... 531 59. K. D. Sethna, Mother India, August 1949 60. Translated Tinkori Mitra, Mother India, December 1955, pp. 64-65 61. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 16, p. 411 62. The Mother, Vol. 3, p. 2 63. Vide Dilip's article 'My Last Week with Gandhiji' in Mother India, August 1959 64. Mother India, August, 1949, translated from Bengali... Evening Talks, First series, p. 124 12. Mother India, January, 1970, p. 789 13. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, P. 132 . 14. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 110 15. Ibid., Vol. 26, p. 38 16. Nirodbaran, 'Talks with Sri Aurobindo', Mother India, May 1969, p. 250 17. Mother India, October 1969, p. 612 18. Ibid., January... Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 112 23. Ibid., Vol. 28, pp. 214, 215 24. Mother India, May 1971, p. 255 25. From a lecture delivered at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, early in 1971, and reproduced in Mother India, February 1971, p. 29. 26. Mother India, June 1970, p. 266 27. Ibid. p. 267 28. Ibid., p .268 29. ...
... Tribute K.D. Sethna as the Editor of Mother India K.D. SETHNA (Amal Kiran) is a veteran editor of the journal Mother India , Monthly Review of Culture. Nirodbaran says: "Sri Aurobindo had made Amal a political thinker and a commentator as well. When Mother India was started in Bombay with Amal as its editor, he used to send his editorials... then that the idea which is the soul of Bharat was born. What is the ideal of Mother India ? K.D. Sethna published his first editorial in Mother India on February 19, 1949 under the title "WHAT WE STAND FOR". I am quoting the following lines from his article: "We have named our paper Mother India with a purpose. There is a tendency among us to regard India as just a collection of... the face and form of our presiding genius. What is Mother India? "Mother India is manifold. Art, philosophy, science, politics, industry - all these she has been known for through the ages. Yet brighter than her fame for these has been her fame for seeking the Godhead secret within earth's life... And un-less we realise that Mother India is a spiritual light we shall either fumble in the dark ...
... utmost constructive help to all that encouraged that instinct. Without flinching, Mother India spoke forth on many political subjects in direct contradiction of official or popular ideas. Those were the days when Stalin overshadowed, almost overawed, the world, especially the Asian world. But Mother India, while never advocating stark individualism or boosting rank capitalism, never... inspire and enlighten the consciousness of the individual. Mother India went all out in support of the American intervention in Korea, regarding as it did the attack of the communist North Koreans as inspired by Mao and Stalin and as the first step of communism towards conquest of all Asia, including our own country. Mother India, again, refused to accept any right of Red China's to invade... or rejection. Matter for Mother India received preferential treatment among the sundry calls on the precious time of the Avatar of Supermind. And his interest in it had a directly personal touch. On one occasion, when a sadhaka's sceptical attitude to the opinions expressed in the fortnightly was reported to him, he said: "Doesn't he know that Mother India is my paper?" Here was Grace ...
... publication in Mother India. It contained a report which I reproduced afterwards in two places: Page 56 (1) verbatim in a pamphlet I published with the Mother's approval on 29 February 1960, where all that had been written by Sri Aurobindo and her up to that year about the Supermind's advent was collected, and (2) in a paraphrase in an essay I wrote in Mother India in February... Development of Sri Aurobindo's Spiritual System and The Mother's Contribution to it Note These articles were first published in 1979 and republished from 1997-98 in Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture. In their present form they have been slightly re-edited. 10 March 2000 The Author 1 (a) SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER followed... November1926, which was a landmark in the Integral Yoga, the word "Overmind" had already come into use to set apart the Supermind from the plane which is the highest of those above ¹. Mother India, November 24,1975, p. 883: "Sri Aurobindo's First Use of the Terms 'Supermind' and 'Overmind'." ². The Riddle of This World (Arya Publishing House, Calcutta 1933), pp. 4-5. Page ...
... journals or else preparing the future issues of Mother India. I remember that he told me, just two days after his fall, that he had matter ready for the next issue, but that it might not be possible to continue under these circumstances. As the manager of Mother India, without thinking for a moment, I told him: "No, Amal, the Mother's Mother India cannot be Page 292 ... Blessings - Mother." With a whoop the office went into action - and faith in the Mother's Grace has kept Mother India in action up to now. After Sri Aurobindo's passing the Mother did not like political writings to be published in the magazine. According to her suggestion Mother India was converted wholly into a cultural review; from a fortnightly it became a monthly with a different... project. But he felt the need of a competent English editor to check the manuscript. He suggested the name of K.D. Sethna whom I knew in several respects, not only as the learned editor of Mother India since its inception in 1949 but also as a gigantic scholar, a true Aurobindo, a genuine poet of Overhead Poetry, the sadhak to whom Sri Aurobindo had written most of the letters on Savitri ...
... nature. The experience he had at the Apollo Bunder can, therefore, be taken as the first authentic yogic experience that came his way - unbidden but decisive - as a gift of Grace, a bounty of Mother India. Sri Aurobindo returned alone from England, and his two elder brothers remained there for some time. Then, the eldest brother, Benoy Bhusan, came back to India and obtained an employment... drawn into the public field"; and again when he said in the same Speech: "The Sanatana Dharma, that is Nationalism." His fervent patriotism was but a spark of his soul's spiritual fire. He loved Mother India with such a self-effacing ardour, 31. A town in the United Provinces hallowed by memories of Sri Krishna. 32. A small town in the United Provinces. 33. Life of Sri Aurobindo... of his soul. And it was this love for the Divine - in the beginning it was an imperceptible influence 35 - that made him a nationalist. Even when he found himself irresistibly drawn towards Mother India and the work of national freedom, he was secretly drawn towards God and led by His Will. His nationalism was much more than mere nationalism, it was much more than internationalism - it was spiritual ...
... fragment remains, and it has been posthumously published in Mother India, December, 1953, pp. 96-9. It is interesting to note that this version also is in blank verse, though with enjambment as in Urvaise and Love and Death. 11. Savitri p. 827. 12. ibid., pp. 818-820 (Note). See also Nirodbaran's article in Mother India, 19 May 1951. 13. Louis O. Coxe, in Poetry... B. Purani, Life,p. 170). 103. On the Mother, p. 62. 104. See K.D. Sethna on 'The Passing of Sri Aurobindo' in Mother India, January 1951. Page 482 105. Mother India, 19 May 1951. 106. It was perhaps this or one of the early versions that Sri Aurohindo read to Amrita in 1913. (Vide A.B. Purani... 30. ibid., p. 125. 31. Italics mine. Vide Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother, p. 68. 32. J.H. Cousins and ME. Cousins, We Two Together (1951) 33. Mother India, December 1953, p.121. This is a part of his long poem, New Roads, which begins with the following 'Dedication to Sri Aurobindo.' The world knows not, nor yet could it conceive ...
... greatness; it is not by opposing interests * These disclosures were made by Surendra Mohan Ghose in a speech delivered early in 1971 A Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, and reproduced in Mother India, February 1971, p. 30. Page 711 against each other that we can win for it prosperity; it is not by setting one dogma against another that we can serve the spirit of Truth. In... common destinies. And if such a consummation should be brought about before 15 August 1972, that would be the glorious fulfilment of Sri Aurobindo's prophecy that the division must go and that Mother India would again gather all her children together. As regards the other aims and ideals that Sri Aurobindo had cherished, in August 1947 they did seem to be in a process of fulfilment:... In April 1945, the first number of Sri Aurobindo Circle came out from Bombay, rather on the lines of the Calcutta Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual. A bolder step was the launching of Mother India, a fortnightly from Bombay, edited by K.D. Sethna. It had a wider coverage in theme and aimed at a more popular presentation of views than the Advent and the two Annuals. The war ...
... approval or modification. Matter for Mother India received preferential treatment among the sundry calls on the precious time of the Avatar of Supermind. And his interest in it had a directly personal touch. On one occasion, when a sadhak's sceptical attitude to the opinions expressed in the fortnightly was reported to him, he said: "Doesn't he know that Mother India is my paper?" Here was Page... The Sun and The Rainbow THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF MOTHER INDIA February 21, 1974 marks Mother India's "Silver Jubilee". It may be of interest to recall how this periodical was launched and to note some of the vicissitudes through which it passed. Considering the initial difficulties in its way, one may well... would work frenziedly and keep things going. "Impossible! All journalistic experience is against you. Mass your forces sufficiently — six months' stuff in hand — and then make your entrance." Mother India was in a quandary. To commence and then flop was an unbearable prospect. The Editor had at times the apparently irrational feeling that if hard-pressed he could write the whole periodical single-handed ...
... ary 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 India. The visible land mass is the material body of this very real being, venerated as the soul of the nation. In the same way other nations too... Mother India , March 1992 × 12 Years , 153 × On Himself , 399 × Mother India , March 1992... s at a culminating point in history. Whatever may be the external, political motives, this is the true impetus of most historical emotion and commotion. In the view of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, India occupied a special place in the world. This country has always been the cradle of the most important spiritual discoveries and the highest spiritual realizations, which have spread out in the world ...
... physical beyond a shadow of doubt" (Gangadhar in Mother India Jun 1980:358ff) Earlier (GC: Nov'02) he spoke of seeing Her in the Meditation Hall. 4. Which/where was this house? 5. In this "nice" place, the toilet was on the ground floor, a sick Gangadhar on the first, the staircase steep & narrow. One day... see Mother India Feb'02:l62. (The garden was the neighbour's.) ... flame of Truth blazing in its intensity." Gangadhar in Mother India, Mar 1977:176 7. "As the bud blossoms unfolding its petals all around, so the inner consciousness blossomed and expanded in that profound silence. In lonely silence again, I realised the Divine Mother, the Consciousness of all consciousness." Gangadhar in Mother India, Mar 1977:176 8. "When in your heart and thought... ego are destroyed, this supreme Reality can be realised, in a deep silence..."Gangadhar in Mother India Mar 1953:54. 16. "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."Gangadhar in Mother India Mar'53:54 17. "The Mother is the goal, everything is in her; if she is attained, all is ...
