slavery. He begins that way: it is not enough to free oneself from the slavery; he must keep his allegiance, but instead of obeying Prakriti, he must obey the Divine Mother; that is, instead of obeying something which... transfer his allegiance from this to that. Do you understand? No? Ah, it is probably someone who wrote to him saying that he wanted his Purusha to be completely free from allegiance to Prakriti. So he answered: No, that's not enough; if you free it, it is only half the work; your allegiance must be there, but instead of being related to Prakriti, it must exist for the Divine Mother. And then later he ...

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The Story of a Soul  >  15 August 1955

... looked like impracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. ... the old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now to have hardened... This was destined. Here is the striking message given by Sri Aurobindo on August 15, 1947: August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural and spiritual future of humanity... future. Another dream was for the resurgence and liberation of the peoples of Asia and her return to her great role in the progress of human civilisation. Asia has arisen; large parts are now quite free or are at this moment being liberated: its other still subject or partly subject parts are moving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to be done and that will be done today ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Adept

... Answers (1929-1931) The Adept No sorrow exists for one who has completed his journey, who has let fall all cares, who is free in all his parts, who has cast off all bonds. Those who are heedful strive always and, like swans leaving their lakes, leave one home after another. Those who amass nothing, who eat moderately... liberation, his path is as difficult to trace as that of a bird in the air. Even the Gods esteem one whose senses are controlled as horses by the charioteer, one who is purged of all pride and freed from all corruption. One who fulfils his duty is as immovable as the earth itself. He is as firm as a celestial pillar, pure as an unmuddied lake; and for him the cycle of births is completed.... Whether village or forest, plain or mountain, wherever the adepts may dwell, that place is always delightful. Delightful are the forests which are shunned by the multitude. There, the adept, who is free from passion, will find happiness, for he seeks not after pleasure. There is a very interesting sentence here: "He who is not credulous but has the sense of the Uncreated...." One who is not ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  Of the World

... the world like the moon that is freed from the clouds.   Page 220 [7]   He who has had his wrong acts effaced by right acts shines over the world like the moon when freed from the clouds.   [8]   This world is made out of darkness. Very few can see ahead. Very few can move towards the Heaven, like eagles freed from nets.   [9] ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Peril of the World-State

... speech—the two necessarily go together, since there can be no real freedom of thought where a padlock is put upon freedom of speech—is not indeed complete without freedom of association; for free speech means free propagandism and propagandism only becomes effective by association for the realisation of its objects. This third liberty also exists with more or less of qualifying limitations or prudent... anarchism which is now the creed of a small minority but still a growing force in many European countries. It would declare the free development of the individual as its gospel and denounce government as an evil and no longer at all a necessary evil. It would affirm the full and free religious, ethical, intellectual and temperamental growth of the individual from within as the true ideal of human life and... renunciation of this ideal, a renunciation which it would describe as the loss of his soul. It would preach as the ideal of society a free association or brotherhood of individuals without government or any kind of compulsion. What would the World-State do with this kind of free thought? It might tolerate it so long as it did not translate itself into individual and associated action; but the moment it ...

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Towards A New Society  >  Panacea Of ''ISMS''

... pure forms and for their own sake are things man holds dear to his heart. Without them life loses its charm and significance. Mind and sensibility must be free to roam, not turned and tied to the exclusive needs and interests of physical life, free, that is to say, to discover and create norms and ideals and truths that are values in themselves and also lend values to the matter-of-fact terrestrial life... political, economic—and claim and vindicate them. Nor is it sufficient for men to become merely useful or indispensable—although happy and contented-members of a collective body. The individual must be free, free in his creative joy to bring out and formulate, in thought, in speech, in action, in all the modes of expression, the truth, the beauty, the good he experiences within. An all-round culture, a w... As a matter of fact, Communism is best taken as a symptom of the disease society suffers from and not as a remedy. The disease is a twofold bondage from which man has always been trying to free himself. It is fundamentally the same bondage which the great French Revolution sought most vigorously and violently to shake off—an economic and an ideological bondage, that is to say, Page 123 ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  14th December 1939

... contention of Kant's opponent is that every body follows reason. So, everybody should be considered free. Everyone justifies his action – even the thief supports his stealing by some reasoning. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, it is very practical reasoning ( laughter) . Disciple : And he is free, because he acts freely. Sri Aurobindo : How? Disciple : Because he decides freely... : It is a reason that is bound. There is another reason which is detached, and, according to Gita, the Page 236 man will not be free when he reasons about stealing but if he can steal with disinterestedness then he is free. Disciple : To the western mind killing with detachment is difficult to grasp. Sri Aurobindo : All these European philosophers after... Blake who had some idea of identity confuses ego with self. Disciple : A says, Gita's idea of freedom demands freedom from nature – Prakriti. Therefore, so long as man follows Buddhi he is not free. Page 234 Sri Aurobindo : Does the Gita say that? Disciple : In the verse where it is said Satwa binds by happiness and knowledge. Sri Aurobindo : That ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  True Humility - Supramental Plasticity - Spiritual Rebirth

... errors and follies which, still vivid in our recollection, cling to us like leeches sucking our life-blood, drop away, leaving us most joyfully free. This freedom is not a mere matter of thought; it is the most solid, practical, material fact. We really are free, nothing binds us, nothing affects us, there is no obsession of responsibility. If we want to counteract, annul or outgrow our past, we cannot... past. For spiritual rebirth means the constant throwing away of our previous associations and circumstances and proceeding to live as if at each virgin moment we were starting life anew. It is to be free of what is called Karma, the stream of our past actions: in other words, a liberation from the bondage of Nature's common activity of cause and effect. When this cutting away of the past is triumphantly... state of consciousness which breaks loose from all moorings. To be reborn means to enter, first of all, into our psychic consciousness where we are one Page 176 with the Divine and eternally free from the reactions of Karma. Without becoming aware of the psychic, it is not possible to do so; but once we are securely conscious of the true soul in us which is always surrendered to the Divine, ...

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The Signature Of Truth  >  TRUE HUMILITY

... errors and follies which, still vivid in our recollection, cling to us like leeches sucking our life-blood, drop away, leaving us most joyfully free. This freedom is not a mere matter of thought; it is the most solid, practical, material fact. We really are free, Page 59 nothing binds us, nothing affects us, there is no obsession of responsibility. If we want to counteract, annul or outgrow... For spiritual rebirth means the constant throwing away of our previous associations and circumstances and proceedings to live as if at each virgin moment we were starting life anew. It is to be free of what is called Karma, the stream of our past actions: in other words, a liberation from the bondage of Nature's common activity of cause and effect. When this cutting away of the past is triumphantly... into an enlightened state of consciousness which breaks loose from all moorings. To be reborn means to enter, first of all, into our psychic consciousness where we are one with the Divine and eternally free from the reactions of Karma. Without becoming aware of the psychic, it is nor possible to do so; but once we are securely conscious of the true soul in us which is always surrendered rorhe Divine, all ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Works and Sacrifice

... it seems to me that the Gita's teaching is not so crude and simple, not so local and temporal and narrow as all that. It is large, free, subtle and profound; it is for all time and for all men, not for a particular age and country. Especially, it is always breaking free from external forms, details, dogmatic notions and going back to principles and the great facts of our nature and our being. It is... but live according to our pleasure or our intellectual notions or else break free from the social law to live the life of the solitary or the ascetic. We cannot become impersonal by obeying something outside ourselves, for we cannot so get outside ourselves; we can only do it by rising to the highest in ourselves, into our free Soul and Self which is the same and one in all and has therefore no personal... works, is no doubt that to which the soul, the Purusha has to attain; for it is Prakriti which does the work and the soul has to rise above involution in the activities of the being and attain to a free serenity and poise watching over the operations of Prakriti, but not affected by them. That, and not cessation of the works of Prakriti, is what is really meant by the soul's naiṣkarmya . Therefore ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  Undated 1956

... certain dangers. Finally, I went within myself, into the calm, and it seemed to me that I would do well to go away for a while. I had thought I could free myself from this conflict by writing a book. But in fact, it is not the mind that needs to be freed, or at least not only that, it is the vital that needs to WEAR ITSELF OUT. I believe I have a clear mental perception of the goal to be attained... mental maturity is coming into conflict with a vital that is too 'young' and has not yet worn itself out enough on the open road. Here, this vital force has become even more concentrated and is unable to free itself. It is undoubtedly a question of time, of aging. Thus all my energy, especially during the past year, has been spent 'negatively,' as it were—in an effort not to leave. This struggle seems to ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Chapter I: God and Nature

... evolution of consciousness. It is at least possible that an entirely free consciousness bringing with it a spontaneous instead of a derived knowledge & an entirely free mastery instead of a partially free manipulation of mind, life & matter is concealed in Nature & its unveiling is the final goal of her evolution. If such a free consciousness exists, there must be a principle in Nature superior to... will or to pull down what he has built up when it ceases to please him or be serviceable to his needs, so the Spirit is free to enter or go forth from Its bodies and has power to build and destroy and rebuild whatsoever It pleases in this universe. The very universe itself It is free to destroy and recreate. God is not bound; He is the entire master of His creations. The word Ishá, starting forward... 430 its gospel of a divine life for humanity, that the soul in man also is master, not really a slave, not bound, not a prisoner, but free—not bound to grief and death and limitation, but the master, the user of grief and death and limitation and free to pass on from them to other and more perfect instruments. If then we seem to be bound, as undoubtedly we do seem, by a fixed nature of our minds ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Liberation of the Spirit

... partake. This tapas is the will of the transcendent spirit who creates the universal movement, of the universal spirit who supports and informs it, of the free individual spirit who is the soul centre of its multiplicities. It is one will, free in all these Page 675 at once, comprehensive, harmonious, unified; we find it, when we live and act in the spirit, to be an effortless and desireless... mutable and stumbling way and standard of capacity in action. Only when it returns again to the large unity of the free spirit, bhūmā , can the action of its nature move perfectly as the instrument of the infinite Spirit and in the steps of the Right and Truth and Power which belong to the free soul acting from the supreme centre of its existence. Again, because it is limited in the delight of being, it... Gita; they are four, desire, ego, the dualities and the three gunas of Nature; for to be desireless, ego-less, equal of mind and soul and spirit and nistraiguṇya , is in the idea of the Gita to be free, mukta . We may accept this description; for everything essential is covered by its amplitude. On the other hand, the positive sense of freedom is to be universal in soul, transcendently one in spirit ...

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Towards A New Social Order  >  Reaction to the Supremacy of the State and to Totalitarianism

... the free reasoned will of the majority in agreement. Any true development of that kind would be difficult indeed and has the appearance of a chimera: for collectivism pretends to regulate life not only in its few fundamental principles and its main lines, as every organised society must tend to do, but in its details, it aims at a thoroughgoing scientific regulation, and an agreement of the free reasoned... finds this power in a natural human sympathy which, if it is given free play under the right conditions, can be relied upon to ensure natural co-operation: the appeal is to what the American poet calls the love of comrades, to the principle of fraternity, the third and most neglected term of the famous revolutionary formula. A free equality founded upon spontaneous co-operation, not on governmental... anarchistic ideal." Co-operative Communism or Communalism "This would seem to lead us either towards a free cooperative communism, a unified life where the labour and property of all is there for the benefit of all, or else to what may better he called communalism, the free consent of the individual to live in a society where the just freedom of his individuality will be recognised, but ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  Na Kinchidapi Chintayet

... must be free from the obsessions of the body if love and high aspiration are to increase, the reason must be free from the heart and the lower mind if it is to reflect perfectly,—for the heart can inspire, it cannot think, it is a vehicle of direct knowledge coloured by emotion, not of ratiocination. By [a] similar process if there is anything higher than the reason it can only be set free to work... higher mind has shaken off these fetters, it is not free; it works in chains, it sees in blinkers. This is as true of the materialist refusing to consider spiritualism and occultism as it is of the religionist refusing to consider Science. Freedom is the first requisite of full working power, the freedom of the higher from the lower. The mind must be free from the body if it is to be purified from the grossness... mass of previous sanskaras , the reflective mind which is ordinarily called the reason is obstructed in its work and comes to false conclusions. It is essential for the faculties of the reason to be freed as far as may be from this ever increasing accumulation of thought-sensations good and bad, false and true which we call mind—manas. It is this freedom which is called the scientific spirit. To form ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Nationalism, Not Extremism

... at last found the right conditions for success. They believe that the fated hour for Indian unification and freedom has arrived. In brief they are convinced that India should strive to be free, that she can be free and that she will, by the impulse of her past and present, be inevitably driven to the attempt and the attainment of national self-realisation. The Nationalist creed is a gospel of faith... is not born of a disappointed expectation of admission to British citizenship, Page 354 it is born of a conviction that the time has come when India can, should and will become a great, free and united nation. It is not a negative current of destruction, but a positive, constructive impulse towards the making of modern India. It is not a cry of revolt and despair, but a gospel of national... Empire; any attempt at freedom will, they think, be a revolt against Providence and can bring nothing but disaster on the country. The Loyalist view is that India cannot, should not and will not be a free, great and united nation. The Moderates believe the nation to be too weak and disunited to aim at freedom; they would welcome independence if it came, but they are not convinced that we have or shall ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1964  >  September 16, 1964

... live normally, to be free. Mon petit, that's why we started the Ashram! That was the idea. Because when I was in France, I was always asking myself, "How can people have the time to find themselves? How can they even have the time to understand the way to free themselves?" So I thought: a place where material needs are sufficiently satisfied, so that if you truly want to free yourself, you can do... garb of the world; to its presence even Narada was blinded. 107—Hard is it to be in the world, free, yet living the life of ordinary men; but because it is hard, therefore it must be attempted and accomplished. It seems so obvious! It's obvious, but difficult too. You see, to be free from all attachments doesn't mean to run away from opportunities for attachment. All those people... only run away, but warn others that they shouldn't try! You see, to be free from all attachments doesn't mean to run away from opportunities for attachment. All those people who assert their asceticism not only run away, but warn others that they shouldn't try! All that eliminates and diminishes or lessens doesn't free. Freedom must be experienced in the totality of life and sensations. In ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The Reformer on Moderation

... But if a healthy social development be aimed at, it is more likely to occur in a free India when the national needs will bring about a natural evolution. Society is not an artificial manufacture to be moulded and remodelled at will, but a growth. If it is to be healthy and strong it must have healthy surroundings and a free atmosphere. Page 371 ... join is to confuse issues hopelessly. It is not true that by removing the defects of our social structure we shall automatically become a nation and fit for freedom. If it were so, Burma would be a free nation at present. Nor can we believe that the present system is favourable to social reconstruction or that self-government would be fatal to it. The reverse is the case. Of course, if social reform ...

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My Pilgrimage to the Spirit  >  November 21, 1933

... the spiritual possibilities including that of Moksha. Q. (4) Can anybody pass beyond the barrier of the gunas and ego? A. It is the double surrender that makes one free from the gunas. If only the higher self is free from the gunas and other parts remain their subject, then there is not the full liberation. Q. (5) Surrender to the Divine and surrender to the Guru are said to be two... parts of the being subject to gunas and ego to a certain extent? A. Yes—because the static parts would be formless, the active nature would be still in the play of the gunas. Many think they are free from ego because they get the sense of the formless existence. They do not see that the egoistic elements remain in their action just as before. Q. (7) What makes the surrender to the Guru so grand ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  Go through

... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10 XIII Go through It is said one must be free from human love if one is to enjoy Divine Love. But to be free is usually taken to mean to reject, to reject naturally by force, that is to say, to coerce, to repress and suppress. "But who can coerce a force of Nature?" the Gita asks. Indeed a force of Nature like human... slave of it more and more; you get all the more entangled and can never hope to be free. You stand and face in order to seize the truth, the reality of the thing you have to deal with. You have to purify it and clean it in order to remove the dust that covers the gold. If it is human love, to purify means to free it from selfishness, from egoistic desire, the sense of possession. Instead, you love ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Go Through

... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 Go Through IT is said one must be free from human love if one is to enjoy Divine Love. But to be free is usually taken to mean to reject, to reject naturally by force, that is to say, to coerce, to repress and suppress. "But who can coerce a force of Nature?" the Gita asks. Indeed a force of Nature like... a slave of it more and more; you get all the more entangled and can never hope to be free. You stand and face in order to seize the truth, the reality of the thing you have to deal with. You have to purify it and clean it in order to remove the dust that covers the gold. If it is human love, to purify means to free it from selfishness, from egoistic desire, the sense of possession. Instead, you love ...

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Hitler and his God  >  A New Man

... an integral element of the gospel Hitler had come to preach among the Aryans. “We will free ourselves from all humane and scientific prejudices. Therefore I will have propagated, in the schools for Junkers which I will found and where all future members of our master state will be educated, the gospel of the free man – of the man who is master of life and death, of fear and superstition, and who has... lights up in me: this is the new man.” 810 Jünger was personally admired and his writings were widely read. Especially his war reminiscences In Stahlgewittern (in storms of steel), the bible of the Free Corps, was a very popular book, read by those who had been battered in such storms and by those who regretted having been too young to be there. When Hitler exclaims that the new man exists, he describes... has learned to control his body, muscles and nerves … yet who also stands above the temptations of the mind and of a so-called free science.” 812 Hitler’s new man would live according to and in harmony with his instincts; he would be a natural, “spontaneous” being. “One must feel diffident about one’s mind and conscience, and confident about one’s instincts. We must regain a new naivety … Providence ...

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Letters on Yoga - III  >  The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness

... consciousness, then one can be free, yet one with all things. To have the cosmic consciousness without the liberation etc. is possible, but then there is no freedom anywhere in the being from the lower nature and one may become in one's extended consciousness the playground of all kinds of forces without being able to be either free and detached from the Prakriti or free and master. On the other... Vrindavan, the Dwaita liberation. Or it may, even being liberated, remain in the Lila or manifestation or descend into it as often as it likes. The Divine is not bound by human philosophies—it is free in its play and free in its essence. One has to get above the cosmic consciousness of the mind, life and matter by entering into the spiritual levels above the ordinary mind, into the higher consciousness... Chapter I The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness The Terms "Universal" and "Cosmic" There is no difference between the terms "universal" and "cosmic" except that "universal" can be used in a freer way than "cosmic". Universal may mean "of the universe", cosmic in that general sense. But it may also mean "common to all",—e.g., "This is a universal weakness"—but you cannot say, "This is a cosmic ...

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Mystery and Excellence of the Human Body  >  Insights from Indian Wisdom

... Mystery and Excellence of the Human Body Insights from Indian Wisdom May all be Happy. May all be free from diseases. May all experience the Bliss. Let none partake of any suffering. *** The mind, the soul and the body — the three constitute the three poles (supporting the human structure). It is their combination that maintains the living... considered to be healthy whose dosas, power of digestion, and functioning of dhatus and malas are in a state of equilibrium and whose soul, Page 182 mind and senses as well as organs are free from morbidities. Sushrutasamhita *** Good health is the very root of all the Purusharthas (motives of effort): dharma (righteousness), artha (wealth), kama (desire for enjoyment)... emotional regard for (the well being of) patients, and purity (cleanliness). Charakasamhita *** Page 184 A person attending upon (surgical) patients should have a sense of love free from scornful disposition towards patients; the requisite strength and expertise in alleviating the ailments; should have regard for the instructions of physician; should have an untiring zeal to serve ...

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Karmayogin  >  Facts and Opinions

... capacities. We freely admit that no nation can be fit for liberty unless it is free, none can be wholly capable of self-government until it governs itself. We freely admit that if we were given self-government we should commit mistakes which we would have to rectify, as has been done even by nations which were old in the exercise of free and self-governing functions. We freely admit that the liberated nation... prejudice but still more from inexperience of political life and the unexamined acceptance of Page 227 Anglo-Indian sophistries. But in the mouths of Englishmen this kind of language cannot be free from the charge of hypocrisy. They know well of the much worse things that are done in political life in the West and accepted as an inevitable feature of party excitement. The rough horseplay of public... Surendranath Banerji was refused a hearing and on the next day when Mr. Tilak was threatened on the platform by the sticks and chairs of Surat loyalists and the Mahratta delegates charged and after a free fight cleared the platform. The refusal to hear a speaker by dint of continuous clamour, hisses and outcries is of such frequent occurrence in England that it would indeed be a strange argument which ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Freedom of Speech

... questions in Parliament about the change of the existing law and Mr. Morley's answers seem to point to a coming repressive measure intended to suppress the small amount of free speech still existing in India. The rights of free speech and free meeting were once reckoned among the priceless blessings which British rule had brought to India. Nowadays one can with difficulty put oneself back into the frame of... dependence and pampered slavery, and the right of public meeting and freedom of the Press only served to complete this demoralisation, while at the same time cheating us into the belief that we were free. The ancient Romans had a class of slaves born in the family and pampered in their childhood by their masters who were called vernae and enjoyed a peculiar position of mingled licence and subjection... their speakers and writers decided to be no longer masks but men, to speak and write the truth that was in their minds, the feeling that was in their hearts without disguise, without equivocation, as free men vindicating their freedom,—a freedom not bestowed but inborn. The poison passed out of the national system and the blood began to circulate freely in our veins. Once more we stood up as men and ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Equality

... of the world can only come about by a poising of combined unequal weights. Hence the immense importance attached by the Gita in its elements of Karmayoga to equality; it is the nodus of the free spirit's free relations with the world. Self-knowledge, desirelessness, impersonality, bliss, freedom from the modes of Nature, when withdrawn into themselves, self-absorbed, inactive, have no need of equality;... it is only in this way that it can manifest its free spirituality. Traiguṇātītya , transcendence of the gunas, is the unperturbed spirit's superiority to that flux of action of the modes of Nature which is in its constant character perturbed and unequal; if it has to enter into relations with the conflicting and unequal activities of Nature, if the free soul is to allow its nature any action at all... but with senses subject to the self, freed from liking and disliking, that one gets into a large and sweet clearness of soul and temperament in which passion and grief find no place. All desires have to enter into the soul, as waters into the sea, and yet it has to remain immovable, filled but not disturbed: so in the end all desires can be abandoned. To be freed from wrath and passion and fear and ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2  >  The Democracy of Tomorrow

... Reformation characteristically sought to make room for individual judgement and free choice in a field where authority -the collective authority of the Church -was all in all and the individual was almost a nonentity. Page 273 In India the spiritual life, it is true, was more or less the individual's free venture to the unknown. The Buddha said, Be thy own light; and the Gita too said... mantra of individual liberty, in the social and political domain, was given by Rousseau in that famous opening line of his famous book, The Social Contract, almost the Bible of an age; Man is born free. And the first considerable mass rising seeking to vindicate and realise that ideal came with the toxin of the mighty French Revolution. I t was really an awakening or rebirth of the individual that... romanticism in art. The century that followed was a period of great experiment: for the central theme of that experiment was the search for the individual. In honouring the individual and giving it full and free scope the movement went far and even too far: liberty threatened to lead towards licence, democracy towards anarchy and disintegration; the final consequence of romanticism was surrealism, the deification ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Nature's Law in Our Progress - Unity in Diversity, Law and Liberty

... encroaching on the free development of their fellows. If a real, a spiritual and psychological unity were effectuated, liberty would have no perils and disadvantages; for free individuals enamoured of unity would be compelled by themselves, by their own need, to accommodate perfectly their own growth with the growth of their fellows and would not feel themselves complete except in the free growth of others... y does this very thing, lives according to Nature within the limits of its type and is free from internal conflict though not from conflict with other life. A superhuman life would reach consciously this perfection, make the secret Knowledge and Will in things its own and fulfil itself through Nature by her free, spontaneous and harmonious movement unhasting, unresting, towards that full development... governed by such a principle of free and harmonious mutuality. Page 422 There is a struggle, an opposition of ideas, impulses and interests, an attempt of each to profit by various kinds of war on the others, by a kind of intellectual, vital, physical robbery and theft or even by the suppression, devouring, digestion of its fellows rather than by a free and rich interchange. This is the ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Nationalism and Internationalism

... perfect his individuality by free development from within, but to respect and to aid and be aided by the same free development in others. His law is to harmonise his life with the life of the social aggregate and to pour himself out as a force for growth and perfection on humanity. The law for the community or nation is equally to perfect its corporate existence by a free development form within, aiding... insuperable obstacles had at last found the right condition for the success. They believed that the hour for national unification and freedom had arrived and India should strive to be free and that India could be free and that she would, by the impulse of her past and present, be inevitably driven to the attempt and the attainment of national self-realisation. Page 93 There was at the... the future of nations as entities seeking and finding their inner souls by virtue of which they will remain free but mutually interdependent, and this, in turn, will provide the form of world unity that is supportive and not destructive of the nations. Sri Aurobindo speaks of a world union of free nations, each having status of equality, and all contributing through their distinctive capacities to the ...

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My Pilgrimage to the Spirit  >  February 20, 1932

... right side and your standing on the left side in my experiences? A. Yes, she is the executive power and must have the right arm free for action. The symbolism which puts her on the left side belongs to the ignorance. In the ignorance she is in the left side, not free in her action—all is a wrong action or half result.... Sri Aurobindo ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Birth and Non-Birth

... Immortality. This Immortality is gained by the dissolution of the limited ego and its chain of births into the consciousness of the unborn and undying, the Eternal, the Lord, the ever-free. But it is enjoyed by a free and divine becoming in the universe and not outside the universe; for there it is always possessed, but here in the material body it is to be worked out and enjoyed by the divine Inhabitant... both Birth and NonBirth. The realisation of the Self as the unborn and the poise of the soul beyond the dualities of birth and death in the infinite and transcendent existence are the conditions of a free and divine life in the Becoming. The one is necessary to the other. It is by participation in the pure unity of the Immobile (Akshara) Brahman that the soul is released from its absorption in the stream... liberated from all limitation in the dualities. Having attained this liberation it accepts becoming Page 62 as a process of Nature subject to the soul and not binding upon it and by this free and divine becoming enjoys Immortality. THE JUSTIFICATION OF LIFE Thus, the third movement of the Upanishad is a justification of life and works, which were enjoined upon the seeker of the Truth ...

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A Philosophy of Evolution for the Contemporary Man  >  Our Evolutionary Task

... basis. There must develop a free mind of light, and there must develop a bottomless steadiness and illimitable calm, upholding all the illumination, movement, and action as on some rock of ages, equal, unperturbed, unmoved. Similarly, the soul- power of Will and strength must rise to like largeness and altitude. On has to develop an absolute, calm fearlessness of the free spirit, an infinite dynamic... a spirit never depressed or cast down from faith and confidence. There should also come to fulfilment of a soul-power of mutuality, a free self-spending and spending of gift and possession in the work to be done, a great taking into oneself from all beings and a free giving out of oneself to all, which can tie described as a divine commerce. And, finally, there must come about the perfection of the... lavishes itself without demand of return, the embrace that takes to itself the body of God in man and works for help and service, the abnegation that is ready to bear the yoke of the ideal and make life a free servitude to the truth, the right and the vast. This would also mean a complete extinction of egoism and the sense of the ego, a complete self-surrender of the whole being to the spiritual Reality of ...

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The Life Divine  >  The Destiny of the Individual

... is bound neither by Its unity nor by Its multiplicity? It is "absolute" in the sense of being entirely free to include and arrange in Its own way all possible terms of Its self-expression. There is none bound, none freed, none seeking to be free,—for always That is a perfect freedom. It is so free that It is not even bound by Its liberty. It can play at being bound without incurring a real bondage.... and identity with the Supreme its salvation. But who then profits by this escape? Not the supreme Self, for it is supposed to be always and inalienably free, still, silent, pure. Not the world, for that remains constantly in the bondage and is not freed by the escape of any individual soul from the universal Illusion. It is the individual soul itself which effects its supreme good by escaping from the... non-existent bondage in an illusory non-existent world as the supreme good which that non-existent soul has to pursue! For this is the last word of the Knowledge, "There is none bound, none freed, none seeking to be free." Vidya turns out to be as much a part of the Phenomenal as Avidya; Maya meets us even in our escape and laughs at the triumphant logic which seemed to cut the knot of her mystery. ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  23 June 1933

... feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 23 June 1933 MYSELF: My mind says how happy it will be when it will be quite free from these bad thoughts! What else shall I write to you, Mother? Do make me free for ever so that not a tinge abides anywhere — make a clean sweep! SRI AUROBINDO: I have no doubt of it — you have only to understand it rightly and you can ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Inadequacy of the State Idea

... shown that these checks are ineffective. In its inner life this huge State egoism was once little better than in its outer relations. 1 Brutal, rapacious, cunning, oppressive, intolerant of free action, free speech and opinion, even of freedom of conscience in religion, it preyed upon individuals and classes within as upon weaker nations outside. Only the necessity of keeping alive and rich and strong... thing which is in process of formation. But what we are now tending towards is such an increase of organised State power and such a huge, irresistible and complex State activity as will either eliminate free individual effort altogether or leave it dwarfed and cowed into helplessness. The necessary corrective to the defects, limitations and inefficiency of the State machine will disappear. The organised... the necessity of intellectualising and moralising it in its external relations has been enforced upon the conscience of mankind by the European catastrophe. But the claim of the State to absorb all free individual activities, a claim which it increasingly makes as it grows more clearly conscious of its new ideals and its possibilities, is, to say the least of it, premature and, if satisfied, will surely ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  The Sanctity of the Individual

... in the end. The freedom too which is ascribed to such individuals, even when they feel it so, is only a sham and a make-believe. Within Nature nothing is free, all is mechanical law – Karma is supreme. The Sankhya posits indeed many Purushas, free, lodged in the midst of Prakriti, but there the Purusha is hardly an active agent, it is only an inactive, passive, almost impotent, witness. The Existentialist... real transcendence. Man is a true and free person only when he is lord of Prakriti, dominating and commanding Nature, when he is identified with Ishwara, the supreme Person, the Master, and becomes an incarnate will and consciousness of His. The soul in ignorance and in ignorant relation with others must rise and envisage its archetype in the Supreme Divine, as a free formulation of an Idea-Force of the ...

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Aspiring Swan  >  Champaklal-One of the Hundred

... Him. He always reminded himself to be ever conscious and introspective. In one of his diaries he has stated: "What have you done about the practice of sadhana shown to you by Arvind- babuji? Free yourself, free yourself from pride and attachment, what a shallow life! Have you come for worldly enjoyment! What is your aim in life? Follow the straight path of faith. Never forget even for a moment the... Aspiring Swan Champaklal-One of the Hundred ************************************ CHAMPAKLAL 'ONE 0F THE HUNDRED' To be free from ego and become an instrument of God is indispensable for sadhana, Sri Aurobindo conveyed this in the following words, "I do not want hundreds of thousands of disciples. It will be enough if 1 can get a hundred complete... keen desire to find Him. But, when will I find God? 0 God! Show mercy on me! Give me Thy refuge! Give me pure knowledge,, devotion and love." Each man who enters the realms of yogic experience is free to follow his own way, but guidance from a guru is indispensable. The guru can show the path for the contact with the Divine. Champaklal has absolute trust in Divine Grace as reflected in his prayers ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The Question of the President

... growth of a public sentiment such as governs the proceedings of free assemblies in free countries. Mr. Tilak at the Surat Congress appealed to the Congress against the decision of the Chairman of the Reception Committee disallowing his notice for the adjournment of the election of the President. This right which is inherent in every free assembly, ought to be specifically recognized. We cannot find a... necessary step taken in the democratisation of the Congress. But the interpretation of the rules is always liable to Page 998 misuse, as all free countries have found, and the only safeguard against it is a strong sense of the supreme importance of free discussion which will override party feeling and discourage the temptation to acquiesce in anything which will bring about a party victory. To develop ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2  >  OLD YOGAS AND OUR YOGA

... with the Divine? If a man is spiritual and has gone beyond the vital and mind, he does not need to be always "doing" something. The self or spirit has the joy of its own existence. It is free to do nothing and free to do everything — but not because it is bound to action and unable to exist without it.         By my question, "What does he do?" I did not mean any physical or mental action... within remains calm and free and united to the Divine. But this is an incomplete individual transformation — the full transformation of the instrumental Nature can only come when the Supramental change takes place. Till then the nature Page 280 remains full of many imperfections, but the Self in the higher planes does not mind them, as it is itself free and unaffected. The inner... changes like the purification and transformation?       Without purification it is not possible to live always in the Brahman consciousness. While living in that Brahman consciousness one is free from the sense of a separative ego. As for the transformation of the nature, that is not their object.         In asking this I wanted to understand how he could bring down the higher things ...

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Collected Poems  >  The Death of a God - II

... world has vanished like a golden shadow from the ages.     The whip of glory, the splendid burden behind us are cast,     Earth is free from fire and stress, left to the joy of her smallness, rid of his mighty spirit at last. All that is false and wry and little are freed to follow their nature once more.         Close time's brilliant pages! Give back to man's life the old tables, its dull ease, ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  2 June 1935

... reserved day by day and relate to others only for the work or for business. Often the suggestion has passed in me that even with those I am somewhat free with, I should relate just for the work. This is not necessary nor even advisable. You must feel free to speak to them and help them when they need it. Go on with them as you do—it is all right. Grant me the strength, my dear Mother, to remain ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Self-Determination

... tiveness of others. And that is a difficult problem to solve, because the liberty of one, immediately it begins to act, knocks up fatally against the liberty of another; the free running of many in the same field means a free chaos of collisions. That was at one time glorified under the name of the competitive system, and dissatisfaction with its results has led to the opposite idea of State socialism... and domination which were inherent in the systems of the past. They have made life a little more tolerable for the mass, and if they have not yet made life free, they have at least given more liberty to thought and to the effort to embody a freer thought in a more adequate form of life. This larger space for the thought in man and its workings was the necessary condition for a growing clarity which... in which our individual self-fulfilment no longer separates us from others but at each step of our growth calls for an increasing unity. But it is from the self-determination of the free individual within the free collectivity in which he lives that we have to start, because so only can we be sure of a healthy growth of freedom and because too the unity to be arrived at is that of individuals growing ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  An Interview with Velji

... vital and physical parts did not live in Nirvana? Evidently not. Then were those parts subject to ignorance or were they free? If they were subject to ignorance then they could drag him down to birth again. He could have abandoned those parts. Then was he free? What do you mean by freedom? Birth is a bondage so long as one is in the mental being. It only appears so. But if you look... accepts the human limitations. If he did not then he ceases to have any meaning for man. But how is his Ādhāra prepared? It is a certain movement which takes place in his nature leaving his soul free, unaffected. If he were to use his freedom he would grow twenty arms and ten eyes. But he does not do so. Krishna says he has been taking birth always since the beginning. It is not that God is above ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 178

... ". That may be an enlargement, but it is not liberation. To be at large and to be in a large prison are not one condition of freedom. To be free, one must come out of the prison. The prison is the ego, the sense of separate personality. To be free, one Page 262 must unite consciously and totally with the Supreme and through this identification break the limits of the ego and eradicate ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  The Divine Superman

... It is to live in the Infinite and possess the finite. It is to live in God and be one with him in his being. To become thyself is to be this and all that flows from it. Be free in thyself, and therefore free in thy mind, free in thy life and thy body. For the Spirit is freedom. Be one with God and all beings; live in thyself and not in thy little ego. For the Spirit is unity. Be thyself, immortal... is the superman. It is to be the master of thy mind, thy life and thy body; it is to be a king over Nature of whom thou art now the tool, lifted above her who now has thee under her feet. It is to be free and not a slave, to be one and not divided, to be immortal and not obscured by death, to be full of light and not darkened, to be full of bliss and not the sport of grief and suffering, to be uplifted ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 11  >  The Triple Cord

... the second in the middle and the third below. Sunahshepa cries out to God Varuna to be freed from the triple bondage. The God is pleased and cuts the topmost cord and throws it upward, he cuts the middle cord and throws it on either side, he cuts the downmost cord and throws it downward. Thus Sunahshepa is freed through the Grace of King Varuna.         The three cords are the three limitations... personality, the psychic, and finding its union with the inner Divine. This ego-centred         * A greater force than the earthly held his limbs...           Unwound the triple cord of mind and freed—                                                                     Savitri 1, 5 Page 18 knot has to be cut through and the thread to be scattered into the infinity of the... element too: the physical mind is the mind controlled by the senses, the impressions of the senses; its structure is patterned according to the impact of the physical and material objects. A clear, free physical mind embodies the pattern of the movements of the higher consciousness, not of the sense-dominated consciousness.         Even like the mind, the vital too has its threefold knots according ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  The Triple Cord

... the second in the middle and the third below. Sunahshepa cries out to God Varuna to be freed from the triple bondage. The God is pleased and cuts the topmost cord and throws it upward, he cuts the middle cord and throws it on either side, he cuts the downmost cord and throws it downward. Thus Sunahshepa is freed through the Grace of King Varuna. The three cords are the three limitations of being... material being. It is closed to the regions behind, the occult sources of all external movements. This too * A greater force than the earthly held his limbs, Unwound the triple cord of mind and freed – Sri Aurobindo: Savitri 1.5 Page 318 has to be pulled down and thrown into the gulfs of non-existence – primal Prakriti, out of which they are born – so that the subliminal ranges... element too: the physical mind is the mind controlled by the senses, the impressions of the senses; its structure is patterned according to the impact of the physical and material objects. A clear, free physical mind embodies the pattern of the movements of the higher consciousness, not of the sense-dominated consciousness. Even like the mind, the vital too has its threefold knots according to the ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality

... this soul-force and gives it its largest scope, takes up all the fourfold powers and throws them into the free circle of an integral and harmonious spiritual dynamis. The godhead, the soul-power of knowledge rises to the highest degree of which the individual nature can be the supporting basis. A free mind of light develops which is open to every kind of revelation, inspiration, intuition, idea, discrimination... Page 750 a soul-power of mutuality, a free self-spending and spending of gift and possession in the work to be done, lavished for the production, the creation, the achievement, the possession, gain, utilisable return, a skill that observes the law and adapts the relation and keeps the measure, a great taking into oneself from all beings and a free giving out of oneself to all, a divine commerce... mould of working, guna, type of nature, yet puts its stamp of an initial transcendence, impersonality, pure fire of spirit, a something beyond the gunas of our normal nature. When the spirit in us is free, then what was behind this soul-force comes out in all its light, beauty and greatness, the Spirit, the Godhead who makes the nature and soul of man his foundation and living representative in cosmic ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Knowledge and Ignorance

... sides of His self-conception (Maya), the twin powers of His Energy (Chit-Shakti). Brahman, exceeding as well as dwelling in the play of His Maya, is Ish, lord of it and free. Man, dwelling in the play, is Anish, not lord, not free, subject to Avidya. But this subjection is itself a play of the Ignorance, unreal in essential fact ( paramārtha ), real only in practical relation ( vyavahāra ), in the... fulfilled by turning more and more to Vidya enables the individual and the universal to become what the Lord is in Himself, conscious of His manifestation, conscious of His non-manifestation, free in birth, free in non-birth. Man represents the point at which the multiplicity in the universe becomes consciously capable of this turning and fulfilment. His own natural fulfilment comes by following the... is beyond birth and death, beyond the chain of cause and effect, beyond all bondage and limitation, free, blissful, self-existent in conscious-being, the consciousness of the Lord, of the supreme Purusha, of Sachchidananda. Immortality and Birth On this realisation man can base his free activity in the universe. But having so far attained, what further utility has the soul for birth ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  To the Editor of the New India

... or in vision. We want not only a free India, but a great India, India taking worthily her place among the Nations and giving to the life of humanity what she alone can give. The greatest knowledge and the greatest riches man can possess are hers by inheritance; she has that for which all mankind is waiting. But she can only give it if her hands are free, her soul free, full and exalted, and her life... life dignified in all its parts. Home Rule, bringing with it the power of self-determination, can give the free hands, space for the soul to grow, strength for the life to raise itself again from darkness and narrow scope into light and nobility. But the full soul rich with the inheritance of the past, the widening gains of the present, and the large potentiality of her future, can come only by a system... behind the movement for Home Rule. It should not be difficult to secure its intellectual sanction or its voice for National Education, but much more than that is wanted. The support it gives must be free from all taint of lip-service, passivity and lethargic inaction, evil habits born of long political servitude and inertia, and of that which largely led to it, subjection of the life and soul to a blend ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  On Impurity

... exit. And you have no pro­visions for the way.   [2]   So make an island of yourself, hasten and work hard and gain wisdom. When you have wiped off the blemishes, when you are free of taint, then will you reach the domain of Noble Ones.   Page 228 [3]   Now you have arrived at your term. You are in the presence of Death. You have no shelter... shelter on the way nor have you pro­visions.   [4]   So do you make of yourself an island, hasten, work hard and gain wisdom. When you have wiped off the blemishes, when you are freed of taint, then shall you come no more into birth and age.   [5]   The wise man must from moment to moment, little by little, continue to purify his impurities, even as a silversmith... a crow, who is destructive, aggressive, presumptuous and cor­rupted.   [11]   Life is difficult for one who is modest, always seeking purity, who has no attachment, who is free from arrogance, who leads a pure life and has a clear vision.   Page 229 [12]   He who takes another's life, tells lies, seizes things that are not given to ...

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Hitler and his God  >  Mayhem and Murder

... brigade, which one impartial expert later called the best combat unit he had ever seen.” 181 Still, this Free Corps was only one of many “which sprang up like mushrooms after the rain”, and who numbered in the whole of Germany about 400 000 men. (Germany had demobilized six million soldiers.) “The Free Corps were latter-day condotierri”, writes Burleigh, “consisting of former shock troops, junior and temporary... these desperados were recruited under the cover of a sports club, but things changed when professionals took matters in hand, more specifically the Ehrhardt Brigade. The full name of this notorious Free Corps, which fought after the war in Brunswick, Munich and Silesia, was “Marine Brigade Ehrhardt”, after its founder and leader, Korvettenkapitän (equivalent to Commander) Hermann Ehrhardt. “At the... with expectation for the outbreak of a war.” 185 The military and the war, in which he had been wounded several times – part of his nose was shot away – were his life, and his mentality was that of the Free Corps toughs, with this difference that he was an officer in the legal Reichswehr, according to the Treaty of Versailles reduced to 100 000 men. Röhm was an amazingly influential officer, considering ...

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Champaklal's Treasures  >  Refined Girl

... that she should feel like that. Tell her that I found her very nice. She is very refined but somehow she has been living all tightened up. Let her feel quite free, don't try to put any ring around her. Let her feel completely relaxed and free here, and tell her that she should relax and just feel as if she were all the time in sunshine. 16.9.68 The Mother listening to music The ...

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Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother  >  1940

... too, I have come across grubs. Thus although I have been washing plant after plant to make them grub-free, the grubs may have introduced themselves through the compost. Mother, is it because I am afraid of the grubs that they appear so often? What should I do to keep the plants and compost free from grubs? Should I not banish these apprehensions and be rather careless of such things? It may ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  10 February 1932

... MYSELF: What should be the true mutual relation among us? How to bring it about? SRI AUROBINDO: What you must have with other sadhaks is a harmonious relation free from any mere vital attachment (indifference is not asked from you) and free from any indulgence in vital wrong movement of the opposite kind (such as dislike, jealousy or ill-will). It is through the psychic consciousness that you have ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Desire

... If he has any greed, desire, demand, claim for possession or enjoyment, any anxiety, grief, anger or vexation when denied or deprived, he is not free in spirit and his use of the things he possesses is contrary to the spirit of sadhana. Even if he is free in spirit, he will not be fit for possession if he has not learned to use things not for himself, but for the Divine Will, as an instrument, with... indulging desire ] is a mistake many have made because the vital wanted to make it. 2 Whether ascetic or non-ascetic, the Yogi, the sadhak must become free from vital desire and spiritually master of the movements of his nature—and for that he must be free from ego and desire and duality. I have always made that quite clear—that indulgence of desire is no more part of this Yoga than it is of Sannyasa.... vital desires and the ignorance of the physical and it puts itself on their side and tries to justify by its ideas, reasonings or arguments their mistakes and wrong movements. Even if the reason keeps free and tells the vital or the body, "Do not do this", yet the vital and the body often follow their own movement in spite of the prohibition—man's mental will is not strong enough to compel them. When ...

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Prayers and Aspirations  >  For Selfish Ends

... Mother, shower Your Grace, Shower Your Grace, shower Your Grace,     shower Your Grace. You alone are our support, Mother, (3) With Your support only, with Your support only, We can free ourselves, free ourselves from all this. (2) Ma, shower Your Grace, shower Your Grace,     Ma, shower Your Grace,     Always shower Your Grace. This alone is my prayer Ma... Ma..., At Thy feet, at ...

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Prayers and Aspirations  >  From the Religion of Convenience

... Always keep me constantly at Thy Feet alone (2)     at Thy Feet alone. Such are the things that are seen, and heard, Save me from that religion of convenience. Keep me always free from all this,     Keep me always free. By Your Grace alone this will happen, Then it will be possible to stay at Thy Feet. You have also revealed to me such things     And made me hear such things. Seeing ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  A Refined Girl

... that she should feel like that. Tell her that I found her very nice. She is very refined but somehow she has been living all tightened up. Let her feel quite free, don't try to put any ring around her. Let her feel completely relaxed and free here, and tell her that she should relax and just feel as if she were all the time in sunshine. 16 September 1968 "The Light will come down to bring ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 280, 281

... unseen, thy soul sits royal, calm, free and triumphant. Believe that the Mother will ere the end have done her work and made the very earth of thy being a joy and a purity. 281—If thy heart is troubled within thee, if for long seasons thou makest no progress, if thy strength faint and repine, remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master, "I will free thee from all sin and evil; do not ...

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Jayantilal's Correspondence with The Mother  >  9 October 1966

... and stability. The obscurity and heavy inertia should diminish. If the Mother would permit me, I would like to be free from Press work. However I shall do as the Mother directs me. Kindly guide me. If you leave the Press, the work will be ruined! As soon as I have a moment free I shall call you in the morning and we shall talk it over. The more I go, the more I know that it is in work that ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Becoming Conscious in Work

... with the Divine? If a man is spiritual and has gone beyond the vital and mind, he does not need to be always "doing" something. The self or spirit has the joy of its own existence. It is free to do nothing and free to do everything—but not because it is bound to action and unable to exist without it. The passage 1 describes the state of consciousness when one is aloof from all things even... any action, because being free from the illusion, action or living in the world does not weigh upon one, one is not bound or involved. Those who flee from the world or shun action (the Sannyasis) do so because they would be involved or bound; they believe the world to be unreal, but in fact it weighs on them as a reality so long as they are in it. When one is perfectly free from the illusion of the... Absorption in Work It is the external mind that gets absorbed in the work and Page 257 covers what is behind. There must be a double consciousness, one acting, one behind observing, separate, free to continue the sadhana. The absorption in work is not undesirable—but the difficulty in turning inwards can only be temporary. A certain plasticity in the physical consciousness which is sure ...

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The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo  >  Freewill in Sri Aurobindo's Vision

... stand with regard to the problem whether the human will is free? A couple of points which he puts before us may appear, in isolation and at face value, to deny man freewill altogether. First, genuine freedom of will as of consciousness and delight and being can only be in a divine state, for only the Divine is genuinely free; and so long as we are in the unregenerate condition, which... pertinence to the issue at stake is the soul's conscious assent. Can the assent be an explanatory feature and a meaningful fact under any circumstance other than that the soul is free to will? And can the soul be free unless it is not created at a certain point of time to be sent willy-nilly on a world-journey through imperfection but is a particular eternal aspect of the Divine, a mode of... in the universe which is its emanation. Is there then any room left in us for freewill as usually understood? If no genuine freewill can be except in the freedom of the Divine, can we be thought free even to choose that freedom or stay away from it? Again, if all things are originally decreed by the Divine, is not our feeling of being real doers a delusion given us for some purpose of the ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  October 10, 1965

... The poor result is because they don't attach enough importance to those very small things that belong to the subconscious mechanism and because of which in thought you are free, in sentiment you are free, even in impulse you are free, and physically you are a slave. One must undo all that, undo it, undo it. And when the cells are goodwilled... By "goodwilled," I mean that as soon as their attention ...

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The Aim of Life  >  Preface

... integrate the threads and complexities of what we are and can become. It is there, perhaps, rather than in books or preachings, that we may begin to perceive and live what precisely is our aim of life. Free from dogmas and fixed beliefs, in the purity of experience, we may hope to discover the answer to the all-important questions: what am I to do? What role do I have to play in the vast and mysterious... aspects and details, unless we are able to discover some unifying direction in which the various disciplines of knowledge and experience can find an ever-progressive synthesis and harmonization. A free pursuit of the theme of the aim of life could prove a salutary beginning, and even, in a sense, provide a fulfilling climax. All those who have the responsibility of educating children and youth... in their pursuit of values and of integrated development of the being. This book is especially addressed to all those who have this responsibility. The material presented here is meant to encourage a free exploration into the theme of the aim of life. The texts have been selected from many important works related to the aim of life, in the spirit of collecting at random some flowers from a beautiful ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6  >  THE MOTHER ON HERSELF

... is freedom: it is a free choice in the consciousness that has projected itself as the objective world. This freedom is the very character of its fundamental nature. If the world denies its supreme truth, its highest good, it does so in the delight of its free choice; and if it is to turn back and recognise that truth and that good, it must do so in the same delight of free choice. If the erring ...

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Living in The Presence  >  Singing Class In Auroville

... classes. They will drop you at the Dining-room by 12.30. They will also make arrangements for your transport to Auroville. The Mother wants to know if you have any morning that is entirely free. "No, I don't have a full free morning but that can always be arranged," I replied. "Which day?" Kireet-bhai enquired. "Saturday," I answered. Page 184     Thus, every Saturday, at 8.30 a car would ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Some Lines of Fulfilment

... which respect for individual liberty and free growth of the personal being to his perfection is harmonised with respect for the needs, efficiency, solidarity, Page 395 natural growth and organic perfection of the corporate being, the society or nation. In an ideal aggregate of all humanity, in the international society or State, national liberty and free national growth and self-realisation... easily liberate its dependent parts or allow, unless compelled, a nation now subject to it to sit at the board of an international council as its free equal. The old enthusiasm for liberty is an ideal which made France intervene to aid the evolution of a free Italy or France and England to create a new Greek nation. The national liberties for which respect was demanded during the war even at the point... on the rearrangement of States in a system of large imperial combines and not on the basis of a status quo of mixed empires and free nationalities. 1 But even if this development does not take place or does not effect itself in time, the actually existing free and non-imperial States will find themselves included indeed in whatever international council or other system may be established, ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Europe and Asia

... for this a free Asia and in Asia a free India must take the lead, and Liberty is therefore worth striving for for the world's sake. India must have Swaraj in order to live; she must have Swaraj in order to live well and happily; she must have Swaraj in order to live for the world, not as a slave for the material and political benefit of a single purse-proud and selfish nation, but as a free people for... addressed to England. England, by her oppression of the Asiatic peoples under her sway, by her selfish and ruthless exploitation of their wealth, by her refusal to allow them the chance of national life and free development, is sowing Page 572 the wind, and she will reap the whirlwind in the loss of her Empire, perhaps in national decay and death. "Truth yet shall triumph in a world of justice;... merely a slight index of the far greater things she will accomplish in the coming days of her ripe strength and maturity. What she did, she did by the activity of intuition and imagination, the first free penetrating sympathy of a mind fresh from the divine source of life. She will now learn the scientific method of the adult and senescent West and apply it with a far greater force and ability to lines ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Christianity and Theosophy

... reaches the summit of free activity, the being is transformed and its faculties are Page 507 purified, deified by Grace, without its essence being destroyed." 2 What is meant by free activity? With us the freedom consists in freedom from the darkness, limitation, error, suffering, transience of the ignorant lower Nature, but also in a total surrender to the Divine. Free action is the action... well as static and passive; but none who has not arrived at the silence and motionless solitude of the eternal Self can have the free and integral activity of the higher divine Nature. For the Page 509 action is based on the silence and by the silence it is free. V. "...the Christian life, a mystic, progressive life which is an enrichment, an infinite enlargement of the human being."... putting them side by side and trying to weigh them against each other. That is the besetting sin of the Christian mind even in those who are most liberal like Dr. Stanley Jones; they cannot get altogether free from the sectarian narrowness and leave each manifestation to its own inner world for those to follow who have the inner drawing to the one or the other. I have always refrained from these comparisons ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  The Sankhya-Yoga System

... that. The Purusha on the contrary is in its nature silent and separate—so it has only to go back to its original nature. It [ Prakriti ] divides itself into an inner Force that is free from its action (free from rajas, tamas etc.) and the outer Prakriti which it is using and changing. If ego and desire are different things from the gunas, then there can be an action of the gunas without... When the consciousness as well as the action is free from ego and desire, there is always a fundamental calm. This calm remains whether sattwa predominates or not. Sattwa need not always predominate, because to become sattwic is not the object of sadhana. To need to be always sattwic would be a limitation. Whatever guna predominates in the action, to be free, desireless, calm behind all actions, is the... a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine Consciousness, Power, Light, Para Prakriti to whom we turn for the release and the divine fulfilment. The realisation of the Purusha Consciousness calm, free, observing the play of forces but not attached or involved in them is a means of liberation. The calm, the detachment, a peaceful strength and joy ( ātmarati ) must be brought down into the vital and ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  23rd January 1939

... awakes and feels himself separate from nature, not bound by it but free and lord. Disciple : But generally the Purusha is bound. Sri Aurobindo : Of course, normally the Purusha consents to the action of Prakriti but he can withdraw his consent and stand apart. He can be free by getting out of evolution i.e. by being free from the working of ego and nature-personalities. Disciple ... feel the responsibility and bear the consequences. Disciple : Can one be free if one acts without feeling responsibility? Page 173 Sri Aurobindo : You can't get rid of responsibility like that, even though you may say, you are not responsible. You must become free if you want to be free from responsibility. There are three ways, or rather several ways, of attaining... attaining that freedom. One is by the separation of the Purusha from Prakriti and realizing it as free from it; another is by realizing the Self, The Atman or the Spirit, from the Cosmic movement. Thirdly by the identification with the Transcendent Above, i.e. by realizing the Parmatma. You can also have this freedom by merging into the Shunyam through Buddhistic discipline. Disciple : In the experience ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  Karmayoga and its Indispensability-3

... in spite of the apparent chaos and confusion on the surface of existence. Catastrophes, cataclysms, revolutions, disasters leave him "not only unshaken but untouched, free in the emotions, free in the nervous reactions, free in the mental view, responding with the least disturbance or vibration in any spot of the nature". Not that he is hard-hearted or callous, or indifferent with the impersonal... and thing in the world. He loves all, for he loves the One who has become all. In all that he contacts he contacts nothing but the Divine, the All beloved. He can heal the suffering of the world and free himself from the same suffering, by a transcendence of all suffering, and a pouring down from above of his infinite and inviolable ānanda upon it. The perfect Karmayogi has left below him the... Though living in a mortal, material body, he is a child of immortality, amrtasya putrah . His unwalled consciousness knows no limit, no death, and no bondage to anything in the world. Deathless and free, he is a playmate of God in His universal līlā . Life after life, unwearied and unworn, he plays his part, not for any personal profit or for the realisation of any merely mental ideal, but only "to ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Party and the Country

... Feb-3.May.1908 Bande Mataram Party and the Country 24-April-1908 The uses of party are a secret known only to free nations which value their freedom above all other things. Men of free minds and free habits are too strong of soul to be the slaves of their party feelings and too robust of mind to submit to any demand for the sacrifice of their principles... unawakened, love of the country an inoperative sentiment confined to the intellect only and not yet close to the heart. The patriot is consumed with the passion to serve his country, to make her great, free or splendid. His brain is full of plans for the fulfilment of his hopes and he seeks helpers and followers to bring it about, while he tries to disabuse the country of ideas which he believes injurious ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7  >  Yogic Centres

... it need not be so, it is not the whole truth. For when you have gone beyond, you can come back too, carrying the superconscient light with you. That is to say, the serpent, now luminous,—pure and free energy —can enter the body again, this time with its head down and the tail up. It enters blazing, illumining with its superconscient light the centres one by one, giving man richer and richer c... two. Here is a curious story about man and his destiny. What is he, the normal man? He is a slave, a bond slave. He may have the illusion that he has ideas and movements, his own, he has even free scope to put them to execution. But it will not take long to discover that it is an illusion, a great deception. His plans do not mature, his efforts beat against an iron wall. The more he observes... ineffectual. He feels more and more a great burden pressing upon the back of the head bending it down, a heavy weight lies upon his shoulders. He somehow trudges on like a beast of burden. He has no free choice or will; his wishes and desires are not consulted. He is driven helplessly on. But the story does not end here. Man can, if he chooses, alter the situation, turn the tables. He has in ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Five  >  Divorce from the Past

... divorce from the past which the present schools and universities have effected, has beggared the nation of the originality, high aspiration and forceful energy which can alone make a nation free and great." Free? Yes. But great? The question was: Was India going to cling "to the Page 516 lassitude of decay and the laissez-faire of the moribund" and fall into an ... East Bengal, and he spoke in many towns and districts — Jhalakati (Barisal), Bakergunj, Khulna.... "Out on tour," reminisced Nolini, "Sri Aurobindo used to address meetings, meet people when he was free and give them instructions and advice. Most of those who came to his meetings did not understand English, they were common village folk. But they came in crowds all the same, men, women and children... appointed work in the world, is that the youth of India should learn to think —think on all subjects, to think independently, fruitfully, going to the heart of things, not stopped by their surface, free of prejudgments, shearing sophism and prejudice asunder as with a sharp sword, smiting down obscurantism of all kinds as with the mace of Bhima." But the blame for the notorious moral corruption ...

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The Renaissance in India  >  Indian Polity - 4

... and synthetising in a free and living organic system these autonomies. The imperial problem was to synthetise again these states, peoples, nations, effecting their unity but respecting their autonomy, into a larger free and living organism. A system had to be found that would maintain peace and oneness among its members, secure safety against external attack and totalise the free play and evolution,... unification and the last ambition of the Peshwas, until there came the final failure and the levelling of all the conflicting forces under a foreign yoke, a uniform subjection in place of the free unity of a free people. The question then is whether the tardiness, the difficulty, the fluctuating movements of the process and the collapse of the long effort were due to a fundamental incapacity in the ... reasserted itself to the detriment of the artificial unity established and not, as it should have done, for the harmonious intensification and freer but still united functioning of the total life. The imperial monarchy tended also to wear down the vigour of the free assemblies, and the result was that the communal units instead of being elements of a united strength became isolated and dividing factors ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 163, 164

... before it can rise to the perfect freedom of its divine being. Those disciplines which begin with freedom are only for the mighty ones who are naturally free or in former lives have founded their freedom. 164—Those who are deficient in the free, full and intelligent observation of a self-imposed law, must be placed in subjection to the will of others. This is one principal cause of the subjection ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  Human Progress

... of indulging in its own free formations led to an abstraction that brought about a cleavage between mind and nature, and when a harmony was again attempted between the two, it meant an imposition of one (the Mind) upon another (Matter), a subsumption of the latter under the former. Such scholastic formalism, although it has the appearance of a movement of pure intellect, free from the influence of ... Page 138 civilisations represented this character of the human spirit. The subject freeing itself more and more from its environ­mental tegument, still living and moving within it and dyna­mically reacting upon it – this was the character we speak of. Next came the period when the free and dynamic subject feeling itself no more tied down to its natural objective sphere sought lines of... mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libido – desire soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind from, the libido and transfer and transform the libido into non-egoistic and realistic think­ing. In simpler psychological terms we can say that man's mentality was coloured and modulated by ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 4  >  Human Progress

... of indulging in its own free formations led to an abstraction that brought about a cleavage between mind and nature, and when a harmony was again attempted between the two, it meant an imposition of one (the Mind) upon another (Matter), a subsumption of the latter under the former. Such scholastic formalism, although it has the appearance of a movement of pure intellect, free from the influence of ... 28 The ancient civilisations represented this character of the human spirit. The subject freeing itself more and more from its environmental tegument, still living and moving within it and dynamically reacting upon it—this was the character we speak of. Next came the period when the free and dynamic subject feeling itself no more tied down to its natural objective sphere sought lines of... mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libido —desire-soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind from the libido and transfer and transform the libido into non-egoistic and realistic thinking. In simpler psychological terms we can say that man's mentality was coloured and modulated by ...

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On Education  >  11 November 1967

... the practical level, by adopting a single organisation for the whole school, that is, either a generalisation of the existing free-progress classes or a compromise. The others think that we should first clear up the psychological differences and spread the spirit of free progress. On the basis of the second part of your reply, they think that a period of transition is needed for the classes that... time, doesn't it? The students must be there at that time. They can't come at just any time. A: Yes, Mother. Because "free progress" does not mean indiscipline.... A: No, no, that is understood. The student should not arrive half an hour late just because he is free, because this kind of freedom is not freedom, it is simply disorderliness. Each one must have a very strict discipline for... and then we would decide what to do. First of all, before I reply, I would like to know exactly, in a very, very practical and material way, what the difference is. This is what I think: in the free-progress system, there are no classes with all the students sitting down, with the teacher on his dais lecturing the whole time; there are students sitting down here and there, at their tables. They ...

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Record of Yoga  >  17 - 19 October 1920

... on them is constant. The lipi is the most perfect of the members of the vijnana, free in its action, free from the lower elements, established in the vijnana. T³ is now developing with a certain freedom in the lipi. Thought and T³ in the thought are moving constantly to the same perfection. The action is free in concentration, but there are still the intrusive or untransformed elements of the ...

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The Secret of the Veda  >  The Eighteenth Hymn to Agni

... the light and flame of its far-extended existence which has broken the limitations of the material being and he is full of the joys of this new and rich supra-physical life. Now the third state, the free mental being, is to be perfected by a richly varied and luminous play of thought and word ending in the manifestation of the highest reach of the mental realms, the power of the supramental Light in... mentality; there begins the manifestation of the intuitive and inspired mind. Agni has to create that vastness and light and divinity of the Truth-knowledge and so crown with it the already attained free swiftness of force and wide range of life and enjoyment proper to the perfected and god-filled vitality.] प्रातरग्निः पुरुप्रियो विशः स्तवेतातिथिः । विश्वानि यो अमर्त्यो हव्या मर्तेषु रण्यति... × Dwita, the god or Rishi of the second plane of the human ascent. It is that of the LifeForce, the plane of fulfilled force, desire, free range of the vital powers which are no longer limited by the strict limitations of this mould of Matter. We become conscious of and conscious in new realms, immense ranges of life, the "far-extending ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1  >  The Ego

... Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 The Ego         I want to be free of my ego. Is it possible now?       I do not see how you can be free from ego at this stage.         I find it difficult to keep myself free from feeling disgust for X whenever I see him. When I meet him all the wrong actions he has done come up before my memory ...

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Savitri  >  The Odysseus Theme

... As a free race...         Always the cry is, in Eliot's words, not Farewell, but Fare forward! Leave the broken images behind; leave the symbols behind; leave "the rumours or speech-full domes" behind. In the realm of untainted sovereign Truth at last. Page 394       How then shall the mind be less than free       Since only to know is to be free? 58  ... council, single eye that gathered       The heat of heaven to fire what I said       And did. Now let me die to what I fathered. 59   He has been ruling "this island sea-surrounded, free/Building, unbuilding", and now he is ready to go; he will become a ghost himself and haunt the places he has held dear. The prototypical picture of the heroic hero dying in ripe old age full of honour ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  The Yogic Centres

... it need not be so, it is not the whole truth. For when you have gone beyond, you can come back too, carrying the superconscient light with you. That is to say, the serpent, now luminous, – pure and free energy – can enter the body again, this time with its head down and the tail up. It enters blazing, illumining with its superconscient light the centres one by one, giving man richer and richer con... the two. Here is a curious story about man and his destiny. What is he, the normal man? He is a slave, a bond slave. He may have the illusion that he has ideas and movements, his own, he has even free scope to put them to execution. But it will not take long to discover that it is an illusion, a great deception. His plans do not mature, his efforts beat an iron wall. The more he observes and sees... ineffectual. He feels more and more a great burden pressing upon the back of the head bending it down, a heavy weight lies upon his shoulders. He somehow trudges on like a beast of burden. He has no free choice or will; his wishes and desires are not consulted. He is driven helplessly on. But the story does not end here. Man can, if he chooses, alter the situation, turn the tables. He has in him ...

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A Vision of United India  >  Political unity in ancient India Introduction

... and synthesizing in a free and living organic system these autonomies. The imperial problem was to synthesize again these states, peoples, nations - effecting their unity but respecting their autonomy -into a larger free and living organism. A system had to be found that would maintain peace and oneness among its members, secure safety against external attack and totalise the free play and evolution,... separate member of its existence. A free synthetic communal order was its character and the condition of liberty it aimed at was not so Page 2 much an individual liberty as a communal liberty. This is one of the striking features of the Indian political system and we must keep it in mind right through our study. This free, organic life was founded on the... reasserted itself to the detriment of the artificial unity established and not, as it should have done, for the harmonious intensification and freer but still united functioning of the total life. The imperial monarchy tended also to wear down the vigour of the free assemblies, and the result was that the communal units instead of being elements of a united strength, became isolated and dividing factors ...

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Evolution and the Earthly Destiny  >  Human Progress

... of indulging in its own free formations led to an abstraction that brought about a cleavage between mind and nature, and when a harmony was again attempted between the two, it meant an imposition of one (the Mind) upon another (Matter), a subsumption of the latter under the former. Such scholastic formalism, although it has the appearance of a movement of pure intellect, free from the influence of ... ancient Page 87 civilisations represented this character of the human spirit. The subject freeing itself more and more from its environmental tegument, still living and moving within it and dynamically reacting upon it—this was the character we speak of. Next came the period when the free and dynamic subject feeling itself no more tied down to its natural objective sphere sought lines of... mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libido— desire soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind from the libido and transfer and transform the libido into non-egoistic and realistic thinking. In simpler psychological terms we can say that man's mentality was coloured and modulated by ...

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Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India  >  Sri Aurobindo - Messages

... how soon this connection will be fulfilled, depends upon this new and free India. * THE FIFTEENTH OF AUGUST 1947 II August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for... dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position.         The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very... brought about a huge slaughter that they might become supreme rulers over all the numerous free and independent peoples of India? That would be the result of weighing old happenings in the scales of modern ideals. As a matter of fact such an empire was a step in the right direction then, just as world-union of free peoples would be a step in the right direction now,-in both cases the right consequences ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Supreme Will

... in our perfection there must be nothing left in the mental being which conflicts with or prevents our sympathy and free self-identification with the kind, the group or whatever collective expression of the Divine he is meant to lead, help or serve. But in the end it must become a free self-identification through identity with the Divine and not a mental bond or moral tie of union or a vital association... All-Will a movement towards the changing, exceeding or Page 211 abolition of existing laws and forms for the sake of a freer larger life necessary to the world's progress. There is still left the moral law or the ideal and these, even to many who think themselves free, appear for ever sacred and intangible. But the sadhaka, his gaze turned always to the heights, will abandon them to Him whom... Synthesis of Yoga Chapter VIII The Supreme Will In the light of this progressive manifestation of the Spirit, first apparently bound in the Ignorance, then free in the power and wisdom of the Infinite, we can better understand the great and crowning injunction of the Gita to the Karmayogin, "Abandoning all dharmas, all principles and laws and rules of conduct ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Gnosis and Ananda

... mirrors itself in the nature of pure universal mind luminous, unwalled, happy, plastic, illimitable, or by absorption in the vast free unconditioned uncentred Self within it and without it. The result is either the immobile cessation of all mind and action or a desire-free unbound action watched by the unparticipating inner Witness. The mental being becomes the eremite soul alone in the world and careless... alternately, successively or at once. Or he may transform the lower forms into manifestations of the higher state; he may draw upward the childlikeness or the inert irresponsibility of the free physical mind or the free vital mind's divine madness and carelessness of all rules, proprieties, harmonies and colour or disguise with them the ecstasy of the saint or the solitary liberty of the wandering eremite... physical being forgets itself in a kind of conscious Nirvana or else moves about like a thing inert in the hands of Nature, jaḍavat , like a leaf in the wind, or otherwise a state of pure happy and free irresponsibility of action, bālavat , a divine childhood. But this comes without the higher glories of knowledge and delight which belong to the same status upon a more exalted level. It is an inert ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - Four Mystic Moods

... The Secret Splendour   1   Mind free from thought, heart void of hunger's bond Make room for a gold link with a vast Beyond. A silence opens to an eternily, Like some wide, quiverless, unsleeping eye. A flame unflickering, rooted in core of clay, Flies up to kiss a secret deathless Day. 2.8.83   2   Out of the... Earth's tossing seas and musing hills are born. They are crossed, they are climbed, but through the labour and love Always the sense is aglow with the mysteried One  Who is all yet world-free, infinitely None. 27.8.83 Page 648 ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  The Bhikkhu

...   [2]   It is good to control one's body, good to control one's speech, good to control one's mind; it is good to have control everywhere. The Bhikkhu who has control everywhere is freed from all sorrows.   [3]   One who has control over his hands, who has control over his feet, who has control over his speech, is the best among the self-controlled; he is concentrated... cast out your attachments and taints and you will attain Nirvana.   [11]   Cut out the five ,¹ conquer the other five.² Concenrate on the five others.³ The Bhikkhu who is thus freed in a fivefold way is said to have crossed the ocean waters.   ¹ Ego, doubt, outward ceremonies, greed, ill-will. ² Craving for the world of form, craving for the world of the... perfect peace, the felicity that is cessation from all contingents.   [23]   The young Bhikkhu who yokes himself to the Buddha-discipline illumines the world even like the moon freed from the clouds.   Page 247 ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  The Mother on Herself

... creation is freedom: it is a free choice in the consciousness that has projected itself as the objective world. This freedom is the very character of its fundamental nature. If the world denies its supreme truth, its highest good, it does so in the delight of its free choice; and if it is to turn back and recognise that truth and that good, it must do so in the same delight of free choice. If the erring world ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Supermind and the Life Divine

... an uncertain and disputed grasp, there could emerge Page 565 a true mind liberated and capable of the free and utmost perfection of itself and its instruments, a life governed by the free and illumined mind, a body responsive to the light and able to carry out all that the free mind and will could demand of it. This change might happen not only in the few, but extend and generalise itself... would have to be lifted out of the consciousness and power of consciousness proper to a mental, vital and physical being into the greater consciousness and greater power of being and the larger and freer life of the spirit. It would not lose these former veils but they would no longer be veils or imperfect expressions but true manifestations; they would be changed into states of light, powers of spiritual... that is above the nature of animal life and animated Matter, as it is immeasurably above the mere material nature. The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Renunciation

... ge and let Ravana do what he will with the daughter of Janaka"? The criterion is within, as the Gita insists. It is to have the soul free from craving and attachment, but free from the attachment to inaction as well as from the egoistic impulse to action, free from attachment to the forms of virtue as well as from the attraction to sin. It is to be rid of "I-ness" and "my-ness" so as to live in... from the struggle, the disgust and disappointment of the soul baffled by the great cosmic labour, the selfishness that cares not what becomes of those left behind us so long as we personally can be free from the monstrous ever-circling wheel of death and rebirth, the indifference to the cry that rises up from a labouring humanity. For the sadhaka of an integral Yoga none of these reasons are valid... imperfection in his own way of meeting it may fall away from him. Personal salvation he does not seek except as a necessity for the human fulfilment and because he who is himself in bonds cannot easily free others,—though to God nothing is impossible; for a heaven of personal joys he has no hankerings even as a hell of personal sufferings has for him no terrors. If there is an opposition between the spiritual ...

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Towards A New Social Order  >  The Present situation and what we should do

... of disorder, confusion or strife." The Need for Freedom "Given a full development and free play of the individual mind, the need of freedom will grow with the immense variation which this development must bring with it, and if only a free play in thought and reason is allowed, but the free play of the intelligent will in life is inhibited by the excessive regulation of the life, then an... against the anarchistic objection that the collectivist period is, if not the last and best, at least a necessary stage in social progress. For the vice of individualism is that in insisting upon the free development and self-expression of the life and the mind or the life-soul in the individual, it tends to exaggerate the egoism of the mental and vital being and prevent the recognition of unity with... human society in its movement towards a collectivist principle of social living. Collectivism may itself in the end realise this aim if it can modify its own dominant principle far enough to allow for a free individual development on the basis of unity and a closely harmonised common existence. But to do that it must first spiritualise itself and transform the very soul of its inspiring principle: it cannot ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  On the War: Private Letters That Were Made Public

... a huge slaughter that they might become supreme rulers over all the numerous free and independent peoples of India? Page 466 That would be the result of weighing old happenings in the scales of modern ideals. As a matter of fact such an empire was a step in the right direction then, just as a world-union of free peoples would be a step in the right direction now,—in both cases the right... darkness, a cruel oppression and degradation for most of the human race such as people in this country do not dream of and cannot yet at all realise. If the other side that has declared itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have Page 463 been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine... (What about the others? Hitler, for example, says it is a crime to educate the coloured peoples, they must be kept as serfs and labourers.) England has helped certain nations to be Page 464 free without seeking any personal gain; she has also conceded independence to Egypt and Eire after a struggle, to Iraq without a struggle. She has been moving away steadily, if slowly, from imperialism towards ...

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A Centenary Tribute  >  Amal Kiran-Reminiscences-Pushpa Prava Dash

... him. We all went to his house without prior appointment. We felt that all of us were part of the Mother's family and no formality was required. Truly, he received us very cordially, and made us feel free. Later, we were happy to have his contact.   Later, sometimes I had gone to show him my poems and articles. At such times, he used to treat me with the same frankness. Thus, an intimacy grew... he walked towards the Samadhi. But he would never fail to see and smile at anyone known to him on the way. His seat was a Page 92 chair near Pujalalji's room. Observing his temper free from mood of anger or antipathy for anybody, I was very much impressed. So one day, I told him, "1 feel very happy when I see you as you do not have any anger." Immediately, he replied, "You also do... Page 93 leave, and he was not at all disturbed. Somebody else also came after me and he attended to the person gladly. I wondered how polite, humble and sincere is he!   A man free from ego is our dear Amal-da. He has received much of The Mother's and the Master's Grace that on the evening of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth in 1956 during the Playground meditation, he ...

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The Mother on Auroville  >  Conditions for Living in Auroville

... truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances. At the centre there is a being, free and vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who should become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville. 2.One lives in Auroville to be free from moral and social conventions; but this freedom must not be a new enslavement to the ego, to its desires and... conquered in oneself the very possibility of desire. 28.2.1969 All fancies are vital movements and most undesirable. Liberty does not mean to follow one's desires but, on the contrary, to be free from them. 27.8.1971* Page 32 From the psychological point of view, the required conditions are: (1)To be convinced of the essential unity of mankind and to have the will... at all to satisfy their ego. If they follow the old human way of selfish claim, how can they hope the world to change? 23.10.1971* * Every good Aurovilian should strive to free himself from all desires, preferences and repulsions. Equality in all circumstances is the chief aim to "be attained in order to live in Auroville. * It is true that to live in ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  Miscellany

... (desire) and the two warrior kings (wrong views), having destroyed the kingdom (of the senses) and all its dependencies, the Brahmin lives free from evil. Having killed father, mother, the two warrior kings and the tiger (mental hindrances), the Brahmin lives free from evil. The disciples of Gautama are alert and truly awakened, for, day and night, their attention is turned to the Buddha, the... humanity has made some progress and the true victory must be won in life itself. You must know how to live alone with the Eternal and Infinite in the midst of all circumstances. You must know how to be free, with the Supreme as your companion, in the midst of all occupations. That is indeed the true victory. 14 July 1958 Page 276 × ...

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White Roses  >  23 June 1963

... 23 June 1963 To be aware of the liberation of your soul means that you are sufficiently conscious of your soul to feel that something deep in you is quite free, independent from people and circumstances, untouched by grief, displeasure or anger, always calm and with a quiet contentment. This feeling can come suddenly or progressively and can stay for more... You may not succeed from the first time—but you will try again and again until you succeed.—In the state of quiet and silent immobility, you will be in contact with your soul, unite with it and feel free . Naturally with the practice all that becomes more and more easy and spontaneous. ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  My Work with the Mother

... something and I have to pull you out. That is why you feel that.” C: “I am becoming more and more egoistic!” Mother: “No, no, you are becoming more and more free from your mind; your personality is developing. You must become completely free.” Later, one day Mother asked: “I am very severe, am I not? Do you feel like that?” C: “No, no, I feel it is my own home.” Mother: “Ah! Then it is all ...

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A Philosophy of Education for the Contemporary Youth  >  Eternal India's message to Young India

... individuals who will most help the future of humanity in the new age will not accept the theory that many must necessarily remain for ever on the lower ranges of life and only a few climb into the free air and the light, but will start from the standpoint of the great spirits who have striven to regenerate the life of the earth and hold that faith in spite of all previous failures." Page... and matter. It is to be the master of thy mind, thy life and thy body; it is to be a king over Nature of whom thou art now the tool, lifted above her who now has thee under her feet. It is to be free and not a slave, to be one and not divided, to be immortal and not obscured by death, to be full of light and not darkened, to be full of bliss and not the sport of grief and suffering, to be ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  The Future Union

... assistance of an executive council of ministers. (5) The status of the population of French India should be that of a free self-governing people freely consenting to remain in the French Union and freely accepting such relations as are necessary for that Union. In this free French India the present recognised institutions commercial, industrial and others will remain in vigour except in so far... us into two mutually exclusive nationalities should be laid open and an understanding arrived at by which the nationals of free India resident in French India should automatically have civic rights and the same should obtain for nationals of French India resident in the new free India. There should be facilities for any French Indian to occupy Government posts and join Indian armed forces and to get... rise to the task that awaits us and build a strong front of the people to implement our scheme and with an upsurge transgressing all petty differences let us play our part and create a free and united people in a free India and help at the same time towards the creation of a united human world. published June 1947 × ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Modes of the Self

... certain plane of being rests free from them. The Nirguna or Unqualitied is not incapable of qualities, rather it is this very Nirguna or No-Quality who manifests Himself as Saguna, as Ananta-guna, infinite quality, since He contains all in His absolute capacity of boundlessly varied self-revelation. He is free from them in the sense of exceeding them; and indeed if He were not free from them they could not... can free ourselves into the existence of the active Brahman as well as that of the Silence; we can live in both, go back to our being in both, but each in its proper way, by becoming one with the Nirguna in our essence and one with the Saguna in the liberty of our active being, in our nature. 4 The Supreme pours Himself out of an eternal peace, poise and silence into an eternal activity, free and... Infinite itself consenting from one plane of its being to reflect itself in a perpetual soul-experience. This is the truth which underlies the Sankhya theory of many Purushas, many essential, infinite, free and impersonal souls reflecting the movements of a single cosmic energy. It stands also, in a different way, behind the very different philosophy of qualified Monism which arose as a protest against ...

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A Scheme for The Education of Bengal  >  Supermind And The Life Divine

... higher intuition with an uncertain and disputed grasp, there could emerge a true mind liberated and capable of the free and utmost perfection of itself and its instruments, a life governed by the free and illumined mind, a body responsive to the light and able to carry out all that the free mind and will could Page 180 demand of it. This change might happen not only in the few, but extend... would have to be lifted out of the consciousness and power of consciousness proper to a mental, vital and physical being in to the greater consciousness and greater power of being and the larger and freer life of the spirit. It would not lose these former veils but they would no longer be veils or imperfect expressions but true manifestations; they would be changed into states of light, powers of spiritual... above the nature of animal life and animated Matter,.. as it is immeasurably above the mere material nature. The Supermind is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free .from the Ignorance which. is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Aphorisms

... empire. Infinite, we are free from death; for life then becomes a play of our immortal existence. We are free from weakness; for we are the whole sea enjoying the myriad shock of its waves. We are free from grief and pain; for we learn how to harmonise our being with all that touches it and to find in all things action and reaction of the delight of existence. We are free from limitation; for the body... would ride on the crest of one wave, must faint under the shock of hundreds. Man is in love with pleasure; therefore he must undergo the yoke of grief and pain. For unmixed delight is only for the free and passionless soul; but that which pursues after pleasure in man is a suffering and straining energy. Man hungers after calm, but he thirsts also for the experiences of a restless mind and a troubled... body becomes a plaything of the infinite mind and learns to obey the will of the immortal soul. We are free from the fever of the nervous mind and the heart, yet are not bound to immobility. Page 206 Immortality, unity and freedom are in ourselves and await there our discovery; but for the joy of love God in us will still remain the Many. Page 207 ...