... strayed away from the Master's and the Mother's light. I realised this issue in connection with my editorship of Mother India. A man in Bombay who had been once a devotee had become sceptical and sarcastic. He was contributing a series of commentaries on an Upanishad to Mother India. The articles were appreciated very much. I had kept the man's personal attitude apart from my judgment of... forward again. And I am told that before his premature death he did turn to the Mother once more. * While I am about the subject of Mother India in relation to the Mother's wishes, I may touch upon the hints she gave me of what Mother India should never stoop to. Once a coworker offered the suggestion that we should ask our readers Page 206 their reactions and... trace of the attitude, I could afford to be impersonal. The Mother came to be told of his attitude and the several unpleasant things he had said. She knew also that his series was appearing in Mother India. Page 205 She raised the topic with me one afternoon. I told her how much the articles had been admired and that they had no tinge of his critical approach to the Mother's ...
... education free from Government control. The humanities and sciences were intended to be taught in them, keeping in view the building up of the character of the students and instilling in them love of Mother India, a knowledge and appreciation of her immemorial culture, and a devoted consecration to her service. The leading part taken by the students all over Bengal in the boycott and the picketing, and... giving different counsels to different colleagues and followers, and equally encouraging even contradictory aims and inclinations in them, but infallibly inspiring them all with a fervent love of Mother India, and a passionate zeal for self-sacrifice in the cause of her freedom - such a calm, complex and masterful personality can be only that of a Yogi. It cannot be assumed or feigned. If it is a... order to free his motherland of the chains of slavery, he has ripped away the meshes of the Maya of Western civilisation, renounced the desires and pleasures of this world, and as a true son of Mother India, devoted himself to editing the paper, Bande Mataram.” A strikingly sensitive evaluation of Sri Aurobindo's political work comes from an ex-professor of philosophy at the Baroda College ...
... silent tears into the Bay of Bengal about our Mother India - circumstanced as she is in 2004, his birth centenary year. Many smaller souls like us also often find ourselves doing the same. Let me express myself by using some of Amal Kiran's 'own words': Mother India born as a vehicle for countering the recent defilement of our Mother India by a book with the same title (Introduction)... editorials in Mother India , which had the blessings of his guru, Sri Aurobindo, who was still there in his mortal frame when the magazine was launched. As I began to explore the essays in this volume, the one outstanding note that kept continually sounding from the pages was this: absolute relevance of the fervent hopes and wise cautions uttered by him about Mother India, almost fifty years... In recent years some sincere attempts had been made to rekindle this sense. But since 2004 the assault mounted by the 'progressive forces' has redoubled - almost with blind fury. They say "Living Mother India - pooh! She is only a geographical landmass with such-and-such things and people in it. India is a 'single being'? - mere Utopian fancy! Numberless castes, tribes, sects, languages, food and dress ...
... Nishikanto: The Mystic Poet and Artist, Mother India, February 1994, p. 127 [47] Amal Kiran, the name given by Sri Aurobindo to KD Sethna [48] Mother India, February 1982, pp. 91-92 [49] Ibid., pp. 92-94 [50] Ibid., p. 95-96 [51] Mother India, March 1982, p. 162 [52] Ibid., p. 164 [53] Two Interviews with Jayantilal Parekh, Mother India, February 2005, pp. 192-193 [54] Selected... renowned exponent of Rabindrasangeet (the songs of Tagore) and he was the editor of Desh, the oldest literary magazine of Bengalfor almost six decades. [3] Nishikanto: The Mystic Poet and Artist, Mother India, p. 128 [4] Buddhadev Basu (30 November 1908—18 March 1974) was a poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic of Bengal. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1967 and Padmabhushan in... [6] Selected Essays and Talks of Nirodbaran, pp. 169-170 [7] Ibid., p. 169 [8] Ibid. [9] Nishikanto, Bonne Fête, p. 13 [10] Dhiraj Banerjee, Nishikanto: The Mystic Poet and Artist, Mother India, February 1994, p. 126 [11] For a detailed record of this conversation refer to Dilip Kumar Roy’s Sadhu Gurudayal and Kavi Nishikanto (in Bengali) [12] Selected Essays and Talks of Nirodbaran ...
... to the Editor of Mother India on Indian and World Events, 1949 - 1950 . In February 1949 a new fortnightly newspaper, Mother India , was launched in Bombay. Its editor was K. D. Sethna, who had been a resident member of the Ashram between 1928 and 1938, and remained in close contact with Sri Aurobindo. Along with articles on yoga, literary criticism, and poetry, Mother India published commentary... from Sethna dated 21 April 1949, in which he asked Sri Aurobindo whether people in agreement with Mother India 's position on the reunification of India ought to be referred to the Unity Party, a group then active in Bengal, whose Secretary, S. P. Sen, was an occasional contributor to Mother India . In a telegram written a few days after his letter, Sri Aurobindo wrote further: "Policy [of the... the next section. On the Korean Conflict. 28 June 1950. In 1949 and 1950 , Sri Aurobindo wrote a number of letters in answer to questions posed by his disciple K. D. Sethna, editor of Mother India , a newspaper of Bombay, in regard to various national and international problems (see Section Two, subsection two below). Sri Aurobindo wrote the present letter in reply to Sethna's questions ...
... him I took care to send him a copy of the issue of Mother India which had featured my attack. He was kind enough to acknowledge it and give consideration to that piece in a letter (November 22,1951) from Calcutta: Dear Mr. Sethna: Thank you for sending me your rejoinder to my article on * Based on a feature in Mother India, October, 1968. Page 424 modern In... find traces of the influence of that Yellow Book character, the poet Stephen Phillips, who was at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. The Tennysonian influence is stronger: * First published in Mother India, September 3, 1949, except for the change of a few quotations in order to avoid repeating some matter used elsewhere. Page 403 And lightning 'twixt the eyes intolerable Like... correspondence column in the Weekly." As C. R. M. is a gifted writer of considerable popularity and his readers may accept his estimate of Sri Aurobindo, it is necessary that I should voice in Mother India what was originally meant for the Weekly. The Originality of a Master of Yoga C.R.M.'s paragraphs, though appreciative in places and hitting off the truth here and there, seem to ...
... students were told that the celebrated poet-editor of Mother India wanted to see our poems. With much trepidation and harbouring no false hope I submitted a few of my compositions for his comments. What he actually thought of them I do not know to this day, but one fine morning — "O frabjous day!" — I received a copy of Mother India with my poem in PRINT! For the next few months almost... However, in 1946 Arjava was no more, Harindranath had left the Ashram and Amal Kiran was a star that dwelt apart in faraway Bombay preparing to shed his immaculate rays on the pages of Mother India, and my only contact with these poets was through a few of their poems which we studied later in our English class. The one from Amal Kiran that comes readily to mind is The Signature:... new insight into poetry. They strengthened some of my convictions and corrected many of my out-moded notions. I am not overfond of reading magazines, so I miss much that appears in Mother India. But whenever I have chanced to go through stray copies, I have been amazed by the sheer variety of the subjects on which Amal Kiran writes so authoritatively and thought-provokingly. The ...
... Freedom at Midnight True spirituality is not to renounce life, but to make life perfect with a Divine Perfection. This is what India must show to the world now. 4 – The Mother India became independent at midnight on 15 August 1947. Lord Mountbatten had been responsible for the choice of the date, thus putting into motion at breakneck speed a sequence of highly important... manifest in human form.’ 13 Nowhere is there a more profound and positive view of India to be found than with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. We have had a glimpse of Sri Aurobindo’s love of Mother India and his sanctification of her in the pages of his political writings. He studied her past and her cultural riches as few others have done, a study which resulted in books like The Secret of the... for India’s complete independence which he was the first to advocate publicly and without compromise as the only ideal worthy of a self-respecting nation.’ 19 But the body of Bharat Mata, Mother India, had been split into two states, so-called India and Pakistan, which itself was grotesquely divided into East and West Pakistan, distanced from each other by no less than thirteen hundred kilometres ...
... prior to breaking up their joint sessions of correspondence with the sadhakas late at night and through the small hours of the morning. Some time in early 1938 the Amal-ward stream ¹ Mother India, February 21,1978, pp. 134-79. Page 2 of Savitri ceased like the fabled river Sarasvati of the Rigvedic symbolism. I went on a visit to Bombay. Sri Aurobindo still wrote... place, indicated the Mother's inevitable counterpart-role:² ¹ Spiritual feminine partner. ² "Sri Aurobindo at Evening Talk: Some Notes of 1920-1926" by V. Chidanandam, Mother India, April 1970. pp. 147-148. Page 3 "Why not? Transformation would be complete if one could bring down the thing that you have got in the mind and the vital being into the... your Guru meant by my sitting on the path; that could have been true of the period between 1915 and 1920 when I was writing the Arya, but the sadhana and the work were waiting ¹ Mother India, December 5, 1970, p. 613. ² The abbreviation for Aurobindo Ghose, which the disciples used at that time. ³ Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother (Sri Aurobindo Ashram ...