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Collected Poems  >  Poems - Note

... four lines of free quantitative verse, each independent in its arrangement of feet, but all swaying in a single rhythm. Shakespeare's is most wonderfully balanced in a series of differing four-syllabled, with occasional shorter, feet, as if of deliberate purpose, though it is no intention of the mind but the ear of the poet that has constructed this fine design of rhythmic prose. A free quantitative... or as shorts. Here too the ear must decide in each case. 4) English quantity metres cannot be as rigid as the metres of ancient tongues. The rhythm of the language demands a certain variability, free or sparing, without which monotony sets in; accordingly in all English metres modulation is admitted as possible. Even the most regular rhythms do not altogether shut out the substitution of other feet... feet than those fixed in the normal basic arrangement of the line; they admit at least so much as is needed to give the necessary pliancy or variety to the movement. There is sometimes a very free use of such variations; but they ought not to be allowed to break the basic movement or overburden or overlay it. The same rule must apply in quantitative metres; especially in long poems modulations are ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  November 15, 1965

... you must do this, because that's the habit," and I used to answer in a very little polite way, "Rubbish!"... To do things that way because the habit is to do them that way is no argument to me—free, free, free! The taste for freedom. You mustn't be a little slave just because you were born from certain parents in such and such a place—it's by chance, not fate! (Sujata:) No, Mother, it's mostly ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  10 JANUARY 1940

... alone, even if that person is dead—it is this that the heroine can't bear. Isn't this a European attitude? PURANI: Sarat Chatterji advocates free marriage or no marriage. He is for free love, as far as I can understand. SRI AUROBINDO: But why is free love European? In Europe no one advocates such an idea except a few intellectuals. If you want to abolish the marriage system, then the Europeans ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  05 August 1931

... is a purification of the outer nature, it becomes more possible for the inner being to reveal itself, to become free and to open to the higher consciousness above. When this happens, several other things can happen at the same time. First, one becomes aware of the silent Self above — free, wide, without limits, pure, untroubled by the mental, vital and physical movements, empty of ego and limited... centres are called the thousand petalled lotus and the ajnachakra between the eyebrows — you can ask Nolini to explain to you about them. Thirdly, by this working inner parts of the being are opened and freed; you are liberated from the limitations of the ordinary personal mind, vital, and physical and become aware of a wider consciousness in which you can be more capable of the needed transformation. But ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  December 4, 1914

... from every mental form. Certain mental forms, more particularly powerful or adapted to the temperament, are sure guides to supreme experiences. But once the experiences are over, Thou wouldst have them free in themselves from bondage to any mental form, however high or pure it may be, so as to be capable of expression in the new, most true form, that is, the one most suitable to the experience. So Thou... suitable for manifesting Thee in this instrument moulded out of surrender and ardent faith. Page 279 And before this immense night full of promise, I feel, more than I have ever felt before, free and vast, infinitely.... And in a supreme beatitude I offer Thee thanks, O Lord, for the marvellous favour Thou hast bestowed upon me: that of being before Thee like a new-born child. Page 280 ...

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Early Cultural Writings  >  Mazzini, Cavour, Garibaldi

... been not of details, but of the essential. CAVOUR Italy is one, Italy is free. GARIBALDI The unity was my work. I did not use Machiavellianism or rely on statecraft and kingcraft. I did not buy liberty by mutilating my country. But I called to the soul of the nation and the soul of the nation awoke and shook itself free of the great tyrants and the petty. It was on the heroism and kingliness of... ancient Page 479 Roman, Etruscan and Samnite that Cavour should have relied, not on the false-hearted huckster of states and principalities, Louis Napoleon. MAZZINI Italy is one, Italy is free, but in the body, not in the soul. Garibaldi, you gave united Italy to a man, not to the nation. GARIBALDI I gave it to the King and hero, Italy's representative. I do not yet think that I did ill ...

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Guidance on Education  >  Students - Studies Elsewhere

... life, it is bondage to which one is subjected from birth, for all carry it in themselves by atavism, and even those who are born to be freed need to struggle seriously Page 46 and continuously to get rid of this atavism in order to be truly free. Blessings. 16 November 1969 * Sweet Mother, What do you expect of those students who are going to leave... on Education STUDIES ELSEWHERE I intended to let you go for your studies to England without telling you anything about it, because each one must be free to follow the path he has chosen. But after what you have written I feel compelled to write to you. No doubt from the exterior point of View, you will find in England all that you ...

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Letters on Yoga - III  >  The Psychic Opening

... themselves in you—let them grow and the third should necessarily follow. The psychic opening first, the higher consciousness and its experiences afterwards. What you desire about the self-giving free from demand is sure to fulfil itself when there is the full opening of the psychic. X has been always like that. It is the activity of his mind which is very restless; sometimes he gets a psychic... and the inner change also proceeds by which they are made possible. What was meant [ by "plasticity within" ], I suppose, was the psychic plasticity which makes surrender possible along with a free openness to the Divine working from above—plasticity within as opposed to the rigidity which insists on maintaining one's own ideas, feelings, habitual ways of consciousness as opposed to the higher... unveiling of the psychic. The Manipura (navel centre) and the Swadhisthana below it are the seats of the vital being, the Muladhara is the seat of the physical. The opening of the Manipura gives one the free play of the inner vital consciousness and it is very helpful, no doubt, for the influence of the psychic on the vital, but it is not the direct or first condition of the psychic opening itself. But ...

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The Golden Path  >  Anu Purani

... beginning of the Free Progress system. If a child asked a question and it led to some other subject it was okay. The Mother said if a child did not want to study he or she was free to be ignorant. It did not mean that they had no other faculties or capacities. So some learned electricity and became engineers. Some went into physical culture and other areas of study. Not everybody liked the Free Progress method... Sri Aurobindo told him, “My experience with this movement has made it clear that India’s freedom will be brought about by some other means.” Purani asked, “But will India be free?” Sri Aurobindo replied, “Yes, it will be free.” Purani was not certain and he asked him again, “What guarantee can you give me?” Sri Aurobindo stood up and looked far off into the distance and said, “India’s freedom is as... method. At present Sri Aurobindo is taught in the Higher Course at “Knowledge” and Free Progress is a choice, it is not imposed. The systems are parallel, not everyone has the kind of mentality to take up Free Progress. One needs to have a willing and keen mind to acquire knowledge. One must be willing to work hard. When did you take up dance study formally? After finishing my education in the ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Three Modes of Nature

... greater luminous supernature. At first we become free from the three gunas, detached, untroubled, nistraiguṇya ; but this is the recovery of the native state of the soul, the self, the spirit free and watching in its motionless calm the motion of Prakriti in her force of the Ignorance. If on this basis the nature, the motion of Prakriti, is also to become free, it must be by a quiescence of action in a... Yoga Chapter X The Three Modes of Nature To transcend the natural action of the lower Prakriti is indispensable to the soul, if it is to be free in its self and free in its works. Harmonious subjection to this actual universal Nature, a condition of good and perfect work for the natural instruments, is not an ideal for the soul, which should rather be... Master of works alone and his supreme Shakti, the supreme Prakriti. There alone all the being is pure and free and the rule of a divine Truth possible. In this progression the first step is a certain detached superiority to the three modes of Nature. The soul is inwardly separated and free from the lower Prakriti, not involved in its coils, indifferent and glad above it. Nature continues to act ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  The Yoga and Its Objects

... only will the Purusha stand apart and be triguṇātīta , beyond the three guṇas , but the Prakriti, though using the guṇas , will be free from their bondage. Sattwa, as we know it, will disappear into pure prakāśa and jyotiḥ , and the nature will live in a pure, free and infinite self-existing illumination. Tamas, as we know it, will disappear into pure śama or śānti , and the nature will take... Page 81 a free and infinite ocean of divine force. On that foundation of calm and in that heaven of light, action will occur as the spontaneous objective expression of God's knowledge, which is one with God's will. This is the condition of infinity, ānantya , in which this struggle of bound and limited sattwa, rajas and tamas is replaced by a mighty harmony of free prakāśa, tapas and... "One whose state of being is free from egoism and whose understanding receives no stain." This is the surrender of action to which Sri Krishna gives so much importance. मयि सर्वाणि कर्माणि संन्यस्याध्यात्मचेतसा । निराशीर्निर्ममो भूत्वा युध्यस्य विगतज्वरः ।। "Laying down all actions upon Me, with thy whole conscious being in adhyātmayoga , become free from desire and the sense of belongings; ...

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Beyond Man  >  Chapter Seventeen: The Five ‘Dreams’ of Sri Aurobindo

... Mother lets us have a look in the occult repository. In the Entretiens of 1956, she tells: ‘After having gone to a certain place, I said to Sri Aurobindo: “India is free.” I did not say: “India will be free”, I said: “India is free.” Now, how many years has it taken between that moment, when that was an accomplished fact, and the moment it became translated in the material world on earth? [The... important documents in his life. His text, read by a news reader, was broadcast on 14 August. ‘August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in the new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social and spiritual future of humanity. ‘August... then sums up those five ‘dreams’ one after the other. Let us have a closer look at them. 1. India ‘The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity.’ To Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, India was not a mass of land but a being, a goddess, ‘just like Shiva is a god’, called Bharat Mata, Mother ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  22 OCTOBER 1940

... with Ramdas. Ramdas says the doer is free while Vinoba says he is not. As I said before, according to him we sleep because we are compelled to. In everything we do there is a compulsion. SRI AUROBINDO: One can say one is compelled to be born, at least in appearance. But does Ramdas say one is free? PURANI: He says partially free—in the process of becoming free. SRI AUROBINDO: That is a different ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  The Present Darkness (April 1950)

... the world nature and had to rise up so that they might be exhausted or expelled so that a better world freed from them might be there. After all, something has been done in the outer field and that may help or prepare for getting something done in the inner field also. For instance, India is free and her freedom was necessary if the divine work was to be done. The Page 506 difficulties ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 35, 36

... Page 59 their passions and errors, that if they took refuge in the Supreme Lord they would be free from all bondage and sin. But men are very attached to their vices and virtues (for without vice there would be no virtue); they are in love with their sins and cannot tolerate anyone being free and above all error. That is why Krishna, although immortal, is not present at Brindavan in a body ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Gunas, Mind and Works

... pleasant, unpleasant and mixed, in this or other worlds, in this or another life are for the slaves of desire and ego; these things do not cling to the free spirit. The liberated worker who has given up his works by the inner sannyasa to a greater Power is free from Karma. Action he will do, for some kind of action, less or more, small or great, is inevitable, natural, right for the embodied soul,—action... our members in the free spontaneity of a divine action: for there there is no wrong or confused working, no element of error or impotence to obscure or distort the luminous perfection and power of the Spirit. All these lower conditions, laws, dharmas cease to have any hold on us; the Infinite acts in the liberated man and there is no law but the immortal truth and right of the free spirit, no Karma,... dynamics of the spirit. The essence of renunciation, the true Tyaga, the true Sannyasa is not any rule of thumb of inaction but a disinterested soul, a selfless mind, the transition from ego to the free impersonal and spiritual nature. The spirit of this inner renunciation is the first mental condition of the highest culminating sattwic discipline. The Gita then speaks of the five causes or ind ...

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Work - an offering  >  The Divine Worker

... state that may perhaps be called "soulhood"- for the soul is greater than the man; a free soulhood spontaneously welling out in works of a supreme Truth and Love will replace human virtue. Sri Aurobindo Your first aim If you want to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego. All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice... Time-snake's crawling length. No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee.     Thy presence is my immortality. Sri Aurobindo The qualities of the Divine Worker He, the divine worker, is free from all preference and all attachment; he has broken down the limits of his ego and is now only a perfectly pure and impersonal, instrument of the supramental action upon earth. The Mother ...

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Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays  >  Towards Universal Fraternity

... perfect his individuality by free development from within, but to respect and to aid and be aided by the same free development in others. His law is to harmonise his life with the life of the social aggregate and to pour himself out as a force for growth and perfection on humanity. The law for the community or nation is equally to perfect its corporate existence by a free development from within, aiding... World Union of free nations. We have to realise the peril of the World-State as opposed to World Union; for if it comes about, the nation as we know it might disappear and strict unification would come to be imposed; a vast uniformity would come to rule; and a united humanity would result in a regulated socialisation. This must be avoided; we must ensure a vigorous life of free and united nations;... and be aided by the same free development of other communities and nations. Its law is to harmonise its life with that of the human aggregate and to pour itself out as a force for growth and perfection on humanity. The law for humanity is to pursue its upward evolution towards the finding and expression of the Divine in the type of mankind, taking full advantage of the free development and gains of ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Perfection of Equality

... is the very sign of liberation. To be free from the domination of the urge of vital desire and the stormy mastery of the soul by the passions is to have a calm and equal heart and a life-principle governed by the large and even view of a universal spirit. Desire is the impurity of the Prana, the life-principle, and its chain Page 702 of bondage. A free Prana means a content and satisfied... develops these motions, the same equality is a basic condition. The Master of things cannot be affected or troubled by the reactions of things; if he were, he would be subject to them, not master, not free to develop them according to his sovereign will and wisdom and according to the inner truth and necessity of Page 698 what is behind their relations, but obliged rather to act according... its present stuff of troubled mentality. It is equally indispensable if we aspire to replace our present confused and Page 699 ignorant action by the self-possessed and luminous works of a free spirit governing its nature and in tune with universal being. A divine action or even a perfect human action is impossible if we have not equality of spirit and an equality in the motive-forces of our ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  1 APRIL 1940

... she won't suffer from any troubles. The picture seen as moving means the Presence is there. NIRODBARAN: Why do you say it is dangerous for her to pray to be freed from bonds? SRI AUROBINDO: Because Krishna has extraordinary ways of freeing one, and she may not like them. You know the story of Nolineshwar and his father. Because his father used to persecute him, he prayed for his father's death.... possible to go down. (Laughter) PURANI: Here is a letter from Indumati. She asks whether or not her Bhakti for Krishna is genuine and how she can dedicate herself to Krishna and pray to him to free her from all bonds. SRI AUROBINDO: It is a little dangerous to pray for that. PURANI: Then she says that sometimes she sees Krishna's picture moving. Once she saw that he was very far away. ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 8  >  A Poem

... knowledge to cut down ignorance, Its humbleness makes it void of energy and its laziness empty of substance, Proud of its shaven pate and an inflated belly­ This is not Buddha's spirit. He is free from illusion, He is calm and tranquil, he is a supreme ascetic of iron will, he is a mighty hero; Trampling friendship and riches on his path, he is whollygiven to his mission, He never... Speaks always of kindness and love, Has emptied real Kindness and Love of its burning truth­― Nor is it Chaitanya's path. He is mighty and steadfast: Intense love, intense forbearance, free from tamas, heroic, He is the Fair-Body (Gauranga), child of the Effulgence (Sachi). Page 189 Have you not seen the ocean? The Supreme God himself in hiding as though:... from maya is the price you have to pay to know Keshava. When we see good in evil in the creation, In cruelty kindness, then there is liberation. All feelings break down, all sins die, Free dweller in infinity moves the soul. None belongs to none, everyone is His, In the flow of life and death the world play moves on ceaseless. The master of the play, the master of Energy, ...

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On Education  >  Sutras

... truth of your being is ineluctably decreed and nothing and no one can prevent you from being it; but the path you will take to attain it is left to your own free choice. 19 May 1957 5) On the path of ascending evolution, each one is free to choose the direction he will take: the swift and steep ascent towards the summits of Truth, the supreme realisation, or, turning his back to the peaks, the ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  Undated 1957

... the truth of your being is decreed in an irrevocable way, and nothing nor anyone can stop you from being it; but the path you take to get there is left to your own free choice. 5) On the road of the ascending evolution, every one is free to choose the direction he will take: the swift and steep climb towards the summits of Truth, to the supreme realization, or turning his back to the peaks, the easy ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Circumstances: Results of Past Actions

... evil you have wilfully done always comes back to you under one form or another. 24 April 1969 Each one is free to do whatever he likes, but he cannot prevent his acts from bearing their natural consequences. It is only what is done with the Divine and for the Divine that is free from the slavery of consequences. Page 214 There is a Supreme Divinity witness of all our actions and ...

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Evolution, Religion and the Unknown God  >  Bibliography

... Fontana/Collins, 1981 Bauer, Henry H.: Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method , University of Illinois Press, 1992 Behe, Michael J.: Darwin’s Black Box , Free Press, 2006 — The Edge of Evolution , Free Press, 2007 — and others: Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe , Ignatius Press, 2000 Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, and others (ed.): Des savants face à l’occulte... Improbable , Penguin Books, 2006 — River out of Eden , Phoenix, 1999 — The Blind Watchmaker , Penguin Books, 1988 — The God Delusion , Bantam Press, 2006 — The Greatest Show on Earth , Free Press, 2009 — The Selfish Gene , Oxford University Press (Indian edition), 1989 — Unweaving the Rainbow , Penguin Books, 1998 Delumeau, Jean (ed.): Le savant et la foi , Flammarion, 1989... Francis: The Neck of the Giraffe , Pan Books, 1982 Horgan, John: Rational Mysticism , Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003 — The End of Science , Broadway Books, 1997 — The Undiscovered Mind , The Free Press, 1999 Johnson, Phillip E.: The Wedge of Truth , InterVarsity Press, 2000 King, Francis, and others: The Rebirth of Magic , Corgi Books, 1982 Koestler, Arthur: The Ghost in the Machine ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1964  >  October 7, 1964

... who preach this to others, they CLING—they cling to their own way of seeing, their own way of feeling, their own habit of progress, which to them is the only possible one. No more bonds—free, free, free, free! Always ready to change everything, except ONE thing: to aspire. That thirst. I quite understand: some people don't like the idea of a "Divine" because it immediately gets mixed up with... happened!" It hadn't happened at all! Because the rest down below remained as it was, unchanged. Now, there is a will to give it the full possibility of changing; well, for that, it has to be given free play, without bringing in a crushing Power—this I understand very well. But it has the obstinacy of stupidity. How many times at the moment of a suffering, for instance, when a suffering is there, acute... it was after that that there was the turning point I told you about: a turning point in things as a whole, as if something truly decisive had taken place. There was a sort of trusting joy: "Ah! We're free from that nightmare." Usually, I don't say anything until it's firmly established, because... But anyway, that's how it was. And at the same time, a relief—a physical relief—as if the air were ...

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The Role of South India in the Freedom Movement  >  Appendix

... clear that India is not going to be free in any way and her Government is not going to function as a free and independent Government during the pendency of the war. The Committee would repeat that the essential fundamental prerequisite for the assumption of responsibility by the Indian people in the present is their realisation as a fact that they are free and are in charge of maintaining... brought about a huge slaughter that they might become supreme rulers over all the numerous free and independent peoples of India? That would be the result of weighing old happenings in the scales of modern ideals. As a matter of fact such an empire was a step in the right direction then, just as a world-union of free peoples would be a step in the right direction now,—in both cases the right consequences... darkness, a cruel oppression and degradation for most of the human race such as people in this country do not dream of and cannot yet at all realise. If the other side that has declared itself for the free future of humanity triumphs, this terrible danger will have been averted and conditions will have been created in which there will be a chance for the Ideal to grow, for the Divine Work to be done, ...

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The Mother Abides - Final Reflections  >  One Day More

... it: Once, asked about the liberation of India, sometime in 1915 when India was completely in bondage, she answered without the least hesitation, "India is free." She did not say, "India will be free", she said simply, "India is free" as though stating an actual fact. The physical fact however came about in the year 1947, that is to say, 32 years after the thing happened in the subtle world. Mother ...

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Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo  >  The Process of Inner Change

... they could enter and take hold of the brain and in three days I was free. From that moment, in principle, the mental being in me became a free Intelligence, a universal Mind, not limited to the narrow circle of personal thought as a labourer in a thought factory, but a receiver of knowledge from all the hundred realms of being and free to choose what it willed in this vast sight-empire and thought-empire... greater luminous supernature. At first we become free from the three gunas, detached, untroubled, nistraigunya; but this is the recovery of the native state of the soul, the self, the spirit free and watching in its motionless calm the motion of Prakriti in her force of the Ignorance. If on this basis the nature, the motion of Prakriti, is also to become free, it must be by a quiescence of action in a... must be done by our own free choice. A continual and always repeated refusal of the impulsions and falsehoods of the lower nature is asked from us and an insistent support to the Truth as it: grows in our parts; for the progressive settling into our nature and final perfection of the incoming informing Light, Purity and Power needs for its development and sustenance our free acceptance of it and our ...

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My Pilgrimage to the Spirit  >  December 6, 1932

... bringing of the Divine Truth down on the earth not only into the mind and vital but into the body and into the Matter. Its object is not to remove all "limitations" on the expansion of the ego or to give a free field and make unlimited room for the fulfilment of the ideas of the human mind or the desires of the ego-centered life force. None of us is here to "do as we like", or to create a world in which we... conditions laid down by the Divine. Our Yoga is not for our own sake but for the sake of the Divine. It is not our personal manifestation that we are to seek, the manifestation of the individual ego freed from all bounds and from all bonds, but the manifestation of the Divine, of that manifestation our own spiritual liberation, perfection, fullness is to be a result and a part, but not in any egoistic ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 11  >  Body-Energy

... independent movements. The activities, almost all, of the present body are not really its own, they are expressions of an imposed will. In order to have and to be aware of its own will the body must be freed from its alien imposition and as soon as it gains its freedom, it will know itself, learn itself, learn its own movements. It will gradually shred off all the wrong and distorted movements which form... of liberation brings to it the energy of self-consciousness and an exhilarating delight in the expression of the newfound selfhood, even as also in the case of the individual human being when he is freed from serfdom and slavery and bondages, he attains, realises the dignity of self-consciousness and self-power, even so the material body too becomes illumined with its freedom and rejoices in its power... truthful for they are not subsidised and suborned by the vital and mental injunctions, and they are more ordered and controlled, not subject to idiosyncrasies that sway the human character. They are more free and more natural: the same essential freedom and authenticity and purity shall belong to the body natural of the highest mode of being and consciousness.         However, in this age, at the ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Body-Energy

... independent move­ments. The activities, almost all, of the present body are not really its own, they are expressions of an imposed will. In order to have and to be aware of its own wm the body must be freed from its alien imposition and as soon as it gains its freedom, it will know itself, learn itself, learn its own movements. It will gradually shred off all the wrong and distorted movements which form... of liberation brings to it the energy of self-consciousness and an exhilarating delight in the expression of the newfound selfhood, even as also in the case of the indi­vidual human being when he is freed from serfdom and slavery and bondages, he attains, realises the dignity of self-conscious­ness and self-power, even so the material body too becomes illumined with its freedom and rejoices in its power... truthful for they are not subsidised and suborned by the vital and mental injunctions, and they are more ordered and controlled, not subject to idiosyncrasies that sway the human character. They are more free and more natural: the same essential freedom and authenticity and purity shall belong to the body natural of the highest mode of being and conscious­ness. However, in this age, at the present time ...

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Karmayogin  >  The Necessity of the Situation

... the strength of the nation by solid and self-respecting political and educational work towards a free and noble future. By the law which gives the Government that power of arbitrary suppression associated work is rendered impossible, though not as yet penalised. If free speech, if free writing, if free association is made impossible under the law, it is tantamount to declaring a peaceful Nationalism... been to proclaim all India as seditious. Their second is to announce the introduction of fresh legislation making yet more stringent the already all-embracing law of sedition. By these two measures free speech on press or platform will practically be interdicted, since the perils of truthfulness will be so great that men will prefer to take refuge either in a lying hypocrisy or in silence. Frankness ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1969  >  August 30, 1969

... there's a port in Auroville, so naturally entry is free, but conditional: we have no borders, no walls, we're overflowing in India, so I can't impose my law to the whole of India (!), but it will be replaced by a control at the port: we'll let in only what can be consumed within Auroville—so as not to be used as a clandestine entry for a deluge of free goods. ( Satprem reads ) "No customs, but... constantly flooded), but there's a way to make use of them, so I am trying to get the government's permission Page 314 to occupy it all. If we can get all of it, then we can have a free port, a free airport, an airfield (but more inland), also cultivation based on the new methods of irrigation with sea water, and naturally the transformation of sea water—but they've found something to transform... written; I wrote something else ( Mother gives a first note ). This I have told you several times: "Auroville wants to be the cradle of the superman." Then, this one: "Auroville, the free international township. No army, no police.... Bravo! "...They are replaced by a battalion of guards, consisting of athletes and gymnasts." Oh, all this is splendid! It's ...

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A Scheme for The Education of Bengal  >  A Scheme

... programme of the different age groups may be arranged as follows:— Page 11 (i) Children under 5 years They can be given free play in the open air under proper supervision. (ii) From 5-10 years They can be given free play and varieties of simple and minor games in the open air and can be taught very simple calisthenic exercises for the proper development of... the true ideal before the people and to educate them according to this ideal. For that, is needed: (i) A batch of people or leaders who will work. They should be honest, sincere, free from any kind of prejudices. They must have a broad outlook, and an Page 4 ever progressive attitude. They should have the true ideal and apply it on every occasion of life, ready to... recreation and entertainment and the programme planned in such a way that instead of feeling it to be a troublesome burden and a period of boredom, they will like it. As the children improve and become free from their defects, they can be taken into normal groups and given the normal programme. Page 9 W ell-planned programme for normal children A complete programme for ...

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Bande Mataram  >  A Noble Example

... Industrial Conference held at Benares in December, 1905, Dewan Bahadur Ambalal Sakerlal Desai promised on behalf of this firm that they would undertake to train Indian students in the art of weaving free of charge in their mill. Since then no less than thirty students have started for Ahmedabad and are there receiving instruction, some in weaving and some in spinning and Mechanical Engineering. Another... We remember in this connection that Mr. Giridhari Lal, Government Pleader, Delhi, also promised at the same Conference that he would undertake to make provision for teaching the art of spinning free of charge to Indian students in a certain cotton mill. We have not heard if this offer also has been taken advantage of, like the above, by intending students, and should be glad to have further information ...

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India's Rebirth  >  1923-1926: Talks (1st Series)

... community was completely free to develop its own religion—the law of its being. Even the selection of the line was a matter of free choice for the individual.... In ancient times each community had its own Dharma and within itself it was independent; every village, every city had its own organization quite free from all political control and within that every individual was free—free to change and take up... nothing of the mental ideal in politics. We had a spontaneous and a free growth of communities developing on their own lines. It was not so much a mental idea as an inner impulse or feeling, to express life in a particular form. Each such communal form of life—the village, the town, etc., which formed the unit of national life, was left free in its own internal management. The central authority never interfered... their hand on and grasp all the old organizations, using them merely as channels to establish more thoroughly the authority of the central power. They discouraged every free organization and every attempt at the manifestation of the free life of the community. Now attempts are being made to have the cooperative societies in villages, there is an effort at reviving the Panchayats. But these organizations ...

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Karmayogin  >  The Right of Association: Speech

... which are particularly cherished by free nations. In a nation the sovereign powers of Government may be enjoyed by the few or the many, but there are three things to which the people in European countries cling, which they persistently claim and after which, if they have them not, they always aspire. These are first, the right of a free Press, secondly, the right of free public meeting, and thirdly, the... mighty force. It is a power which by the very fact of being impalpable assumes all the greater potency and produces all the more stupendous results. Therefore the right of free speech is cherished because it gives the idea free movement, it gives the nation that power which ensures its future development, which ensures success in any struggle for national life, however stripped it may be of means and... materialises itself, finds means and instruments, conquers all obstacles and goes on developing until it is expressed and established in permanent and victorious forms. This right of free speech takes the form first of a free Press. It is the Press which on its paper wings carries the idea abroad from city to city, from province to province until a whole continent is bound together by the links of one ...

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Record of Yoga  >  21 May - 1 July 1918

... returns upon them and usurps their place. In the developed and dense other forms occur, but are imperfect, unstable and confined to a few persistent forms or kinds of form. The principle of barring a free variety by insistence on already common rupas is still the chief and hitherto a successful weapon of the obstruction. 4) Vishaya is simply unable to overcome the barrier. In samadhi, antardarshi... conscious being and scope of knowledge and power. The object seems to be to meet these difficulties in their own field and even there to establish the fullness of revelatory light and substance and the free certainties of the superior ideality. Here the script programme has been initially fulfilled. But in the rupa it has not been justified. Rupa has only become capable of variety; it has not accomplished... established in the idealised intelligence under the guidance of the ideality; the object is to eliminate in its own field the false stress, the intellectual decision, so that the ideal ritam may be freed from the pursuit of the intellect. In samadhi ideality took more firmly hold of rupa. There was Page 1085 also the beginning of the specific religious ideality and the ideal sense of ...

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Recollections  >  The Occult

... can request Sri Ma to help me get across." The next day I met Sri Ma and told her everything. She wanted to know everything about my father. After quite some time, my father came to me and said, "I am free now". I never saw him again after this. The wicked 'tantrik' The 'tantrik' , with whom I had a close association during my younger days, suddenly appeared in my dream one night. I had kept... Berhampore. In the dream, he demanded, "Come with me to the himalayas". I refused but he insisted on taking me by force. My whole body was as if turned to stone. I could not move. I was struggling to free myself. Something from inside prompted me to take refuge in Sri Ma. My faith in Sri Ma was still not strong enough. But out of fear, I cried out, "Ma, Ma". I saw that the 'tantrik' had lifted the... with Sri Aurobindo. I then came to know that the 'tantrik' had died. He had made a grave mistake. Later on the same 'tantrik' appeared in my dream and said,"I am begging Sri Ma. I want to be freed". Sri Ma did the needful. I felt as if this was my life's mission - to be of assistance to such beings. Indra There was a young boy in the Ashram. He was a good boy. He had gone on an outing ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  12 JULY 1940

... Behind all these rumours and denials of an ultimatum to Turkey nobody knows the truth. It may be true as in Rumania's case. SRI AUROBINDO: If Russia has demanded free passage through the Dardanelles it would be quite natural, for free passage is quite different from control, and the denial of it would be unnatural. NIRODBARAN: H has paid back seven out of nine rupees. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, then ...

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The Future Poetry  >  Ascent

... On Quantitative Metre On Quantitative Metre Poems in Quantitative Metres The Future Poetry Ascent Free quantitative verse with a predominant dactylic movement. (1) The Silence Into the Silence, into the Silence, Arise, O Spirit immortal, Away from the turning Wheel, breaking the magical Circle. Ascend, single and deathless: Care no more for... fathomless, Joy unimaginable, ecstasy illimitable, Knowledge omnipotent, Might omniscient, Light without darkness, Truth that is dateless. One with the Transcendent, calm, universal, Single and free, yet innumerably living, All in thyself and thyself in all dwelling, Act in the world with thy being beyond it. Soul, exceed life's boundaries; Spirit, surpass the universe. Outclimbing the summits ...

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Notes on the Way  >  3 March 1971

... the children that will be found those who can begin the new race. Men are... crusted over. Well, I am constantly struggling against people who have come here so that they may be comfortable and "free to do whatever they like", so... I tell them, "The world is big enough, you can go out"—there is no soul, no aspiration, nothing. You know my feeling? They are all, all old and I am the only one... should not be. Yes. But the flame, the flame of aspiration ( Mother shakes her head ), there are not many who bring it. Provided they are what they call "comfortable", it is all they need—and free to do some nonsense which they would not do in the world!... On the other side, one feels that to hasten the—one could hasten it if one were... if one were a conqueror! Page 252 ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Chapter III: The Golden Rule of Life - Desire, Egoism and Possession

... enjoy the whole of divine existence,—but take care not to lust after other people's property." Such an interjection would be either a grotesquely unneeded warning to a soul free from desire and already enjoying the whole world in a free and pure satisfaction, or the suggestion of a preliminary discipline so awkwardly introduced as to break the effect of the great rule towards which it was intended to lead... resignedly account of the present weakness of humanity and its false preoccupation with body and helps indeed that weakness to pass out from itself by the extinction of active existence, freeing us from life, but not freeing life for us; but the inner renunciation leads us through our real nature as mental beings, takes account of our strength and teaches us to insist upon it and realise its perfection in... grasped, illumines the whole text, but without which these writings break up into a mass of disconnected thoughts. In this Upanishad the one central thought is multiplicity of existence unified and freed from the sense of the dividing ego. The Seer does not allow himself for a moment either to ignore or to deny the multiple existences of the universe, but neither will he for a moment allow us to forget ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  19 May 1929

... principles or precepts, such as the commandment "Honour thy father and mother" or "Thou shalt not kill" and the rest. Each man has some fad or one preferred shibboleth or another, each thinks that he is free from this or that prejudice from which others suffer and is willing to regard such notions as quite false; but he imagines that his is not like theirs, it is for him the truth, the real truth. An attachment... spiritual man; the one proof of spirituality for them is poverty and abstinence from everything that is pleasant or comfortable. This is a mental construction which must be thrown down if you are to be free to see and follow the spiritual truth. For you come to the spiritual life with a sincere aspiration and you want to meet the Divine and realise the Divine in your consciousness and in your life; and... spiritual man!" This false conception has to be broken down and disappear. Once it is gone, you find something that is much higher than your narrow ascetic rule, a complete openness that leaves the being free. If you are to get something, you accept it, and if you are to give up the very same thing, you with an equal willingness leave it. Things come and you take them up; things go and you let them pass ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 103, 104, 105, 106, 107

... live normally and to be free. My child, that is why the Ashram was created! That was the idea. Because, in France, I was always asking myself: How can one find the time to find oneself? How can one even find the time to understand how to become free? So then I thought: a place where material needs will be sufficiently provided for, so that if one truly wants to become free, one can do so. And the... garb of the world; to its presence even Narada 4 was blinded. 107—Hard is it to be in the world, free, yet living the life of ordinary men; but because it is hard, therefore it must be attempted and accomplished. It seems so obvious! It is obvious, but difficult. To be free from all attachment does not mean running away from all occasion for attachment. All these people who assert... saying to people, "Look, this is what I am." And as I say, it may help, but it has its drawbacks. It is another childishness. All these things are means, stages, steps, but... true freedom is to be free of everything—including means. ( Silence ) It is a restriction, a constriction, whereas the True Thing is an opening, a widening, an identification with the whole. When you reduce, reduce, ...

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Early Cultural Writings  >  A Great Mind, a Great Will

... strong spirit that dwelt within him ranges now freed from our human and physical limitations, and can still shed upon us, on those now at work, and those who are coming, a more subtle, ample and irresistible influence; and even if this were not so, an effective part of him is still with us. His will is left behind in many to make more powerful and free from hesitations the national will he did so much... To the mind of his country Lokamanya Tilak was much more, for he had become to it a considerable part of itself, the embodiment of its past effort, and the head of its present will and struggle for a free and greater life. His achievement and personality have put him amidst the first rank of historic and significant figures. He was one who built much rapidly out of little beginnings, a creator of great ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Press Prosecutions

... Mataram Press Prosecutions 04-July-1907 The Bureaucracy has at last commenced its attack on the so-called freedom of the Press in Bengal. Intolerance of free speech and writings is the sure index not only of unenlightened mediaevalism in the existing Government, but of its rottenness and instability. Our old Hindu regime allowed the utmost freedom of speech... Manu lays it down that when in a time of stress and trouble people take to speaking unpleasant things about the sovereign, it is the height of folly on his part to stop their mouths by punishing the free expression of their feelings. Our ancient law-giver has not thought it necessary to support his dictum by reasons because its wisdom is obvious to the most ordinary common sense. The tendency towards... of the ages is not going to be frustrated by section 108A or the destinies of the nations stopped in their inevitable march because Manchester cotton-spinners want a market for their wares. Prosecute free speech, deny the heart of a nation its utterance; but will you stop the fire of a volcano by covering over its crater? The fire is elemental and comes up from an inexhaustible reservoir of flame in ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The 7th of August

... nation's independence is not the day when the administrative changes are made which complete the outward realisation of its independence but the day when it realises in its soul that it is free and must be free. For it is the self-sufficing separateness of a nation that is its independence, and when that separateness is realised and recorded as a determined thing in ourselves, the outward realisation... it was no mere economical revolt we were instituting, but the practice of national independence; for the attempt to be separate and self-sufficient economically must bring with it the attempt to be free in every other function of a nation's life; for these functions are all mutually interdependent. August 7th is therefore the day when Indian Nationalism was born, when India discovered to her soul her ...

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Bande Mataram  >  More about Unity

... independence of the national organism, but an impossible scheme of two centres of political life controlling the country at the same time of which the alien shall be supreme and yet the indigenous shall be free! What the Bengalee asks of us is to disregard this vital difference of opinion and aim and be united,—in what? In aiming at an object which we believe to be absurd, by means which we believe to be... the Bengalee , in what we are united, so long as we are united; for unity is progress, unity is freedom and greatness. So that if we are united in petitioning we are by the very fact of that unity free and great! The error of the Bengalee 's argument is that it confuses political unity, which is a necessary condition of independence, with unity of opinion and action, which is an immense help if the... and absolutist rule. Still less is it true that unity in following the wrong road is the true means to the goal, much less the goal itself. We tried to prove from history that nations had been made free not by a scrupulous pursuit of unanimity or of unity in action but by faith, energy and courage in a number of its more energetic sons carrying away the bulk of the nation into a strenuous effort to ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  One Day More

... asked about the liberation of India , sometime in 1915 when India was completely in bondage, she answered without the least hesitation: " India is free". She did not say " India will be free", she said simply " India is free" as though stating an actual fact. The physical fact however came about in the year 1947, that is to say, 32 years after the thing happened in the subtle world ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Planes of Our Existence

... possibilities of world-existence. Again, enjoyment of one kind or another being the whole object of desire, that must be the trend of the desire-world; but since wherever the soul is not free,—and it cannot be free when subject to desire,—there must be the negative as well as the positive of all its experience, this world contains not only the possibility of large or intense Page 452 or... determined by material conditions or by the life-force, but itself determines and uses them for its own satisfaction. There mind, that is to say, the psychical and the intellectual being, is free in a certain sense, free at least to satisfy and fulfil itself in a way hardly conceivable to our body-bound and life-bound mentality; for the Purusha there is the pure mental being and his relations with Prakriti... Chapter XIX The Planes of Our Existence If the Purusha in us has thus to become by union with its highest self, the Divine Purusha, the knower, lord, free enjoyer of its Prakriti, it cannot be done, evidently, by dwelling on the present plane of our being; for that is the material plane in which the reign of Prakriti is complete; there the divine Purusha ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Divine Worker

... it does not see that even in what seems absolute inertia greater than that of the stone or clod, Nature is at work, keeps unimpaired her hold. On the contrary in the full flood of action the soul is free from its works, is not the doer, not bound by what is done, and he who lives in the freedom of the soul, not in the bondage of the modes of Nature, alone has release from works. This is what the Gita... can see action still continuing in cessation from works, is the man of true reason and discernment among men. This saying hinges upon the Sankhya distinction between Purusha and Prakriti, between the free inactive soul, eternally calm, pure and unmoved in the midst of works, and ever active Nature operative as much in inertia and cessation as in the overt turmoil of her visible hurry of labour. This... without repulsion and without attachment; what goes from him he allows to depart into the whirl of things without repining or grief or sense of loss. His heart and self are under perfect control; they are free from reaction and passion, they make no turbulent response to the touches of outward things. His action is indeed a purely physical action, śārīraṁ kevalaṁ karma ; for all else comes from above, is ...

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Questions and Answers (1953)  >  14 October 1953

... cannot prevent disorderly movements from taking place until knowledge comes and the choice is enlightened. If one is free to choose, one can also choose bad things, not necessarily the good, for if it were a Page 309 thing decided beforehand, it would no longer be a free choice. You see, when such questions are put, the mind only answers and it reduces the problem, it reduces it to a more... that they are suggestions. One must be able to separate oneself from the purely human consciousness, the body consciousness. And once you can look at it from above, you can free yourself from these suggestions quite well. You can free yourself from all suggestions, but for that you must rise above them. If that were not possible, it would be impossible to do yoga. But you do not become aware of it,... consciousness, you can be freed of the suggestion. Otherwise it is not possible. And you are not aware of it because you live in it quite normally—you are full of the movements and ideas belonging to the human race, which are not personal to you at all. You are not aware of them because they are very intimately bound up with your consciousness. But the moment you can free yourself from this human ...

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By The Body Of The Earth or The Sannyasin  >  What?

... is the devil, it's already something! —My Master said: “There is the great expanse, and one is free.” —But I am free! I know that great expanse of yours, I go there at will. He remained open-mouthed as though he were about to swallow the moon. —Yes, there is a world up there, and one is free, and there are no more questions. He said nothing. —It is afterwards I am asking about, ... ages, life decays, cold, fever, hunger, the beast, oh!... and all that is good for the pyre. —My Master said: “One must save one's soul.” —But, bon dieu , it is completely saved! It is free, eternally free; it is enough to remember and one streaks into the light—three seconds, I tell you. But life is not saved. The body is not saved; it is they who must be saved because they die t Heaven I have... law of his sect. And if the fire went out, he had to take to the road again, that's all. —In short, I said to him, in jest, the last encumbrance is the body. —You said it, brother, when one is free, one is done with the body! This time, it was I who looked at him dumbfounded. It was like a revelation. A revelation in reverse... I was standing there naked, perched on a stone in the torrent ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  All Ashram Work Is the Mother's Work

... keep to the true rules of the work; then you will have no difficulty or trouble. All the work should be done under the Mother's sole authority. All must be arranged according to her free decision. She must be free to use the capacities of each separately or together according to what is best for the work and best for the worker. None should regard or treat another member of the Asram as his s... this or that to which you are accustomed or to the things or circumstances or people related to it; for that would indicate a sense of possession or clinging in the vital. The vital should be perfectly free and ready to work or not to work, to remain in one field or to go to another, to do in one way or to do in another according to the will of the Mother. I trust that you will indeed take the opportunity... approval or are made under her general sanction. (2) You have done good work which has been appreciated by the Mother, but that does not authorise you to claim an independent action in your work free from control. There is and must be a departmental control over all sections of the work and that control, through whomever exercised, is the Mother's. No one in immediate charge of a section of the ...