... p. 53. 1 5 Farewell to the God; quoted by Nirodbaran in his Sri Aurobindo for All Ages, p. 121. 16 Sisirkumar Ghose, The Poetry of Sri Aurobindo, p. 11. 17 Mother India, March 2000, p. 189; for the complete defence argument see the previous issues. We may say that this marks the completion of Sri Aurobindo's Jivan Yoga. After his acquittal... 69 See Perspectives of Savitri, pp. 68-85. 70 Ibid., p.78. 71 The facsimile of a manuscript page reproduced in Appendix I may give some idea about it. Refer also Mother India, May 2000, p. 351. 72 Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research, Vol. 10, No 2, (December 1986), p. 150. See also Supplement to the Revised Edition of Savitri, pp. 112-13. charged... of words, or using a wrong homophonic, or wrong positioning of newly dictated lines. The present editorial task therefore becomes very daunting. In that sense there is a certain 73 Mother India, p. 989, October 1999. The series is still continuing in the periodical. See also Invocation, Savitri Bhavan Study Notes, April 1999. justification also in the archival statement ...
... Master. Savitri and Paradise lost-Method and Style (pages 314-53) was serialised in Mother India during 1965-66. RAJANIKANT MODY: Poetic Imagery in Savitri (pages 354-392) was one of the earliest works discussing the poetic aspects of Savitri. It was serialised in Mother India during 1950-51 when this review was a fortnightly. Page 554 RUUD... physics in Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and associate editor of Mother India, a monthly review of culture published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry. The Legend of Savitri with Some Departures Made by Sri Aurobindo (pages 523-49) is from the Golden Jubilee issue of Mother India, February-March 1999. Page 556 ... 222-40) has been taken, is an excellent presentation of Sri Aurobindo's poetry to the world of literature. RAVINDRA KHANNA: A Study of Similes in Savitri (pages 241-56) was published in Mother India, September 1968, pp. 605-620. He was professor of English at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry. SISIRKUMAR GHOSE: Poetry of Sri Aurobindo and Sri ...
... trying hard to make Mother India a success in the true sense that serves your cause and Sri Aurobindo’s. We feel we can do much more with a little extra push of Grace from you. We should like this push to include even an order from you for anything you think we should do. I understand and shall try to call you with Hari, at least once a month for the work at Mother India . End 1964 ... you that day even if the vision is as short as lightning! The enclosed packet is to bring health to S. With love 6 November 1964 ##End 1964 Dearest Mother, We want Mother India to be moulded more and more according to your light and guidance. Hari has a lot of ideas for making it reach out far and wide with Sri Aurobindo’s vision, without, of course, losing the proper... ##16 January 1965 ( One of Amal’s co-workers suggested that Mother India readers should be asked their opinions and expectations of the journal in order to increase its popularity and make it more successful. Informed by Amal of this suggestion, the Mother commented: ) Let us become as vulgar as we can and success is sure to come. 16 January 1965 ##17 January 1965 ( ...
... Burma and Sri Lanka as well. This vision of the spiritual reality that is 'Mother India' has been figuring on the cover of the Review all these years. And under Sethna's missionary editorship, Mother India has sustained this robust and spiritually valid "cartographical aggression" for 46 years; and Mother India growing in knowledge, wisdom and benevolence is now grandmotherly in her... Secret Splendour and the Adventure of the Apocalypse), Sethna's seminal sadhana has been his editorship of Mother India for an unbroken span of 46 years, the journal has never been late “by even a few hours”. A host of contributors have no doubt helped to give Mother India its standing, but it is the Amal-stamp that makes the Review sport its own individuality and power. Earlier Sri... Aurobindo and the Mother often spoke through him to the outside world, but now all three merge in the cumulative light - the clear ray - radiating from Mother India . In 1968, almost 20 years after the launching of Mother India, a selection of 25 essays (including several that had appeared in the journal) came out with the title The Vision and Work of Page 419 ...
... or modification. Matter for Mother India received preferential treatment among the sundry call s on the precious time of the Avatar of Supermind. And his interest in it had a directly personal touch . On one occasion , when a sadhaka's sceptical attitude to the opinions expressed in the fortnightly was reported to him , he said: "Doesn't he know that Mother India is my paper?" Here was Grace... The Indian Spirit and the World's Future The 25 th Anniversary of 'Mother India' (This article has been edited and abridged by the Publisher) February 21, 1974 marks Mother India's 'Silver Jubilee'. It may be of interest to recall -how this periodical was launched and to note some of the vicissitudes through which it passed... work frenziedly and keep things going. "Impossible! All journalistic experience is against you. Mass your forces sufficiently - six months' stuff in hand - and then make your entrance." Mother India was in a quandary. To commence and then flop was an unbearable prospect. The Editor had at times the apparently irrational feeling that if hard-pressed he could write the whole periodical s ...
... In the clash of parties the right destiny of India is forgotten ." For nearly five years Mother India has carried on its work of throwing light on the true Indian spirit and its role in the creation of a new world, From the material standpoint the work has been one of unique tenacity, for Mother India is the only contemporary journal which has intellectually and spiritually gone from strength... are cullings, retouched in a few places, from the editorial contributions, either openly avowed or under the pen-name "Libra", to the fortnightly review - recently converted into a monthly - Mother India. The opening words of the manifesto in the first number ran: "We are here to answer a grave need of the times. This country has gained independence, but it has not found its proper line of life... achievement is due to the idealism inspired by the greatest intellectual and spiritual figure of our age, Sri Aurobindo, whose many-sided world-vision was sought to be reflected in various ways in Mother India. Symbolic of that inspiration was the launching of this periodical as near as possible to February 21 in 1949, the seventy-first birthday of Sri Aurobindo's co-worker for the regeneration of ...
... × Mother India , January 1989, 27 × Mother India , January 1990,13 × Mother India , January 1989,26 ... × On Himself , 175 × Mother India , April 1984, 237 and 242 × Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (Nirodbaran), 593 ... × Mother India , February 1989, 116. × Personal communication to the author. × The daily correspondence, including Nirodbaran’s, was actually ...
... periodical like Mother India. Not that Mother India is always chockful of excellent things. It has several "planes" - high brow, middle brow, even low brow; but a certain minimum thought-building has to be there and the thrust of everything has to be towards something fine or cultured in the being, even if not something overtly spiritual at all times. Further, Mother India has a "heart" added... And that is why Mother India has many levels of writing as well as many modes of expression. If I were doing what you paint me as doing - namely, wanting all poems and articles to be "Amalian" - there would hardly be such a diversity. Merely to want certain turns of speech to be corrected or just to deem certain sorts of writing to be defective or unsuitable for Mother India is not to insist... insist on everybody being "Amalian". This is a non-sequitur whose equally mistaken converse would be that whatever finds room in Mother India is published because it seems as if it has come from Amal's pen! . The issue you raise about the Western psyche and the Eastern psyche and about their different ways of beautifully saying things appears also rather irrelevant. I am a very Westernised ...
... Then I asked her: "Mother, why did you think I was going away?" She replied: "I never thought that. I knew you were not going. But I had the impression that Mina also was not going." * Mother India, June 1975; March 1975. 1 People come up the stairs in a queue and receive blessings from the Mother, who stands almost at the head of the staircase. Page 83 The day passed... her watch and I at mine. It was 12 minutes past six. She said: "I give you till 6:30." "Very well," I said, "I'll be short in my talk." I asked her first about Mina's offer to work with me on Mother India. I said: "She has been helping me often, reading the typescripts while I check the proofs. But now she wants to make the work a regular part of her sadhana as an offering to you. She will also... also buy a typewriter. May I accept her as a co-worker?" The Mother looked interested when I said the above. To my question she answered: "Yes, you certainly may. But, you know, I intend to bring Mother India Page 92 here. It will be printed from here at some time in the future. At that time, when you come to work here, Mina too will have to come here and work." After this I began ...
... him a copy of the issue of Mother India which had featured my attack. He was kind enough to acknowledge it and give consideration to that piece in a letter (November 22, 1951) from Calcutta: Dear Mr. Sethna: Thank you for sending me your rejoinder to my article on modern Indo-Anglian poets in the Sunday Standard. There was a time when Mother India used to be sold here regularly... Only he listens to the voice of his thoughts, his heart's ignorant whisper, Whistle of wind in the tree-tops of Time and the rustle of Nature. _______________ 1 First published in Mother India, September 3, 1949, except for the change of a few quotations in order to avoid repeating some matter used elsewhere in my book. Page 121 "Elsewhere there are many pleasant... correspondence column in the Weekly." As C. R. M. is a gifted writer of considerable popularity and his readers may accept his estimate of Sri Aurobindo, it is necessary that I should voice in Mother India what was originally meant for the Weekly. The Originality of a Master of Yoga C. R. M.'s paragraphs, though appreciative in places and hitting off the truth here and there ...
... poem. The observations ran to twenty pages or so in typescript. One day I'll publish them in Mother India. But where is the space for them? What a treasure-trove remains untapped, only awaiting transcription and publication! Now financial trouble rears its Hydra-heads: Mother India is in trouble at present. The tripling of paper-cost and of other things has burnt tremendous... turn to the scintillating play of light in his letters -rays of knowledge and twinkling sparks of humour suffuse them, shining through the clouds of financial crisis and labour trouble facing Mother India that try, vainly, to overcast the clear ray. He always ended, "Yours affectionately, Amal" and the pressures of editorial commitments and his own research never seemed to be obstacles to his typing... Page 228 The thanks become deeper because of the cheque enclosed (this refers to the subscription), and deepest since there was no call for it at all. I would gladly post you Mother India free and it was a pleasure to send you my books. Now to the matters that most matter. It's very gallant of you to make a 22-page synopsis of my book and send it off to Deshpande. If you ...
... the future in which she herself is again an embodied glory. Her grace is seen constantly at work—in private situations, in public confrontations, in the very midst of the powers that * Mother India, November 1974. Page 48 rule this country which gave birth to Sri Aurobindo and which the Mother, recognising it ever as her soul's native land, made her own for fifty-three years... Mother's followers have continued to be exercised. Perhaps the most impressive presentation by a fellow-disciple was a of viewpoint completely differing from the one adopted by the editor of Mother India. He also prepared a large selection from the Mother's talks at diverse times to bear him out. Incorporating some quotations meant to be in most direct support of him, we may set forth his viewpoint... Transformation." And there is also Pranab's statement: 3 "I am absolutely sure that if She had not the conviction that She would bring the Supramental Transformation in Her 1 Supplement to Mother India, December 5,1973, p. 5. 2 Ibid., pp. 5-6. 3 Ibid., p. 7. Page 53 present body, She would not have been able to do all the Great Work that She has done." In addition ...
... Tannirpalli - 639 107 Kulittallai, Tiruchi Dt., Tamil Nadu February 11th 1983 Dear Mr. Sethna, I was interested to read your letter on the Aurobindonian Christian in Mother India. I do indeed owe a great deal to Sri Aurobindo and feel nearer to him than to any other Indian thinker. As regards the criticism which you make, I did not mean to suggest that the resurrection... New York). After writing to Father Martin in connection with you I wrote out a long piece on The Tao of Physics. It has been lying among my papers and one of these days I'll put it in Mother India and let you have a copy of the issue. In the meantime my regards - as also my admiration which has remained in spite of all my little fault-findings. Yours sincerely, K. D. Sethna ... and have a whole unpublished book on it apropos of Father Raymond Brown's open-minded treatment of the subject. Out of fear of being misunderstood I have refrained from serialising the book in Mother India. I would not like to pain any of the simple good-natured nuns who often come with their friends to the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. If you have any spare copy of the lectures ...
... commentator as well. When Mother India was started in Bombay with Amal as its editor, he used to send his editorials for Sri Aurobindo's perusal and sanction. I used to read them to Page 306 Sri Aurobindo. The Mother found one editorial too strong and brought it to his notice. But he approved of it. He considered Mother India his paper, as did the Mother... Amal's characteristic traits are much more evident now. For so many people go to seek help for their articles, compositions, etc. in English - this apart from his work as editor of Mother India. I think he has taken the Master's lesson to heart and is practising it faithfully and yogically. That lesson is, as he said in another context, "Be like me". Of course, Amal has now acquired... Manoj Das, history with Sisir, Page 311 philosophy with Arindam and Kireet; even with Dr.Agarwal* he can hold his own and, with his associate editor Albless of Mother India, swap notes on Supermind. One day my friend Champaklal remarked,‘When these two persons get together they start talking about Supermind as though they have put Supermind in their pockets!' ...
... L’Agenda de Mère* II, 330 × Mother India , November 1986, 673 × Mother India , February 1958, 9 × Narayan... (recorded by Nirodbaran) 1, 179 × Mother India , February 1958, 9 × Mother India , November 1986, 673. × In... × K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Sri Aurobindo, 529 × Mother India , August 1979, 474 × L’Agenda de Mère II, 329 ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3) 35 I welcome your warning against what you think to be "a 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... there is any article by me praising myself? Perhaps you intend the expression to signify that I have let admiration of me by my friends find a place in the very journal I edit? Well, I have edited Mother India from February 1949. For nearly 46 years nobody has said a word about K. D. Sethna or Amal Kiran. Only the fact that he happened to be in the saddle even in the forty-fifth year of the journal's... memorable milestone - only that fact has loosened the tongues of his friends in appreciation of his work and his own personal being. He had no control over them. What he could control were the pages of Mother India. But you have to understand the situation in which he got placed. Two articles which had been meant for the souvenir volume generously edited almost behind my back by Nirodbaran and R ...
... into literary journals and preparing future issues of Mother India. At night I doze off in spite of my rigid position without the aid of sleeping pills, but every now and then I have to pass urine. Some of my friends - especially two women, one a highly efficient English professional nurse and the other the very able manager of Mother India - most willingly and excellently take turns at sleeping... into literary journals and preparing future issues of Mother India. At night I doze off in spite of my rigid position without the aid of sleeping pills, but every now and then I have to pass urine. Some of my friends - especially two women, one a highly efficient English professional nurse and the other the very able manager of Mother India - most willingly and excellently take turns at sleeping... the question: "What is the interrelation between the Mother and Her Grace? I have searched for a clear answer in the books of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, as well as in your books and Mother India. On the one side the Divine Grace seems quite independent and separate; on the other side it appears to me to be the most important instrument of the Mother and a part of Her." You quote ...
... five supplements, 1992. Page xxxi Mother India : Monthly Review of Culture right from the Bombay-days remains unrivalled in the annals of Indian periodical literature. Sri Aurobindo had once said: "Doesn't he know that 'Mother India' is my paper?" when a sadhak's skeptical attitude to the opinions expressed in Mother India was reported to him. He wrote powerful political editorials... and others. By the time of his centenary, more than fifty books and innumerable articles of great depth and scholarship will have been published. For almost fifty years he has unfailingly edited Mother India , one of the best cultural monthlies of our country, known for its high standards and professionalism. Sethna has pioneered research in areas as diverse as Blake and Shakespeare Studies... sent from California, U.S.A. dated 29 January 1949, Aldous Huxley, known for his deep empathy for Eastern traditions of reli-gion and spirituality, compliments K.D. Sethna on the launching of Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture . While regretting his inability to contribute to the journal due to a number of pressing engagements, he holds out hope for the success of the venture: "I can only wish ...
... be changed: she called it the best thing its author had done: she affirmed her entire satisfaction with it and wanted 15,000 copies to be printed in pamphlet form after its first appearance in Mother India. Now its author has been sent the following passage from it as a challenge: "Nothing except a colossal strategic sacrifice... in order that the physical transformation of the Mother may be... her seal on the article—we had the authorised report of the talk between her and Sri Aurobindo some months before he left his body on December 5, 1950. They had envisaged the contingency * Mother India, January 1974. Page 20 of one of them having to leave the body in the interests of their work. The Mother had said she would do it. Sri Aurobindo had refused to let her undertake... constant play with death—a sort of spiritual "brinkmanship", a coming to the verge of dissolution again and again for the purpose of giv- 1 See "A 'Call' from Pondicherry" by Dr. Prabhat Sanyal, Mother India, December 5,1953, p. 187. Page 21 ing new subtle dynamisms a chance to take over. Merely a stoppage of the old organic operations would not suffice: the cells would have to be ...
... be done by Her while in the body — farther was not possible. For a new mutation, a new procedure was needed. “Death” was the first stage in this process.’ 5 In the issue of March 1974 of Mother India and simultaneously in the April issue of The Advent , another Ashram publication, a second text of Nolini appeared which would have far-reaching consequences. Somebody from Canada had sent him... even of absurdity.’ 7 (K.D. Sethna) As the hearts and the faith were severely shaken, ‘postponement’ was a toffee on which the mind could suck and be appeased. K.D. Sethna, as the editor of Mother India an important presence in the intellectual landscape of the Ashram, has accepted the postponement-thesis unconditionally and kept defending it through thick and thin. ‘Wide-eyed amazement, dim-eyed... × Idem, 35 ff. × Mother India , October 1982, 667 × K.D. Sethna, op. cit., 36 ...
... (a correspondence with Kathleen Raine); (iv) “November 17, 1974 - A Look Backward and Forward” in Page 14 Mother India, November ’74; (v) “A Gross Misunderstanding of Sri Aurobindo”, being a refutation of the view of Dr.K.K.Nair (Krishna Chaitanya) in Mother India, May ’94. 9. K.D.S. as a Journalist Before K.D.S. joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1927 at the age of twenty-three... years later a fortnightly periodical, Mother India, was launched with him as its editor. With it started a new creative phase in his intellectual life and he very soon flowered into what his friend D.K.Roy has styled “a priest to higher - or shall I say, spiritual - journalism”. And it is so happened that twenty-two years later a fortnightly periodical, Mother India, was launched with him as its editor... delightfully enlightening. His epistles are often characterised by a delectable feature which K.D.S himself has labelled “Amalian digression”. His serial, Life-Poetry-Yoga, regularly published in Mother India is, I think, the most popular item in the monthly periodical. All his readers eargerly wait for its next instalment. Here is a random passage extracted from one of his letters, which shows in an ...
... politics, the various arts...." 2 Long afterwards "Bharati leamt the Rig Veda from Sri Aurobindo". About a week after Sri Aurobindo was lodged at Shankar ². Old Long Since: by Amrita (Mother India: August 1962). Amrita, who was manager of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, came into contact with Sri Aurobindo as early as 1913, when he was a school boy. Page 350 Chetty's house, a dis... observe the common rule of people who undergo long fasts, - beginning with a little food, and so on. I began with the same quantity as I used to take before. "6 3. Old Long Since: Amrita (Mother India: January 1963). 4. The Dawn Over Asia: Paul Richard. 5. Italics are ours. 6. A.B. Purani: Evening Talks, 2nd series. Page 351 On the question of fasting, Sri... Sada, Pitrus, David and four others, besides the members of the house, took part in the celebration. Sri Aurobindo sat in a chair in the outer verandah of the new 18. Published in Mother India, December 1961 and April 1962. Page 367 house and all those who had come passed one by one in front of him. Some sweets were distributed." 19 Immune against all hostile ...
... × Mother India, October 1996, p. 828. × Prabhakar, Among the Not So Great – III, in Mother India , March 1996. × ... culture, and on many other subjects. He is also considered the primus inter pares among the Ashram poets and was on this account held in high esteem by Sri Aurobindo. Sethna became the editor of Mother India , a publication started in 1949 and considered by Sri Aurobindo to be his mouthpiece. His contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the life and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are... p. 90. × Quoted in K.D. Sethna, The Development of Sri Aurobindo’s Spiritual System …, in Mother India , August 1979, p. 474. × Glimpses of the Mother’s Life I, p. 234. ...