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The Future Poetry  >  Recent English Poetry - I

... carry us any farther towards the desired result and is in no way an improvement on the past since it has no true artistic principle to guide us to freer and more consummate harmonies. But pushed to its logical issue it has created the still growing form of free verse of which we now find examples in most of the great literary languages and coupled with it a theory that this is the one future chance for... that language. Tagore has recently attempted a kind of free verse in Bengali, not so good as his regular metres, though melodious enough, as everything must be that is written by this master musician of the word, and throughout there is the same choric or dithyrambic principle of movement. This then seems to be the natural high-water mark of free poetical rhythm; it is a use of the poetic principle of... for poetry. Metre and rhyme are said to be played out, things of the past, which can no longer be allowed to chain and hamper the great and free movement which the enlarging spirit of poetry demands; as rhyme was in Milton's later view only a dainty trifle which he flung aside for the organ harmonies of his blank verse, so metre itself is a petty thing, half ornament, half fetter, which has to be flung ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Divine Work

... of past life and future birth but instead the eternal existence of the unborn Soul. He who is free inwardly, even doing actions, does nothing at all, says the Gita; for it is Nature that works in him under the control of the Lord of Nature. Equally, even if he assumes a hundred times the body, he is free from any chain of birth or mechanical wheel of existence since he lives in the unborn and undying... no man works, but Nature works through him for the self-expression of a Power within that proceeds from the Infinite. To know that and live in the presence and in the being of the Master of Nature, free from desire and the illusion of personal impulsion, is the one thing needful. That and not the bodily cessation of action is the true release; for the bondage of works at once ceases. A man might sit... the insect. But if he can make this greater consciousness dynamic within him, then all the work of all the worlds could pass through him and yet he would remain at rest, absolute in calm and peace, free from all bondage. Action in the world is given us first as a means for our self-development and self-fulfilment; but even if we reached a last possible divine self-completeness, it would still remain ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  On the War: An Unreleased Statement

... anti-democratic and all pushing for expansion, powers with regimes and theories of life which take no account of liberty of any kind; the surviving democracies would perish, nor would any free government with free institutions be any longer possible anywhere. It is not likely that India poor and ill-armed would be able to resist forces which had brought down the great nations of Europe; her chance of... the Germans and Italians believe that they are establishing a new civilisation and a new world-order. The English believe that they are defending not only their empire but their very existence as a free nation and the freedom also of other nations conquered by Germany or threatened by the push to empire of the Axis powers; they have made it a condition for making peace that the nations conquered shall... tive, this Force has thrown itself out for world-domination. Everywhere the results are the same, the disappearance of individual and national liberty, a rigid "New Order", the total suppression of free thought and speech, a systematic cruelty and intolerance, the persecution of all opposition, and, wherever the Nazi idea spreads, a violent racialism denying the human idea; outside Europe what is promised ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Drive towards Centralisation and Uniformity - Administration and Control of Foreign Affairs

... humanistic tendencies and institutions of the Southern States. There are indeed apparent types of a freer kind of federation, Switzerland, the United States, Australia, South Africa, but even here the spirit of uniformity really prevails or tends to prevail in spite of variation in detail and the latitude of free legislation in minor Page 439 matters conceded to the component States. Everywhere... Unity - II The Human Cycle Chapter XIX The Drive towards Centralisation and Uniformity - Administration and Control of Foreign Affairs Supposing the free grouping of the nations according to their natural affinities, sentiments, sense of economic and other convenience to be the final basis of a stable worldunion, the next question that arises is what... forceful fusing and welding of mankind into a single vast nation and centralised world-state with many provinces or to its aggregation under a more complex, loose and flexible system into a world-union of free nationalities. If the former more rigorous idea or tendency or need dominated, we must have a period of compression, constriction, negation of national and individual liberties as in the second of the ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  To the Editor of the Independent

... strong spirit that dwelt within him ranges now freed from our human and physical limitations, and can still shed upon us, on those now at work, and those who are coming, a more subtle, ample and irresistible influence; and even if this were not so, an effective part of him is still with us. His will is left behind in many to make more powerful and free from hesitations the national will he did so much... To the mind of his country Lokamanya Tilak was much more, for he had become to it a considerable part of itself, the embodiment of its past effort, and the head of its present will and struggle for a free and greater life. His achievement and personality have put him amidst the first rank of historic and significant figures. He was one who built much rapidly out of little beginnings, a creator of great ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  5 February 1958

... like this from discovery to discovery of things which already exist, which have always existed... but which the Supreme had never visited. And the path he follows in his discovery could be an entirely free, unexpected, unforeseen path according to his choice of the moment, so that, although his whole domain is there from all eternity, existing for ever, he could visit it in an altogether unexpected, ... course of his journey, therefore it is an absolute freedom of choice, and this is what gives the universal unfolding that unpredictable air and that possibility of change, for the Supreme is entirely free to change his course if he wants to do so. On the contrary, this is absolute freedom. But everything is there, and since everything is there, everything is absolutely determined—it has always existed... supreme Consciousness, you necessarily have the impression or the feeling or idea that you are subject to the law of a higher Will, but the moment you are identified with this Will you are perfectly free. This amounts to saying what Sri Aurobindo has always said: in union with the Supreme true freedom is realised. Page 267 ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Purity

... must aspire for is peace in all the being, complete equanimity, samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and purity and equanimity once established, all the rest must be the Mother's free gift, not a result of the demand from the being. You can mix normally with people keeping as much as possible an inner quietude. In future when the purification is done and a continuous experience... everything is subject to impurity, not the body only or part of the body, but mind and vital and all. Only the self and the psychic being remain always pure. A pure mind means a mind quiet and free from thoughts of a useless or disturbing character. X pretends to be pure and surrendered to the will of God. How can he be pure when his whole trouble has come from the indulgence of impure... satisfied with her love, when you are full of peace, contentment and happiness, then there is no room for wrong feelings and desires; your heart is pure. This is what the Mother meant by purity; to be free from false ideas, wrong feelings, desires, demands etc. is to be pure. Purity in the consciousness and purity in the conduct is what is usually meant by these terms [ inner and outer purity ] ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  Parabrahman, Mukti & Human Thought-Systems

... there is none bound & none free & none needing to be freed and all is only God's Lila, Parabrahman's play of manifestation. God uses this sattwic Maya in certain egos in order to draw them upwards in the line of His special purpose & for these egos it is the only right and possible path. But the aim of our Yoga is Jivanmukti in the universe; not because we need to be freed or for any other reason, ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Systems of Yoga

... its limited waking activities into freer and higher states of consciousness, Rajayoga serves a double purpose. It compasses a pure mental action liberated from the confusions of the outer consciousness and passes thence to the higher supra-mental planes on which the individual soul enters into its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of ... separate existence in that transcendent unity. And always it is the individual, the Self conditioned in its experience by Nature and working through her formations, that attains to the Self unconditioned, free and transcendent. In practice three conceptions are necessary before there can be any possibility of Yoga; there must be, as it were, three consenting parties to the effort,—God, Nature and the human... and the Individual. If the individual and Nature are left to themselves, the one is bound to the other and unable to exceed appreciably her lingering march. Something transcendent is needed, free from her and greater, which will act upon us and her, attracting us upward to Itself and securing from her by good grace or by force her consent to the individual ascension. It is this truth which ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Reason as Governor of Life

... to the knowledge of that which is being evolved and without its conscious cooperation. He seeks for an intelligent rule of which he himself shall be the governor and master or at least a partially free administrator. He can conceive a progressive order by which he shall be able to evolve and develop his capacities far beyond their original limits and workings; he can initiate an intelligent evolution... constantly consulted party. The rest of terrestrial existence is helplessly enslaved and tyrannised over by its nature, but the instinct of man when he finds his manhood is to be master of his nature and free. No doubt all is work of Nature and this too is Nature; it proceeds from the principle of being which constitutes his humanity and by the processes which that principle permits and which are natural... indeed to life for the conduct of its operations, but of none—so long as it is not taken up by the reason—for the particular purpose man has in view, a new order of the dealings of the soul in Nature, a free, rational, intelligently coordinating, intelligently self-observing, intelligently experimenting mastery of the workings of force by the conscious spirit. Reason, on the other hand, exists for the ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  February 1934

... opposition only, some feel both the descent and the opposition. February 9, 1934 With the taking up of the new work a calmness and ananda have descended on me and I have been surprisingly free from cravings and disturbing thoughts for a long time at a stretch. Is it due to the effect of the work or due to the descent of the Force you speak of? The Force comes down as soon as it finds... instant, the centenary of my arrival here? [ Sri Aurobindo underlined the word "centenary", put an interrogation mark above it. ] I say, you have not been here 100 years surely! Mother won't be free probably before 12.30, but if you like to come in and make pranam, you may do so. February 12, 1934 I would surely like to come even if it be for a pranam Please let me know the time through ...

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Bande Mataram  >  A Danger to the State

... the State. Now, Lajpat Rai devoted himself to politics in the very same spirit as he devoted himself to religious and social reform. His Page 551 whole aim was to assist the healthy and free development of this ancient nation and its distinctive civilization. If he subordinated his social and religious activity for the time being to the political, it was from the conviction that the causes... Independence, Mr. Morley argued, not only put the Americans on their mettle, but it left them with fresh views, with a temper of unbounded adaptability, with an infinite readiness to try experiments and free room to indulge it as largely as ever they pleased. Independence alone, he held, and Mr. Chaudhuri and others of his way of thinking should take note of it, can give a stimulus to all the nonpolitical ...

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Words of Long Ago  >  The Children of Japan

... of the sense of duty which gave to the Japanese people a great self-constraint, but no joyful and free expansion. I must make an exception to this rule and this exception is in favour of the children. We could quite well call Japan the paradise of children—in no other country have I seen them so free and so happy. After months of residence in Japan I have yet never seen a child beaten by a grown-up ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  The Path

... known where the thorn hurts and I am explaining the Path.   [4]   You must yourself make the effort, the Master only explains. They who take to meditation and follow the Path are freed from the bond ages of the Adversary.   [5]   All becomings are transitory. When one sees by the right knowledge, sufferings vanish. Such is the Path of purity.   [6]... so that your knowledge may increase.   [11]   Cut down the forest of desire, not merely one tree. Danger lies in the forest. Cut down the forest and its bushes, be out of it and free.   [12]   As long as a man has not rooted out the last of his desire for woman, his mind remains tied down even as a suckling child is to its mother.   [13]   ...

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Growing up with the Mother  >  Sutras

... truth of your being is ineluctably decreed and nothing and no one can prevent you from being it; but the path you will take to attain it is left to your own free choice. 19 May 1957 On the path of ascending evolution, each one is free to choose the direction he will take: the swift and steep ascent towards the summits of Truth, the supreme realisation, or, turning his back to the peaks, the ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  Appendix I: The Tangle of Karma

... its movements into an instrumentation of the free intelligence. Again man exists here in the body and the physical world; he is open more or less to the vast movements of a life plane and the free movements of a mental world that are far vaster and freer in their potentialities than anything that we call here life and mind, but he does not live in that free mental light or in that vast vital force. His... that can take up these imperatives also no less than the mind's imperatives and harmonise all in a grand and integral transformation. But the difficulty is again that if he is not open to the world of free intelligence, he is still less open to the deeper and vaster spiritual and supramental levels. There can indeed be great descents of spiritual light, purity, power, love, delight into the earth con ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Six  >  Social Customs

... woman is the property of man. A few centuries of habit built up a multi-storied building in Indian society. But thanks to the efforts of reformers and free thinkers the idea is crumbling into dust. The claim of woman is to be regarded and treated as a free individual being. If you remember, one of the tasks given to Sri Aurobindo by Sri Krishna was "to try and bring about certain social changes."... in their time, even totemism and polyandry." He argued, "We must not ignore the usefulness of the past, but we seek in preference a present and a future utility." Then there were the parrots of free thought. These reformers had swallowed European notions hook, line, and sinker, and now pressed for throwing away the baby with the bath water. All customs Indian were to them a mass of superstitions... benighted. Their descendants are today's 'secularists.' We were lucky to have some true great reformers; those who could think for themselves. Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, and others. Free thinkers, they looked at the degraded forest of Indian society. They looked closely at the myriad 'age-old' customs clogging the river of life. Were they really 'age-old' ? Did they really exist from ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Civilisation and Barbarism

... even of the free play of intelligence, Christian ecclesiasticism and monasticism became anti-intellectual and it was left to the Arabs to reintroduce the beginnings of scientific and philosophical knowledge into a Page 76 semi-barbarous Christendom and to the half-pagan spirit of the Renaissance and a long struggle between religion and science to complete the return of a free intellectual... of three continents. It has made general education the indispensable condition of national strength and efficiency and therefore imposed the desire of it not only on every free people, but on every nation that desires to be free and to survive, so that the universalisation of knowledge and intellectual activity in the human race is now only a question of Time; for it is only certain political and economic... Once we have determined that this rule of perfect individuality and perfect reciprocity is the ideal law for the individual, the community and the race and that a perfect union and even oneness in a free diversity is its goal, we have to try to see more clearly what we mean when we say that self-realisation is the sense, secret or overt, of individual and of social development. As yet we have not to ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Purification - The Lower Mentality

... the precariousness and even the possible dissolution of the workings of the physical mentality. Our mind instead of being a thing powerful in its own strength, a clear instrument of conscious spirit, free and able to control, use and perfect the life and body, appears in the result a mixed construction; it is a predominantly physical mentality limited by its physical organs and subject to the demands... body. This can only be got rid of by a sort of practical, inward psychological operation of analysis by which we become aware of the mentality as a Page 657 separate power, isolate it for a free working, distinguish too the psychical and the physical prana and make them no longer a link for dependence, but a transmitting channel for the Idea and Will in the buddhi, obedient to its suggestions... with imperfection; to compromise between them is to stop half way and possess neither earth nor heaven. But if we can get at the pure will undeformed by desire,—which we shall find to be a much more free, tranquil, steady and effective force than the leaping, smoke-stifled, soon fatigued and baffled flame of desire,—and at the calm inner will of delight not afflicted or limited by any trouble of craving ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Summary and Conclusion

... alternatives and none of the three forms considered are free from serious objections. A centralised World-State would signify the triumph of the idea of mechanical unity or rather of uniformity. It would inevitably mean the undue depression of an indispensable element in the vigour of human life and progress, the free life of the individual, the free variation of the peoples. It must end, if it becomes... or a simple confederacy of the peoples for the common ends of mankind. The last form is the most desirable, because it gives sufficient scope for the principle of variation which is necessary for the free play of life and the healthy progress of the race. The process by which the World-State may come starts with the creation of a central body which will at first have very limited functions, but, once... equality and a common life. There must be the realisation by the individual that only in the life of his fellow-men is his own life complete. There must be the realisation by the race that only on the free and full life of the individual can its own perfection and permanent happiness be founded. There must be too a discipline and a way of salvation Page 577 in accordance with this religion ...

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Collected Poems  >  Six Poems - Notes

... which the strict Vedantin would consider illegitimate. In Horis Aeternum This poem on its technical side aims at finding a halfway house between free verse and regular metrical poetry. It is an attempt to avoid the chaotic amorphousness of free verse and keep to a regular form based on the fixed number of stresses in each line and part of a line while yet there shall be a great plasticity and... Trance is suited only for a very brief lyrical poem. For longer poems I have sought to use it as a base but to liberate it by the introduction of an ample number of modulations which allow a fairly free variation of the rhythm without destroying the consistency of the underlying rhythmic measure. This is achieved in Shiva by allowing as the main modulations (1) a paeon anywhere in place of an amphibrach ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The Strength of the Idea

... many ideas are arising which find in British despotism their chief antagonist. The idea of a free and self-centred Ireland has been reborn and the souls of Fitzgerald and Emmett are reincarnating. The idea of a free Egypt and the Pan-Islamic idea have joined hands in the land of the Pharaohs. The idea of a free and united India has been born and arrived at full stature in the land of the Rishis, and the ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Welcome to the Prophet of Nationalism

... Same Period 6.Feb-3.May.1908 Bande Mataram Welcome to the Prophet of Nationalism 10-March-1908 Today Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal is due in Calcutta, a free man once more until it shall please irresponsible Magistrates and easily-twisted laws to repeat his seclusion from the work which God has given him to do. A true leader of men today in India holds his... of defence but the choice of his prosecutors is the arbiter of the trial, no soundness of the law in his favour, but the convenience of those who employ and pay his judge, determines whether he goes free or incurs the honourable pains of martyrdom—brief or long according to the caprice or policy of his political adversaries. To one who loves his country above all things, life in India today is as insecure... to confirm if not awaken, and which is now more evident in Madras where his influence is the chief inspiring force than in Bengal, the home of Nationalism. The voice of the prophet will once more be free to speak to our hearts, the voice through which God has more than once spoken. We shall remember once more that the movement is a spiritual movement for prophets, martyrs and heroes to inspire, help ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1  >  EMPTINESS AND FULLNESS

... emptiness which is the preliminary condition for these things, there comes an automatic tendency for a unity with all — their affections, mental, vital, physical may easily touch. One has to keep oneself free.         What is the meaning of the word "affections" used by you here with regard to people?       "Affections" here has not the ordinary sense — it means "ways in which they are affected... Do you think that what is felt as a void is not true? Since about a week whatever is experienced is this emptiness and nothing else.       Why not true? The void is the condition of the Self — free, wide and silent. It seems void to the mind but in reality it is simply a state of pure existence and consciousness. Sat and Chit with Shanti.         Yesterday you wrote, "Sat and Chit with... Ananda. There can of course be a calm Ananda.       Ananda comes afterwards — even if it comes at the beginning it is not usually constant. Wideness does not come because the consciousness is not yet free from the body. Probably when what is felt above the head comes down, it will be liberated into the wideness.         My human consciousness feels too tired to sustain itself in a steady blankness ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Life in and Through Death

... accomplished the real death. Then it is said the outer existence, the material life does not continue long, it comes sooner or later to a dead stop. Thus the inner being is liberated completely and is freed into the life beyond, the Divine Existence, the Brahman. It is said that when each and every seed of the various elements that compose the being, that sprouts into the luxuriant tree of material life... or remove the disguise, you will see the smiling radiant Godhead behind. The gold is there, the purest gold, but it is crusted over with dross. The dross is to be eliminated and the noble metal freed. Indeed each element of the being wherever and whatever it is, each corpuscle, mental, vital or physical is ambivalent – it is a polarised entity consisting of two parts or two ends, one pure, the other... other gets eliminated automatically. Life and death appear to be bound together absolutely and eternally; in fact, however, it is not so. Even in life, Life can be established in its single pure reality free from the normal counterpoint of Death. Purusha is not the only conscious element in or above creation. Prakriti is not merely the unconscious being. The unconscious Prakriti is only the apparent aspect ...

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Down Memory Lane  >  Indira Gandhi

... 1983 I sent her the following message of Mother, The Supreme wants a great and free India. It is in an ardent faith that there is salvation. In the last analysis, it is the Supreme Lord who does everything. We must be faithful instruments. Blessings. and asked her what Mother meant by "a great and free India", and also asked for her consent for publication in Sri Aurobindo's Action. ... She consented to the publication and added in her letter, "Being close to the Mother, you would be in a better position to know what she meant by a great and free India. I would say it meant that the Indian people should be more alive to their rich philosophical and cultural heritage and try to observe these high ideals in their daily life. This would strengthen us individually and help ...

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Words of the Mother - III  >  The Divine's Help to Man

... Divine Will acting in the inconscient is all-powerful even when we do not know it. Indeed, I am convinced that when the Inconscient is conquered no more conditions will be required; all will be a free decision of the divine Grace. The Greeks had a keen and exceptional sense of beauty, of eurythmy, of harmony in forms and things. But at the same time they had an equally keen sense of men's... inexorable cruelty of the decrees of a Fate that nothing can deflect. The faith that goes to the Cosmic Divine is limited in the power of its action by the necessities of the play. To get entirely free from these limitations one must reach the Transcendent Divine. Page 230 The only hope is in the capacity of the invisible Power! Only the supreme consciousness can have an effect ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  12th March 1939

... clarity of mind to see – as he has – that socialism can come in India only after independence, it should be equally clear to him that India can do something in international politics only after she is free. Disciple : The Congress wants to do something in international field. Sri Aurobindo : It is a hazy idea. All you have been able to do for China is to send an ambulance unit. It is not... may indulge in ultimatums. India is not ready even as Ireland was. The people are prepared to get beaten, or to go to jail at the most. So you have to see what can be done. When India is really free it will think many times before meddling into international problems before it is on its own feet. Disciple : You saw M. N. Roy got only 38 votes! Sri Aurobindo : He might say : Hitler ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  Notices of May 1928

... interchange, the Mother leading, the sadhakas following her realisation and progress. The Mother would raise all by a free self-giving of her forces, the sadhakas would realise in themselves her realisations and would by the force of an unfaltering aspiration and a surrender free from narrow personal demand and self-regarding littleness, consecrated wholly to the divine work, return her forces for ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1969  >  March 1, 1969

... publisher... We'll see. Did J.H. have a sort of free hand to do all he wanted? He came here while Sri Aurobindo was here, and he asked [to publish Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's works], and Sri Aurobindo said, "Let him do as he pleases," like that!... Everything was all the same to him. I think we should try, because we must free ourselves from this hold. For the moment, anything published ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  The Right of Absolute Freedom

... not to be tolerated, the only way left is to limit the absolute value of nationhood, to view a nation only as a member in a comity of nations forming the humanity at large.   A nation not free, still in bondage, cannot likewise justify its claim to absolute freedom by all or any means, at all times, in all circumstances. There are times and circumstances when even an enslaved nation has to... possible otherwise.   Within the nation all communities must be ready to give and take and settle down amicably. Within humanity too all nations must live the same principle. The days of free competition must be considered as gone for good; instead the rule of collaboration and co-operation has to be adopted (even between past enemies and rivals). In mutual aid and self-limitation lie also ...

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The Story of a Soul  >  27 September 1954

... It was the fight between gods and demons. Sighing my heart out I at last fell asleep. But what sweet consolation you gave me in my sleep! "Dear child, once you are wrapped up in me, you will be free from all miseries." You showed me face to face in my dream that I have plunged deep into the ocean of my soul. And when I felt there Your constant Presence, then I cried out, "O Mother." But... But alas! again the same gloom and grief. You teach me wonderful lessons that I may no longer get entangled in any worldly things. Now there is no place on earth where I can take refuge with a free heart and laugh with happiness. I request You, do listen to the call of a wounded heart! You will not disappoint me, will You? Compassionate Mother, bring a marvellous transformation to my life ...

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny  >  Urge to Procure Personal Money

... downfall. In order to bring us back to our senses let us listen to what Sri Aurobindo has to say to the sadhaks: Sri Aurobindo on Desires and a Sadhak's Needs: (1)"It is not yoga to give free play to the natural instincts and desires. Yoga demands mastery over the nature, not subjection to the nature." (Letters on Yoga, p. 1396) (2) "K ā man ā b ā san ā have no part in yoga, they... affected in any way by loss or withholding or deprival. If he has any greed, desire, demand, claim for possession and enjoyment, any anxiety, grief, anger or vexation when denied or deprived, he is not free in spirit and his use of the things he possesses is contrary to the spirit of sadhana." (Ibid., pp. 1399-1400) ...

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Towards A New Society  >  The Right Of Absolute Freedom

... monster is not to be tolerated, the only way left is to limit the absolute value of nationhood, to view a nation only as a member in a comity of nations forming the humanity at large. A nation not free, still in bondage, cannot likewise justify its claim to absolute freedom by all or any means, at all times, in all circumstances. There are times and circumstances when even an enslaved nation has to... not be possible otherwise. Within the nation all communities must be ready to give and take and settle down amicably. Within humanity too all nations must live the same principle. The days of free competition must be considered as gone for good; instead the rule of collaboration and co-operation has to be adopted (even between past enemies and rivals). In mutual aid and self-limitation lie also ...

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Learning with the Mother  >  Table of Merits

... after informing the Captain. For a breach of this rule, 1 point may be cut. If, for any reason, one has to leave during the Games period, one must inform the Captain and give the reason before one is free to leave. A violation of this rule will lose 2 points. If one is called by the Captains for removing or arranging Sporting materials or Gymnastic apparatus, it is one’s duty to help. For breaking... be cut. One’s body and uniform must be clean and tidy when one comes to the line at the commencement of the Games or exercising period. All buttons must be intact, and banyans and shorts should be free from holes. The nails must be trimmed short. For a breach of this rule 2 points may be cut. If one loses more than 50 points in a month, the extra points will be deducted from the next month ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Fullness of Spiritual Action

... . The first requisite is to shake the wings of the soul free from desire and passion and troubling emotion and all this perturbed and distorting atmosphere of human mind and arrive into an ether of dispassionate equality, a heaven of impersonal calm, an egoless feeling and vision of things. For only in that lucid upper air, reaches free from all storm and cloud, can self-knowledge come and the law... the divine Will in the nature, and it is therefore free and perfect within, whatever its outward appearance; it comes stamped with the inward spiritual seal of the Infinite as the thing to be done, the movement and the step of the movement decreed in the ways of the omniscient Master of action, kartavyaṁ karma . The soul of the liberated man is free in its impersonality, even while he contributes to... take for our own, are Nature's instruments and creations. But the impersonal Self does not act and is not part of Nature: it observes the action from behind and above and remains lord of itself and a free and impassive knower and witness. The soul that lives in this impersonality is not affected by the actions of which our nature is an instrument; it does not reply to them or their effects by grief and ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2  >  INNER AND OUTER BEING

... activity in the inner being. Its outer effect was experienced as an intensity in the vital and in the spine. Can there be such an action in the spine also?       Yes.         During a free reception, I feel the descent passing through my head, forehead and inner mind centre.       It is the inner mind centres that have become open and conscious.         While standing... side I saw the inertia active in its usual way and on the other the inner consciousness receiving the Mothers working as usual! This is something new to me. For up to now, whenever there was tamas a free reception (from the Mother) was always disturbed. Also I noticed that the inner was rejecting the tamas at the same time that it was receiving the Mother's action!— this it did as a distinct and deliberate... Page 180 over the other is won.         The day before yesterday the tamas was strong enough. Yet by merely coming near the Mother I could push it out and keep myself free for a long time. But this luck is lost since yesterday! Yet I should say that there is some part in me that detaches itself at once from all strife and struggle the moment I come into the Mother's physical ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  Life in and through Death

... accomplished the real death. Then it is said the outer existence, the material life does not continue long, it comes sooner or later to a dead stop. Thus the inner being is liberated completely and is freed into the life beyond, the Divine Existence, the Brahman. It is said that when each and every seed of the various elements that compose the being, that sprouts into the luxuriant tree of material... remove the disguise, you will see the smiling radiant Godhead behind. The gold is there, the purest gold, but it is crusted over with dross. The dross is to be eliminated and the noble metal freed. Indeed each element of the being wherever and whatever it is, each corpuscle, mental, vital or physical is ambivalent—it is a polarised entity consisting of two parts or two ends, one pure, the other... gets eliminated automatically. Life and death appear to be bound together absolutely and eternally; in fact, however, it is not so. Even in life, Life can be established in its single pure reality free from the normal counter-point of Death. Purusha is not the only conscious element in or above creation. Prakriti is not merely the unconscious being. The unconscious Page 16 Prakriti ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Message  >  Destiny of Our Troubled Human Existence

... a divine Craftsman. But he is admitted to a yet greater greatness and it is this that, unlike the lower creation, he is allowed to be partly the conscious artisan of his divine change. His free assent, his consecrated will and participation are needed that into his body may descend the glory that will replace him. His aspiration is earth's call to the supramental Creator. If earth... are the centres and knots of divine consciousness which sum up and support the processes of His movement. The world is His play with His own self-conscious delight, He who alone exists, infinite, free and perfect; we are the self-multiplications of that conscious delight, thrown out into being to be His playmates. The world is a formula, a rhythm, a symbol-system expressing God to Himself in His ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1966  >  January 8, 1966

... bringing of the divine Truth down on the earth, not only into the mind and vital but into the body and into Matter. Our object is not to remove all 'limitations' on the expansion of the ego or to give a free field and make unlimited room for the fulfillment of the ideas of the human mind or the desires of the ego-centred life-force. None of us are here to 'do as we like', or to create a world in which we... conditions laid down by the Divine. Our yoga is not for our own sake but for the sake of the Divine. It is not our personal manifestation that we are to seek, the manifestation of the individual ego freed from all bounds and from all bonds, but the manifestation of the Divine. Of that manifestation our own spiritual liberation, perfection, fullness is to be a result and a part, but not in any egoistic ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  26 JUNE 1946

... attached to it. Work itself is no solution; the spirit behind the work is important. The real remedy is to open oneself to the Force. When one gets free through the silent Brahman, one does not go back to the old way of work. By this liberation one becomes free from the ego; one becomes an instrument of the Divine Force by receiving the Force and feels its working, then inertia goes away and work in a new ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  21 AUGUST 1940

... NIRODBARAN: Some sections say that this is a move towards joining the war. How slowly and carefully Roosevelt is moving! SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, he will be freer after November. Of course, the Congress will still be there, but the Congress also will be freer. Even if he is not reelected as President, he may bind the next President to some course of action; for the next President comes in January, I believe ...

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The Psychic Being  >  The Psychic’s Choice and Conditions of Rebirth

... remain all the time in the earth atmosphere and take on bodies successively for the work. This means that the moment the psychic being is completely formed and absolutely free—when it is completely formed it becomes absolutely free—it can do anything it likes, it depends on what it chooses; therefore one can't say, "It will be like this, it will be like that"; it does exactly what it wants and it can... rhythm of the being—for some there is practically immediate rebirth, for others it takes longer, for some it may take centuries; but here, again, once the psychic being is sufficiently developed, it is free to choose its own rhythm and its own intervals. The ordinary theories are too mechanical—and that is the case also with the idea of puṇya and papa and their results in the next life. There are certainly... reincarnations, as I said, are at a greater distance from one another. When the psychic being is fully developed, when it no longer needs to return to earth for its development, when it is absolutely free, it has the choice between no longer coming back to earth if it finds that its work lies elsewhere or if it prefers to remain in the purely psychic consciousness, without reincarnating; or else it can ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Salvation through Works

... him because he has attained the Eternal and by the strength of that attainment becomes free from desire and ignorance; but works done before attainment can be nothing but means of bondage; only the pursuit of Godknowledge and the worship & adoration of God, to which the name of works does not properly apply, are free from responsibility. But this reasoning too is not consistent with divine teaching, with... interfere with their salvation? Because they feel that phenomenal life and works are a bondage and they desire to be free and not bound. This state of mind can only last so long as the seeker is the mumukshu , the self desirous of freedom, but when he is actually mukta , the free self, the terror of Maya and her works cannot abide with him. Mukti , which we have to render in English by salvation... promised to be reborn again and again and as other avatars have promised to be reborn. For however often he may enter into phenomenal life, he has no farther terror of Maya and her bondage. Once free, always free. Even if he does not will to be reborn, he will be careful not to leave the world of phenomena until his prarabdha karma is worked out. There are certain debts standing against his name in ...

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Hitler and his God  >  Back to Nature

... ‘mind’, free and similar to the nomads, but more narrow and cold. ‘Mind’ is the specific urban form of the apprehending awareness. All art, all religion and science become gradually mental, foreign to the land, incomprehensible to the earth-bound peasants. Civilization is the onset of the menopause of a people. The age-old roots of being are withered in the stone masses of their cities. The free mind... , but who had been too young and were now without prospects in a time of unemployment and overall turmoil. To go and live as farmers on the land was the dream of many of the toughest members of the Free Corps. They went fighting in Poland and the Baltic lands not only to push the Bolsheviks back but also to find there a plot of land for them to till and spend the rest of their days in peace. This will... slaves. Heinrich Himmler was one of those who kept the dream of the völkisch farmer alive, after having tried in vain to join the Army at the end of the war and to march under the flag of one of the Free Corps. Himmler became a member of the Artamanen , 2 a völkisch league founded in 1924 by young men and women whose ideal it was to live on the land and till it with all their dedication and strength ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  To and about Anna Bogenholm Sloane

... supramental Light and Force and guide its transformation into a divine nature. It is because there is this Power in her that she has been entrusted with the work. But all are free in their inner being, free to accept or refuse, free to receive or not to receive, to follow this way or another. What the Mother can do for the disciple depends on his willingness or capacity to open himself to her help and... or even there might be a reception of hostile forces instead of the true light and power. This is the law of the relation on the spiritual plane: the consent of the disciple must be at every moment free, but his confidence, if given, must be complete and the submission to the guidance absolute. This is the one real issue that your recent development has raised between us. The rising of some doubts... Divine into the mind and the vital and physical being. In that peace and silence there is a true possibility that the mental and vital formations will fall to rest and the supramental creation can have free space. The second safeguard is to remain entirely detached even from the most absorbing experiences and observe them without being carried away by their brilliance. The power of discernment and dis ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  1 March 1951

... equivalent to an infinite. The divine Consciousness is essentially free—It wanders therein and objectifies Itself. The path traversed is free in the midst of an infinite multiplicity which is at the same time pre-existent and absolutely undetermined according to the action of the free divine Will. It may be conceived that this Will, being free, is able to change the course of the deployment, change the path... path and, although everything is pre-existent and consequently inevitable, the road, the path is free and absolutely unexpected. These changes of the route, if one may say so, can therefore change the relations between things and circumstances, and consequently the determinism is changed. This change of the circuit is called "the effect of the Grace"; well, through the aid of the Grace, if the Grace ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Above the Gunas

... is the infinite spiritual knowledge and the free self-existent delight of our spiritual being. But then there is the question, how does our infinite and imperishable spirit, even involved in Nature, come thus to confine itself to the lower action of Prakriti and undergo this bondage and how is it not, like the supreme spirit of which it is a portion, free in its infinity even while enjoying the s... things and becomes oblivious of its own greater consciousness behind in the spirit, unaware of the free power and scope of the liberating Purusha. Evidently, in order to be liberated and perfect, we must get back from these things, away from the gunas and above them and return to the power of that free spiritual consciousness above Nature. But this would seem to imply a cessation of all doing, since... To rise above the modes of Nature, to be traiguṇyātīta , is indispensable, if we are to get back into our fully conscious being away from the obsessing power of the lower action and to put on the free nature of the spirit and its eternal immortality. That condition of the sādharmya is what the Gita next proceeds to develop. It has already alluded to it and laid it down with a brief emphasis in ...

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The Human Cycle  >  After the War

... —provided Labour in power is faithful to the mind of Labour in opposition,—one considerable promise, a juster equation between the national and the international idea, an international comity of free nations, a free, equal and democratic league of peoples in place of the present close oligarchy of powers that only carries the shadow of an unreal League as its appendage. An international equality and cooperation... of the future, abolished the past foundations, made and persisted in a radical experiment of communism, replaced middle-class parliamentarism by a new form of government and used its first energy of free life to initiate an entirely novel social order. It is acts of faith and audacities of this scale that change or hasten the course of human progress. It does not follow necessarily that what is being... emergence of a new and as yet unforeseen principle. The upcoming force that opens a certain latitude for this last possibility is the resurgence of Asia. It is difficult to believe that Asia once free to think, act and live for herself will be for long content merely to imitate the past or the present evolution of Europe. The temperament of her peoples is marked off by too deep-seated a difference ...

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The Role of South India in the Freedom Movement  >  Rajgopalchari

... anti-democratic and all pushing for expansion, powers with regimes and theories of life which take no account of liberty of any kind; the surviving democracies would perish, nor would any free government with free institutions be any longer possible anywhere. It is not likely that India poor and ill-armed would be able to resist forces which had brought down the great nations of Europe; her chance of... that the British should have the courage to let Germany occupy Britain': "Let them take possession of your beautiful island, if Hitler chooses to occupy your homes, vacate them, if he does not give you free passage out, allow yourself, man, woman and child to be slaughtered." 3.... Faced with such an impracticable - even unethical - attitude of the leader of the Indian National Congress Party, no wonder... of Britain giving her in return a substantial share in the administration of India. He persuaded the Congress to accept a resolution to the effect that if there was a declaration that India would be free at the end of the War and if an all-party national government was formed right away, the Congress would prosecute the War as an ally of Britain. This offer of Indian participation in war efforts ran ...

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Lights on Yoga  >  The Goal

... Truth down on the Page 1 earth, not only into the mind and vital but into the body and into Matter. Our object is not to remove all "limitations" on the expansion of the ego or to give a free field and make unlimited room for the fulfilment of the ideas of the human mind or the desires of the ego-centred life-force. None of us are here to "do as we like", or to create a world in which we... conditions laid down by the Divine. Our Yoga is not for our own sake but for the sake of the Divine. It is not our own personal manifestation that we are to seek, the manifestation of the individual ego freed from all bounds and from all bonds, but the manifestation of the Divine. Of that manifestation our own spiritual liberation, perfection, fullness is to be a result and a part, but not in any egoistic... Yoga, unless one is sure of Page 2 the psychic call and of one's readiness to go through to the end. * In the former Yogas it was the experience of the Spirit which is always free and one with the Divine that was sought. The nature had to change only enough to prevent its being an obstacle to that knowledge and experience. The complete change down to the physical was only sought ...

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Guidance on Education  >  Publisher's Note

... employs, as far as possible, what is called the free progress system. In this system the student is encouraged to assume responsibility for his own growth by choosing his own courses of study and pursuing them largely on his own. The teacher acts primarily as a guide rather than an instructor. In practice, the school's teaching system is a combination of the free progress system and the traditional method ...

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Letters on Yoga - II  >  Jainism and Buddhism

... also, since there is Page 435 no Jiva really, only Brahman and Brahman is by nature free and unbound for ever? So how did the whole absurd affair of Maya come into existence and who is liberated? That is what the old sages said at last: "There is none bound, none freed, none seeking to be free." It was all a mistake (a rather long-standing one though). The Buddhists, I suppose, could say... the result of the continuous flowing of energies and ideas in a determined current. There is no real formation of an ego. As to the liberation, it is in order to get free from duḥkha etc.,—it is a painful flow of energies and to get free from the pain they must break up their continuity. That is all right, but how it started, why it should end at all and how anybody is benefited by the liberation, since ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Problem of a Federated Heterogeneous Empire

... economic interests of the mother country and the colonies were disparate, aloof from each other, often opposite as was shown by the adoption by the latter of Protection as against the British policy of Free Trade. Their sole political interest in the Empire was the safety given by the British fleet and army against foreign invasion; they did not share and took no direct interest in the government of the... but that of the centre of a great confederation of States and nations coalescing by her attraction into a new supra-national unity. Here the first condition is that she must scrupulously respect the free internal life and will, the social, cultural, economic tendencies of the colonies while giving them an equal part with herself in the management of the great common questions of the Empire. She herself... applied elsewhere with such success and the departure from which has always after a certain stage been so detrimental to its own wider interests. It must allow, respect and even favour actively the free and separate evolution of India subject to the unity of the Empire. So long as India does not entirely govern herself, her interests must take a first place in the mind of those who do govern her, and ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  14th December 1938

... looked at P. M. opened his eyes. P. felt much embarrassed. Disciple : Were you ever a Free Mason, Sir? Sri Aurobindo : My eldest brother was; from him I gathered that it was nothing. But Free Masons had something when it was started. Have you heard of Kaliostro? He was a mystic and a Free Mason with a great prophetic        Page 19 power. He prophesied about the French... if it is not what I wanted, I have to accept it, and this prevents my having a greater or another possibility. So I want to keep myself free and deal with various possibilities. Below the Supermind everything is a question of possibilities; so if I keep myself free, I can accept or reject as I like. Destiny is not a thing fixed. It is just a complex of forces which can be changed. Disciple : ...