... in French. First published in French, with an English translation, in Mother India from February to August 1960. The same material, set in chronological order, appears here. Series Nine. Original in French. About half these replies were published in the French original, with an English translation, in the Mother India issues of June, August, October and December 1960. Two other replies appeared... journals published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Most of them appeared either in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education , a bi-lingual quarterly in French and English, or in Mother India , a monthly in English. The correspondences were first published together in English in 1987 in the first edition of this volume. They were first published together in French in 1994 under the... here. Series Four. Original in English. The full correspondence, containing the replies of both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, was first published in the October and November 1977 issues of Mother India . About half the replies of the Mother are included in this volume. Series Five. Original in French, excepting thirteen replies in English. A small part of the correspondence was published ...
... holds the best promise of being Aurobindonian. In our modernism and our eclecticism and our universalism let us not underrate the role and the soul of Mother India. We shall be most modem, most eclectic, most universal if we remember what Mother India essentially is. You must have seen that in our monthly review of culture we deal with all sorts of topics and not merely Indian ones but we should not... Christian milieu was too strong for him and he could not himself bring his mind to be on comfortable terms with the Vedantic mysticism which ran through his best poetry. In one of my articles in Mother India ("A Poet's Sincerity"), I have mentioned that the best known stanza in the great Immortality Ode had no clear roots in Wordsworth's thought and he expressly denied believing in its contents when... different from mine, but I don't believe anybody has really suggested, as you say, 250 B.C. as the date. You draw my attention to the article "The Pandyas and the date of Kalidasa" in the March 1994 Mother India, p. 191. But you are mixing up the poem Mahabharata and the Bharata War whose story it recounts. The author of this article is talking of the poem and not of the War. Similarly he is talking ...
... that they are children of one mother... . 26 The academy (college or university) as a hallowed place that facilitates emotional integration, as a nursery for the children of the mother (Mother India), and as a means of building up a noble race, the future humanity in India: such, indeed, was the university ideal that Sri Aurobindo wished to set before his student-audience, and he thought... irrelevances and side-tracking Pupations of the hour, two things seemed to emerge with shining clarity: first, Page 61 the paramount necessity for Revolution to redeem the Mother, Mother India; and second (though this was not at once apparent), the indispensability of Yoga to perfect the human instrument that is to plant the revolution, give it a push at the right time, and see it... of the Revolutionary Party to P. Mitter and Hemachandra Das. Holding a sword and the Gita in Page 62 their hands, they took the oath to strive to secure at any cost the freedom of Mother India. Sri Aurobindo thus became the secret link between the revolutionary groups in Western and Eastern India. By and by the revolutionary spirit spread in Bengal, especially in the villages and among ...
... Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 22 January 1970 ( Amal sent a report on the financial condition of Mother India . It is followed by the Mother’s comments. ) SOME DETAILS ABOUT MOTHER INDIA Ever since December 1968, the Press, which used to charge us about Rs. 500 every month (paper cost), has been charging us about Rs. 1600 for composing... three pages each month, we can meet the excess. In the meantime we are badly in need of some donation to help us pay off those Rs. 6000. I quite agree to “ Mother India ” continuing; but the Press is insisting to be paid and “ Mother India ” must pay —that is all. If it can pay it continues. If it cannot pay it must stop. And I say like that because I am convinced that with a little trouble ...
... Aurobindo's First Fair Copy of His Earliest Version of Savitri'', Mother India, August 1981, p. 428 (lines 1-19). 2.Unlike the opening, this passage did not change much from the earliest manuscripts to the final text, where the corresponding lines appear on pp. 396-98 in the current edition. Transcript published in Mother India , September 1981, p. 492 (lines 287-306). 3.Some lines... final version of Narad's speech (1993 ed., pp. 429-31). Transcript published in Mother India, September 1981, p. 501 (lines 581-602) and October 1981, p. 553 (lines 603-4, 607-8). 4.Cf. pp. 564-65 in the current edition of Savitri , where the passage is very similar. Transcript published in Mother India , October 1981, p. 560 (lines 890-909). 5.The cantos of his early version ...
... he would give us full marks ! Some of us tried. He liked my composition so much that he came to my room and said: "Since you have such a talent, why don't you write poetry! I shall publish it in Mother India." But I pointed out to him that in my composition there were no rhymes and all lines were not of equal length. "We can sit together and perfect it as much as possible," he said. It was my maiden... all right. This was my Prelude. But I was stunned when he added that he felt jealous about it. What humility for a gifted poet like him! He even published this poem in the April 1955 issue of Mother India. The poem is as follows: Standing on the last horizon I saw a golden gate opening. It had no bolts, no hinges— Only a huge lid that looked like a sun. Amazed I... surprise to me; but a greater surprise is the Supramental Manifestation that took place unexpectedly later in February 1956. My second poem is also about the Manifestation and was published in Mother India, April 1956; it runs as follows: O Power Supreme! long-waited Birth! Thou comest burdened with lotus dawns To the wearied limbs of patient earth. Calmly thou comest ...
... Id., p. 230. × In Mother India , January 1989, p. 26. × Mother India, Jan. 1989, p. 26. For more details about Golconde see Georges Van Vrekhem, Beyond Man (Rupa Publishers, New Delhi), pp. 204... × In Glimpses of the Mother’s Life II, p. 69. × Mother India 1977, p. 201. × Amal Kiran and Nirodbaran, Light and Laughter, pp. 63-64. ... In Champaklal’s Treasures , p. 58. × Prabhakar, Among the Not So Great , in Mother India , March 1996, p. 200. × Glimpses of the Mother’s Life II, p. 68. ...
... How gently, how wittily, how vividly he had once suggested a Page 175 correction to an atrocious verbal slip on my part in an article I had sent him for Mother India. I had referred to "persons turning their noses down" on things they deemed beneath them. Amal's corrective response caused me to laugh till my belly ached. He wrote: "As far as I know, elephants... ‘The Clear Ray' - was lecturing on Poetry at the Ashram School, the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. The substance of his talks was appearing in the monthly Ashram magazine Mother India of which he was, and is, the editor. As an Englishman, I was at once struck by his detailed familiarity not only with English poetry - especially that of Shakespeare, Milton and the Romantics... Chardin and on Christian theology - and most abundantly and helpfully on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, for whose yoga, as editor and Page 180 contributor to Mother India for over 45 years, he has been a major interpreter and apologist. Personally, I am most grateful to him, as an editor, for publishing poems of mine, and also an article on Sri Aurobindo ...
... word "hermaphrodite" which I have used: it symbolises the wholeness that is not ours, the consummation of the fragmentariness which pushes us towards a counterpart.... ( Mother India , March 1970) In Mother India , January 2004, we find how beautifully \mal Kiran answers questions and rights the wrong while remaining faithful to his Master Sri Aurobindo: You have asked me: ... this personality - the poet-essayist-critic-humorist - called Amal Kiran, as named by Sri Aurobindo, his Master. Amal Kiran wrote a poem titled "Love and Death" which was published in Mother India of December 5,1969. One of the readers - Professor X - wrote to him: ".. .Your first line, 'We sign mortality in our marriage-beds' has a fribbling intervention of mind. Marriage is a flame which... should misunderstand, I must hurry to say that if the "limping Yes" is Amal Kiran, the "eternal No" accompanying him is not his wife! ( laughter ) ( Light and Laughter , pp. 2-3) In Mother India , May 1971, we find that the Mother once asked Amal Kiran to paint the flowers given to him during Pranam. He did it with care and sincere devotion and we understand that there were many paintings ...
... therefore, much against my personal inclination, returning the typescript. However, I shall look forward to its publication in Mother India." As Mr. Alvares has already shot his bolt, Mother India will not afford space to any reaction he may now have to our attempt at exposing his pretensions. The controversy will be considered... WEIGHING IN THE BALANCE OR RUNNING AMUCK? ( This article, which is a rejoinder by the editor of Mother India to an attack published in the Bombay bi-monthly Quest, was originally offered to that very periodical. Professor A. B. Shah, co-editor of Quest, ... falsification be if one picks, as does Mr. Alvares, on a treatise like The Life Divine of Sri Aurobindo, which Aldous Huxley, as a pronouncement published in Mother India (July 1956, p. 10) proves, considers "a book not merely of the highest importance as regards its content, but remarkably fine as a piece of philosophic ...
... The eight articles which make up The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth were written by Sri Aurobindo for the Bulletin and published in it between February 21, 1949 and November 24, 1950. Mother India Monthly, Pondicherry (originally a Bombay fortnightly), since 1949 Srinvantu Quarterly, Calcutta, since 1956 Page 376 II BOOKS BY SRI AUROBINDO... June 9, 1907; Songs of the Sea (See 79). 1930: Six Poems (See 78); "Transformation" and other poems, first published in 1941 under the title Poems ( See 67). Translations: "Mother India", "Mahalakshmi". Appendix I: Essay: "On Quantitative Metre"; Poems: "Ocean Oneness", "Trance of Waiting", "Flame- Wind", "The River", "Journey's End", "The Dream Boat", "Soul in... The Mother (See 84). SABCL: The Mother, Vol. 25 46 . LETTERS ON "SAVITRI" Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1951 Letters to a disciple. Reprinted from Mother India. Included in the 1954 Edition of Savitri (See 76). SABCL: Savitri, Vol. 29 Page 393 47 . THE LIFE DIVINE Book One: Arya Publishing House, Calcutta ...
... as part of undivided India. The Mother drew India as She saw the nation in Her divine vision. India was no longer divided. Mother India herself, the World-Mother revealed herself. And this unforgettable event happened before Sri Aurobindo’s physical withdrawal. Mother India herself had come down in a human form. By drawing this form with Her own hand, the Mother showed the whole world that India... outline is golden. Our eyes light up with joy as we drink in this vision of undivided India, of Mother India to our heart’s content. What an interesting coincidence! That map of India drawn within a circle in Garsten Place at the All India Radio headquarters was also made in green cement! And it is Mother India herself, the Divine Mother of the world and the universe, Mother Aditi who says : It is ...