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Kena and Other Upanishads  >  A Fragmentary Chapter for a Work on Vedanta

... but from the knowledge of the one to the knowledge of relation & circumstance, by a process of knowledge that is sovereign & free, not painful, struggling & bound. This is the central truth of Veda & Upanishad & the process by which they have been revealed to men. This free & great movement of illumination descending from above to us below and not like our thought here which climbs painfully up the... in groves and thickets; it has distinguished & numbered the various species of trees and fixed their genus. It has mapped them out collectively & known the whole mass as the forest. But it is not yet free. It has not escaped from the ensorcelled gyre of the Almighty Magician. It knows every detail of its prison, nothing more. It has discovered the vyashti & the samashti; it has arrived only at a collective... ourselves, other such intuitive perceptions, of immortality although we cannot look beyond the black wall of death, of freedom although the facts of the world seem to load us with chains. Are we yet free by the force of this intuitive reason? We cannot say so,—for this reason that it gives us suggestions, but not realisations. It is in its nature what the old psychologists would have called smriti, ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Ego

... beautiful that you immediately want to get rid of all the rest... of the ego! Please note that I am not saying that you must be totally free from all ego in order to have a glimpse of the supramental; for then that would be something almost impossible. No, to be free from ego, just a little bit somewhere, in some corner of your being, even only a little corner of the mind; if it is the mind and the vital... outermost to the innermost, from the physical to the spiritual, you are steeped in ego. It is mixed with everything and you are not aware of what it is. You must have already conquered it, come out of it, freed yourself from it, at least partially, at least in some little corner of your being somewhere, in order to realise what the ego is. The ego is what helps us to individualise ourselves and what prevents ...

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Sri Aurobindo's Message  >  Sri Aurobindo's Message to Sadhaks

... The Supreme demands your surrender to her, but does not impose it: you are free at every moment, till the irrevocable transformation Page 30 comes, to deny and to reject the Divine or to recall your self-giving, if you are willing to suffer the spiritual consequence. Your surrender must be self-made and free; it must be the surrender of a living being, not of an inert automaton or... consciousness and nature; rejection of the movements of the lower nature — rejection of the mind's ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind, — rejection of the vital nature's desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that ...

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Karmayogin  >  Facts and Opinions

... political life in the Mofussil as free and well-organised as the life of Calcutta. By their own action they have destroyed such freedom and organisation as had been created. Nor can they make their Councils the instrument of so vital a change unless they also make them the centre of the political life of Bengal. This they can only do by a large literate electorate, free elections and effectiveness of... taken care to preclude the chance of being face to face with a numerically strong and robust opposition in the Council. If so, the Councils are not a mirror of the political forces in the country, not a free popular Page 390 assembly, but a carefully limited council of notables friendly to the existing state of things. Whether the Government are to blame or not for guarding their interests by... of the popular vote. But, at present, that is not what the bureaucrats desire. They do not desire a free and vigorous political life evenly distributed throughout the country,—that is the Nationalist ideal. They desire to foster a faint political life confined to the dignified and subservient elements in the country while killing the independent popular life, which finds its centre in this city, by an ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Writing to the Mother

... the lack of a certain free opening—otherwise all that could be removed quickly and the necessary change of Page 365 nature (mind, ego etc.) carried on by smooth gradations. To write as you do is helpful for opening oneself and for receiving the precise touch. X 's logic about the Mother knowing and therefore there being no need to write is applicable if there is a free or at least a sufficient ...

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My Pilgrimage to the Spirit  >  To Money and Things

... or deprival. If he has any greed, desire, demand, claim for possession or enjoyment, grief, anger or vexation when denied or deprived, he is not free in spirit and his use of the things to possess is contrary to the spirit of sadhana. Even if he is free in spirit, he will not be fit for possession, if he has not learned to use things not for himself, but for the Divine Will, as an instrument, with ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  Sweet Adversity

... sense, because they tend to throw us back upon ourselves, upon our inner truth and reality, which otherwise we would not have known or recognised. And it is the nature of that truth and reality to be free and happy and hopeful absolutely. And the consciousness which possesses that temper and vibration is master of an energy, a force of execution-a will and power to do the miracle. To live in hope... against the danger apprehended, to call in a help and power that is or can be always at our disposal, which can not only console but save. Even if death be the end and there is no escape, yet we would be freed from the wounds and scars that it inflicts upon our being with its ignorance and unconsciousness, we would learn to pass over luminously and in the full freedom of the spirit. Hope is the image ...

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The Renaissance in India  >  Indian Polity - 1

... the characteristics of the decline and dissolution, the features of the decadence read backward into the time of greatness, and it amounts to this that India has always shown an incompetence for any free or sound political organisation and has been constantly a divided and for the most part of her long history a subject nation, that her economic system whatever its bygone merits, if it had any, remained... ce has arisen from a false view of the historical development and an insufficient knowledge of the ancient past of the country. It has long been currently supposed that she passed at once from the freer type of the primitive Aryan or Vedic social and political organisation to a system socially marked by the despotism of the Brahmin theocracy and politically by an absolute monarchy of the oriental,... sacrifice, the seed of the great Brahminic institution. These were not at first hereditary, but exercised other professions and belonged in their ordinary life to the general body of the people. This free and simple natural constitution of the society seems to have been general at first throughout Aryan India. The later development out of this primitive form followed up to a certain point the ordinary ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Field and its Knower

... transaction between the soul and Nature. What is the original character of that transaction? what does it become at its spiritual culminating point? to what perfection does it lead the soul that gets free from its lower and external motives and grows inwardly into the very highest poise of the Spirit and deepest motive-force of the works of its energy in the universe? These are the questions involved... nature. Above this inferior power of existence there is a higher divine and spiritual nature of its own true being in which this soul is for ever a conscious portion of the Eternal and Divine, blissful, free, superior to its mask of becoming, immortal, imperishable, a power of the Godhead. To rise by this higher nature to the Eternal through divine knowledge, love and works founded on a spiritual universality... the Teacher, whether to the divine Teacher within or to the human Master in whom the divine Wisdom is embodied,—for that is the sense of the reverence given to the Guru. Then there is a nobler and freer attitude towards the outward world, an attitude of perfect detachment and equality, a firm removal of the natural being's attraction to the objects of the senses and a radical freedom from the claims ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  Karmayoga and its Indispensability-2

... and feeling himself above the work—free in his soul and free in his nature. This kind of work is, indeed, yuktasya karma or muktasya karma,—the work of one who is not a slave of his work, but master. It is difficult to have this freedom from attachment to one's work so long as the ego has not made its total surrender to the Divine. We may think we are free, but the moment our cherished work is... things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to test... of the Mother in the details of the yogic work. Let us suppose that a sâdhaka, who is an artist, is trying to offer his work to the Divine. It is not enough for him to be niskāma, desireless, and free from all craving for the result of his painting, it is not enough either to regard the work as belonging to the Mother, and do it in a spirit of sacrifice and dedication; what is more dynamically important ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Asiatic Democracy

... the world would have gone astray with her. Her mission is to point back humanity to the true source of human liberty, human equality, human brotherhood. When man is free in spirit, all other freedom is at his command; for the Free is the Lord who cannot be bound. When he is liberated from delusion, he perceives the divine equality of the world which fulfils itself through love and justice, and this... structure of society and the Satya Yuga return. This is the Asiatic reading of democracy which India must rediscover for herself before she can give it to the world. It is the dharma of every man to be free in soul, bound to service not by compulsion but by love; to be equal in spirit, apportioned his place in society by his capacity to serve society, not by the interested selfishness of others; to be ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Other Dreams and Experiences

... on the right side and your standing on the left in my experience? Yes, she is the executive power and must have the right arm free for action. The symbolism which puts her on the left side belongs to the Ignorance. In the Ignorance she is on the left side, not free in her action, all is a wrong action or half result. For the supramental work the true symbol is the Mother on the right side. 20... time she is aware, but she does not carry all that always into her waking consciousness or in her memory. A call would come in the occupied waking mind as the thought of the person coming—in a more free or in a concentrated state as a communication from the person in question; in concentration or in sleep or trance she would see the person coming and speaking to her or Page 130 herself ...

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Evolution and the Earthly Destiny  >  Brahmacharya

... consciousness have attained a certain degree of growth and development. A child grows in the full free play of its life movements: the care or attention of others should weigh upon it as lightly as possible, maintaining only an atmosphere of happy influence and protection. The transition from the stage of free play to conscious control is marked in Indian society by the ceremony of upanayana, the first... that freedom; but it is more slavery than freedom, slavery to our commonplace animal nature. Because one follows one's impulses and instincts freely, without let or hindrance one feels as if he were free. Far from it. This hiatus in our nature, the separation between intellectual culture and life movement has to be healed up; human personality must be made a unified whole. The training given under ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 2  >  Brahmacharya

... consciousness have attained a certain degree of growth and development. A child grows in the full free play of its life movements: the care or attention of others should weigh upon it as lightly as possible, maintaining only an atmosphere of happy influence and protection. The transition from the stage of free play to conscious control is marked in Indian society by the ceremony of upanayana, the first... that freedom; but it is more slavery than freedom, slavery to our commonplace animal nature. Because one follows one's impulses and instincts freely, without let or hindrance one feels as if he were free. Far from it. This hiatus in our nature, the separation between intellectual culture and life movement has to be healed up; human personality must be made a unified whole. The training given under ...

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Karmayogin  >  The Ideal of the Karmayogin

... save the soul of the nation alive or stay the course of degradation and decline. It is the spirit alone that saves, and only by becoming great and Page 25 free in heart can we become socially and politically great and free. We do not believe that by multiplying new sects limited within the narrower and inferior ideas of religion imported from the West or by creating organisations for... dress and body of Hinduism we can recover our spiritual health, energy and greatness. The world moves through an indispensable interregnum of free thought and materialism to a new synthesis of religious thought and experience, a new religious world-life free from intolerance, yet full of faith and fervour, accepting all forms of religion because it has an unshakable faith in the One. The religion which ...

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Questions and Answers (1950-1951)  >  29 March 1951

... things and, if you cling to them and shut yourself up in a code of life made out for you, you do not know and cannot know the truth of the spirit that lies beyond all codes and dogmas, wide and large and free.... "In every religion there are some who have evolved a high spiritual life. But it is not the religion that gave them their spirituality; it is they who have put their spirituality into the religion... "Little Vehicle" because there are few! I don't know exactly the origin of the two terms. "Things have an inner value and become real to you only when you have acquired them by the exercise of your free choice, not when they have been imposed upon you. If you want to be sure of your religion, you must choose it; if you want to be sure of your country, you must choose it; if you want to be sure of your... that state conform to true aspiration; and it is only a true aspiration which could make your vital pure of all mixture, make the vital element attracted for the formation of the being a pure element, free from all contagion; I mean that if a psychic being enters there, it can gather elements favourable to its growth. In the world as it is, things are so mixed up, have been so mixed up in every way, that ...

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Six Talks  >  MORE OF YAJNAVALKYA

... mankind, thousands and thousands, millions perhaps, of years ago, it was the law, the social custom and it became a duty, to have more than one wife and the relation too between man and woman was much freer and more Page 30 loose. That was because, as you know, man started his earthly life at a certain stage of creation; before that stage there was no man, there were only animals. The earth... anxious, we are racking our brains, trying to find out all kinds of means and ways to restrict and control any increase in population. I said, in the early days the need to marry in any way — a very free choice was given in the matter of the way of marriage — and to procreate was a social duty: but note it is not for individual pleasure. Today we have discarded all notion of that kind of action as ... life as a mere machine of which individuals are dead helpless parts and units meant to serve as obedient instruments in the production of useful goods. The appeal on the contrary is to the soul, the free inner individual, choosing its destiny but with a view to collaborating and uniting with others in the realisation of a global truth. In the spiritual sphere also Sri Aurobindo gives us the same ...

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Mother and Abhay  >  Foreword

... Indian Mirror Street became in course of time a landmark for cultural activities. Abhay was born in Calcutta. Although born as a Jaina, Prithwi Singh was free from all bigotry and sectarianism. He wanted his children also to grow up in an atmosphere free from all narrowness. That is why he with his family shifted to Shantiniketan in December 1929. His house at "Nichu Bangla" became a centre of pilgrimage ...

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Health exercises for Women and Girls  >  Introduction

... . In fact, regular exercise will help you out of those difficult and uncomfortable days. Dress for the exercise in such a way that there is no interference with free movements. The dress must also be sufficiently loose to permit free circulation of blood and should be suited to the weather . The place for exercise should be clean and airy and protected from too much heat, cold or dampness. ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  20 October 1954

... —Equality". Sweet Mother, what is "the freedom of the Self"? It means that in the true inner being one feels perfectly free, and is free from everything. One has the feeling of a complete freedom—free from all external influences, free from all lower impulses, free from all bondage of thoughts, habits... ( Silence ) There, then. ( To a child ) Do you have a question? Here I did not ... wanting to submit to any discipline, any rule, of standing on one's own feet, not wanting any support except one's own, and being free, independent in one's movements: this is to stand back from the divine solicitude. To want to do what one likes, one's own will, in quite a free and independent way—"only doing what I want"—this is to stand back from the divine solicitude. One does it quite frequently ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  Hathayoga

... of the physical system and its more complete movement through it. The life energy, thus occupying Page 532 and operating in a powerful, unified movement on the tranquil and passive body, freed from the restless balancing between the continent power and the contained, becomes a much greater and more effective force. In fact, it seems then rather to contain and possess and use the body than... The body, thus liberated from itself, purified from many of its disorders and irregularities, becomes, partly by Asana, completely by combined Asana and Pranayama, a perfected instrument. It is freed from its ready liability to fatigue; it acquires an immense power of health; its tendencies of decay, age and death are arrested. The Hathayogin even at an age advanced beyond the ordinary span maintains... time. He has a much greater power of longevity, and from his point of view, the body being the instrument, it is a matter of no small importance to preserve it long and to keep it for all that time free from impairing deficiencies. It is to be observed, also, that there are an enormous variety of Asanas in Hathayoga, running in their fullness beyond the number of eighty, some of them of the most c ...

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga  >  The Ideal of the Karmayogin

... save the soul of the nation alive or stay the course of degradation and decline. It is the spirit alone that saves, and only by becoming great and Page 5 free in heart can we become socially and politically great and free. We do not believe that by multiplying new sects limited within the narrower and inferior ideas of religion imported from the West or by creating organisations for... dress and body of Hinduism we can recover our spiritual health, energy and greatness. The world moves through an indispensable interregnum of free thought and materialism to a new synthesis of religious thought and experience, a new religious world-life free from intolerance, yet full of faith and fervour, accepting all forms of religion because it has an unshakable faith in the One. The religion which ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Five  >  Time to Leave

... deplorable to set him free to recommence operations. Tools are easily got. It is a grave responsibility to set free against society a man who can get them as easily and use them as effectively as Arabindo Ghose." But in the end, they could not gather enough evidence against him that would have secured his conviction in a court of law. When the Sessions Judge set him free, the Government found... in April, "that he would not be very much longer in the affairs of the world and engaged in journalistic work." Sri Aurobindo remained in Calcutta just long enough to see the return home of a freed Krishna Kumar Mitra and Shyam Sundar Chakraborty, in February 1910. If we take August 1906 —when he joined the National College and began the Bande Mataram — zs the beginning of his open political ...

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Five  >  Nineteen Hundred

... revolutionary changes, India will become free." Ambalal B. Purani was a Gujarati and a revolutionary. In December 1918 he came to meet Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry to inform him that after eleven years' preparation his group was "now ready to start revolutionary activity." Sri Aurobindo told him that it may not be necessary to resort to revolutionary activity to free India, as "India has already decided... years and a half." He wanted an assurance. Sri Aurobindo gave it in a serious tone : "Then, I give you the assurance that India will be free." But even this assurance from Sri Aurobindo did not completely dispel Purani's doubts. "Are you quite sure that India will be free?" Purani wanted a guarantee. Page 112 "Sri Aurobindo became very serious," describes Purani. "His gaze was fixed at ...

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Guidance on Education  >  Students - Silence of Mind

... necessity of being quiet and opening in silence to the higher regions which can give you knowledge. 27 September 1969 * Mother, a free, quiet, silent mind is such a nice thing; I would like to have more of that. I want to be free from the constant whirlwinds of thoughts and emotions within me, tossing me like a toy. It comes progressively. Do not strain. Be ...

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Bande Mataram  >  A Last Word

... any call to encourage. The question of the secrecy of the Subjects Committee proceedings is another matter altogether. This secrecy is never observed in practice; on the contrary, in the absence of free and healthy publicity, partial and altogether misleading reports are circulated which delude public opinion. If secrecy is to be observed, it must be done wholly and completely, by the mouth as well... exposure that abuses can be killed. We do not believe in shrouding discussions on public matters in secrecy; but if the constitutional practice of public bodies is strictly observed in these sittings, and free public discussion is allowed on matters of great importance in open Congress, then the secrecy of the Subjects Committee may become a fact and not a convenient fiction; but not till then. But in our ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  The Object of Our Yoga

... created the world, it is not the organised blunder of some Infinite Dreamer; omniscient Power manifests or conceals it in Itself or Its own delight, it is not a bondage imposed by His own ignorance on the free and absolute Brahman. If the world were Brahman's self-imposed nightmare, to awake from it would be the natural and only goal of our supreme endeavour; or if life in the world were irrevocably bound... we are the centres and knots of divine consciousness which sum up and support the processes of His movement. The world is His play with His own self-conscious delight, He who alone exists, infinite, free and perfect; we are the self-multiplications of that conscious delight, thrown out into being to be His playmates. The world is a formula, a rhythm, a symbol-system expressing God to Himself in His ...

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Living in The Presence  >  Spoken French Class

... Living in The Presence Spoken French Class I mentioned earlier that the Mother had given the responsibility of the Free Progress section to Paru, Dhanvanti and me. There Were obviously other teachers who taught as well. I was in charge of the French classes. I had divided the 45 students into five groups. Let me tell you here about one of... they began enjoying this so much that they did not want to do anything else! The entire hour with me in the spoken French class just went into story-creation. But then this was the particularity of the Free Progress system: students were allowed to pursue whatever they had chosen for as long as they wished if the teacher felt that it was being done with sincere concentration and interest. There was no ...

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The Life Divine  >  Delight of Existence: The Problem

... Force to create, obliged by its own potentiality of movement and formation to move into forms. It is true that it has this potentiality, but it is not limited, bound or compelled by it; it is free. If, then, being free to move or remain eternally still, to throw itself into forms or retain the potentiality of form in itself, it indulges its power of movement and formation, it can be only for one reason... may be brought back in a modified form; All-Delight being necessarily all-good and all-love, how can evil and suffering exist in Sachchidananda, since he is not mechanical existence, but free and conscious being, free to condemn and reject evil and suffering? We have to recognise that the issue so stated is also a false issue because it applies the terms of a partial statement as if they were applicable... by tortures often so extreme and monstrous? The inexorable law of Karma is irreconcilable with a supreme moral and personal Deity, and therefore the clear logic of Buddha denied the existence of any free and all-governing personal God; all personality he declared to be a creation of ignorance and subject to Karma. In truth, the difficulty thus sharply presented arises only if Page 101 ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Aesthetic and Ethical Culture

... windows in this prison by which it may get draughts of agreeable fresh air, something of the free light of the intellect, something of the fragrance of art and beauty, something of the large breath of wider interests and higher ideals. It has yet to break out of its prison altogether and live in that free light, in that fragrance and large breath; only then does it breathe the natural atmosphere of... mentalised emotional or sensational current, a life of conventional conduct, average feelings, customary ideas, opinions and prejudices which are not one's own but those of the environment, to have no free and open play of mind, but to live grossly and unthinkingly by the unintelligent rule of the many, to live besides according to the senses and sensations controlled by certain conventions, but neither... Paris in certain brief periods of its history; that, Page 96 whatever some of its pretensions, had for its principle, always, the indulgence of the average sensational and sensuous man freed from the conventions of morality by a superficial intellectualism and aestheticism. Nor even can we take Puritan England as the ethical type; for although there was there a strenuous, an exaggerated ...

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Integral Yoga of Transformation  >  Part Seven

... this soul-force, — and gives it its larger scope. All the fourfold powers are taken up and are thrown into the free circle of an integral and harmonious spiritual dynamis. The soul-power of knowledge rises to the highest degree of which the individual nature can be the supporting basis of a free mind of light; powers of revelation, inspiration, intuition, discrimination begin to flower; there comes about... supramentalised physical consciousness. He would be in he world and of the world but would also exceed it in his consciousness and live in his Self of transcendence above it; he would be universal but free in the universe, individual but not limited by separative individuality. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "The true Person is not an isolated entity, his individuality is universal; for he individualises... will; or at a still higher level, the Kshatriya is a ruler, conqueror, leader of a cause, creator, founder in whatever field of the active formation of life. In his refined expression, the Kshatriya is free from the disabling weakness of fear, who stoops to nothing little, base, vulgar or weak; he has the love of honour which would scale the heights of the highest nobility; he maintains untainted ideal ...

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By The Body Of The Earth or The Sannyasin  >  The Vision

... distress, there was something which repeated stubbornly: “You were right to go away, even if it had to be started all over again, I would still do it a thousand times...” —I want to be free, do you hear, free! Well! you have your freedom; what are you complaining of? You are not at the wedding party, so what else do you want? —Too late, Nil, too late... trop tard ... And that was the most... earth!... And I burned everything for that. I ravaged everything. And now I was running to hang myself for that nauseous little happiness. “All white, the little Nils! We'll have a hut; we'll be free; we'll go far, far away to the north, there will be green paddy-fields...” Oh! was I going to hang myself for that? But could I deny Batcha also? I could deny nothing, not even the Sannyasi! And I was... driven against the wall of the sanctuary, facing the void; the wind was flapping that orange robe as if it willed to tear it: dorai, dorai ... assassin, assassin, perjurer. —Ah! So you wanted to be free, Sannyasi, well, you are!... Even Balu had stoned me; they had all turned their backs on me. —You renounce the three worlds, you cast them into the fire. I took a grain of coloured rice and ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The Gospel according to Surendranath

... won. "Let my name be blasted," cried Danton, "but let France be saved." "Let my name, life, possessions all go," cries the true Nationalist, "let all that is dear to me perish, but let my country be free." But Babu Surendranath is not prepared to consider the world well lost for liberty. He wishes to drive bargains with God, to buy liberty from Him in the cheapest market, at the smallest possible price... enslaved and internally disunited, can rapidly attain to freedom and unity; and that for this purpose the great necessity is to awake in the nation a burning, an irresistible, an unanimous will, to be free. The Bengalee denies all these positions. We must win liberty, it holds, not by an immediate struggle but by a long and weary journey; not by heavy sacrifices, but in the spirit of a Banya by grudging... of history, but by vague and intangible rhetorical generalisations about "our increased knowledge and wisdom, our enlarged affections and interests of the present day". We are to curb our will to be free by a "trained intelligence" which teaches us that we are not a homogenous nation and must therefore tolerate differences. We will content ourselves at present with pointing out that the Bengalee ...

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Karmayogin  >  The Boycott Celebration

... Talk is necessary to him, emotion is necessary to him, imagination is necessary to him; without these he cannot be induced to action. This constitutes the supreme importance of the right of free speech and free meeting; this also constitutes the justification of symbolical holidays and festivals. Speech and writing are necessary to the acceptance and spread of the idea without which there can be no... of God the Mother. Page 175 The 16th October is the idea of unity, the worship of the Mother one and indivisible. The 7th of August is the idea of separateness, the worship of the Mother free, strong and glorious. Both these ideas are as yet ideas merely, realised in our faith and aspiration by the shaping imagination, not yet materialised in the world of concrete fact. This, according to ...

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Questions and Answers (1954)  >  3 November 1954

... longer listen to these things, that you will listen only to the divine Consciousness and will do no other work except the divine work without worrying about personal results, free from all attachment, free from all preference, free from all wish for success, power, satisfaction, vanity, all this... All this must disappear and you must see only the divine Will incarnated in your will and making you act ...

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The Life Divine  >  The Order of the Worlds

... disintegrating forces and therefore occupied chiefly with the care of self-preservation and restricted in its play by this state of precarious tension which limits its instincts of free formation, free self-gratification and free adventure. The separate dominance of each principle of being is an eternal possibility in the manifestation of being,—given always that they are principles distinct in their dynamic... able to move in fields of a freer scope with a repercussion of these greater powers and experiences on the material self-expression. But against this hypothesis there stands the fact that we find these higher worlds in our vision and experience of them to be in no way based upon the material universe, in no way its results, but rather greater terms of being, larger and freer ranges of consciousness, and... here, through the restricting medium of the Life-Force in matter; that realisation would be at once the first principle of the manifestation and the object of all its free and blissful action. It might be an order, again, in which the free play of an infinite mutual self-delight in a multiplicity of beings conscious not only of their concealed or underlying eternal unity but of their present joy of oneness ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Thought and Knowledge

... they could enter and take hold of the brain and in three days I was free. From that moment, in principle, the mental being in me became a free Intelligence, a universal Mind, not limited to the narrow circle of personal thought or a labourer in a thought-factory, but a receiver of knowledge from all the hundred realms of being and free too to choose what it willed in this vast sight-empire and thought-empire... proper thing is then to stand back from these thoughts, voices or suggestions, to reject them or else control them, to make the mind free and quiet and open only to the divine light, force, knowledge and the presence of the Divine. Your mistake has been to allow free play to these thoughts, voices and suggestions instead of rejecting, silencing and controlling them. It is what you must now do. Aspire... impulses of the body. I know it is more difficult because man being primarily a creature of mental Prakriti identifies himself with the movements of his mind and cannot at once dissociate himself and stand free from the swirl and eddies of the mind whirlpool. It is comparatively easy for him to put a control on his body, at least a certain part of its movements: it is less easy but still very possible after ...

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Letters on Himself and the Ashram  >  Remarks on the World Situation (1933-1949)

... they must be kept as serfs and labourers.) England has helped certain nations to be free without seeking any personal gain; she has conceded independence to Egypt and Eire after a struggle, to Iraq without a struggle. On the whole she has been for some time moving away steadily from Imperialism towards a principle of free association and cooperation; the British Commonwealth of England and the Dominions... establish their sole imperial rule over all the numerous free and independent peoples of India? Such a criticism would be grotesquely out of place, but it would be a natural result of weighing ancient happenings in the scales of modern ideals. As a matter of fact, such an empire was a step in the right direction then, just as a world-union of free peoples would be a step in the right direction now,—and... the rest of the commercial aristocracy were not born for jail but for palaces with marble water closets and the immortality of Rockefeller institutes and honour in the land of the gangsters and the free. All this is not meant to tempt you out of the paths of virtue. 7 November 1935 You write as if what is going on in Europe were a war between the powers of Light and the powers of Darkness—but ...

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On The Mother  >  War and Peace

... resulting in unforeseen distortions. And he added with a touch of wry humour: That is why I am getting a birthday present of a free India on August 15, but complicated by its being presented in two packets as two free Indias: this is a generosity I could have done without, one free India would have been enough for me if offered as an unbroken whole. 20 X And so, Sri Aurobindo's 75th birthday... India with the offer of a three-tier Constitution for Free India. In a message dated 24 March 1946, Sri Aurobindo explained how he had always stood for India's complete independence, how as early as January 1910 he had prophesied that in the coming era the whole world would see "sudden upheavals and revolutionary changes", and how India would be free. The coming of the British Cabinet Mission was the... new paths to the future, and also intervening in world affairs wherever feasible with a spiritual force to avert a disaster here, to ease a situation there, and generally to keep the lines open for a free evolution of humanity towards the next radical phase of self-development and global unity. Nor should it be forgotten that, whenever a message or important letter went forth from Sri Aurobindo or the ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  On the Cripps Proposal

... her freedom and unity and take an effective place among the world's free nations. I hope that it will be accepted and the right use made of it putting aside all discords and divisions. I hope too that a friendly relation between Britain and India replacing past struggles will be a step towards a greater world union in which as a free nation her spiritual force will contribute to build for mankind a better ...

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The Human Cycle  >  The Ancient Cycle of Prenational Empire-Building - The Modern Cycle of Nation-Building

... the Graeco-Roman world. Elsewhere, the city-unit revived only in the shape of the free or half-free municipalities of mediaeval France, Flanders and Germany; and these were at no time an obstacle to unification, but rather helped to form a subconscious basis for it and in the meanwhile to prevent by rich impulses and free movement of thought and art the mediaeval tendency to intellectual uniformity, ... state offered no real resistance to the process of national unification. We may ascribe its strong resuscitation in Italy to two circumstances, first, to the premature Roman oppression of the ancient free city-life of Italy before it had realised its full potentialities and, secondly, to its survival in seed both by the prolonged civil life of Rome itself and by the persistence in the Italian municipia... cultural freedom and equality. Its trend has been to endeavour that as in the ancient city, so in the modern nation, all classes and all individuals should enjoy the benefits and participate in the free energy of the released national existence. This third stage of national life enjoys the advantages of unity and sufficient uniformity created by the second and is able to safely utilise anew the ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Soul and Its Liberation

... longer in these lower terms than we are compelled to stay by the continuance of our physical life and body. But if either in the course of our Yoga or as the result of a free return of our realised Self upon the world and a free repossession of its Prakriti by the Purusha in us, we become Page 442 conscious not only of the bodies and outward self-expression of others, but intimately of... trance or this liberated play is realised; the trance is this mental being's immersion in the sole experience of unity, the liberated play is the taking up of his mind into the spiritual being for the free realisation and delight of oneness. For the nature of the divine existence is to possess always its unity, but to possess it also in Page 438 an infinite experience, from many standpoints... therefore the only possible culmination of this exclusive movement: so only can an absolutely independent self-experience be achieved. The soul then seems to exist absolutely, independently in itself; it is free in the sense of the Indian word, svādhīna , dependent only on itself, not dependent upon God and other beings. Therefore in this experience God, personal self and other beings are all denied, cast ...

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Arguments for the Existence of God  >  Appendix 3

... Force to create, obliged by its own potentiality of movement and formation to move into forms. It is true that it has this potentiality, but it is not limited, bound or compelled by it; it is free. If, then, being free to move or remain eternally still, to throw itself into forms or retain the potentiality of form in itself, it indulges its power of movement and formation, it can be only for one reason... may be brought back in a modified form; All-Delight being necessarily all-good and all-love, how can evil and suffering exist in Sachchidananda, since he is not mechanical existence, but free and conscious being, free to condemn and reject evil and suffering? We have to recognise that the issue so stated is also a false issue because it applies the terms of a partial statement as if they were applicable... by tortures often so extreme and monstrous? The inexorable law of Karma is irreconcilable with a supreme moral and personal Deity, and therefore the clear logic of Buddha denied the existence of any free and all-governing personal God; all personality he declared to be a creation of ignorance and subject to Karma. In truth, the difficulty thus sharply presented arises only if we Page 126 ...

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The Renaissance in India  >  Indian Polity - 3

... in each separate member of its existence. A free synthetic communal order was its character, and the condition of liberty it aimed at was not so much an individual as a communal freedom. In the beginning the problem was simple enough as only two kinds of communal unit had to be considered, the village and the clan, tribe or small regional people. The free organic life of the first was founded on the... mind and temperament which created it remains even in the present social stagnation, weakness, perversion and disintegration and may yet in spite of immediate tendencies and appearances, once it is free to work again at its own will and after its own manner, proceed not along the Western line of evolution, but to a new creation out of its own spirit which may perhaps lead at the call of the demand... be only a more rigid form of the familiar social system developed naturally in most human peoples at one time or another, a priesthood, a military and political aristocracy, a class of artisans and free agriculturalists and traders and a proletariate of serfs or labourers. The resemblance however is only in the externals and the spirit of the system of Chaturvarna was different in India. In the later ...

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Education at Crossroads  >  An Experiment in Education for Tomorrow

... declared that there had to be no compulsion in the process of children's development; children were free and experienced immense joy of freedom. In a prominent place in the Centre, the following words of the Mother gave a warning to teachers: "Ne grondez jamais" (Do not scold, never). The children had free and direct access to the Mother, since teachers were themselves regarded as students and children... artificial barriers between them, and a very special stress was laid on physical education and on art, music, dance, drama, and various kinds of manual works and crafts. Education was conceived as a free process of growth; education was also conceived as integral education. But integrality was not imposed; it was so encouraged that each child [could experiment with the growth of its faculties without... combatives, games — Indian and Western, and Yogic asanas. Beautiful playgrounds and sports grounds were developed, and the timetable was so designed that from 4.00 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., students were freed from burdens of academic studies, and even of homework, so that they could participate in various activities of physical education. Physical education was not conceived as pastime but as a serious pursuit ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Swaraj

... ordinary man is a slave of his surroundings and if those be mean, servile and degraded, he himself will be mean, servile and degraded. Social freedom can only be born where the soul of man is large, free and generous, not enslaved to petty aims and thoughts. Social freedom is not a result of social machinery but of the freedom of the human intellect and the nobility of the human soul. A man who follows... himself in the service of his fellows for he is already a slave and service is the badge of his degradation, not a willing self-devotion. When man is thus degraded, it is idle to think that society can be free. So too spiritual freedom can never be the lot of many in a land of slaves. A few may follow the path of the Yogin and rise above their surroundings, but the mass of men cannot ever take the first... He is forgetting that God is not only in himself but in all these millions. And for those who have not the strength, spiritual freedom in political servitude is a sheer impossibility. When India was free, thousands of men set their feet in the stairs of heaven, but as the night deepened and the sun of liberty withdrew its rays, the spiritual force inborn in every Indian heart became weaker and weaker ...

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Aspects of Sri Aurobindo  >  Supramental Avatar And Physical Transformation

... intervenes?" The Supramental Avatars come from the Transcendent — that is, from beyond the cosmic law. So they cannot be cosmically law-bound. They obey cosmic laws for their own reasons but they are free and omni-capable. When I showed to the Mother soon after December 5, 1950 a short write-up, for the readers of Mother India, on Sri Aurobindo's departure from his body, she picked out the phrase:... his embodied state he may not act with full knowledge of that Truth: whatever is required for his action is held by him in his consciousness. At any moment his own transcendent being, which is ever-free and whose ever-freedom is essentially present also in his cosmically incarnate form, may send a command running counter to what was decided to be necessary before. As you know, the Mother said in effect:... towards an idea of this benefit, but, according to me, too hastily. (4) "Why has the Mother to reappear on earth — as you envision — in order to supramentalise the human body? Is not the Divine free to complete her mission through any other body she may choose, a body which we are not aware of at the moment and which may not be known for a prescribed period?" You do not appear to realise the ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 9  >  Psychic Being

... fully built up, fully individualised, fully master of itself and its destiny. When one such psychic being incarnates in a human body, it makes a great difference. This human being is, so to say, born free; he is not bound to circumstances or surroundings or heredity like ordinary human beings. He comes into the world and he has the impression that he is come purposely to accomplish something, he has... reincarnation was obligatory. For it is in the physical life and in the physical body that he grows little by little until he becomes a wholly conscious being. But once he is completely formed, he is free, in the sense that he can, at will, take a body or not take. When a psychic being incarnates, it throws itself down into inconscience, because the physical world and even a human consciousness... perhaps one in a thousand who can be called truly an individual being, conscious of himself, united with his psychic being, governed by his inner law and therefore partially at least if not wholly free from external influences; because being a conscious entity when these influences come he sees them, those that seem to agree with his inner growth and normal development he accepts and those that ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  The Psychic Being

... fully built up fully individualised, fully master of itself and its destiny. When one such psychic being incarnates in a human body, it makes a great difference. This human being is, so to say, born free; he is not bound to circumstances or surroundings or heredity like ordinary human beings. He comes into the world and he has the impression that he has come purposely to accomplish something, he has... reincarnation was obligatory. For it is in the physical life and in the physical body that he grows little by little until he becomes a wholly conscious being. But once he is completely formed, he is free, in the sense that he can, at will, take a body or not take it. When a psychic being incarnates, it precipitates itself down into the inconscience, because the physical world and even a human co... not perhaps one in a thousand who can be called truly an individual being, conscious of himself, united with his psychic being, governed by his inner law and therefore partially at least if not wholly free from external influences; because being a conscious entity when these influences come he sees them, those that seem to agree with his inner growth and normal development he accepts and those that contradict ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Message of the Gita

... support or the leading of its peoples. The action asked of you is the action of the liberated Yogin; it is the spontaneous output of a free and God-held energy, it is an equal-minded movement, it is a selfless and desireless labour. "The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work... is no longer bound up in his narrow prison of personality, no longer sees himself as this little I that thinks and acts and feels and struggles and labours for a little. He is merged in the vast and free impersonality of the pure spirit; he becomes the Brahman; he knows himself as one with the one self in all things. He is no longer aware of ego, no longer troubled by the dualities, no longer feels... working in her own qualities and does not feel them to be the truth of himself in which he lives. Nature alone acts and works out her mechanical figures: but the pure spirit is silent, inactive and free. Calm, untouched by her workings, it regards them with a perfect equality and knows itself to be other than these things. This spiritual state brings with it a still peace and freedom but not the dynamic ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Deva and Asura

... it is a large divine will in action which is not touched by these things; it is a power 1 of the free and infinite conscious Godhead which has no desire because it exercises a universal possession and a spontaneous Ananda of its movements. Wearied by no striving and straining, it enjoys a free mastery of its means and its objects; misled by no error of the will, it holds a knowledge of self and... itself so far as it goes and while it can be maintained, but precarious, secured by limitation, dependent on rule and condition, there is at its high and distant source a greater light and bliss free in the free spirit. That is not limited nor dependent on limitation or rule or condition but self-existent and unalterable, not the result of this or that harmony amid the discords of our nature but the fount... by the mind and life in matter. When we grow into the spirit, this Page 467 Dharma or inferior law of Nature is replaced by the immortal dharma of the spirit; there is the experience of a free immortal action, a divine illimitable knowledge, a transcendent power, an unfathomable repose. But still there remains the question of the transition; for there must be a transition, a proceeding by ...

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Record of Yoga  >  14 August - 24 September 1919

... Samadhi in the afternoon at first an oppression of nidra, but strongly resisted by the Shakti which established in spite of it a free flow of the lipi, mostly of the lower logistic character. Subsequently, when the nidra tendency was conquered, there was established a free coherent movement of the seer logistic thought-speech, natural, normal, not as formerly maintained by tapas against obstruction... the immediate rapid legibility In Samadhi an obstructed but still developing movement. The features not yet perfectly free presented themselves with more force of coherent continuity, but not in any abundance. Lipi in the depths was more coherent, but with effort and not in a free normality. Full Page 1178 freedom has been gained only for the thought, thought-speech and lighter lipi. ... there is a relapse, in one due to persistent overstrain on the centre, in the other a mechanical repetition of recrudescence. 29 August 1919 T² this morning has made a large stride forward. A full free and normal thought or jnana of tapas and trikaldrishti has now associated itself with the actual perceptions (vyapti prakamya) and this has enormously increased the rapidity of progress which is now ...

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Kena and Other Upanishads  >  A Commentary on the Kena Upanishad

... To recall the soul in man to self-knowledge, to lift it above the life of the senses [........] always refer its activities to that highest Self and Deity which [we] ultimately are, so that we may be free and great, may be pure and joyous, be fulfilled and immortal,—this is the governing aim of the Kena Upanishad. I propose in my commentary to follow with some minuteness & care the steps by which the... in the ancient sage's treatment of his subject. To work them out in a volume of the present size and purpose would not be possible, nor, if possible, would it be convenient, since it would need a freer and ampler method delivered from the necessity of faithful subordination to the text. The first principle of a commentary must be to maintain the order of ideas and adhere to the purpose and connotation ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Helping Others and the Mother's Help

... their opportunity and not waste it by a negative attitude. For yourself what you must have with other sadhaks (including your sisters) is a harmonious relation free from any vital attachment (indifference is not asked from you) and free from any indulgence in wrong vital movements of the opposite kind (such as dislike, jealousy or ill-will). It is through the psychic consciousness that you have found ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother - IV

... When you ask for the Mother, you must feel that it is she who is demanding through you a very little of what belongs to her and the man from whom you ask will be judged by his response. If you are free from the money-taint but without any ascetic withdrawal, you will have a greater power to command the money-force for the divine work. Equality of mind, absence of demand and the full dedication of... Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision. But first it must be conquered back for her and those will be strongest for the conquest who are in this part of their nature strong and large and free from ego and surrendered without any claim or withholding or hesitation, pure and powerful channels for the Supreme Puissance. Page 11 ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother - V

... If you want to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego. All your life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; your only object in action shall be to serve, to receive, to fulfil, to become a manifesting... suffering in the ignorance into the truth of your spiritual being, into its deep peace and its intense Ananda. While this transformation is being done it is more than ever necessary to keep yourself free from all taint of the perversions of the ego. Let no demand or insistence creep in to stain the purity of the self-giving and the sacrifice. There must be no attachment to the work or the result, no ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  Undated 1956

... now connect all the apparent coincidences and sift out an extraordinary necessity that has led me here; all this makes a dense, living, vibrant book that weighs on me. I need to cast it all out, to free myself, to write this book. Not only do I need to liquidate this past, but also to renew my choice, to strengthen my presence here—and I feel this book as a Page 66 commitment, it... from an outside perspective. I thought of going to Brewster's lodge in the Himalayas. There, I could continue some of the work I have been doing with Pavitra. It seems to me that I would come back freed and refortified in my purpose for being here. Sweet Mother, am I deluding myself? What is your will? It is your will that I want, not my desire, and I am sure you will give me the strength to follow ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  To Will What the Divine Wills

... our best in all circumstances, leaving the result to the Divine's decision. 20 May 1954 We must be satisfied with what the Divine gives us, and do what He wants us to do without weakness, free from useless ambition. 27 June 1954 Whenever there is any difficulty we must always remember that we are here exclusively to accomplish the Divine's will. 5 August 1954 And when... Lord is always victorious―in his own way, not in the human way―according to his own will, not according to the will of men. The Lord is always present―only we do not realise it. We are always free to make our proposals to the Lord, but after all it is only His will that is realised. If one looks from high enough, whatever one does one never wastes one's time since one acts according to one's ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  Sri Ramakrishna’s Photograph

... from Mother the nice things she said about your work, the spirit in which you do it and so on. And you readily agreed to carry out my wish. Madhav: “Ah, yes, I remember; I still send photographs free to those who ask for them but cannot pay.” Very good, continue it. If you fall short of copies, let me know. I shall draw some from my stock and give them to you. But first let me tell you the story... would like to have a print of the photograph of Sri Ramakrishna in a dancing pose that was included in their special number. I wrote that I was very eager to have it and requested them to send me one free of cost. I waited and waited, but I am sorry to say, there was no response. I felt it sorely at that time that such an institution following the great saint should have turned a deaf ear to the plea ...

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Champaklal's Treasures  >  Sri Ramakrishna’s Photograph

... hearing from Mother the nice things she said of your work, the spirit in which you do it and so on. And you readily agreed to carry out my wish. MADHAV: Ah, yes, I remember; I still send photographs free to those who ask for them but cannot pay. C: Very good, continue it. If you fall short of copies, let me know. I shall draw from my stock and give you. But first let me tell you the story behind... money, but I would like to have a print of Sri Ramakrishna in the dancing pose, that was included in their special number. I wrote that I was very eager to have it and requested them to send me one free of cost. I waited and waited, but I am sorry, to say, there was no response. I felt it sorely at that time that such an institution following the great saint should have turned a deaf ear to the ...

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Down Memory Lane  >  panditji

... intimate with Mother. He was offered a seat in front of Mother ,a rare honour. He was a tantric yogi and spontaneously recognised the Divine Mother at the first sight. He had remarked that Mother was free from all samskara, that is, she was the Immaculate Divine. I had heard before of a tantric from North Bihar who observed the traditional custom of not bowing before a non-Indian or a woman. But... wished it no longer. There it ended. The wife of a visiting friend was behaving crazily at times since quite long. Some malignant spirit seemed to take hold of her then. The Mother was requested to free her from the trouble. She advised them to go to Panditji. He did some puja and the trouble was over. Panditji became known in the Ashram and among visiting friends of the Ashram who started going ...

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Isha Upanishad  >  Chapter IV

... action outwardly. Since we are in the spirit inalienably free & untouched by action, but in the mind seemingly bound and subject to its stains, our true and only way is not to renounce action but to vindicate that secret spiritual freedom hidden within us as a possession for our outward and active mental consciousness. So shall a man be free, calm & joyous and yet through action accomplish God's purpose... knowledge when he discovers that there is none bound, none freed, none desiring freedom, but only Brahman variously manifesting, only God in the infinite rest & play of His own Being & becomings,—God & Brahman whom none can bind & who, therefore, even when figured to Himself as man in this apparent cage of a mind and body is still in Himself free—infinitely and for ever. The yearning towards stillness... Force & Bliss at free play in the divine & universal Being. The world is to the Mayavadin a freak of knowledge, an error on the surface of Self, a misconception of mind about Brahman; the world to the Seer is a running symbol of God and a means for His phenomenal self-manifestation in His own active being & to His own active knowledge. God, being unbound by His own activity and its free lord & disposer ...

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Mystery and Excellence of the Human Body  >  Hatha Yoga Pradipika

... the body but it is also meant to alter the relation of the physical energy in the body to the earth energy. Consequently, the body tends to get something of the qualities of the subtle body. It is freed from its usual inertia and acquires a marvellous lightness. Page 579 Here is how Yogi Swatmarama describes certain asanas and their effects: Asanas: Being the first... expelled through the left nostril. By practising in this way, through the right and the left nostrils alternately, the whole of the collection of the nadis of the yamis (practisers) becomes clean, i.e., free from impurities, after three months and over. Kumbhakas should be performed gradually four times during day and night, i.e., (morning, noon, evening and mid night), till the number of Kumbhakas... all the lotuses (in the six chakras or centres) and all the knots are pierced through. Susumna (Sunya Padayi) becomes a main road for the passage of Prana, and the mind then becomes free from all connections (with its objects of enjoyments) and Death is then evaded. The Mahamudra Pressing the Yoni (perineum) with the heel of the left foot, and stretching ...

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Karmayogin  >  An Open Letter to My Countrymen

... a wise and strong rule, we can only oppose a steady and fearless adherence to the propagandism and practice of a lawful policy and a noble ideal. Our ideal is that of Swaraj or absolute autonomy free from foreign control. We claim the right of every nation to live its own life by its own energies according to its own nature and ideals. We reject the claim of aliens to force upon us a civilisation... have brains, we have courage, we have an infinite and various national capacity. All we need is a field and an opportunity. That field and opportunity can only be provided by a national government, a free society and a great Indian culture. So long as these are not conceded to us, we can have no other use for our brains, courage and capacity than to struggle unceasingly to achieve them. Our ideal... onal right of placing their views before the National Assembly. On the other points, they cannot sacrifice their ideal or their policy, but their contention is that these differences ought not in a free deliberative assembly to stand in the way of united progress. The Swaraj matter can easily be settled by the substitution of "full and complete self-government" for "self-government on Colonial lines" ...

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Amal-Kiran - Poet and Critic  >  Amal's Epistolary Wonder

... exclaiming: "You have obtained That which is free from fear, O Janaka!'" It is curious that, unlike Shankara and his ilk, the Upanishads rarely allude to moksha or mukti , "freedom, liberation". I can find only one reference anticipating in a general manner the sense of mukti . The Brihadaranyaka (IV.2.8) has the expression: "being freed". Obviously the Upanishads are more psychological... abhayam jyotih , even in this world of fear and danger, bhaya ā cinmayabhu . Again, we hear about Swar, the divine "solar" plane, in arms of the usual cow-bull symbolism: "The wide and fear-free pastures of the shining cows." (12th hymn to Agni, verse 6) Perhaps the compound adjective standing for the Rigvedic attitude points to at least a strong strain in the original Indian ... it makes for fear — the fact that our existence does not rest on a sense of oneness and is always aware of a multitudinous otherness which is a cause of fear. A synonym, as it were of the "fear-free" state desired, aspired after, is the epithet "wide'" in the Rigvedic phrase. Our non-spiritual condition, our delusive ignorance consists essentially in being locked up in oneself, being ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Secret of Secrets

... will and its intelligence are all a machinery of Nature and that all their activities are determined by the complexity of her triple modes and qualities. The eternal spirit itself is free from these things. It is free from them because it knows; it knows that Nature and ego and the personal being of all these creatures do not make up the whole of existence. For existence is not merely a glorious or... cannot be a power of God; for divine Power must be free in its workings, spiritual in its origin, spiritual in its greatness. The soul bound and egoistic in Nature, mental, vital, physical only, cannot be a portion of the Divine and itself a divine being; for such a divine being must be itself of Page 307 the very nature of the Divine, free, spiritual, self-developing, self-existent, superior... s his share of effort and labour to a result determined not by himself, but by the universal action and purpose. But he has to do yet more, he has to give up the idea of being the doer and to see, freed from all personality, that it is the universal intelligence, will, mind, life that is at work in him and in all others. Nature is the universal worker; his works are hers, even as the fruits of her ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3)  >  chapter 035

... "Operation Jonathan" to rescue over a hundred hostages held in a hijacked plane which had landed in Idi Amin's Uganda. Idi Amin refused to free the hostages. Israel flew 2000 miles to take by surprise the airport at Entebbe, killed the terrorists concerned and freed the hostages, at the cost of one life of her own - unfortunately the heroic leader Jonathan himself. The whole world applauded Israel's... growing trend of Mother India to devote more and more pages and attention to its Editor". I endorse your remark: "Self-praise is a slow poison that can kill a soul. Please shake up yourself and free yourself from this slow poison." Yet I must echo the old cry of Themistocles: "Strike, but hear!"   Your expression - "self-praise" - has to be understood, I suppose, in a special sense. Surely... crystalline and knew it inherently devoid of all sexual presence. The whole self of sex seemed thrown out, leaving the body in a state which I can best describe as ready to be uplifted into its own free unsullied original divinity which may be suggested by a phrase like Savitri's   A crystal of the ultimate Absolute... (38:21)   An alternative to the "crystal" imagery is the "diamo ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  9 June 1929

... things and, if you cling to them and shut yourself up in a code of life made out for you, you do not know and cannot know the truth of the Spirit that lies beyond all codes and dogmas, wide and large and free. When you stop at a religious creed and tie yourself in it, taking it for the only truth in the world, you stop the advance and widening of your inner soul. But if you look at religion from another... or so many centuries, therefore I am bound by its traditions; they alone are the ideal." Things have an inner value and become real to you only when you have acquired them by the exercise of your free choice, not when they have been imposed upon you. If you want to be sure of your religion, you must choose it; if you want to be sure of your country, you must choose it; if you want to be sure of your... were Indian, others who were European. And if any of them goes to the country or enters into the civilisation to which he has affinity, he finds himself there perfectly at home. If your aim is to be free, in the freedom of the Spirit, you must get rid of all the ties that are not the inner truth of your being, but come from subconscious habits. If you wish to consecrate yourself entirely, absolutely ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1968  >  May 18, 1968

... might say), which was now becoming unnecessary again. There was that whole, overall vision of the history of the creation. It was really interesting. Interesting because... whew! you felt so free! So free, so peaceful, so smiling! And at the same time, with such a certitude that everything is moving towards a more harmonious, less chaotic, less painful manifestation... and that there is only one... conditions: all of it together. In this unfolding immensity, when That looks, It knows exactly that, at this moment, this is how things must be and how they must be done. It's free in an absolute way—spontaneously free. Spontaneously. All action is spontaneous. It's like a vision. A vision expressing itself. ( Mother finishes copying her note ) It's more and more interesting. There's absolutely... children's answers, that entire phase of the manifestation became clear, found its place and lost all its power of influence and all its grip on the consciousness. It was as if the consciousness rose wholly free and luminous, joyous, above all that. Very small things. ( silence ) This morning, after I wrote this, I happened to look back on this body's history, just like that, its whole history at a ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1970  >  February 7, 1970

... one but himself (or words to that effect), but he noticed there are rules and laws. And he said, "I am not going to do any of this; I am a free man and refuse to do this." This was reported to me, naturally, 2 so I wrote to him (I don't remember): "One is free only when one is conscious of the Divine and conscious that it is the Divine who makes decisions in everyone, otherwise one is the slave of... he kept quiet. That's what I wanted to add here [to this aphorism]. We should say: One is free only when it is the Divine who makes decisions in each of us, otherwise men are the slaves of their desires, their habits, of all conventions, all laws, all rules.... And the more they think themselves free, the more bound they are! ( silence ) Page 74 What do you have to say? Have... great care not to say anything. I simply answered, "I saw this man, he is very fine." But he's a true marquis, a knight. Page 70 He is a gentleman. What I'd like is for him to be freed from this thing weighing down on him. But governments are the slaves of their red tape. ( silence ) This morning I was much better, and then it fell back on me ( gesture like a truckload being ...

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Karmayogin  >  Facts and Opinions

... an earnest, vehement and outspoken idealist passionately attached to his own views and intolerant of all Page 145 who oppose them. He first went to England to breathe the atmosphere of a free country where he could speak as well as think as he chose. He was then a strong constitutionalist and his chief intellectual preoccupations were Herbert Spencer, Home Rule and the position of the Native... It is an ancient and perpetually recurring choice which is now being offered to the British people, the choice between liberty and empire. The two are incompatible except by the substitution of a free federation for a dominion. Rome was offered the choice. She won an empire and lost her liberty. External expansion has always been accompanied by a concentration of internal power in King or oligarchy... not till England after the severe lesson in America adopted her present colonial system that expansion and democracy went hand in hand. That system was not an imperial system but a loose collection of free states only nominally united by the British Crown. The Indian problem is the test of British Liberalism. The colonial system as it stands Page 148 cannot obtain between two States which ...

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Karmayogin  >  The Past and the Future

... intellectual divorce from the past which the present schools and universities have effected, has beggared the nation of the originality, high aspiration and forceful energy which can alone make a nation free and great. To reverse the process and recover what we have lost, is undoubtedly the first object to which we ought to devote ourselves. And as the loss of originality, aspiration and energy was the... diverted to lower ends. But the movement is greater than its instruments. We must strive to prevent the destruction of that which we have created and, in the meanwhile, build up a centre of culture, freer and more perfect, which will either permeate the other with itself or replace it if destroyed. Finally, the artistic awakening has been commenced by that young, living and energetic school which has... which, however beautiful, was too narrow and slender to bear the mighty burden of our future. When that happens, the mould has to be broken and even the ideal lost for a while, in order to be recovered free of constraint and limitation. We have to recover the Aryan spirit and ideal and keep it intact but enshrined in new forms and more expansive institutions. We have to treasure jealously everything in ...

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The Future Poetry  >  The Reason of Past Failures

... can be brought Page 317 into close relation. There was, first, the problem of the naturalisation of classical metres in English poetry, and there was, mixed up with it, the problem of the free creation of quantitative English verse in its own right, on its own basis, with its own natural laws, not necessarily identical with those laid down in the ancient tongues. The main attempt then made... sound captivating to the ear and moving to the inner witness and listener silent within us—the soul, to whom all art and all life should appeal and minister. This great victory was essential for the free flowering of poetry in the English tongue; the absence of any such coup d'œil of genius was one chief reason of its failure to flower as freely in so many human languages,—no creative genius found... indeed, but stiff beyond measure. Even Tennyson in his lines on Milton, where he attempts this combination, seems to be walking on stilts,—very skilfully and nobly, but still on stilts and not on his own free God-given feet. As for other attempts which followed the Spenserian line of approach, they can best be described in Tennyson's own language— Barbarous hexameters, barbarous pentameters —and ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother and the Organisation of Work

... worker; therefore the arrangement made is indispensable. On the other hand, the head of a department is also supposed to act according to the Mother's directions—or in their spirit where he is left free—and not otherwise; if he does according to his mere fancy or obeys his own personal likes and dislikes or misuses his trust for his personal satisfaction or convenience, he is answerable for any failure... what he can do and the rest can be seen to hereafter. (7) He is not bound to accept food from D and Y or presents etc.; if he does not like it, why does he receive these things? He is perfectly free to refuse. His staying here and everything else does not depend on Y , but on the Mother alone—so he has no reason to fear. (8) Finally, he should clear his vital of restlessness and desires—for... for copies to be sent to me regularly? It is quite impossible for the Mother to see to every detail of the organisation of the Asram in person. Even as it is she has no Page 422 time free at all. It is understood that you can have the copies sent to you, but it is with those who have charge that you must insist on the execution of any arrangement. 20 July 1933 Yes, that is correct ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  On Communism

... impulsion to unite.   However, individualism has given us a truth and a formula which collectivism ignored. Self-determination is a thing which has come to stay. Each and every individual is free, absolutely free and shall freely follow his own line of growth and development and fulfilment. No extraneous power shall choose and fix what is good or evil for him, nor coerce and exploit him for its own benefit... progress to the realisation of his deepest self and the awakening of his inmost life-intuition.   The individual must find himself and establish his secret god-head, and then only, when such free and integral individualities meet and reciprocate and coalesce, can the community they form have a living reality and a permanent potency. On the other hand, unless individuals come together and through... defective principle. For first a commune means an organisation, its laws and rules and regulations, its injunctions and prohibitions; all which signifies or comes to signify that every individual is not free to enter its fold and that whoever enters must know how to dovetail himself therein and thus crush down the very life-power whose enhancement and efflorescence is sought. First a commune means necessarily ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5  >  More of Yajnavalkya

... mankind, thousands and thousands, millions perhaps, of years ago, it was the law, die social custom and it became a duty, to have more than one wife and the relation too between man and woman was much freer and more loose. That was because, as you know, man started his earthly life at a certain stage of creation; before that stage there was no man, there were only animals. The earth was filled with animals... anxious, we are racking our brains, trying to find out all kinds of means and ways to restrict and control any increase in population. I said, in the early days the need to marry in any way ― a very free choice was given in the matter of the way of marriage ― and to procreate was a social duty: but note it is not for individual pleasure. Today we have discarded all notion of that kind of action as... life as a mere machine of which individuals are dead helpless parts and units meant to serve as obedient instruments in the production of useful goods. The appeal on the contrary is to the soul, the free inner individual, choosing its destiny but with a view to collaborating and uniting with others in the realisation of a global truth. In the spiritual sphere also Sri Aurobindo gives us the same ...

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The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo  >  The Integral Transformation-2

... A sincere call, ¹ a free choice, a joyous consent ², and an unstinted self-offering on the part of each member of our being are essential for the great change aimed at by the Integral Yoga. The world is built on the principle of freedom for each individual, each element, each atom; and if there is bondage and subjection, it is self-imposed, an inevitable consequence of a free choice. Liberation and... organism; the vital or prānamaya purusa; the mental or manomaya purusa, and the psychic or caitya purusa. All these Purushas, which are projections of the central purusa or jīvātman, are free to accept or reject transformation. If they all aspire for the Divine and surrender to His supramental śakti, then only will that śakti descend Page 423 and act in the integral being... and transformation are also matters of free choice, and cannot be imposed upon unwilling members. ¹ The vital may understand, but that is not enough; it must whole- heartedly call for the peace and transformation."—On Yoga—II by Sri Aurobindo. ² "...The participation and consent of the Purusha to the transition is not sufficient, there must be also the consent and participation of ...

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Learning with the Mother  >  THE RECITATIONS

... But to each She gives according to his nature and his receptivity. *** There is a stain, the worst of all stains, the stain of ignorance. Purify yourselves of that stain, O disciples, and be free of the mud. (Dhammapada) *** Men and women live in the world without yet having the least idea of either the invisible or the visible world. (Farid-uddin-Attar) *** A view of the... work at it patiently and courageously. *** Don’t worry and don’t be impatient, all discords will disappear; but it has to be on the true basis of a well established luminous consciousness free from the play of the ego. *** It is only when people really want to change their consciousness that their actions can also be changed. *** I know that people create difficulties... is incapable of understanding. *** A mind that is very very calm is indispensable for seeing and understanding clearly and for acting correctly. *** My heart is at peace, my mind free from impatience, and for everything I entrust myself to Thy will with the smiling confidence of a child. *** Oh, to look past these ever-changing appearances; to observe nothing but Your eternal ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  4 April 1956

... liberative"? The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 115 Yes. It liberates, precisely. It's just that. One practises it for that, don't you see, for liberation, in order to be free from attachments, free from reactions, free from consequences. Those who understand the Gita in this way, tell you that―they don't understand much further than that―they tell you, "Why do you want to try and change the world ...

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A Captive of Her Love  >  Introduction

... There she was welcomed once more and nursed both in body and soul. It was in some way an apprenticeship of freedom, a kind of re-education. Janina had to learn to breathe and move and think as a free being in a free country. Living in a different atmosphere, she started to realise how much her soul had been stifled, her spirit wounded by the life in Poland under the communist regime. She could not possibly... technical side of nursing was generally performed by others, but she kept the house spotlessly clean and managed, often out of next to nothing, to create an atmosphere of harmony and beauty. During her free time, she devoted herself to painting, drawing her inspiration from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The colours she chose were always symbolic of a state or a plane of consciousness. She ...

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Bande Mataram  >  A Sample-Room for Swadeshi Articles

... gratis. As the sample-room will be in its Page 97 secondary character a free advertisement for the merchants, they will probably be glad enough to seize the opportunity. 5) Again the Committee should draw up a circular (typewritten) stating the objects of the sample-room, pointing out that it will be a free advertisement introducing all goods sent there to the local market, and inviting ...

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The Destiny of the Body  >  Foreword

... And indeed the masters of spirituality have found and revealed the Immortal who abides in the mortal and can fight free of his trammels. But a persistent voice rises from what appears to be mortal, crying: "I too am a god waiting to be found and revealed. Who shall free me from the disguise that disfigures my immortality ?" Jugal Kishore Mukherjee brings the legitimacy of this utterance ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  A Page of Occult History

... Being of Truth or Reality, (3) a Being of Love or Ananda and (4) a Being of Life. And the first law of creation was freedom of decision. These Beings were manifestations in the free movement of the Divine; they themselves moved free, according to their individualised conscious will. They stood out, as if in bold relief, on the background of the Divine Existence. For originally, although they differentiated ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  21 November 1933

... II At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 21 November 1933 MYSELF: Mother, not ‘this’ or ‘that’ alone but all that is not the Divine I want to be free from and go forward. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, detachment from all that is not the Divine and development of all that is the Divine. (21.11.33) ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Sankhya and Yoga

... is the cause of the cosmos. We see at once how far we have travelled from the rigid purism of the traditional analysis. But what of the one self immutable, immobile, eternally free, with which the Gita began? That is free from all change or involution in change, avikārya , unborn, unmanifested, the Brahman, yet it is that "by which all this is extended." Therefore it would seem that the principle... monism is that of the Mayavada; but there the whole thing becomes a dream, both bondage and liberation are circumstances of the unreality, the empirical blunderings of Maya; in reality there is none freed, none bound. The more realistic Sankhya view of things does not admit this phantasmagoric idea of existence and therefore cannot adopt this solution. Here too we see that the multiplicity of souls is... asked to practise from Page 76 the outset is Yoga by the Buddhi, the intelligent will. But there is one deviation of capital importance,—the Purusha is regarded as one, not many; for the free, immaterial, immobile, eternal, immutable Self of the Gita, but for one detail, is a Vedantic description of the eternal, passive, immobile, immutable Purusha of the Sankhyas. But the capital difference ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  15 August 1956

... looked like impracticable dreams, arriving at fruition or on their way to achievement. In all these movements free India may well play a large part and take a leading position. The first of these dreams was a revolutionary movement which would create a free and united India. India today is free but she has not achieved unity. At one moment it almost seemed as if in the very act of liberation she would... this is the aim of the last Avatar. Page 269 Appendix 15 August 1947 5 August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural and spiritual future of humanity... future. Another dream was for the resurgence and liberation of the peoples of Asia and her return to her great role in the progress of human civilisation. Asia has arisen; large parts are now quite free or are at this moment being liberated: its other still subject or partly subject parts are moving through whatever struggles towards freedom. Only a little has to be done and that will be done today ...

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Sri Aurobindo - The Poet  >  Swan of the Supreme and Spaceless Ether

... And, further, "kiss" is very appropriate because sobbing has been mentioned before it: the mouth is involved in both sobbing and kissing: life which is a sob of Nature becomes a technically, in "free Page 289 quantitative verse with a predominant dactylic movement" and, inspirationally, in "Overhead poetry". We shall leave the technical aspect aside. The poetry is of a type in which... Supernature, a divine mentality, a divine vitality, a divine corporeality. Alluding to that basis, Sri Aurobindo gives the injunction: One with the Transcendent, calm, universal, Single and free, yet innumerably living, All in thyself and thyself in all dwelling, Act in the world with thy being beyond it. Here we have an anticipation of the grand finale of the poem, where... note that before we come to this vivid conclusion the poem's spiritually philosophical atmosphere combines already with its clarity a mystery projected in either challenging concepts—like "Single and free, yet innumerably living"—or adventurous images—like "O Word gathered into the heart of the Ineffable". At the very close the roles are reversed. We have mystery confronting us and breaking across the ...

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A Vision of United India  >  Brief history of the unification of Germany

... of dollars) to East Germany at low interest rates, that is, 0 to 4% of annual rates. In addition, West Germany disbursed a colossal amount of ransom to set the political prisoners in East Germany free. Reportedly, West Germany paid US$ 35,000 to 70,000 per person. In the period from 1962 to 1982, West Germany bought 19,000 political prisoners from East Germany, paying US$ 1 billion of ransom. West... be absorbed by the West. In other words, East Germans, who had been struggling hard against poverty and oppression under a despotic communist regime, decided for themselves to be incorporated into free and prosperous West Germany. National Policy of West Germany to Democratise East Germany West Germany's active support for the East did not come wholly from fraternal love. West... prerequisite to reunification of the two countries, saying that East Germany would have access to massive economic aid only when its communist party gave up wielding monopolistic power and executed free elections and political pluralism. He argued that it was a national obligation for West Germany to urge East Germany to implement an innovative political and economic reform. He also flatly said that ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Diversity in Oneness

... individuality in the members of the group. Therefore the unity of the human race to be entirely sound and in consonance with the deepest laws of life must be founded on free groupings, and the groupings again must be the natural association of free individuals. This is Page 513 an ideal which it is certainly impossible to realise under present conditions or perhaps in any near future of the human... time the common cultural tongue of intercourse between the European nations or Sanskrit for the Indian peoples, no unification which destroyed or overshadowed, dwarfed and discouraged the large and free use of the varying natural languages of humanity, could fail to be detrimental to human life and progress. The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the... with Latin, and arrived in this way at a characteristic instrument of self-expression; but under modern conditions this is not easily possible. 2 Ireland had its own tongue when it had its own free nationality and culture and its loss was a loss to humanity as well as to the Irish nation. For what might not this Celtic race with its fine psychic turn and quick intelligence and delicate imagination ...

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Letters on Yoga - III  >  Ascent to the Higher Planes

... for the lower nature to join the higher consciousness so that (1) the limit or lid between the higher and the lower may be broken and disappear, (2) the consciousness may have free access to higher and higher planes, (3) a free way may be made for the descent of the higher Consciousness into the lower planes. The lower consciousness rises to meet the higher consciousness—when it joins there is... the mere ascent gives only height or some vague sense of other planes, not these concrete realisations. Ascension or Rising above the Head This is a fundamental experience of the Yoga. It is the free ascent of the consciousness to join the Divine. When, liberated from its ordinary identification with the body, it rises upward to have experiences of the higher planes, to link itself with the psychic... itself—the Silence that is the foundation of spiritual experience. What you have felt (the former experiences were probably preparatory touches) is indeed the beginning of this foundation—a consciousness free, wide, empty at will, able to rise into the supraphysical planes, open to the descent of whatever the Mother will pour into it. Nothing needs to be done to bring the ascension—aspiration is ...

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Karmayogin  >  Facts and Opinions

... which stands for free institutions, is the greatest guarantee that could be given of the permanence of the new Turkey, for it assures a time of internal quiet while the country goes through the delicate and dangerous process of readjusting its whole machinery and ways of public thought and action from the habits of an irresponsible autocratic administration to those which suit free institutions and... spirit, duty and honour was the slow creation of free institutions. To Asiatics, not yet corrupted, as many of us in India have been, by the worst part of European individualism and an Page 289 unnatural education divorced from morality and patriotism, a high standard of public spirit, duty and honour comes with the first awakenings of a freer life; for the Asiatic discipline has always been... e stirrings of life have been seen and will grow to something formidable before many years are over. We wonder whether Lord Morley and his advisers really believe that when they are surrounded by a free and democratic Asia, the great Indian race can be kept in a state of tutelage and snail-paced advancement, much less put off to a future age in the dim mists of a millennial futurity to which the p ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Swadeshi and Boycott

... the hands of a people who have adopted the doctrine of free trade, an unalterable principle which they are not going to sacrifice for any reason. It is the principle of free trade which has been unanimously adopted by Englishmen. They want free trade. England gets every advantage of free trade. But other countries cannot accept the principle of free trade. This is not an expression of political hatred ...

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Words of Long Ago  >  On Thought - II

... ideas implies the existence of a corresponding domain, the realm of free intelligence always in form but not subject to form, and this realm is within us as within the great universe. If then we concentrate sufficiently, if we become conscious of our inmost being, we shall come into contact, within it and through it, with the free universal intelligence, the world of ideas. Then, if we have taken... sincere lover of knowledge also knows that the greatest sages are always the most modest and the most unknown. For one who has the knowledge and the capacity prefers silence and retirement where he is free to accomplish his Page 83 work without being disturbed by anything, to the fanfares of glory which would throw him as fodder to men. The lover of thought knows that he will find thought... great importance. It is like a cleansed and polished mirror that has become clear and bright, so that images are reflected in it sharply and vividly." And again: "One who is without darkness, free from blemish, of blameless conduct, perfectly pure, that one, even though he does not know and has never heard and in short has no knowledge, however little, of any of the things that are in the world ...

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Letters on Poetry and Art  >  English Poetic Forms

... the English language, which is too free and plastic for the theories which Page 160 are sometimes imposed upon its movements. The theories don't matter much, because the language contrives to go its own way even while pretending to conform to the theories. I don't know what models to propose to you—old style English practice was too regular for the freer spirit of the modern lyric and my... indispensable rules of line and colour to the pavement artist or to the signboard painter. Or perhaps the suggestion is that here one gets the primary unsophisticated rhythms native to the language and free from the artificial movements of mere literature. Still, I hardly fancy that the true native spirit or bent of English metre is to be sought or can be discovered in Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall... many others have come in from outside and have altered out of all recognition the original mould, but the spirit of the language has found itself as much in these developments as in the first free alliterative verse—as much and more. The spirit of a language ought to be strong enough to assimilate any amount of imported elements or changes of structure and measure. 23 February 1933 Page ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  Time and Change of the Nature

... effective. At the beginning one should not ask for any other fruit or results than this internal growth and change—for otherwise one lays oneself open to severe disappointments. Only when one is free, can one free others and in Yoga it is out of the inner victory that there comes the outer conquest. The Past and the Future One cannot go back to the past, one has always to go in the future. ... consciousness (vital and physical) is a big work and takes a long time and much action of the higher forces to accomplish. Nobody has ever done it in a short time. That is nonsense—no one can get free from the lower nature in such a short time [ eight or nine months ]. It takes years for even the greatest Yogis—it is the work of a life-time. As I have constantly told you, you cannot expect... mainly in struggling with sex and doubt and vital difficulties—many take more than that time about it. What I have been wanting you to do now is to get the right positive attitude within at the centre free from these things. Its basis must be what I have said, "I want the Divine and the Divine only; since I want and need, I shall surely arrive, however long it takes, and till I do, I shall persist and ...

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Living in The Presence  >  My French Class

... these. That was the reason for his explaining to me the entire set-up. And so as per Her wishes, Paru, Dhanvanti and myself took on the responsibility of 45 students of this Free Progress system. Whether this concept of the Free Progress system originated from the Mother, I couldn't say, but it was extraordinary. If I were to highlight the special qualities of the educational philosophy behind this... challenge with as much inner sincerity as I was capable of.     I began my French classes. I set out to fulfil my duty with one-pointed concentration. A few years later, a new system of education called Free Progress was launched in the school. This was an inconceivably new concept. One day Tanmay-da (Jean Raymond), a French teacher of the school, explained to me the whole philosophy and workings of this... happy to see that both of us were fond of art, and so I began teaching him French through art. A harmonious rapport developed between us and his sense of involvement grew to such an extent that in the Free Progress section, he turned out to be second overall and first among the 45 in French! The Mother was delighted to hear this and blessed us both. Another thing I would like to add before closing this ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Awakened One (The Buddha)

... happy the discipline of the United. Page 247 One cannot measure the merit of the man who reveres those who are worthy of reverence, whether the Buddha or his disciples, those who are free from all desire and all error, those who have overcome all obstacles and who have crossed beyond suffering and grief. This concerns the Four Truths and the Eightfold Path that lead to the annihilation... "desire" should not have been used, because we have just been told that we should not have desire. It is rather "correct aspiration". The word "desire" should be replaced by "aspiration". "To be freed from attachments and to have kind thoughts for everything that exists." To be constantly in a state of kindness. To wish the best for all, always. (3) Correct speech that hurts none . Never speak... universe, it will be very favourable to your inner growth. (6) Correct effort . Do not make useless efforts for useless things, rather keep all the energy of your effort to conquer ignorance and free yourself from falsehood. That you can never do too much. (7) The seventh principle comes to confirm the sixth: correct vigilance . You must have an active and vigilant mind. Do not live in a ha ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  7 December 1955

... true, that is to free yourself from his influence. But there is a difference between freeing oneself from the Adversary's influence and conquering the Adversary. To conquer the Adversary is not a small Page 397 thing. One must have a greater power than his to vanquish him. But one can liberate oneself totally from his influence. And from the minute one is completely free from his influence ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  Classification of the Parts of the Being

... supramental. If the psychic were liberated, free to act in its own way, there would not be all this stumbling in the Ignorance. But the psychic is covered up by the ignorant mind, vital and physical and compelled to act through them according to the law of the Ignorance. If it is liberated from this covering, then it can act according to its own nature with a free aspiration, a direct contact with the higher... by going within or widening into the cosmic consciousness. The true mental being is not the same as the inner mental—true mental, true vital, true physical being means the Purusha of that level freed from the error and ignorant thought and will of the lower Prakriti and directly open to the knowledge and guidance from above. Higher vital usually refers to the vital mind and emotive being as opposed ...

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Bande Mataram  >  The Rawalpindi Sufferers

... on previous occasions that a certain portion of the positive laws enacted by the British Government has been designed not so much to secure the rights and interests of the people as to repress their free manhood. There is a popular saying that almost every action of a man can be construed as an offence according to the Penal Code. This attempt to penalise many natural human activities in a conquered... our sufferings. This is the only prayer that befits us in this hour of the new birth of our nation. For all that the country suffers now or will suffer hereafter are but the natural birth-pangs of a free and regenerated India. ...

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The Human Cycle  >  Preface to the First Edition

... bringing into one system the few great Page 273 Empires remaining, few but immensely increased in power, influence and the extent of their responsibilities, and the greatly increased swarm of free nations which the force of events or the Power guiding them rather than the will of nations and Governments has brought into being, and the approaching struggle between Labour and Capitalism. The former... l scheme the strife of the old oligarchic and democratic tendencies in a new form, a question between control of the world-system by the will and influence of a few powerful imperial States and the free and equal control by all, small nations and great, European and American and Asiatic peoples. The second is a danger which may even lead to disintegration of this first attempt at unification, especially ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 8  >  The Value of Money

... organise. It is a convenient means—for at bottom it is only a means—for the full and free circulation of commodities. And this force must be in the hands of those who know how to make the best possible use of it, in other words, in the hands, as I have already said, of those who have abolished in them, who are somehow freed from, all personal desire, all attachment. To that must be added also a vision wide ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6  >  A PAGE OF OCCULT HISTORY

... of Truth or Reality, (3) a Being of Love or Ananda and (4) a Being of Life. And the first law of creation was freedom of decision. These Beings were manifestations in the free movement of the Divine; they themselves moved free, according to their individualised conscious will. They stood out, as if in relief, on the background of the Divine Existence. For originally, although they differentiated ...

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Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother  >  19 December 1968

... (Correspondence with Gautam Chawalla) Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother 19 December 1968 One can be free only after having shaken off the slavery of desires. Love and blessings Given with the power to do it 19 December 1968 ...

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Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 3  >  Part-I

... it has only to go back to its original nature.   How does the Prakriti divide itself into two for the necessary separation? It divides itself into an inner Force that is free in its action (free from rajas, tamas, etc.) and the outer Prakriti which it is using and changing.   Does Prakriti's division mean separating one part of itself from the gunas and becoming the inner... Tamas.   "Not only will the Purusha stand apart and be trigunatita, beyond the three gunas, but the Prakriti, though using the gunas, will be free from their bondage." So says the The Yoga and its Objects. How can Prakriti remain free from the bondage of the gunas in spite of her using them? By the transformation of the gunas eventually. Till then by using them without attachment... movement without desire.   Even when our actions are really free from any attachment we feel sometimes tamas or rajas. Page 27 I said that the predominance of sattwa was the usual thing, but rajas and tamas could also be prominent.   When the consciousness as well as the action is free from ego and desire, there is always a fundamental calm. This calm remains ...

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Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother  >  24 January 1939

... Correspondence Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother 24 January 1939 Dilip, We quite agree to your going to A for a short time and you can go with our free consent and blessings. 24 January 1939 ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  Undated?

... The Mother has written correctly in her message: All fancies are vital movements and most undesirable. Liberty does not mean to follow one's desires but on the contrary to be free from them. The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: Aims and Principles Blessings . ...

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Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother  >  11 January 1933

... Ambu's Correspondence Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother 11 January 1933 I do not want the work of slaves; I want the work of free people who work because they feel benefited by it and for whom work is a source of joy and strength. Whatever you cannot do in that spirit, it is better not to do. 11 January 1933 ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Ideal Friendship

... Part I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Ideal Friendship A friendship free from desire and attachment might be the ideal solution, but to be carried out it requires a perfect mastery over oneself and an unshakable discipline of the vital and the body. And as for the moment it is not yet the case, it is wiser ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Work and Ideal

... of our greatness; so go to them and try to reinstate our tutelary angel in his ancient seat. Or we must erect mills, start small industries, educate the masses, do philanthropic work and not talk of free or united India until this is done. When the spade work has not yet begun, why talk of a fine superstructure and create difficulties in the way of solid and substantial work? You have not yet put the... which have made nationhood possible in England, which have supplied work and enterprise with its motive and sustaining force. England is commercially great because Adam Smith gave her the secret of free-trade. England is politically great because her national ideals have been bold and high, not because of her parish work and municipalities. He was no fool or Utopian who wished to be the maker of songs ...

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Letters on Yoga - I  >  The Environmental Consciousness

... environmental consciousness and try to act from there, but then they are no longer part of one's own consciousness and are not felt as such but as something trying to come in from outside. One can be free [ from lower vital movements ], but one cannot say that the freedom has been made absolutely complete or secure until the complete transformation takes place. For these things always remain in the ... sadhaks. Two things are necessary—(1) to open fully the physical to the higher forces, (2) to reach the stage when even if the forces attack, they cannot come fully in, the inner being remaining calm and free. Then even if there is still a surface difficulty, there will not be these overpowerings. The Environmental Consciousness and the Subconscient They [ the environmental consciousness and the s ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  Reason and Society

... intellectual it is in one form or another their utopia of the future. But this would not really Page 415 carry the human evolution farther; it would only give it for a time a larger, finer and freer movement in its widest attainable circle. If the mentality remained too pragmatic, too eager to rationalise or organise life according to the idea, the peril of mechanisation and standardisation would... multiplication of different cultures—different peoples acting upon each other but escaping the tendency to replication and standardisation which is the tendency of the human collective mind or by a free progressiveness of the human intelligence making constantly new ideas, new ideals, still the movement would eventually be in a circle or an ellipsis which could be a constant description of a new-old ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother - I

... surrender for you. The Supreme demands your surrender to her, but does not impose it: you are free at every moment, till the irrevocable transformation comes, to deny and to reject the Divine or to recall your self-giving, if you are willing to suffer the spiritual consequence. Your surrender must be self-made and free; it must be the surrender of a living being, not of an inert automaton or mechanical tool ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Praying to the Mother

... inner, right or wrong, helpful or hindrance, or what amendment to them can make them pure: 1) In the night-time when I sit to read and an untimely attack of sleep comes, I pray to the Mother to be freed from the attack. If your reading is part of the sadhana, that is all right. 2) When I go to sleep, I pray to the Mother for her Force to take over my sadhana during the sleep, to make my sleep... considered as part of the right regulation of the life of sadhana. 13) When I sit down for meditation, I pray for Mother's Force to take over my meditation and make it deep, steady, concentrated and free from all attacks of troubling thoughts, vital restlessness, etc. This is part of the sadhana. 14) In depression, difficulty, wrong suggestions, doubt, inertia, on any occasion or happening I ...