... Aspects of Sri Aurobindo APROPOS OF UDAR'S COMMENT IN THE MOTHER INDIA OF DECEMBER 1981 1 A Letter to a Friendly Critic I am sorry Udar's article in Mother India has proved so offensive to you. I know it hits hard at places but it does not seem to me more offensive than the extract Udar has quoted... were of no importance and could be bypassed. What Sri Aurobindo Page 224 called "the one thing needful" — as you may gather from some passages I have published in the December Mother India —is completely ignored in the new Gospel a la Satprem. To bring out the inmost Psychic Being, the true Soul, to experience the In-dwelling Deity and the immutable Self of selves and the ...
... Critic Sri Aurobindo and the Dominant Intellectual Paradigms of our Age IN HIS centenary tribute to Sri Aurobindo, K.D. Sethna (Mother India, 1972) observed: "This age, seen in its many-sided whole, will show itself secretly Aurobindonian. Sri Aurobindo will stand out as its truth-source and truth-focus, its natural gatherer-up... References 1. Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history(1985) 2. The Meeting of the East and the West in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy(1968) 3. Reminiscences of Sri Aurobindo in Mother India(1972) 4. The Life Divine, Centenary Edition , p. 24. 5. Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, Centenary Edition, p.245. 6. Aurobindo: Inaugurator of Modern... Theodore Roszak , The making of Counter Culture(1969). 15. Letters on Yoga, Centenary Edition, pp. 608-1609 16. Integral psychology(1986). 17. Evolutionary psychology: Mother India (1975). 18. Indra Sen , Integral psychology (1986). 19. The Life Divine, Cent. Ed., pp. 835-36 20. Savitri, Cent. Ed., pp. 416-17. Page 273 ...
... in a glass case.’ It did not remain and on the fifth day, on the 9th of December in the evening, the body was laid in a vault.” 24 And K.D. Sethna, many years afterwards, would write in Mother India , the Ashram periodical of which he was the editor: “I marked that there was nothing like what people usually speak of when they stand before someone dead. They refer to the expression of peace... Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo , pp. 263-264. × Prabhat Sanyal: A Call from Pondicherry , in Mother India , December 1991. × Kireet Joshi: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother , p. 103. ... Nirodbaran: Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo , p. 280. × Mother India , December 1991, p. 5. × Sri Aurobindo: Letters on Yoga , p. 10. ...
... image? Does the Goddess Isis similarly represent the soul of ancient Egypt? Is Mother India merely a poetic symbol or an Entity? Long ago when I came into spiritual contact with Sri Aurobindo I was almost swept off my feet spiritually by the power of his paper, the Karmayogin. / almost believed that Mother India was more than a symbol, that there was an Entity as real as my own being. I feel... something of the form, but it is fairly certain that if there is an eternal form of that eternal beauty, it is a thousand times more beautiful than what man had as yet been able to see of it. Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such Beings are as real and more permanently ...
... relieved to learn that your blood-trouble was such as to let you go home for the week-end. We pray to the Divine Mother to make you normal soon. I thank you for your renewal of subscription to Mother India plus your donation. It is indeed a generous gesture. It must have been a big surprise to you that when everything was ready for the yearly flight to our Pondicherry Ashram you had to be... own golden presence in our lives -a presence which is well described in the words of a poet as "closer to us than breathing and nearer than hands and feet". I am so pleased that the June Mother India was brought to you by your wife to be your companion in the hospital and that it happened to carry my letter to you of November 1990 as the very first item in "Life - Poetry- Yoga". It must have... to their own Perfection which for all its ever-full sublimity and felicity never fails to brim over with sweetness and solicitude for us earthlings. Most appropriately too this issue of Mother India brought back to your mind that Master Mantra from the Mother when Page 195 you keenly needed to be told that Sri Aurobindo always stood as your "refuge", welcoming you to those ...
... yourself anxiously what would happen if what you take as another stroke of God-given good luck for you gets withdrawn: namely, my popping off suddenly one day as Dyuman did recently. In the September Mother India (p. 613) Page 74 you must have seen how I inwardly stand vis-a-vis the possibility of my exit from the earth-scene: free from attachment yet never cut off from affectionate... our Gurus' work fizzling out under any circumstances. The question of anybody getting physically supramen-talised in our own time is a different matter. In one of the recent issues of Mother India I have amassed sufficient pronouncements of Sri Aurobindo to show that such an extreme change cannot take place in the absence of his physical presence or the Mother's, in our midst. The rev... question, but bodily supramen-talisation is assured in general for the race in the course of its evolution through the coming centuries. The experience I record on p. 613 of the September Mother India and which you admire and envy so much is a settled affair. Although it seemed to come suddenly I am sure it was prepared in a subtle manner over a space of time. The habit of as much equanimity ...
... one version from which Sri Aurobindo read extracts to the Mother. This observation rests on what Huta has recorded in the article entitled Spiritual and Occult Truths and published in Mother India, February 21,1978. The Mother disclosed to her in 1961 "how she had achieved in her tender age the highest occult truths, how she had realised all the visions set forth in Savitri". Here indeed... visions and to the Master himself because the Mother had anticipated them in mystic silence thirty years in advance. From various viewpoints I feel encouraged to lay before the readers of Mother India whatever stream of Savitri came to me in private before it ceased in early 1938 like the fabled river Sarasvati of the Rigvedic symbolism. Postscript Several times I have said:... divulged to the world - with Sri Aurobindo's approval. Afterwards the Ashram published whole cantos in various journals and in a number of fascicles and then the entire epic in two volumes. (Mother India, November 1982, pp. 703-13) 1 _____________ 1 [The compiler was given a photocopy of the end of this article, with a few words added in Amal's handwriting. They have ...
... therefore have been any desire for fresh poetic laurels that led to 7 K. D. Sethna, The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, p. 114. 8 Raymond F. Piper, The Hungry Eye, pp. 131-32. See Mother India, November 1958. Page 277 the embarkation on the Savitri adventure. In The Life Divine he had structured his Supramental Manifesto; in 77ie Human Cycle and The Ideal... side of boundlessness An eye of deity pierced through the dumb deeps... Then through the pallid rift that seemed at first Hardly enough for a trickle from the suns, 14 Mother India, June 1971, p. 328. Page 283 Outpoured the revelation and the flame... At the summons of her body's voiceless call Her strong far-winging spirit travelled back,... words are stars shooting across a mind More vast than galaxies of the blind Who may touch one day after time's long famine The rare and occult flesh of Savitri and Satyavan. (Mother India, August 1966, p. 76.) Page 313 ...
... for some place, however small, which by being near the Ashram could serve as an effective point of liaison with the public reached by Mother India . Now we have heard that the small office next to the Ashram Post Office is vacant. Is it not possible to let Mother India have a distributing and receiving centre next to the Post Office? The post office has asked for this office because they are short... short of space. So it is out of question. 21 September 1967 Dearest Mother, Here is something you wrote to Oscar some time back. May I publish it in the October Mother India ? I am sending a translation also. Will you please check it? ( Amal sent the French original and the English translation. Only the English is given below. ) ON MUSIC TWO ANSWERS BY THE MOTHER X and ...
... the first known draft. Spoken to Savitri by the godhead into whom Death has been transformed, these lines are similar, despite some later additions 1 See "The Composition of Savitri in Mother India, beginning in the issue of October 1999. A shorter synopsis, published as the "Note on the Text" at the end of volume 34 of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (1997), has been reprinted in the... structure so much other matter was later 2 A transcript of these lines has been published in the "Concluding Passage" to "Sri Aurobindo's First Fair Copy of Ins Earliest Version of Savitri", Mother India, February 1982, pp. 82-83. Cf. the final version in Savitri (1993), pp. 701-2. 3 Mother'sAgenda, Vol. 2, pp. 27-28 (1961). Page 360 interpolated. He expressed his... as the tale of Rum. He was not yet fully equipped for the demands of the subject 21 The Mother with Letters on the Mother, SABCL, VoL . 25, p. 1. 22 Savitri, p. 729. 23 Mother India, August 1981, p. 423. 24 On Himself, SABCL, VoL 26, p. 459. 25 Ibid, p. 460. Page 369 Even about Love and Death, he wrote around 1920: For full ...
... governor of Bengal, had led to student unrest; the time was ripe. With another great nationalist, Bepin Pal, Sri Aurobindo launched Page 129 an English daily, Bande Mataram ("I bow to Mother India"), the first newspaper to publicly advocate the goal of total independence, which would become a powerful instrument of India's awakening. He founded an Extremist Party and drew up a national... × 97 The Life Divine, 18:193 × 98 Mother India (Journal) × 99 We all make formations, unwittingly, through our desires and thoughts (good... × 236 Savitri, 29:625 × 237 Mother India, March 1962 × 238 Savitri, 29:317 ...
... place without bitterness on 1 November 1954. It was on that day that the Mother made the declaration regarding her desire to become an Indian * From the report of his speech at Pondicherry (Mother India, February 1971, p. 31). Earlier, in a private talk at Delhi, Surendra Mohan told me the story in almost exactly the same words. Page 754 citizen without renouncing her French ... made a first contribution of 3,000 dollars to be used for a TV Project, and it as up to Auroville Page 777 to make the most of it. William T. Netter, in his report published in Mother India (December 1969), made the point that in India art experience had always been: "seen in the light of a greater reality". If for the Communist leader Mao Tse-tung God is the mass of the (Chinese)... knew that it was not political freedom nor economic sufficiency but the recovery of the nation's soul that was the heart of the problem. Born on 15 August 1872, Sri Aurobindo had the Vision of the Mother - India as the Mother, as Bhavani, as Durga, as Bharati - as early as 1905, if not earlier. During his brief but decisive intervention in national politics during 1906-10, Sri Aurobindo awakened the slumbering ...