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On Education  >  Replies to Prayers of the Physical Education Groups

... of the Physical Education Groups The groups are listed here as they were originally formed; since then, they have been reorganised. Group A Sweet Mother, for us Thou hast kept the path free from all dangers and difficulties, the path that surely leads to the goal; and when the final victory will be won, it will reach out to infinity. Mother, keep us always green, so that we may advance... Victory to Sweet Mother. Call to Victory I salute you, my brave little soldiers, I give you my call to the rendezvous with Victory. 3 April 1949 Page 269 Group C Lord, free from all ignorance Thy supreme workers and guide their standard of purity by the shortest way towards the Realisation. May Thy will be done and not ours. The Lord will name "supreme" only ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 6

... the pretence of liberation from ordinary conventions and ordinary reason. Page 15 One can be free only by soaring to the heights, high above human passions. Only when one has achieved a higher, selfless freedom and done away with all desires and impulses does one have the right to be free. But neither should people who are very reasonable, very moral according to ordinary social laws, think ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  28 DECEMBER 1940

... corrupt. There is one good thing about England: it is still free from corruption in public life. Of course England also was at one time corrupt but it has come out of that. Victoria's time was especially admirable. DR. MANILAL: France and America also are said to be very corrupt. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, terrible! Not a single senate member is free from bribery and corruption. NIRODBARAN: What about ...

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Moments Eternal  >  Bangladesh — a new birth for East Bengal

... the progress of this war in great detail. In the end Her force vanquished the Pakistani army. The Mother’s children proved once again that they were not cowards. They offered their lives in order to free their motherland and this happened during Sri Aurobindo’s birth centenary year. This was also the Mother’s intense aspiration and Sri Aurobindo fulfilled it. The two parts of Bengal finally became... Bengalis of East Bengal sought and got this name for their country from West Bengal which yielded it with delight. In that moment who could object? Not for giving a name. That East Bengal was finally free was what overjoyed everyone’s hearts. West Bengal gave proof of her inner magnanimity. Both the Bengals were tied with the same string. Two brothers came together again and this was amply proved during ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Altar and Flame - Truth at the Bottom

... Truth at the Bottom.   What's a well? Fathomed well, It's an "I" Whose hidden eye Has never forgot What skies have got. Deep in the soil, Free from all soil  A spirit sees  What moving seas Always behold Yet never hold. Here a still spot Can ever spot As selfed in it The infinite. Page 376 ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncolleted Work - A Crucial Experience

... moment caught Through life's rebuff, sinks deep, Hushing all hungry thought. When arms outstretched to enclose The dream of a perfect earth  Hold but a void, in a flash The Ever-Free takes birth. 30.5.84 Page 649 ...

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Collected Poems  >  To the Hill-tops of Silence

... Hill-tops of Silence To the hill-tops of silence from over the infinite sea,         Golden he came,         Armed with the flame, Looked on the world that his greatness and passion must free. ...

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The Renaissance in India  >  A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture - 6

... laid on scientific system, accuracy and order, not only in all the things of the life and mind, but even in the things of the spirit; the free flood of intuitive knowledge was forced to run in hewn channels. Society became more artificial and complex, less free and noble; more of a bond on the individual, it was less a field for the growth of his spiritual faculties. The old fine integral harmony gave... else collapses in a death agony brought about by the rapid impact of stronger and more immediately living though not necessarily greater or truer powers or formations. But if it is able to shake itself free of limiting forms, to renovate its ideas and to give a new scope to its spirit, if it is willing to understand, master and assimilate novel growths and necessities, then there is a rebirth, a fresh... it into the eternity of your self, into the fullness, freedom, greatness and bliss of the immortal spirit; for that is what each man is behind the veils of his nature. When you have done that you are free. Then you have gone beyond all the dharmas; you are then a universal soul, one with all existence, and you can either act in that divine liberty for the good of all living things or else turn to enjoy ...

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Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3)  >  chapter 022

... not been said with any sense of depreciating other Yogas but simply as a matter of fact pointing out the difference of aims. The aim of the other Yogas is, in one way or another, liberation - the freeing of one's self from the workings of physical, vital, mental nature. No doubt, a degree of purification of one's nature was considered essential but no radical change of it was demanded. Sri Aurobindo's... of every preconception. Their influence tends to pull you out of all past circumstances and outside forces operating at present. Those who are not wholly dedicated to their Yoga may not easily get free of all such factors but some genuine cooperation is surely possible from you. Most probably the obstructing force you speak of has something to do with the imps that are behind the deplorable habit... throughout the rising 8000 feet of narrow bridle-path. The rest of the family came by the safe conveyance of a sort of palanquin carried on a man's shoulder at either end.   When one compares my free movements of those days, and even the movements which were mine through the later years, with the sort of life I lead now, confined to a wheelchair for nearly eighteen hours a day and able to be no ...

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Child, Teacher and Teacher Education  >  Philosophy of Value-Oriented Education 2

... absolutely good or not and here relativity and subjectivity do enter there is still no doubt that goodwill is independent of personal need, desire or preference; the judgment of goodness of goodwill is free from relativity or subjectivity. In other words, there is in the human consciousness the possibility of the development of goodwill that can be considered to be objectively good. • This discussion... Value-oriented education should then be defined as a progressive and exploratory process of development, which promotes unconditional pursuit towards goodwill. This education leaves each individual free to determine the contents of the good and the right, provided they are motivated by goodwill. • Not value-education but value-oriented education, not prescription but exploration — this is the... rather than to the prescription of do's and don'ts of any set of values. If properly explored, this would lead to the exploration of various other sets of values, so that each student would then be free to determine for himself or herself what values one should adopt as a result of a sincere exploration of the realm of values. • Under the guidance of this general and overarching spirit of ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - The Yogi's Death

... The Secret Splendour The Yogi''s Death   Out of the eyes the thought took wing to the clouds; Out of the nostrils the small life blew free; From the lax lips the earth-spirit drifted down To vagues of primal sleep. An arrow shot From the deep heart to the head's crown, the soul Broke into wideness, grew the All, the One. 22.5.71 ...

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White Roses  >  Undated?

... ordinary life. As a complement to my today's letter. "The world will trouble you so long as any part of you belongs to the world. It is only if you belong entirely to the Divine that you can become free." Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Surrender ...

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Karmayogin  >  To My Countrymen

... Morley has been to rally the Moderates and coerce the Nationalists; the policy of the Moderate party led by Mr. Gokhale and Sir Pherozshah Mehta has been to play into the hands of that policy and give it free course and a chance of success. This alliance has failed of its object; the beggarly reward the Moderates have received, has been confined to the smallest and least popular elements in their party.... them stand aside. But all who deserve the name of Nationalists, must now come forward and take up their burden. The fear of the law is for those who break the law. Our aims are great and honourable, free from stain or reproach, our methods are peaceful, though resolute and strenuous. We shall not break the law and, therefore, we need not fear the law. But if a corrupt police, unscrupulous officials... once swept it forward. Social problems are pressing upon us which we can no longer ignore. We must take up the organisation of knowledge in our country, neglected throughout the last century. We must free our social and economic development from the incubus of the Page 375 litigious resort to the ruinously expensive British Courts. We must once more seek to push forward the movement toward ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother Takes upon Herself Difficulties and Illnesses

... children? Was it all a show to mask her infiniteness? Kindly write something to stop these questions in my mind. It is much easier for the sadhak by faith in the Mother to get free from illness than for the Mother to keep free—because the Mother by the very nature of her work had to identify herself with the sadhaks, to support all their difficulties, to receive into herself all the poison in their... 1936 I don't know whether the Mother was joking or was serious when she wrote to me: "But why should I have any desires either? You want me to be burdened with desires about you, so that you be free from desires? That might be good for you—not for me." I suppose this was a joke. Certainly we all wish to unload our desires on the Mother so that she may reject them or transform them. The idea ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1  >  The Ideals of Human Unity

... attempted is a free association of independent nations that choose to be linked together because of identity of interests or mutual sympathy in respect of ideal and culture. The British Empire is a remarkable experiment on this line: it is extremely interesting to see how an old-world Empire is. really being liquidated (in spite of a Churchill) and transformed into a commonwealth of free and equal nations... necessity as an intermediate stage, whether such groupings or commonwealths are going to be a permanent feature or whether the nation will finally remain the ultimate unit and humanity will consist of such free equal nations, independent units, all together forming a unified whole.   Anarchism-a certain school of philosophical or spiritual anarchism-presages, however, an agglutinative type of humanity ...

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Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Its Role, Responsibility and Future Destiny  >  Freedom and Discipline in the Ashram

... civilisation or a drying up of the springs of life and a swift or slow decadence. It is through the growth of consciousness that the collective soul and its life can become aware of itself and develop; the free play of mind and life is essential for the growth of consciousness: for mind and life are the soul's only instrumentation until a higher instrumentation develops; they must not be inhibited in their... representing as far as possible the individual Ashramites' best self and helping them to realise it, would respect the freedom of each of its members and maintain itself not by rules and coercion but by the free and spontaneous consent of its constituent members. And this is perfectly all right so far as the majority of its members are concerned. But what about the others, however few they be in number... Some inmates, old and new, do not feel any compunction in breaking the healthy discipline of the collective life or even in introducing injurious innovations. How to check this trend? If allowed a free course, this tendency is bound to grow more and more with the passage of time and infect more and more people here. Compromise and dilution will then set in and the Ashram may end up by losing its essential ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 8  >  On Food

... not take food, that already frees you from this unconsciousness that you have no longer to assimilate and transform within you: that liberates energy in you. Then, as there is an instinct in the being to make up for energy spent, if you do not gather it from food i.e. from below, you make automatically an effort to draw it from the universal vital energy which is free around you. And if you can... spiritual effect. But in reality it has very little to do with spirituality. However, instead of thinking all the while about food, how to get it and eat, if one were to take to fasting for the sake of freeing oneself from the bondage of food preoccupation, rising a little in the scale of consciousness, it would be a good thing. If you have the faith it will do you good, it will purify you, make you progress ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  The Supramental Manifestation and World Change

... not do this, this other thing will surely come about," and that is how you put, as it were, an iron curtain between yourself and the free action of the Grace. Page 156 How good would it be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness, essentially free, that presides over the universal manifestation, is fanciful in its choice and that it makes things succeed each other, not according... unforeseen! Then there would be no limit to the possibilities, the unexpected and the wonderful. And one could hope for the most splendid, the most delightful things from this Will, sovereignly free, playing eternally with the elements, ceaselessly bringing forth a new world that would have logically nothing to do with the world that went before. Don't you think it would be the happiest of things ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 7  >  The Language of Rabindranath

... personal whim and. fancy and idiosyncrasy engender. If his words in their structure break certain strict rules and regulations, they yet are quite in tune with the inner nature and form of the language; if free, they are still natural. Secondly, the grace and beauty of the words raise no question. A word, in order to fulfil its role, must have an easy and inherent power of expression – it must be living and... vitality. This language has no love, no need for set rules, for a prescribed technique, so that it may attain to a tranquil and peaceful gait. It has need of emotion, impetus and sharpness. It is like the free stepping of a lightning flare, as if an Urvasie dancing in Tagore's own hall of music. But it does not mean that this language is overflowing with mere emotion. Here too there is a regulated order... in sounds and hues. Saratchandra's is the light-pinioned bird that flies in the sky in silence. We find in Bankim a wide calm, happiness, clarity and beauty. In Tagore it is a tapestry woven by the free outpourings of the mind and the heart. In Saratchandra it is the dynamic simplicity of a vitality meaning business. I spoke of Rabindranath's ornamentation. But we must bear in mind that this ornament ...

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Towards A New Society  >  The Ideals Of Human Unity

... wider grouping is also being experimented upon nowadays, a federal grouping of national units. The nation is taken in this system as the stable indivisible fundamental unit, and what is attempted is a free association of independent nations that choose to be linked together because of identity of interests or mutual sympathy in respect of ideal and culture. The British Empire is a remarkable experiment... experiment on this line : it is extremely interesting to see how an old-world Empire is Page 96 really being liquidated (in spite of a Churchill) and transformed into a conmonwealth. of free and equal nations. America too has been attempting a Pan-American federation. And in continental Europe, a Western and an Eastern Block of nations seem to be developing, not on ideal lines perhaps at present... necessity as an intermediate stage, whether such groupings or commonwealths are going to be a permanent feature or whether the nation will finally remain the ultimate unit and humanity will consist of such free equal nations, independent units, all together forming a unified whole. Anarchism—a certain school of philosophical or spiritual anarchism—presages, however, an agglutinative type of humanity ...

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My Pilgrimage to the Spirit  >  April 25, 1932

... April 25, 1932 Q. What should be the true attitude towards food? Not to sake it from desire is sufficient? A. Yes. 2) Yes, if salt is needed it should be taken; but it should be free from desire. 3) Yes, it depends on the fixing of equality in the nature. Sri Aurobindo ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  August 17, 1914

... August 17, 1914 All errors, all prejudices, all misunderstandings must vanish in this whirlwind of destruction that is carrying away the past.... The light must become perfectly pure, free from all limitation, so that Thou canst manifest Thyself fully within it. Lord, Thou hast the Power and Thou wilt realise this supreme miracle.... Into this consciousness Thou hast put the certitude ...

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The Life Divine  >  Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti

... all external determination by anything not itself, since there is no real possibility of such a not-self coming into existence. The Infinite is illimitably Page 347 free, free to determine itself infinitely, free from all restraining effect of its own creations. In fact the Infinite does not create, it manifests what is in itself, in its own essence of reality; it is itself that essence... , so that by this pliability and free adaptation it might seem to the narrower faculty to have no standards whatever. In the same way, we cannot judge of the principle and dynamic operation of infinite being by the standards of finite existence,—what might be impossible for the one would be normal and self-evidently natural states and motives for the greater freer Reality. It is this that makes the... Infinite essentially free from all limitation by qualities, properties, features; on the other hand, we are aware of an Infinite teeming with innumerable qualities, properties, features. Here again the statement of illimitable freedom is positive, not negative; it does not negate what we see, but on the contrary provides the indispensable condition for it, it makes possible a free and infinite self- ...

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Questions and Answers (1956)  >  7 November 1956

... " The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates... she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance or sleep or even waking and enter into worlds or other regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It spreads... enter into us and pass Page 344 through us. And so we have a certain mental force held in, that is to say, ready to be used by the formative or creative mental power. These are, as it were, free forces. As soon as a thought coming from outside or a force or movement enters our consciousness, we give it a concrete form, a logical appearance and all kinds of precise details; but in fact all this ...

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Kena and Other Upanishads  >  The Subject of the Upanishad

... pursue, can no longer be an object of desire for the awakened spirit. He must aspire beyond; he must free himself from this world of death and mere phenomena to become himself in his true state of immortality beyond them. Then alone he really exists when here in this mortal life itself he can free himself from the mortal consciousness and know and Page 16 be the immortal and eternal. Otherwise ...

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Letters on Yoga - IV  >  The Power of Expression and Yoga

... perceptions and experiences of their sadhana. The power of expression comes by getting into touch with the inner source from which these things come. A calm and silent mind is a great help for the free flow of the power, but it is not indispensable, nor will it of itself bring it. Thought and expression always give one side of things; the thing is to see the whole but one can express only a... Writing and Sadhana Writing by itself on ordinary subjects has the externalising tendency unless one has got accustomed to write (whatever be the subject) with the inner consciousness detached and free from what the outer is doing. Writing and reading absorb the mind and fill it with images and influences; if the images and influences are not of the right kind, they naturally turn away from ...

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Visions-Experiences-Interview  >  In the Silence

... Self-Knowledge is Bliss; the confusion, due to ignorance, is sorrow. II. To comprehend in a deep seated silence the real existent,—as it is,— is the best way to enjoy the happiness and to become free from the misery. III. There is a Reality, wide as the sky, which acts in and through all beings. All are its becoming and manifestation. There is nothing but that. That is all- It manifests... supreme Reality ? If we want to have a full experience of the supreme Truth, the ever-present and ever-living, we must go beyond the mental concepts, thoughts, ideas, likes and dislikes. We must be free from the clutches of what we have seen, heard and talked about; we must be pure as the sky, without any of the mental constructions, and without being affected by anything. We should not determine ...

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Savitri  >  Allegorical Interpretations of the Legend

... out in every direction from this spot, was once alive in a way that no man ever dreamed of. I say there were gods who roamed everywhere, men like us in form and substance, but free, electrically free. 57   There is thus no need to impose on the original legendary story of Savitri and Satyavan any elaborate or ingenious interpretation. The death and the resurrection are both meant ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  The Value of Money

... It is a convenient means – for at bottom it is only a means – for the full and free circulation of commodities. And this force must be in the hands of those who know how to make the best possible use of it, in other words, in the hands, as I have already said, of those who have abolished in them, who are somehow freed from all personal desires, all attachments. To that must be added also a vision ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Conditions of Attainment to the Gnosis

... by Matter. Therefore he has to start with the action of the physical senses which are all channels of material contact; he does not start with the mind-sense. But even so he does not and cannot make free use of anything conveyed by these physical organs until and unless they are taken hold of by the mind-sense and turned into stuff and value of his intelligent being. What is in the lower subhuman submental... emotional and sensational being. The conscious centre of our being, our thought, our will and action, even the original force of our sensations and emotions rise out of the body and mind and take a free station above them. No longer have we the sensation of living in the body, but Page 490 are above it as its lord, possessor or Ishwara and at the same time encompass it with a wider con... rce and will-force from above. All will be originated from above; from above, all that corresponds in gnosis to our present mental activity takes place. 1 But this centre and this action are free, not bound, not dependent on the physical machine, not clamped to a narrow ego-sense. It is not involved in body; it is not shut up in a separated individuality feeling out for clumsy contacts with ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  21 April 1929

... mental and vital, especially the vital, are very active. During the day they are under check, the physical consciousness automatically represses their free play and expression. In sleep this check is removed and they come out with their natural and free movements. Page 15 What is the nature of dreamless sleep? Generally, when you have what you call dreamless sleep, it is one of two things;... your dream-experience. And as you become more and more conscious, you will begin to have the same control over your being at night as you have in the day, perhaps even more. For at night you are free, at least partially, from slavery to the mechanism of the body. The control over the processes of the body-consciousness is more difficult, since they are more rigid, less amenable to change than are... different make-up of the apprehending mind. It is only those that can go beyond beliefs and faiths and myths and traditions who are able to say what it really is; but these are few, very few. You must be free from every mental construction, you must divest yourself of all that is merely local or temporal, before you can know what you have seen. Spiritual experience means the contact with the Divine in ...

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Socrates  >  Appendix - 1

... when he was a boy, knew that stealing was a sin in the sight of God and yet he used to steal apples from an orchard. He used to repent for the act, used to weep and cry over it and still could not be free from the vice for many years. How, on the Socratic doctrine, are we to explain this fact? Secondly, it follows that a good deed is a result of the knowledge of what is good as well as the will... cure as well as murder a patient with his knife. But for a doctor, who is good as a man also, there is only one way open and it is to cure. A virtuous man can and must do only what is good. He is too free to have alternatives. Secondly, there is, according to Socrates, unity of virtue. A virtuous person is one who has developed all the virtues and harmonized them in such a manner that they make a... unified vision of the Highest Reality. ' Moreover, we have to note the Socratic doctrine of Freedom, which comes close to the Hindu idea of Moksha or Liberation. Such liberation is obtained by freeing oneself from the bonds of spiritual blindness, which is the cause of all evil. The state of liberation is the state of illumination spoken of as Knowledge by Socrates. Both in Socrates and Plato, there ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  August 2, 1952

... Agenda 1951-1960 August 2, 1952 Only when it is no longer necessary for my body to resemble the bodies of men in order to make them progress will it be free to be supramentalized. 1 Only when men shall depend exclusively upon the Divine and upon nothing else will the incarnate god no longer need to die for them. 2 Page 28 ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  2 May 1933

... to some obstacle or the other. Does it mean that Mother does not wish me to draw them? No, Mother had no such idea. Obstacles coming in the way do not mean that she does not want. You have to get free from the obstacles. 2.5.1933 Sri Aurobindo ...

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Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother  >  7 November 1946

... Indra Sen's Correspondence Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother 7 November 1946 Since the composing work has been taken up by R, I have much free time and I request you to give me some other work. I do not want to give you too much work and overburden you as at once your health suffers. But in case of emergency I will not forget your proposal ...

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The Synthesis of Yoga  >  The Power of the Instruments

... only a force for the action of physical and vital energy, but supports also the mental and spiritual action. Therefore the full and free working of the pranic shakti Page 733 is required not only for the lower but still necessary use, but also for the free and full operation of mind and supermind and spirit in the instrumentality of our complex human nature. That is the main sense of the... need is the clarity and the purity of the intelligence. It must be freed from the claims of the vital being which seeks to impose the desire of the mind in place of the truth, from the claims of the troubled emotional being which strives to colour, distort, limit and falsify the truth with the hue and shape of the emotions. It must be free too from its own defect, inertia of the thought-power, obstructive... and which automatically opposes and obstructs any very great upward change or at least prevents it from becoming a radical transformation of the whole nature. It is evident that if we are to have a free divine or spiritual and supramental action conducted by the force and fulfilling the character of a diviner energy, some fairly complete transformation must be effected in this outward character of ...

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Life of Sri Aurobindo  >  Beginning of Yoga

... they could enter and take hold of the brain and in three days I was free. From that moment, in principle, the mental being in me became a free Intelligence, a universal Mind, not limited to the narrow circle of personal thought as a labourer in a thought factory, but a receiver of knowledge from all the hundred realms of being and free to choose what it willed in this vast sight-empire and thought-empire... the path he was pursuing. He warned him that the voice that was guiding him was Asuric. He also said he would not be responsible for the consequences if he continued the same practice. Sri Aurobindo freed him from the responsibility of his sadhana. "When Lele came to Calcutta in February 1908 he asked me about my yoga. I had stopped the old kind of meditation as it was practically going on all the... Galpa Bharati , Vol. VI, No. 7 (Paush 1357), p. 816. Page 104 Smiling, Sri Aurobindo answered, "The last word is fearlessly taking the oath to serve the Motherland. If we want to free the country we have to conquer the fear of death." Remembering the line where Bankimchandra says that as death is one day inevitable, it need not be feared, Amar continued, "My fear comes from another ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncolleted Work - The Rose

... breaking, The real rose Deeper in the outshining cup A silence grows....   Forever the veil, the secret, Till we have furled Back into bud within us Our wide-awake world And, free from the mind's flutter, In spelled repose Over some core of being Eye-petals close. 10.7.67 Page 615 ...

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Bande Mataram  >  India and the Mongolian

... only continue in India, if India is willing that it should continue and strong enough to defend it against all comers. If a rejuvenated India decides to be free, it depends on the present action of the Page 991 bureaucracy whether free India will be a friend of England and a mediator between Europe and the triumphant Mongol or an ally of the latter in the approaching Armageddon. Even if the... thing the European has not yet perceived and that is that the Mongolian is no wild adventurer to go filibustering to Australia or bombard with his siege-guns San Francisco or New York before Asia is free. The first blow given by the Mongolian fell upon Russia because she stood across the Asiatic continent barring the westward surge of his destiny. The second blow will fall on England because she holds ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  April 1934

... Grace? It would mean his cutting all outside ties. So long as the ties remain the financial obligations also remain. I do not think he has advance so far that he can cut away altogether and be free. J says she was given a very small quantity of curry by A and her appetite is unappeased. It is very sad to see that in spite of your repeated directions and warnings (to the Dining Room workers)... one's way, some hostile beings should attack the very physique and especially that of ladies? Then each lady must stop walking alone or each must have somebody by her. I wonder how long it'll take to free the atmosphere from these seen vital forces. When the sadhaks get rid of the unseen ones in themselves and in the atmosphere of the Asram. I am afraid there will be now an apprehension and a... here inside the Asram as well as outside—under such circumstances, the protection, though it can still act, acts on conditions and within limits. April 27, 1934 X, I think, is more or less free from sex and tries to live in the Mother. More or less? tries? that was not what I said. I spoke of freedom from sex and living in the Mother. I cannot forget a nice dream I had in the first ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 9  >  Supramental Manifestation and World-Change

... "If I do not do this, this other thing will surely come about", and that is how you put, as it were, an iron curtain between yourself and the free action of the Grace. How good would it be to imagine that the Supreme Consciousness, essentially free, that presides over the universal manifestation, is fanciful in its choice and that it makes things succeed each other, not according to a logic... unforeseen ! Then there would be no limit to the possibilities, the unexpected and the wonderful. And one could hope for the most splendid, the most delightful things from this Will, sovereignly free, playing eternally with the elements, ceaselessly bringing forth a new world that would have logically nothing to do with the world that went before. Don't you think it would be the happiest of things ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  On Food

... take food, that already frees you from this unconsciousness that you have no longer to assimilate and transform within you: in order to liberate energy in you. Then, as there is an instinct in the being to make up for the energy spent, if you do not gather it from food i.e. from below, you make automatically an effort to draw it from the universal vital energy which is free around you. And if you can... spiritual effect. But in reality it has very little to do with spirituality. However, instead of thinking all the while about food, how to get it and eat it, if one were to take to fasting for the sake of freeing oneself from the bondage of food preoccupation, rising a little in the scale of consciousness, it would be a good thing. If you have the faith it will do you good, it will purify you, make you progress ...

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White Roses  >  21 January 1956

... order to obey it, that I say clearly what my wilt is. But afterwards if this same person shows displeasure or discomfort in obeying that will, I never insist upon it or use coercion. I leave each one free to do what one feels best. ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  The Adventure of the Apocalypse - From 8th May to 8th August

...  Let it be like the stop of a flute Where a master finger turns mute The magic air, that air may stream A perfect shape of the heart's dream Through other stops, and with each stifle free  More subtle tones of the Infinite Mystery.   9.8.48 Page 352 ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Eros Known and Unkown - Great Hungers

... The Secret Splendour   Hearts have great hungers—some would stand, earth-free. On lonely peak or plunge in secret sea Searching for lost Atlantis; some would scan Boundless horizons for the future man. I quest for mystic silence and strange song, But not for sky or wave or hid I long. Distance and depth and dizzy dream I win If I, ...

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White Roses  >  01 July 1956

... discussed or disobeyed. The Mother, More Answers from the Mother: 25 October 1963 To the others I show the Light and the Truth and give them advice when they ask for it, and they are always free to do what they think best for themselves. As for my Grace, Love and Blessings, they are always over all, but each one avails himself of them according to his capacity, receptivity and surrender ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  The Fullness of Yoga - In Condition

... moves towards a universal consciousness, from this limitation to a free movement in infinity, from this twilit & groping mind to the direct sunlit vision of things, from this conflict without issue between vice & virtue to a walking that keeps spontaneously to a God-appointed path, from this broken & grief-besieged action to a joyous & free activity, from this confused strife of our members to a purified... becomings, can liberate it from the bondage to its own limited Nature. God is That which is the All and which exceeds the All. It is therefore only the knowledge, love and possession of God that can make us free. He who is transcendent, can alone enable us to transcend ourselves; He who is universal can alone enlarge us from our limited particular existence. In this necessity is the justification of that... Page 116 a better combination. Neither need we believe that, even here, her object is to bring all men to the same level; for that can only be done by levelling downwards. Nothing in Nature is free from inequalities except the forms that are the lowest and least developed. The higher the effort accomplished, the more richly endowed the organism of the species, the greater the chances of inequality ...

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Hitler and his God  >  Turmoil

... of Mayr and Eckart, was its figurehead, but its military leader was General von Lüttwitz, supported by one of the most ruthless Free Corps, Captain Ehrhardt’s Marine Brigade. The Ehrhardt Brigade marched into Berlin; the government troops refused to fire on the Free Corps soldiers who had been their comrades during the war; the government fled and Lüttwitz proclaimed a new, revolutionary government ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  To N. K. Gogte

... I regret that I have not been able to reply as yet to your postcard. I am entirely occupied with the work for the Review which has to be given to the Press shortly. After the 17ᵗʰ I shall be more free and hope then to be able to reply to the questions you have put to us. Yours sincerely Aurobindo Ghose Pondicherry 9 Sept. 1914 [2] Pondicherry 21 Sept 1914 Dear Sir, I hope you... You will find that the Gita speaks of this rejection of all mental thought as one of the methods of Yoga and even the method it seems to prefer. This may be called the dhyana of liberation, as it frees the mind from slavery to the mechanical process of thinking and allows it to think or not think as it pleases and when it pleases, or to choose its own thoughts or else to go beyond thought to the pure ...

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On Education  >  The Human Mind (Sri Aurobindo)

... physically move. If anything has to be brought in from outside, it must be overed, not forced on the mind. A free and natural growth is the condition of genuine development. here are souls which naturally revolt from their surroundings and seem to belong to another age and clime. Let them be free to follow their bent; but the majority languish, become empty, become artificial, if artificially moulded ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  9 July 1958

... journey through the Unknown; but it ought not to be imposed, it should come as a free perception or an imperative direction from the inner spirit. A claim to unquestioned acceptance could only be warranted if the spiritual effort had already achieved man's progression to the highest Truth-Consciousness total and integral, free from all ignorant mental and vital mixture. This is the ultimate object before ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 8  >  Yama - Nachiketa

... and grant that when I return from your abode a free man, may he recognise me and receive me with joy. This, then, O Yama, will be the first boon I desire." Yama said in reply, "It will be certainly as you say. You will get back from here, your father Auddalaka Aruni will be able to see you as before, he will have his peace of mind on seeing you freed from the jaws of death, his annoyance will go... enjoyed the bliss of heaven. This then is that heavenly Fire of Nachiketas which you chose as the second of your boons. Henceforth, all people will say, this is verily your Fire. Nachiketas, now you are free to choose your third boon." Nachiketas answered, "Well, there rises a doubt as to the beings who depart from hence: some say they continue to exist, others say they do not. I want to know the truth... has been pushed aside, or evaded perhaps. There is merely an absence of death here, it has not been brought under control. Death may not be present in this abode, but he is sitting in his lair and is free to go where he wills, even if it be within some limits. There has been no annihilation of death. In his third boon, Nachiketas wants to know if there is beyond the physical death any surpassing of ...

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Parables from the Upanishads  >  Yama - Nachiketa

... and grant that when I return from your abode a free man, may he recognise me and receive me with joy. This, then, OYama, will be the first boon I desire." Yama said in reply, "It will be certainly as you say. You will get back from here, your father Auddalaka Aruni will be able to see you as before, he will have his peace of mind on seeing you freed from the jaws of death, his annoyance will go... enjoyed the bliss of heaven. This then is that heavenly Fire of Nachiketas which you chose as the second of your boons. Henceforth, all people will say, this is verily your Fire. Nachiketas, now you are free to choose your third boon." Nachiketas answered, "Well, there rises a doubt as to the beings who depart from hence: some say they continue to exist, others say they do not. I want to know the... has been pushed aside, or evaded perhaps. There is merely an absence of death here, it has not been brought under control. Death may not be present in this abode, but he is sitting in his lair and is free to go where he wills, even if it be within some limits. There has been no annihilation of death. In his third boon, Nachiketas wants to know if there is beyond the physical death any surpassing ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  24 FEBRUARY 1940

... Upadana from within. It is like being a lion cub living in a group of lambs; he thinks he is a lamb. But when he sees another lion, he becomes conscious and free. The other lion actually does nothing. SRI AUROBINDO: How does he become free then? Is there any influence that goes out from a Tirthankara? Does anything help? PURANI: No. Nothing helps. DR. MANILAL: It is like this. Sir: you have... ground have fewer Jivas? For example, in dal or flour are there fewer? PURANI: Yes. To return to Jainism: each soul, according to it, is free but has chosen to be bound and so it is bound. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, it is bound because it has chosen not to be free? PURANI: And the creation, as we said, is Swayambhu: all species and all forms have been the same from eternity and will remain so. SRI... Tirthankara is a Nimitta-karana (instrumental cause). The whole secret of liberation consists in bringing together Nimitta (instrument) and Upadana. Upadana is inherent capacity. Every soul is essentially free and its freedom can be realised with the help of Nimitta and Kala, time. It is like a seed with all potentialities in it but it must have time, environment and other circumstances for its fruition. ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - The Divine's Compassion

... charity's hands— But a new-birth's gift: within the flesh strange flesh That feels no hunger, heart's heart that needs no kiss, Some infinite spirit and substance suddenly ours, Time-free yet brimmed with all that time holds rich,  A world-vast Rose kindling a fathomless Void. 11.6.54 Page 584 ...

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White Roses  >  21 December 1960

... return to the endless round of existences, and what you have not achieved in one life, you have to do in the second, generally in much more difficult circumstances. There is only one way of getting free from life altogether, it is to go to Nirvana; and this can be obtained only by a very strict tapasya of complete detachment. There is also another and more simple way of getting out of trouble, it ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Pleasures of the Palate

... Pleasures of the Palate If you prefer the pleasures of the palate to the union with the Divine, it your own lookout and I have nothing to say, except that I do not approve, but each one must be free to choose whether he will rise above his lower nature or sink down in the material pit. My help is always for those who choose the higher path. The Mother ...

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Collected Poems  >  Who Art Thou that Camest

...     Of a forgotten sun Out of the caverned midnight     Fire-trails of wonder run. Captured the heart renouncing     Tautness of passion-worn strings Allows the wide-wayed sweetness     Of free supernal things. ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - The Wondrous Lure

... The Secret Splendour   The wondrous lure Of outward hues  Must fall away Ere the soul views God's light eternal, Truth bare and free—  Body of deathless calm And purity.  But still beyond That loveliness Unstained by time The soul must press.  Within the body Of God's sheer light  Is the soul of God's Creative ...

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Dilip's Correspondence with The Mother  >  3 December 1938

... e with The Mother 3 December 1938 Dilip I am very sorry but in the present circumstances it is impossible for me to see anybody as I must be always free to go to Sri Aurobindo if at any time my presence is required. As for M I have no objection to her staying alone with you. But it is quite impossible to give a room to S in the Ashram. In view of ...

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Autobiographical Notes  >  On the Commonwealth and Secularism

... the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On the Commonwealth and Secularism India can't remain in Dominion. It had decided to be a free republic and that can't be changed. On that basis it can have relations with Commonwealth if it wants. Spirituality cannot be affirmed in a political constitution. You can add spirituality in a matter ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  August 28, 1914

... Oh, to be infinitely Thou, Thou in all things, Thou everywhere, Thou always, the absolute silence, the absolute movement... To be nothing other than the One, all-containing, contained in all—free from every limitation and from all blindness. O Supreme Triumphant, triumph over every obstacle. Page 234 ...

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Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother  >  12 May 1947

... Parichand's Correspondence Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother 12 May 1947 Mother Divine, There is something I should tell You in order to be free from all vibrations. Many of our 16 workmen, after the morning work, take their bath and food inside the Cocotiers Garden, then lie down there till they are called for work. Taking advantage of my absence ...

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Surendranath Jauhar's Correspondence with The Mother  >  14 December 1969

... 14 December 1969 Gracious Mother, We would like to translate into Hindi "The Great Sense" by S and also get the same printed here as a small pamphlet, mostly for free distribution but we will fix the price also for sale. Mother, kindly let me know if you can graciously permit us to do the same. Praying for thy grace and blessings, Your loving child. ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  Towards the Supreme Secret

... and secure to the tread, for the limited horizons, for the enclosed resting-places. It is only the strong Page 526 and few who can move through freedom to freedom. And yet in the end the free soul ought to have an issue out of the forms and systems in which the mind finds its account and takes its limited pleasure. To exceed our ladder of ascent, not to stop short even on the topmost stair... decisive and effective way out of the enigma, a way to which ancient Indian thought of the highest and most meditative kind, as soon as it commenced to turn at a sharp incline from its first large and free synthesis, had moved with an always increasing preponderance. The Gita like the Tantra and on certain sides the later religions attempts to preserve the ancient balance: it Page 527 maintains... the objects pursued by the mind and the senses. One must become an understanding unattached in all things, asakta-buddhiḥ sarvatra . Then all desire passes away from the soul in its silence; it is free from all longings, vigata-spṛhaḥ . That brings with it or it makes possible the subjection of our lower and the possession of our higher self, a possession dependent on complete self-mastery, secured ...

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Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history  >  On The Eve

... you. You have given a lot of money to the Swadeshi movement.... But is the country going to be freed by the politics of salt and sugar only? If we want to secure the freedom of the country we have to sacrifice everything for it, and we should be ready to give up even our life for it. If we want to free the country, we shall have to conquer the fear of death." Amar: "How many would be able to... Motherland? Men go through so much suffering and trouble to get happiness in life. No sacrifice should be difficult to make for the freedom of the country. If India does not become free, man also will not be free...." Amar: "Upen has told me about being ready to sacrifice myself and I have replied to him, on the basis of what Bankim has said, that as one day death is inevitable, why should... " 2 The religious background is unmistakable. Although the immediate aim is the liberation of India, the ultimate aim is the liberation of humanity: If India does not become free, man also will not be free! Again, for the neophyte the pass-word is Surrender! Lose all to gain all! Many an Amarendra joined the secret party, but few knew about the exact number. Some high Government ...

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The Sun and The Rainbow  >  The Mother Two Phases (Poem)

... Bliss at play In a fetter light as flowers, Laughing with radiant motion In the midst of hampering hours — The Transcendental Mother, Triumphant over all, Swinging a care-free racquet As if earth were a tennis ball!     18.8.1954 Page 164 ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - The Mother-Two Phases

... Infinite Bliss at play In a fetter light as flowers,  Laughing with radiant motion In the midst of hampering hours— The Transcendental Mother, Triumphant over all, Swinging a care-free racquet As if earth were a tennis ball! 18.8.54 Page 587 ...

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Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II  >  Freedom

... Freedom It is not my intention to oblige you to wear mill cloth if you do not want to. All I said was that I have only mill cloth to give. When one becomes free in mind and heart, one's way of looking at all those things changes entirely. But until the freedom has come, there is no compulsion. It is by allowing bad thoughts and doubts to approach you that ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - God

... The Secret Splendour God   A sudden Vast breaks forth above the brain— Form, feature vanish in that rapt Inane— God is free light, an unwalled timelessness! But, when the soul settles in the Infinite's day, And sees no more the Eternal from cooped clay, God is a golden form wearing the bond Of limb and visage: all the immense ...

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On Thoughts and Aphorisms  >  Aphorism - 216

... On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 216 216—Nature sometimes gets into a fury with her own resistance, then she damages the brain in order to free the inspiration; for in this effort the equilibrium of the average material brain is her chief opponent. Pass over the madness of such and profit by their inspiration. It is indeed wise to look ...

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Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother  >  9 August 1946

... joining it? As a measure of defence towards the workmen it can be useful. But it was very clearly stated that we must keep entire freedom regarding the inner functioning of the Press. I must be free to make any change in the organisation if I find it necessary without having to refer to a committee or an association. 9 August 1946 ...

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Questions and Answers (1955)  >  20 July 1955

... become aware that at last you are a free being—because this is what's remarkable: that when one is perfectly surrendered to the Divine one is perfectly free, and this is the absolute condition for freedom, to belong to the Divine alone; you are free from the whole world because you belong only to Him. And this surrender is the supreme liberation, you are also free from your little personal ego and ...

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The Future Poetry  >  The Course of English Poetry - V

... verse and manner, to the Spenserian form,—an influence which prolonged itself in Byron, Keats and Shelley,—to lyrical movements, but more prominently the classical ode form, or Page 103 to freer and richer moulds of verse. Some pale effort is made to recover something of the Shakespearian wealth of language or of the softer, more pregnant colour of the pre-Restoration diction and to modify... another and a new power in English speech, the poetry of sentiment as distinguished from the inspired voice of sheer feeling or passion. But all these newer motives are only incipient and unable to get free expression because there is still a heavy weight of the past intellectual tradition. Rhetoric yet loads the style or, when it is avoided, still the purer intensity of poetic emotion is not altogether... bed. There is no sign of the swift uplifting that was to come as if upon the sudden wings of a splendid moment. In Burns these new-born imprisoned spirits break out from their bounds and get into a free air of natural, direct and living reality, find a straightforward speech and a varied running or bounding movement of freedom. This is the importance of this Page 104 solitary voice from ...

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Letters on Yoga - III  >  Experiences of the Self, the One and the Infinite

... higher consciousness of which the first basis is the peace and wideness and realisation of the Self, the One that is all. The gaining of peace makes it easier to get the experience of the pure and free Self. Page 391 If not aspiration, at least keep the idea of what is necessary—(1) that the silence and peace shall become a wideness which you can realise as the Self, (2) the extension... of the body. When this settles itself there is the liberation ( mukti ). Not only the body, but the vital and mind are felt to be only instruments and one's self is felt to be calm, self-existent and free and wide or infinite. It is then possible for the psychic being to effect in that freedom the full transformation of the nature. All your former experiences were preparing for this, but the physical... gradually from one field after another till none is left. For this a perfect samata even in the cells of the body and in every vibration of the being is necessary— samaṁ hi brahma . One is then quite free from it in works also. The individual remains but that is not the small separative ego, but a form and power of the Universal which feels itself one with all beings, an acting centre and instrument ...