... pain at the pitiful condition of Mother India. And this he cannot bear Mother. The Mother: But this is what Sri Aurobindo saw and worshipped as the Motherland a living entity, a divine being who is resplendent and fulfils all our needs. Mona: Mother, when he does the marching at the playground, he says, he feels as if he were marching on the breast of Mother India, calling at each step for the glorious... Mother: Yes, your father has his own way of looking at things, and he has an absolute faith in that. Mona: Mother, he says that we were traitors because we did not completely accept Sri Aurobindo’s Mother India as a living Entity, a living God; so in order to establish the truth, He has brought down now the living Mother, the Divine Mother. ( The Mother laughs ) The Mother: It is very sweet. I understand ...
... in Bengal which was duly to take all India in its stride. For Sri Aurobindo the issue always was Indian independence, the recovery of India's soul, and the galvanisation of the prostrate body of Mother India. He had himself become a member of the Revolutionary Party with its base in Western India, and he had given the oath to others (including his brother Barin), he had enlisted some high Government... forward by the heavy current of nationalist fervour suddenly released by the Time Spirit, destined to incarnate in his life-movement the energy of impulsion and the sense of direction of awakened Mother India, Sri Aurobindo at this historic moment was "lone, limitless, nude, immune". Silent and purposeful and eagle-eyed and resilient, Sri Aurobindo flitted behind the scenes when occasion demanded - now... Godward journey? But nobody can force her to the path; it will be for her alone to decide what she will do. Thirdly, there is the madness of his relationship with the country of his birth, Mother India: ...whereas others regard the country as an inert piece of matter and know it as the plains, the fields, the forests, the mountains and the rivers, I know my country as the Mother, I worship ...
... envoy was his longtime disciple Duraiswami lyer, a highly respected member of the Madras Bar. For details about Sri Aurobindo's intervention see "Sri Aurobindo and the Cripps Proposals", Mother India, Vol. XXVII, No. 4 (April 1975), pp. 287-90. ² Nirodbaran, Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo (Pondicherry: Sri Aurol Ashram, 1973), p. 159. ³ Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, p. 39. 4 Sri... written by his disciples and devotees and by students of his thought. In February 1949 two other journals were begun: the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education and the fortnightly Mother India. The first of these was the organ of the Jeunesse Sportive de l'Ashram de Sri Aurobindo, the Ashram's sports programme, in which not only school children but also the younger and even many... fifties at the Ashram's playground and tennis ground. In 1949 and 1950 Sri Aurobindo contributed eight articles – his last prose writings – to the Bulletin . Sri Aurobindo did not write in Mother India , but his continuing interest in the vital issues of the day was reflected in the writings of his disciple K. D. Sethna, the editor of the journal, who submitted all his editorials to Sri Aurobindo ...
... of Early Christianity Christ's Kingdom of God A Letter and a Reply Apropos of the Article " Sri Aurobindo and the Kingdom of God" Mother India, in its issue of December 5, 1970, published "Sri Aurobindo and the Kingdom of God" by Dick Batstone. In one place it carried the following footnote by the Editor: "The author has overlooked one... No doubt, what concerns him is more the spirit than the letter, but he never makes such a universal sweep of a statement as: "the letter killeth." He does not do it even when he is the Editor of Mother India, to whom communications often come in tidal waves, a veritable "sea of troubles" undreamed of in Hamlet's philosophy. And surely the Editor wouldn't do it face-to-face with a bright and graceful... 1.5. 7. Zaehner, c p. cit., p. 93. 8. Proverbs, 2.3-5. 9. Luke, 17. 21. 10. Luke, 9. 25. 11. Sri Aurobindo, Heraclitus (Calcutta: 1947), pp. 60-61. 12. Mother India, August 15, 1971, "Sri Aurobindo at Evening Talk", compiled by V. Chidanandam, p. 452. Page 73 ...
... and Voices, is full of a lyrical quality. But what distinguishes * Reproduced from Mother India, Feb. 1969 Page 101 it is not only lyricism: there is, throughout, an intuitive turn, a subtle insight born of a Yogi's inspiration. Latterly he wrote his reminiscences for Mother India: they brought his Yogic life nearer to a larger circle of people. And, of course, it is... present the facts to the Mother in the proper perspective. That was the mark of Amritada's humility and compassion, which were unique. He was a rarity. Jagat Kapadia * Reproduced from Mother India, Vol. 48, No. 4, Apr. 1995 Page 105 AMRITA'S HUMOUR Often there used to be a mistake in calling the wrong Kailas by our Divine's messenger Suresh Joshi. When Amrita ...
... primary work was editing the monthly review Mother India; much of his correspondence during this period is related to his work as editor. Most of the Mother’s important replies to Amal have already been published, but they have always appeared here and there by subject, never together. A large number first appeared over the years in issues of Mother India . A smaller number first came out in 1980... all the entries mentioned above and many more. Prepared from Amal’s manuscripts, it includes a number of personal letters about his family and friends never published before. It also includes the Mother India texts sent by Amal to the Mother for approval of publication. All these texts, presented in chronological order, chronicle Amal’s written exchanges with the Mother over several decades. What emerges ...
... Others too have written on the same theme and I may refer you to the article entitled Towards a New World by "Synergist" in the series The World Crisis and India in the fortnightly I am editing, Mother India. 1 The article appeared in the Special Number of August 15, 1949. August 15, by the way, is not only the day of India's Independence but also the birthday of Sri Aurobindo - a seeming coincidence... there was a play of heroism in his revolutionary programmes not only on his own part but also by way of infusing selfless courage in a . 1. At the time this letter was written (1950) Mother India was a fortnightly. . Page 328 host of his followers. He has himself spoken of the grave and dangerous work he had to do, work which exposed him even to losing his life along... and cloying, that simple-looking pentameter - Sweet water hurrying from reluctant rocks - about whose "heart" and "art" 1 have written at some length in a letter published in Mother India. Here inerrant is the choice of "hurrying" for the water's movement in the context of "reluctant rocks" - a context where along with the r- alliteration picking up the internal r-sound of "hurrying" ...
... discovered sitting quietly in a car parked there. He refused to come back to the meeting - and when the driver of the car had been located he went straight to his hotel room. Long ago I published in Mother India a letter he wrote to a friend about the richness of the Indian pantheon and how it provided satisfaction to every kind of religious temperament. So he was no ignoramus about India, but I haven't... Laughter: the word "Delight." (15.6.1990) Page 82 SHAW AND SRI AUROBINDO A Letter from K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar to the Editor I was looking into the Mother India of October 1990, and chanced upon your remarks on Shaw and Sri Aurobindo on p. 652. On my first visit to U.K. in 1951, I visited 'Shaw's Corner', Ayot, St. Lawrence. This was on 22 September '51... Superman especially attracted to The Life Divine with its projection of the Future Man endowed with the Supermind? Failing eyesight notwithstanding, it is a tonic experience to read Mother India. Page 83 ...
... into me, but my mind was still vague. Two or three days later I had a special interview with her, Page 96 I was to fly back to Bombay where I was living at that time. Mother India was being edited and published from there every fortnight as a cultural newspaper covering all fields, even politics, from the Aurobindonian viewpoint. I said to the Mother: "Hundreds of people... thing Amal has written. I would like fifteen thousand copies of it to be printed. He can get this done in Bombay. Otherwise I'll have the printing ' done here." My article first appeared in Mother India. Then it was made into a booklet, fifteen thousand copies as the Mother had wanted. What do you gather from this story? As the Mother had told me, I asked Sri Aurobindo for help as if... prayer will be answered - and I pray to be worthy of your love. (22.7.1990) It was most heart-kindling and mind-stirring to receive your enthusiastic response to my series in Mother India. Rarely does one get such appreciabon - and not only appreciation but also insight. An additional pleasure in reading your letter is the eloquent way it is written. There could not be a better ...
... A SUGGESTION ABOUT A WORD IN SAVITRI AN AMERICAN DISCIPLE'S LETTER TO MOTHER INDIA February 13,1972 Dear Mr. Sethna, A follower of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, I have been a reader of Mother India since 1953 and have gained much from it. T have been an admirer of your writings in particular. An engineer in the fields... reader of Sri Aurobindo's poetry on top of being a follower of him and the Mother. You have followed him very well indeed in this Savitri -passage! Yours sincerely, K.D. Sethna (Mother India, March 1972, pp. 92-93) Page 204 ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On French India and on Pakistan June 27 1949 Amal, I sent you a telegram asking you to withhold the spokesman's statement. 1 It was not to be republished. The statement does not adequately represent Sri Aurobindo's views. It overstresses one... one point and leaves out others which are as important, but I see that you have already featured it in Mother India. Anyway Sri Aurobindo doesn't want anything further to be written about his view on the French India question; what is done is done but in future he wishes to remain silent unless an imperative need arises for a statement. Just now Sri Aurobindo does not want strong attacks to be made on... letter, dictated by Sri Aurobindo, was sent over the signature of Nolini Kanta Gupta. The "spokesman's statement" was an interview that Nolini gave to a press agency on 14 June that was published in Mother India on 25 June. See Note on the Texts, pages 604-5 , for details.—Ed. ...
... this very day is symbolic and significant. Although I have written a long article on many events in world-history that took place on 15 August — an article which was approved by Sri Aurobindo for Mother India — I cannot bring myself to attach much meaning to the eruption of the El Chinchonal volcano in south-east Mexico after centuries of quiescence on 29 March, the date on which the Mother first came... year, Gandhi declared that it was due to old-fashioned Hindus refusing the entry of Harijans into temples. His opponents countered that, because in certain temples the Harijans had been allowed, Mother India had protested by an earthquake. What either party said could be a good occasion for a mirthquake! Besides, south-east Mexico seems far too out of the range of immediately meaningful places... am amazed at your proclamation: "Sri Nolini was wrong when he said (1973) that Transformation was not cancelled but postponed. Neither cancelled nor postponed. Sri Aurobindo Himself said in The Mother India, Letters (p. 49), letter dated 13.8.1933: '...Afterwards there will be a further transformation by the Supramental.' Afterwards' means after 1973." What Sri Aurobindo wrote about was two steps ...