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The Destiny of the Body  >  The Evolution of Hunger

... this latter sense of non-possession arising in its turn from the incommensurability of the ego's impulse to possess and enjoy infinitely and its limited force and capacity for seizure. That which is free, One and Lord, which is all the time all-possessor, samrāṭ, and therefore all-enjoyer, sarva-bhuk, need not and does not hunger or strain, but inalienably contains, possesses and enjoys. We,... establishing a conscious unity and union with the Cosmic Enjoyer, will become in our turn possessors and enjoyers of the universe and our hunger and thirst will be replaced by the active beatitude, the free and 'causeless' delight of existence. And since this delight is in its essence the delight of the One in His own existence, it is by its very nature infinite and 1 The Life Divine, p. 206... realising the one Self, we possess the whole universe in the one cosmic consciousness and do not need to possess physically. "Having by oneness with the Lord the possibility of an infinite free delight in all things, we do not need to desire. "Being one with all beings, we possess, in their enjoyment, in ours and in the cosmic Being's, delight of universal self-expression." 1 ...

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A Greater Psychology  >  Liberation and Transformation

... the consciousness of something within us that is behind and outside of the universe and all its forms, interests, aims, events and happenings, calm, untouched, unconcerned, illimitable, immobile, free, the uplook to something above us indescribable and unseizable into which by abolition of our personality we can enter, the presence of an omnipresent eternal witness Purusha, the sense of an Infinity... the one thing Real. This experience is the highest sublimation of spiritualised mind looking resolutely beyond its own existence. No one who has not passed through this liberation can be entirely free from the mind and its meshes, but one is not compelled to linger in this experience for ever. Great as it is, it is only the Mind's overwhelming experience of what is beyond itself and all it can... Gita; they are four, desire, ego, the dualities and the three gunas of Nature; for to be desireless, ego-less, equal of mind and soul and spirit and nistraiguṇya is in the idea of the Gita to be free, mukta. We may accept this description; for everything essential is covered by its amplitude. On the other hand, the positive sense of freedom is to be universal in soul, transcendently one in ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  Difficulties and the Mother's Help

... same in your relation with X. But this is a defect common in human nature and many here have it. It is not a thing that cannot be removed from the nature. Indeed since your heart and soul want to be free from it, it cannot but go. Do not be discouraged therefore when it returns owing to old habit. With the Mother's love and help what your heart and soul desire will surely come and the wrong obscuring... that the nearer the descent of the Supermind the greater will be the difficulties of those in whom it is to come down? It is true, unless they are so surrendered to the Mother, so psychic, plastic, free from ego that the difficulties are spared to them. 4 October 1935 You must not yield to impatience and let it bring thoughts of the old kind that cannot possibly help the working but must impede ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Bhikkhu

... world of forms, the desire to live in the subtle world, pride, restlessness and ignorance). Cultivate these five (faith, energy, mindfulness, meditation, and wisdom). The Bhikkhu who is thus five times free is said to be "he who has crossed over the flood". Meditate, O Bhikkhus, do not be negligent. Your minds should not turn towards the pleasures of the senses; for if by negligence you swallowed... one should always be kind. It should not be mistaken for the sort of advice people normally give. It says something interesting, even very interesting. My comment is: Always be kind and you will be free from suffering, always be contented and happy, and you will radiate your quiet happiness. It is particularly noticeable that all the digestive functions are extremely sensitive to an attitude that ...

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Words of the Mother - III  >  Rebirth

... Death and Rebirth Words of the Mother - III Rebirth Sri Aurobindo says that some time after death the vital and mental sheaths dissolve, leaving the soul free to retire to the psychic world before it takes up new sheaths. What becomes of the Karma and of the impressions—Samskaras—on the old sheaths? Do they also dissolve without producing any result, good... come to me since his departure. Is a soul which is conscious of You reborn immediately after its departure? Or does it have to wait long? Every fully conscious and developed psychic being is free to choose what its next life will be and when that life will take place. Does this soul come to the Ashram after its birth to accomplish Your divine mission? That is its usual choice when it ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10  >  Love and Love

... us upon earth, a divine significance. They are not to be despised or thrown out. On the contrary, our object is to take special care of the body, to cleanse it of its outward dross, make it sound and free from disease, to immortalise it if possible. And it is possible notwithstanding the old teachings. In their nature as a matter of fact, the cells of the body are immortal. Science today has discovered... physico-vital exercises attempted to acquire a new body changing the modalities of the old. The ancient alchemists tried more material means, the use of alchemic substances for cleansing the body making it free from disease and, if possible, death. But the secret power lies in the body itself, that is, in the very self of the body, not anywhere else. The hidden consciousness lodged in the cell, the material ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Love and Love

... us upon earth, a divine significance. They are not to be despised or thrown out. On the contrary, our object is to take special care of the body, to cleanse it of its outward dross, make it sound and free from disease, to immortalise it if possible. And it is possible notwithstanding the old teachings. In their nature as a matter of fact, the cells of Page 263 the body are immortal.... physico-vital exercises attempted to acquire a new body changing the modalities of the old. The ancient alchemists tried more material means, the use of alchemic substances for cleansing the body making it free from disease and, if possible, death. But the secret power lies in the body itself, that is, in the very self of the body, not anywhere else. The hidden consciousness lodged in the cell, the material ...

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The Adventure of the Apocalypse  >  From 8th may to 8th august

... Let it be like the stop of a flute Where a master finger turns mute The magic air, that air may stream A perfect shape of the heart's dream Through other stops, and with each stifle free More subtle tones of the Infinite Mystery. 9-8-48 Page 123 ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  6 February 1935

... Mother 6 February 1935 My dear Mother, Now You know H's absurdity, for she has written to You what she wanted to do today. 1 am happy that she is now free from that. Sri Aurobindo has just read her letter to me—you did well to console her. These ideas of incapacity are absurd, they are the negation of the truth of progress. What cannot be done today ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Benevolence

... the Mother - II Benevolence Benevolence makes life fragrant without attracting attention. A tireless benevolence, clear-seeing and comprehensive, free from all personal reaction, is the best way to love God and serve Him upon earth. I mean a benevolence sincere and spontaneous in thought and speech and not a supposed benevolence in acts which is ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  11 May 1933

... rush and recover their kingdom. If there has been an entire purification down to the depths and nothing is there to open the gate then they cannot do it. But it is only after one has been a long time free that one can say “Over, it is all right for ever.” (11.5.33) ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Shall India be Free? - National Development and Foreign Rule

... Book One Book One Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24.Oct.1906 - 27.May.1907 Bande Mataram Shall India be Free? - National Development and Foreign Rule 29-April-1907 In dealing with the Loyalist creed it will be convenient to examine first the general postulate before we can come to those which apply particularly to the conditions... group itself cannot develop unless it has an organisation by means of which it not only secures internal peace and order and protection from external attack but also proper conditions which will give free play for the development of its activities and capacities—physical, moral, intellectual. The nation or group is not like the individual who can specialise his development and throw all his energies... liberty. Individual liberty is necessary to national development, because, if the individual is unduly hampered, the richness of national life suffers and is impoverished. If the individual is given free room to realise himself, to perfect, specialise and enrich his particular powers and attain the full height of his manhood, the variety and rapidity of national progress is immensely increased. In so ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1965  >  June 5, 1965

... disciple: ...She speaks like a child, and it has the charm of the child. She told me, "Oh, I beg you, ask the Lord to be quick and sort things out!" ( Mother laughs ) So I answered: We are always free (laughing) to make our proposals to the Lord, but after all it is only His will that is realized. And the child's logical conclusion: "Oh, then I have to want what He wants"—that's the point... scattered slips of paper: There are all kinds of things, because I shove everything in here indiscriminately—bits of notes, private letters, things I never sent.... And what's this? You leave free hand to the bandits and... Oh, this is a message I sent mentally to the Government of India! They wanted to lend money to the "Lake estate" 1 and they asked for guarantees, all sorts of dreadful... your money, I don't want it at such a price." But I wrote this and for a long time kept it here, on my table (that's my method, I do that for my work). I was very angry and I wrote: You leave free hand to the bandits... and you take all sorts of insulting measures against honest people. It hasn't been published. Those papers are actions: occult actions. I write them, keep them, and then ...

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Child, Teacher and Teacher Education  >  Programme of Studies Related to Indian and Indian Values

... (xxxviii) Acceptance of the tragic proposal of Partition Page 197 (xxxix) 15th August 1947 Birth of Free India 15th August 1947: Sri Aurobindo's 75th Birthday: Sri Aurobindo's message on the birth of Free India. X (i) Jawaharlal Nehru and Free India (ii) The new Constitution of India 1949 (iii) India adopts Planning (iv) Problems of contemporary ...

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A Vision of United India  >  The obstacles to the unification of India and Pakistan

... pressed clothes from Army Laundries, Very Cheap electricity from the M.E.S, which is supplied by WAPDA), Lands grabbed from the Provincial Governments, Free and top of the class Health facilities from the C.M.H. and their children get the best education free of charge in Army and P.A.F. educational Institutions. In every city a line divides the poor and the well to do; i.e. the shabby municipal limits and... all the resources spent on the armed forces in the last 30 years, take out 50% of it and spend on infrastructure, industry, agriculture and social services, Pakistan today would have been totally debt free, prosperous and definitely with strong and much better armed forces. It would be better now to put the immense human resources of the army to some national use. It would be wise to ...

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A Pilgrims Quest for the Highest and the Best  >  Limitations of the Mind as an Instrument of yogic Experience

... they could enter and take hold of the brain and in three days I was free. From that moment, in principle, the mental being in me became a free Intelligence, a universal Mind, not limited to the narrow circle of personal thought as a labourer in a thought factory, but a receiver of knowledge from all the hundred realms of being and free to choose what it willed in this vast sight- empire and thought-empire ...

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Prayers and Meditations  >  May 2, 1914

... feelings, even the most sublime, beyond the most magnificent aspirations and the purest flights, beyond Love, Knowledge and the Oneness of Being, I would enter into constant communion with Thee, O Lord. Free from all shackles I shall be Thyself; it will be Thou who wilt see the world through this body; it will be Thou who wilt act in the world through this instrument. In me is the calm serenity of perfect ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973  >  February 10, 1972

... sincere surrender to the Divine. Their blindness is so great that they refuse even to attempt the experience and prefer to be subjected to the misery of their ego rather than make the necessary effort to free themselves from it. Their blindness is so total that they would not hesitate to make the Divine a slave to their ego, if such a thing were possible, just to avoid giving themselves to the Divine ...

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Surendranath Jauhar's Correspondence with The Mother  >  3 April 1971

... of God, we must be without desires and without preferences. Otherwise we mistake for God's Will our own limited ideas and principles. It is in the wide peace of an absolute and devoted sincerity, free from fixed ideas and preferences, that we can realise the conditions required to know God's Will; and it is with a fearless discipline that we must execute it. 3 April 1971 ...

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Collected Poems  >  Trance

... swoon. My mind is awake in stirless trance,     Hushed my heart, a burden of delight; Dispelled is the senses' flicker-dance,     Mute the body aureate with light. O star of creation pure and free,     Halo-moon of ecstasy unknown, Storm-breath of the soul-change yet to be,     Ocean self enraptured and alone! ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  2 March 1936

... 1936 My dear Mother, Whatever the suggestions may be, I know that they are all hostile influences trying to disturb the sadhana. The work at Aroumé needs a very clear mind and vital, free from all likes and dislikes. When the mind is struck by such adverse suggestions, you must not get nervous or fear but consider them as mere nonsense and push them away as you would push away a ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  1 June 1934

... again it knocks me down and tries to drag me into an unquiet state full of doubt, lack of confidence, and ego. Mother, lift me once more out of this turmoil in my nature and let me breathe in the free and vast air of Your infinite Love. It is not in one day that one can overcome one's own nature. But with patience and enduring will the Victory is sure to come. 1 June 1934 ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  09 July 1974

... Karan Singh In answer to a note from me, M. André wrote on 9.7.74: Dear Huta, Thanks for your lines of yesterday. Yes, you can come to Golconde on Friday 19th. I shall manage to be free at 4.30 pm. We shall see what is Roger's reaction and I sincerely hope he will readily agree to my proposal. After all, Auroville cannot be built on differences of opinion and Mother has often yielded ...

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Words of the Mother - II  >  Selfishness

... Divine and a loving surrender to the Divine's Will. Blessings. 15 May 1944 Page 258 Each thought turned towards oneself veils the Divine. 25 August 1944 We must be free of all selfishness to serve properly the Divine's Cause. 26 May 1954 Selfishness and self-pity lead nowhere. You would do better to get rid of them―for it is these two narrow movements which ...

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Sweet Mother  >  An Advice

... still persists, you strike blows at it, real physical blows (gesture) in the air, until this movement disappears.   Or else, you call me: "Come, help me, Mother," and immediately you will be freed from these vital movements,... "and may the Peace descend into me." Page 76 ...

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Parichand's Correspondence with The Mother  >  30 July 1946

... 30 July 1946 Mother, Before writing to You I had a talk with Y about the roller affair. This morning I told him what You had written to me; sometimes I am free speaking with him. But I felt later that I ought to have kept to myself what You had written about Z. I pray to know if I acted on a wrong suggestion. It is always better not to repeat to others ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  30 May 1932

... one she loves or admires and this influence remains after the feeling itself has gone or appears to be gone. This does not refer to X’s influence merely. It is the general rule given to keep yourself free from any other admiration or influence. (30.5.32) ...

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Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  My Meeting with The Master

... is all right, but it is difficult to concentrate on it so long as India is not free." "Perhaps it may not be necessary to resort to revolu­tionary activity to free India," he said. "But without that how is the British Government to go from India?" I asked him. "That is another question; but if India can be free without revolutionary activity, whyshould you execute the plan? It is better to... its being. In ancient times each community had its own Dharma and within itself it was independent. Every village, every city had its own organisation quite free from all political control and within that every individual was free – free to change and take up another line for his development. But all this was not put into a definite political unit. There were, of course attempts at that kind of... talk in those days of individual liberty in the present sense of the term. But there was absolute communal liberty. Every community was completely free to develop its own religion – the law of its being. Even the selection of the line was a matter of free choice for the individual. I do not believe that because a man is governed by another man, or one class by another class, there is always oppression; ...

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The Aim of Life  >  Brahman is Real The world is a Lie

... distinct 8 from everything else. Blessed am I; I have attained the consummation of my life, and am free from the clutches of transmigration; I am the Essence of Eternal Bliss, I am Infinite — all through thy mercy! I am unattached, I am disembodied, 9 I am free from the subtle body, and undecaying. I am serene, I am taintless, and eternal. 1. Sa nnyasins — Lit... the Vedas — considering thee an aspirant after liberation, purged of the taints of this Dark Age, and of a mind free form desires. Hearing these words of the Guru, the disciple out of reverence prostrated himself before him, and with his permission went his way, freed from bondage. 1. secret — The discrimination between the Real and the unreal which is hidden from the... Duly — That is, according to the prescribed mode (Vide Mundake, I, ii, 12) Page 173 Now I am going to tell thee of the real nature of the Supreme Self, realising which man is freed from bondage and attains liberation. 1 There is some Absolute Entity, the eternal substratum of the conscious- ness of egoism, the witness of the three states and distinct from the five ...

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The Practice of the Integral Yoga  >  Renunciation in the integral yoga

... are endless and it will cling to every possible self-concealment. The criteria of renunciation is within. It is to have the soul free from craving and attachment, but free from the attachment to inaction as well as from the egoistic impulse to action, free from attachment to the forms of virtue as well as from the attraction to sin. It is to be rid of "I-ness" and "My-ness" so as to live in... from the struggle, the disgust and disappointment of the soul baffled by the great cosmic labour, the selfishness that cares not what becomes of those left behind us so long as we personally can be free from the monstrous ever-circling wheel of death and rebirth..." (pp. 311-12) Elsewhere, in his book The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo mentions that once the head and mind and soul of a seeker... advice is that which prescribes decapitation as a remedial measure? We are afflicted with the sense of sorrow and suffering and it is also a fact that most men turn to the spiritual path in order to be freed from this consciousness of pain and be admitted into the consciousness of eternal bliss. But for that we cannot subscribe to that destructive solution which recommends the annihilation of the world ...

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The Gita and its Synthesis of Yoga  >  Part Three

... friendly and compassionate to all creatures, free from possessiveness and false ego, even-minded in joy and sorrow and forgiving by nature. 135 He is the yogi who is always satisfied, self-controlled and who has fixed his mind and intellect on the Supreme and adores the Supreme. He does not disturb others and is not perturbed by others; he is free from feelings of excitement, anger, fear and... in that spiritual joy, which is no longer the sattwic happiness, sukham, but absolute Ananda. The liberated man, who is free Page 133 from the sense of doership and whose reason is the channel of the faculties appropriate to Para Prakriti, and who is thus free from ego and its desires, lives at last one with his highest self, one with all beings and one with God in an absolute bliss... and anxiety. He has no expectations from anybody; he is pure internally and externally; he is dexterous in action, and passionless, free Page 117 from mental distress, renouncer of the feeling of the doership in all undertakings and he adores the Supreme. He neither rejoices nor hates, nor grieves nor desires, he has renounced all that is evil but also all that is considered to be auspicious ...

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My Pilgrimage to the Spirit  >  March 4, 1932

... make possible the establishment of the timeless infinite consciousness. A. There can be no balance (in sleep) in the present condition. The balance can only come as the sleep becomes conscious and free from tamas.... I am concerned with preparing the nature for the Supramental possibility—however long that may take and I have no time or energy to waste on side issues. That preparation is the only ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - Moment of Grace

... through white holes Pricked in a universe hung blind, Steal into the vast web of Fate The mercies of an infinite Mind. Within the rapt mechanic law A touch is found of the Ever-Free Who made this system of sun-grooves But has the power unendingly To change it in strange secret ways Through moments of communion When the myriad cosmos grows aware That by ...

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Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother  >  7 May 1940

... 7 May 1940 My dear faithful Baby, I am not at all displeased with your work and I ask you to go on doing it as before. I told you myself that I wanted you to be free so that if you were needed to help someone or another you would be able to do it. As for the plucking of the flowers I must ask you not to climb on the "realisation" tree nor on the champa; we shall ...

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Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother  >  20 September 1966

... (Correspondence with Gautam Chawalla) Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother 20 September 1966 I have suffered enough! If You truly love me, set me free at any cost. How can I find my soul? Stop complaining. You are suffering because some part of your being has a perverse attraction to suffering. In fact, the circumstances of your life would ...

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The Adventure of the Apocalypse  >  Treasure

... understand. God's single Sun is lying, Sealed in a trance of night— Trickling one ray through the key-hole To honey our twins of sight. O what shall turn in the grooves, Set free the Orb of gold And burst a noon of knowledge From mysteries untold? Vainly we grope for the key, To the ends of the earth we run, While just a fragile finger Making the ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  The Pilgrim of the Night

... emptiness which is preliminary condition for these things, there comes an automatic tendency for a Unity with all — their affections, mental, vital, physical may easily touch. One has to keep oneself free. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  25 SEPTEMBER 1940

... Sri Aurobindo 25 SEPTEMBER 1940 SRI AUROBINDO: The situation about Dakar seems to be a little clearer now. It appears that De Gaulle went there with some free French forces supported by British warships; he sent an ultimatum to the authorities but a fight is still going on as they didn't surrender. But I don't understand why De Gaulle wants to land troops ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 5  >  PUBLISHER'S NOTE

... placed before the Mother and answers given. Questions and answers were in French, except on rare occasions for the benefit of those who were more at home in English. The present volume presents a very free rendering of the Mother's answers in the author's language and manner. ...

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Collected Poems  >  To the Ganges

... To the Ganges Hearken, Ganges, hearken, thou that sweepest golden to the sea,     Hearken, Mother, to my voice. From the feet of Hari with thy waters pure thou leapest free,     Waters colder-pure than ice. On Himâloy 's grandiose summits upright in his cirque of stones     Shiva sits in breathless air, Where the outcast seeks his refuge, where the demon army moans...     Even now a flame is born Which shall kindle all the South to brilliance and the North shall be     Lighted up as with the morn. And once more this Aryavurtha fit for heavenly feet to tread,     Free and holy, bold and wise, Shall lift up her face before the world and she whom men thought dead,     Into strength immortal rise. Not in icy lone Gungotry nor by Kashi's holy fanes,     Mother ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - Sehar

... The Secret Splendour Sehra   1   Freedom—24.4.1980   With the Far-away's call Quickening your heart-beat You freed yourself from all Earth's bitter-sweet.   Terrible at times the means By which the soul Drops out of mortal space To its inmost goal.   A moment your whole life hung 'Twixt heaven... days You've made a glory. Abysms I'll cross Yet reach the Immense, the Full And lose all loss. 6.11.80 Page 635 9   Transmutation   Seeing you freed from the long tremor of human breath, Each flame in me straightened in that deep calm, your death.   Flickerless, the soul now strained to an empyrean air Through your still face ...

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Questions and Answers (1929-1931)  >  The Just Man

... neglect it. A man is not a Thera 1 because his hair is grey. He is ripe in years but he has aged fruitlessly. But one who possesses the truth, virtue, non-violence and self-mastery, who is free from all impurity, who is wise, is indeed a Thera. Neither eloquence nor a beautiful appearance grace a man who is jealous, selfish, deceitful. But one in whom such faults are completely uprooted... succeeded in overcoming all that, in discovering, dislodging and getting rid of them, even then one has done only the negative side of the work. The Buddha said or has been made to say that when one is free from all desire, one necessarily enters into infinite bliss. This bliss may be a little dry and anyway it does not seem to me to be the quickest way. If at the outset one were to seize the problem ...

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Questions and Answers (1957-1958)  >  12 June 1957

... the experience has not been preceded by a change of consciousness which would be a preliminary liberation. It is not by abstaining from food that you can make a spiritual progress. It is by being free, not only from all attachment and all desire and preoccupation with food, but even from all need for it; by being in the state in which all these things are so foreign to your consciousness that they... will but is in harmony with all the forces around you, a way of being which is adapted to the circumstances you live in, which have absolutely no importance in themselves. There comes a moment when, free from everything, one needs practically nothing, and one can use anything, do anything without this having any real influence on the state of consciousness one is in. This is what really matters. To ...

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Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960  >  September 14, 1956

... money, and by so doing you will be freed from all your personal difficulties. Then you can return here with no apprehension, and you will be ready for the transformation. Reflect upon this, take your time, tell me very frankly how you feel about it and whether it appears to you, as it does to me, to be a door opening onto a path that will bring you back, free and strong at last to me. All my ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3  >  Mater Dolorosa

... Nature, in various degrees they are yet its vassals; they owe allegiance to the three gunas, be it even to sattwa – sattwa is also a movement in Inferior Nature; Page 111 they are not free. Has not Sri Krishna said: Traigunyavisaya veda nistraigunyo bhavarjuna ¹? only thing we must remember is that freedom from the gunas does not necessarily mean an absolute cessation of the play of... necessary under the circumstances, but however imperative at the moment it does not go to the root of the matter. ¹ “The action of the three gunas is the subject matter of the veda: but do thou become free from the triple guna, O Arjuna.” – The Gita , II.45 Page 112 ...

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Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4  >  Human Birth

... conscious and fully formed being. This ascent of the soul in order to become a mature conscious being, having its own will and deciding its own destiny, takes thousands of years. When, however, it is a free and conscious soul that seeks to take a body again upon earth, it begins to work upon the body even before the birth. Such being the case, it has no reason not to accept the inconveniences that result... the body is brought into being at present, you have to face innumerable difficulties, coming more or less from the subconscient, that rise to the surface with which you have to fight if you want to be free entirely and develop normally. Page 61 ...

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Learning with the Mother  >  THE EARLY YEARS (1944—1950)

... the beginning, classes were held only in the mornings, probably from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. We would all then go home for lunch and return in the evening to the school to play. There was quite a lot of free play in those days and all age Groups made their own batches and played in different corners of the Playground. Sometime, I believe in late 1944 or early 1945, the Mother wanted to keep the children... pioneers of physical education in Gujarat of the 20th century. Everyone enjoyed themselves, no matter what kind of physical activity was being taught, whether it was games, drills, Boxing, Lathi or free play. Gradually things started taking an organised shape and we were divided into different age Groups. The youngest, Group A consisted of children up to ten years of age; then we had Group B, for ...

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Words of Long Ago  >  A Sapphire Tale

... humanity, to increase its strength and well-being by making superstition and fear draw back as far as possible before the knowledge that brings solace and enlightenment. The artists, whose whole will was free to concentrate upon their art, had only one desire: to manifest beauty, each according to his own highest conception. Among them, as friends and guides, were four philosophers, whose entire life... all, "Be yourself", and for all a single law to be strictly observed, the law of Charity, whose highest part is Justice, the charity which will permit no wastage and which will hinder no one in his free evolution. In this way, very naturally, everyone works at once for himself and for the collectivity. This orderly and harmonious country was ruled by a king who was king simply because he was the... garments, to come from a distant land; and the sweet and serious gaze of the stranger has won the heart of the girl—now she can love no other. Since then she has been waiting and hoping; it is to be free to dream of the handsome face seen in the night that she is walking amid the solitude of the lofty woods. The dazzling sunlight cannot pierce the thick foliage; the silence is hardly broken by the ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  20 JUNE 1940

... Cooper also admits that there is a strong pro-India sentiment there. SRI AUROBINDO: Then? He is an imperialist. He doesn't want India to be free. Why should he say that if it were not true? (After some time) If England goes down, there won't be any free country left except Russia, Japan, Germany and Italy. I am speaking of the old world. I think the next war will be between Russia and Germany... difficulty, for they may resist. Hitler is not likely to keep quiet over the trouble in the Balkans. With Italy's help he may settle the Balkan problem and that of Asia Minor. Or he may allow Russia a free hand now, knowing that he can settle with her afterwards. NIRODBARAN: Will Pétain hand over France to Hitler? SRI AUROBINDO: These people— (Sri Aurobindo left his sentence incomplete.) EVENING ...

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My Pilgrimage to the Spirit  >  February 16, 1932

... necessary for that, or towards that under the conditions of each stage. At present the necessity is to prepare the physical consciousness; for that a complete equality and peace and a complete dedication free from personal demand or desire, in the physical and the lower vital parts is the thing to be established. Other things can come in their proper time. What is the real need now is the psychic opening ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  The Advenuture of the Apocalypse - Great Wings

... and one of gold  Our dreaming spirit must unfold, The wing of shadowless purity, The wing of power that cannot die.   But life gains not this liberty Unless a wideness ever free Is the formless depth of what we are,  A mystery standing near and far, An omnipresence of rapt air, No need to rush forth anywhere, An all-supporting breakless peace That ...

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Kirankumari's Correspondence with The Mother  >  3 October 1939

... 3 October 1939 Mother, I am very sorry because I displeased you. I do not understand all things. I do not want anybody’s help; I only want your help. You make me free from this trouble. I want to do works for you quietly, Mother. I want you strong and quiet and for that you must not let yourself be troubled by anybody’s behaviour towards you. My love and blessings ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Altar and Flame - Heaven's Light and Mortal Doom

... For dire eclipse of its eternity Has spent the whole blind force of mortal doom Against the Soul's vision of a wondrous sod In which the Undying can work His artistry. Now Man breaks free to grow for ever God. Page 395 ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncollected Work - Prophecy

... Secret Splendour   (On my fiftieth birthday, for the ultimate future)   The whole world is poverty-stricken now: what shall Men give to him who has freed the shadowless All From his own blinded form and narrow name? The prisoner Light that strains towards diamond-flame Out of the quenching carbon has now sprung, Boundlessly white, illimitably ...

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Ambu's Correspondence with The Mother  >  10 September 1935

... same feelings that one had in life. If you died with these feelings of trouble and despondency in you, they would continue after death with greater intensity. Nothing would be gained by that. To be free from these things you have to overcome them in life here and that can only be done by throwing away their cause. My love and blessings are always with you. 10 September 1935 ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  15 March 1934

... letter from you I felt my outer consciousness turned within and with this inward turn I felt myself calm and peaceful and more gathered within than before. Mother, I pray to Thee to make me entirely free from any other influence except Thine. I would like to know how to make myself entirely plastic to Thy touch? I do not quite understand the meaning of “Thy touch”. Touch means the contact of Mother's ...

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The Spirit of Auroville  >  20 September 1968

... the Mother: Earth needs a place where men can live away from all national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions. A place where human beings, freed from all slavery to the past, can devote themselves wholly to the discovery and practice of the Divine Consciousness that is seeking to manifest. Auroville wants to be the place and offers itself ...

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At the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo  >  26 July 1937

... involved, there was a division into two parts in the being. SRI AUROBINDO: It is that separation of the inner from the outer which has to come back and be fixed — until outer and inner can become one free consciousness. Probably when you had it your attention was more on the change of mind and vital and you were observing those. (26.7.37) ...

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The Adventure of the Apocalypse  >  Great wings

... white and one of gold Our dreaming spirit must unfold, The wing of shadowless purity, The wing of power that cannot die. But life gains not this liberty Unless a wideness ever free Is the formless depth of what we are, A mystery standing near and far, An omnipresence of rapt air, No need to rush forth anywhere, An all-supporting breakless peace That ...

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Essays Divine and Human  >  Science

... has done, of the immense utilities with which it has served, helped, strengthened, liberated, mankind, right knowledge of the world, an increasing and already fabulous mastery of Nature, a clear and free intellectual vision of things and masterful dealing with them, liberation from the fetters of ignorance, from blind subjection to authority, from unquestioning political, social, religious and cultural ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Uncolllected Work - Veiled Workers

... when lids weigh down With a burden of sky  A Self within all selves Breaks wide the brain And we reach at last the secret Of the silver strain To which the Unknown sets free Its core of care  For the tiny aches which wonder Who twinkles the dark air. Unveiled are then the workers At each gloom tide. Calling our heartbeats where Eternities hide ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  The Adventure of the Apocalpyse - Treasure

... understand.   God's single Sun is lying, Sealed in atrance of night— Trickling one ray through the key-hole To honey our wins of sight.   O what shall turn in the grooves, Set free the Orb of gold And burst a noon of knowledge From mysteries untold?   Vainly we grope lor the key, To the ends of the earth we run, While just a fragile finger Making the ...

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Collected Poems  >  The Dual Being

... brilliant surface elf,     A time-born creature with a human mind. Tranquil and boundless like a sea or sky,     The Godhead knows himself Eternity's son. Radiant his mind and vast, his heart as free;     His will is a sceptre of dominion. The smaller self by Nature's passions driven,     Thoughtful and erring learns his human task; All must be known and to that Greatness given     His mind ...

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A Vision of United India  >  The Second World War

... the message: "August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a new age. But we can also make it by our life and acts as a free nation an important date in a new age opening for the whole world, for the political, social, cultural and spiritual future of humanity. India is free but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken... e. Mussalmans are a nation according to any definition of a nation and they must have their homelands, their territory and their state. We wish to live in peace and harmony with our neighbours as a free and independent people. We wish our people to develop to the fullest our spiritual, cultural, economic, social and political life in a way that we think best and in consonance with our own ideals and... the United Kingdom and the other Dominions by a common allegiance to the Crown, but equal to them in every respect in no way subordinate to them'. Immediately after the war, India would be free to frame its own constitution. Until then, a new Executive Council would govern the country; the British would retain control of the defence of India as part of their world war effort, but the task ...

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The Mother with Letters on the Mother  >  The Mother's Force and the Body

... people years to bring it into the body, and with most it comes only by degrees. That it should come in a mass like that and even down to the chest shows that what I told you was true—that once you get free from the old obstacles that were obstructing you, you can have the Yoga experiences as well as anyone else here. 3 December 1933 Is the heat that I felt in the body the heat of the fever or the... has many parts and many different movements and all do not open or change together. Also the body is very dependent on the subconscient which has to be cleared and illumined before the body can be free from adverse reactions. 15 April 1938 The Mother's Force is always pouring down—your body must Page 233 now forget its habit of depression or sadness. Let the happiness come into it ...

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On Education  >  Studies Elsewhere

... Education On Education Studies Elsewhere I intended to let you go for your studies to England without telling you anything about it, because each one must be free to follow the path he has chosen. But after what you have written I feel compelled to write to you. No doubt from the exterior point of view, you will find in England all that you want for learning... who sincerely wish to learn, have here all the possibilities to do so. The only thing that one has outside, but does not have here, is the moral constraint of an external discipline. Here one is free and the only constraint is the one that one sets oneself , when one is SINCERE. Now it is for you to decide. 3 August 1966 What answer should we give or what attitude should we take ...

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Bande Mataram  >  Shall India Be Free?

... Book One Book One Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24.Oct.1906 - 27.May.1907 Bande Mataram Shall India Be Free? 30-April-1907 We are arguing the impossibility of a healthy national development under foreign rule,—except by reaction against that rule. The foreign domination naturally interferes with and obstructs the functioning of... all differences, inequalities, and conflicting interests. We shall point out the insuperable difficulties in the way of any such arrangement which will at once preserve British supremacy and give a free scope to Indian national development. At present there is no likelihood of the intruding force submitting easily to the immense sacrifices which such an assimilation would involve. Yet if no such a ...

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Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo  >  February 1938

... ..." You have repeated "earth". I should have thought it clear that the repetition is intentional. Earth does that crucifixion in the earth-bound—once the earth-binding ceases, the soul is free. Cf. St. Paul, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" I am much delighted and relieved to .find that you have not lost your sense of humour by your Supramental transformation... vegetables home and had them fried for him. [ Mother :] Is it not possible to have them fried in the dispensary? February 26, 1938 Shall we give a bottle of Lithiné to Charupada? Cost? Free? [ Mother :] It can be given but he will have to pay customs. I have a mind to try some injections of liver extract on S. if you permit... [ Mother :] Yes, you can do. February 27 ...

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The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 8  >  Human Birth

... and fully formed being. This ascent of the soul in order to become a mature conscious being, having its own will and deciding its own destiny, takes thousands of years. When, however, it is a free and conscious soul that seeks to take a body again upon earth, it begins to work upon the body even before the birth. Such being the case, it has no reason not to accept the inconveniences that result... body is brought into being at present, you have to face innumerable difficulties, corning more or less from the subconscient, that rise to the surface with which you have to fight if you want to be free entirely and develop normally. Page 84 ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  20 DECEMBER 1939

... to exploit him. SRI AUROBINDO (after a lull) : Kant's idea of freedom is said to be that one is free if one's actions are determined by oneself and not by others. But then what about the laws of morality? They are made by others. And if one is supposed to act according to oneself and thus be free, one may disobey them. PURANI: Kant speaks also of heteronomy and gives the maxim that one must follow ...

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Essays on the Gita  >  The Significance of Sacrifice

... satisfied with whatever gain comes to him and equal in failure and success, is not bound even when he acts. When a man liberated, free from attachment, acts for sacrifice, all his action is dissolved," leaves, that is to say, no result of bondage or after-impression on his free, pure, perfect and equal soul. To these passages we shall have to return. They are followed by a perfectly explicit and detailed... profit from any, for the self-delight is all-sufficient to him, but does works for the sake of the Divine only, as a pure sacrifice, without attachment or desire. Thus he gains equality and becomes free from the Page 118 modes of Nature, nistraiguṇya ; his soul takes its poise not in the insecurity of Prakriti, but in the peace of the immutable Brahman, even while his actions continue... His divine existence and consciousness by the soul unified with Him is the goal of all this God-directed movement and activity. To know that and to live and act in this unifying consciousness is to be free. Page 120 But all even of the Yogins have not attained to this knowledge. "Some Yogins follow after the sacrifice which is of the gods; others offer the sacrifice by the sacrifice itself ...

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Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother  >  28 September 1949

... nce with Jagannath) Jagannath Vedalankar's Correspondence with The Mother 28 September 1949 Gracious Mother, To make the Hindi composing section free from dependence on paid workers, it comes to my mind that we should train two more sadhaks for this work. Then the Hindi composing section will no longer require any employed hands. R is willing to ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  The Secret Splendour - Plentitude

... passionate tone, Save for the mind that will not follow fast The visionary winging of Thy Vast Above the narrow blisses earth has known.   He whose desire from mortal love is freed  Catches the treasure veiled in Thy pure speed And, from the bare white, views a luxury burst: Truth-pulsing gold to which the sun were black,  A griefless carmine that all roses lack ...

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Champaklal Speaks  >  Goldy

... One day she went straight to where Sri Aurobindo was sitting and started to lick his feet, one after the other. Sri Aurobindo not only allowed it, but even bent over and patted her. Goldy was free from sexuality. She never allowed any dog to come near her, and was furious if any tried. One who knew her would never permit the term “dog” to denote sexuality. ...

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Collected Poems  >  Song

... Graces three, The swift companions of thy mirthful mind. Bring thy sweet rogue with thee, Thy careless archer, beautiful and blind. A woman's royal heart Bid him to wound and bind her who is free; Bind her for me! Nor for the sweet bright crimson blood may start In little rillets from the little heart Spare her thy sport to be, Goddess, she spared not me. Page 188 ...

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Talks with Sri Aurobindo  >  Pre Note

... is a thousand-page record of Sri Aurobindo's conversations with the disciples who attended him during the last twelve years of his life. The talks are informal and open-ended, for the attendants were free to ask whatever questions came to mind. Sri Aurobindo speaks of his own life and work, of the Mother and the Ashram, of his path of Yoga and other paths, of India's social, cultural and spiritual life ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  Hymn to the Mother

... soul, with jewelled hair And thy glorious smile divine, Loveliest of all earthly lands, Showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, Mother mine! Mother sweet, I bow to thee Mother great and free! Sri Aurobindo, Translations: Hymn to the Mother About the symbolism Sri Aurobindo wrote: "The Bird of Fire is the living vehicle of the gold fire of the Divine Light and the white ...

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Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems  >  Trance

... Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems Trance Read poem > O star of creation pure and free,    Halo-moon of ecstasy unknown, Storm-breath of the soul-change yet to be,    Ocean-self enraptured and alone! 15.10.1933 Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Trance ============= What is prominent [here] is a certain calm, deep and ...

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Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother  >  12 September 1947

... Divine Will, yours and Sri Aurobindo's. Mother, I want to be a true soldier of the Divine and I humbly ask for your clear direction in order to overcome the difficulties that are present in my nature. Free me from my hesitation and reserve. Keep your sincerity alive in yourself, and from day to day, whenever it is necessary, you will receive the indication you need to guide you on the path. 12 ...

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Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother  >  13 September 1935

... 13 September 1935 My dear Mother, The D. R. workers often have second or third works at different places. They have their main job, and in their free hours they do other things. It should not be otherwise, but it would be better to have a few full-time workers rather than many part-time workers. People can't do all day the same work; it is most ...

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Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother  >  3 March 1961

... with The Mother 3 March 1961 Gracious Divine Mother, Mother of Radiances, Is it possible that in a former life I found You—found the Self, became a free soul? Is that what You meant when You said in an interview long ago that there is a contact with the psychic being which my mind refuses to acknowledge; and again that I have already surrendered and ...

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Collected Poems  >  The Guest

... No pain and sorrow of the heart and flesh     Can tread that pure and voiceless sanctuary. Danger and fear, Fate's hounds, slipping their leash     Rend body and nerve,—the timeless Spirit is free. Awake, God's ray and witness in my breast,     In the undying substance of my soul Flamelike, inscrutable the almighty Guest.     Death nearer comes and Destiny takes her toll; He hears the ...

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Collected Poems  >  Immortality

... Know more > I have drunk deep of God's own liberty     From which an occult sovereignty derives:     Hidden in an earthly garment that survives, I am the worldless being vast and free. A moment stamped with that supremacy     Has rescued me from cosmic hooks and gyves;     Abolishing death and time my nature lives In the deep heart of immortality. God's contract signed with ...

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Collected Poems  >  Soul, My Soul - II

... sails of the gods, luminous argosies, Silence reigns and the pure vastness of Self alone, Fulgent, shadowless, white, limitless, signless, one. God-light brooding above, spreading eternal wings, Free, held high above thought, void of the form of things, Live there lost in God space, rapturous, vacant, mute, Sun-bright, timeless, immense, single and absolute. Page 678 ...

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The Secret Splendour  >  Altar and Flame - Red Snake

... silent eye and clamorous lip The living labyrinth seeks light, Craves of the sun and moon a sip But falls back hungry. O throbbing home Of the ageless million twisted heat, Hurl—free of all misguiding gloom That rises from the earth-plunged feet— Long love to the skull that shuts off sky, The old ache out of lip and eye Turn a rapt reverie of height, A serpent ...

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