... Pujalal and Tehmi, or a Goan poet, Prof. Menezies, were also read out. Then came the journals, The Advent and Mother India , the latter particularly, being a semi-political fortnightly, needed his sanction before the matter could be published. Most of the editorial articles of Mother India written by Amal Kiran were found impeccable. But on a few occasions small but significant changes were teleg... designs on South East Asia and India through Tibet, was originally sent in private to Amal Kiran for his guidance. One of the editorials was based on it. Sri Aurobindo declared privately that Mother India was his paper. When the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education was launched, the Mother wanted to initiate it with an article from Sri Aurobindo. Some days passed. She asked ...
... five thousand years and more. And beyond the values of this great culture, patriotism is in its heart-illumined worship of the smiling and beneficent and strong and powerful Shakti, which we call Mother India, Bharat Mata. As Sri Aurobindo wrote, a nation is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of spirit, nor a fiction of mind, it is a mighty Shakti composed of the Shaktis of all the millions of units... gallant Chidambarams, brave Padmanabhas, intrepid Shivas who defied the threats of exile and imprisonment. The force of patriotism, of the value of self-sacrifice, of the value of worship of Mother India, — this patriotism and its values live with us and we stand in the need to remember them, to collect them together and to pour them into a new system of education that we are striving today to construct... patriotism, we are required to develop means by which the vision of the nation can stand out in the centre of their consciousness and they are able to feel and perceive the invisible but mighty soul of Mother India. At the same time, patriotism will also teach them to recognise the soul of other nations, the soul of entire humanity, in particular, the spirit of one united family of humanity. We need to ensure ...
... Midnapur for a second time and gave the oath to Hemchandra Das who, during the ceremony, held a sword in one hand and the Gita in the other. The content of the oath was to secure the freedom of Mother India at any cost and to declare the secret of the society to no one. The idea of forming secret revolutionary societies had been in the air in Bengal for a long time. Even Rajnarayan Bose, Sri... Purani, Evening Talks, Third Series (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram. 1966), pp. 95-96. 2. Sri Aurobindo, On Himself , pp. 78-79. 3. Ibid - P- 90. Page 59 temple of Mother India (Bhawani Mandir). He came back with very persistent mountain fever! He was being treated, but not being cured, when a Naga Sannyasi came, from whom Sri Aurobindo had a direct proof of the powers... around this same time that Sri Aurobindo wrote the famous revolutionary booklet Bhawani Mandir . We have already mentioned the Bhawani Mandir scheme. The idea for it was mostly Barin's. A temple of Mother India was to be built somewhere in the forest or on some mountain-top. Here workers, who would dedicate themselves, in the spirit of complete renunciation, to India's freedom, would be prepared. Others ...
... India in order to get their freedom. But it doesn't speak of freedom at all. Bande Mataram is a salutation to the Supreme Mother India, that's all. It only speaks of concentrating the will and the attention of the people on an objective: the collective entity, Mother India, the Bharat Shakti, as they call it. The attention of the people was drawn to that. And it is that for which many people went... that at times the power of the word has brought great revolutions in mankind. For instance, the Indian Freedom Movement was preceded by one such word-group, Bande Mataram (Hail to the Mother, Mother India). Now that cry came in 1872, long before the Indian National Movement was even launched - there was no political life at that time to speak of. In 1872, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, the Bengali seer ...
... See this one. Oh, his psychic is very much to the front. He surely belonged to Sri Aurobindo’s group… It is not sacrifice which is written on their face, it is joyful offering to the Motherland—to Mother India. And they have proved something, they have proved that adoration of the Motherland is dearer than life itself. They faced all dangers and fought bravely, whatever the cost. Their psychic beings... been alive today the whole world would have looked upon him as a leader.” There were three English articles in the envelope. Justice McPherson remarked about the article titled “The Children of Mother India—The Voice of a Devotee”: “This political article is ablaze with fire!” When a wounded Bagha Jatin was being taken to hospital he told magistrate Kilby: “These boys with me are innocent... ” (The land is the Mother.) The way he uttered Ma-ti opened the gates of such tremendous love and respect for the Motherland! He told Mona one day: “We did not completely accept Sri Aurobindo’s Mother India as a living Entity, a living God, so in order to establish the truth, He has brought down now the living Mother, the Divine Mother.” When Mona recounted this to the Mother, She just laughed. ...
... the title The Mind of Light. ** For a fuller discussion, of the subject, the reader is referred to Synergist's 'A Divine Life in a Divine Body' (Mother India; June 1952), K.D. Sethna's "The Descent of the Supermind' in Mother India, December 1953, pp. 11ff and Kishor Gandhi's The New Humanity' included in his book. Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo and the New Age (1965). Page... plenitudes and puissances of the Life Divine. The first volume opens magnificently: it is a key beginning as in music, and sets the tone of high seriousness to the entire work: * Mother India, August 1966, pp. 66-7. In the course of a conversation, Sri Aurobindo is reported to have said on 20 February 1940: "What I have tried to give in the book is a metaphysical foundation of Yoga ...
... call was Sudhir Sarkar; to him Sri Aurobindo revealed the vision of the Mother in Her physical embodiment. That vision of the Mother in Her resplendent form, Sri Aurobindo saw as a living image of Mother India, and He gave it to a chosen few. For Sudhir-da, that vision was a life-long cherished possession. By virtue of long association with Sri Aurobindo at a tender age, Sudhir-da imbibed certain great... governed his behaviour from day to day and therefore Sudhir-da never stooped to serve any selfish ends. Sri Aurobindo kindled in his heart an undying fire which was offered first at the altar of Mother India and finally at the altar of the Mother of the universe. Love for Motherland ( Recounted by PURNANANDA , an Inmate of the Ashram, to Mona ) Once Bhupen-da (Bhupendranath Dutt, the younger... s? All those young revolutionaries descended from another world. At the dawn of the century, they came down and built a new path. Their endurance is beyond our comprehension. When the power of Mother India, coursed in waves through Sudhir’s veins, he forgot himself and he was able to do anything. What identification he had with the Motherland! I have rarely seen so much love in anyone. Sudhir-da’s ...
... short, Hell was let loose, civil authority broke down, and the military was sometimes partisan and often ineffective. There was thus no end to the miseries of the children of mangled and mutilated Mother India. It must, however, be conceded that those months were also a period of super-human endeavours - by men of iron like Sardar Patel, by unflinching humanists like Nehru, by great reconcilers like... Pondicherry, and has been appearing every year. And 1949 was to see the publication of two more journals: Bulletin of Physical Education, a quarterly, whose first issue appeared on 21 February, and Mother India, a cultural fortnightly, whose inaugural number came out from Bombay, also on the Mother's birthday. All these journals - with others to follow, in English as well as in the languages of India... demonstration of physical culture by the boys and girls, and had a discussion with the Mother about the working of the Ashram. Recalling the impressions of his visit, Dr. Reddy wrote in the columns of Mother India: ... this extraordinary Ashram in which life and the joy of life are mingled in happy union with spirituality and spiritual progress.... But in many respects what impressed me most were ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes The Nehru-Liaquat Pact and After Amal I am writing to explain the indications I had given of my view that a change has taken place in the situation owing to the Nehru-Liaquat Pact making the position I took in the letter to Dilip 1 no longer quite... be seen in the light of future developments. Meanwhile I await your answer with regard to the question I have put you. Afterwards I shall write again especially about the stand to be taken by Mother India. 3.5.50 × See the letter of 4 April 1950, published on pages 506-7 .—Ed. ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On "New Year Thoughts" Some of the statements in your article 1 do not seem to me quite convincing, as for instance, the suggestion that one cannot be highly ethical or exaltedly ethical without being religious or highly religious or even a mystic... existence. 1 January 1950 × "New Year Thoughts on Pacifism", by K. D. Sethna. This article was published in Mother India on 7 January 1951. The printed version incorporated changes suggested by Sri Aurobindo in this letter.—Ed. ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes Rishis as Leaders The article can go as the editorial as you propose and the other arrangements are all right. But I must insist that the last words Page 520 "till we put ourselves in the care of some Rishis among leaders" shall go out. I... occupied by Nehru. I am a candidate for neither office and any suggestion of my promotion to these high offices should be left to other announcers and the last place in which it should occur is Mother India. So out with the "Rishi". You may say if you like "till the eyes of India's leaders see more clearly and we can take our place at your side" or any other equally innocent phrase. January 1950 ...
... The Mystical and the Misty: An Answer to Some Queries about Sri Aurobindo A READER from abroad has asked for a clarification of certain points apropos of an article in Mother India of July 14, 1951. He writes: "I read in Prithwi Singh's Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: 'Sri Aurobindo's decision to leave his own body does not invalidate the truth of his teachings.' I... Death does not depend on our decision unless we commit suicide. Was this the case with Aurobindo? If so, how did he do it, and how would it be re-concilable with his words (quoted on page 2 of Mother India): 'Death must not be feared, but neither should death or permanent ill-health be invited.' "Further Prithwi Singh writes, 'His last act of Grace was to keep his body intact for several days ...
... 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: "the mortal remains of Sri Aurobindo" — and said: "You cannot say this. There was nothing mortal about Sri Aurobindo. He... physically transformed before we can reach the last stage of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation. 29.5.1982 Notes and References 1."Two Clarifications", Mother India, July 1982 2. On Yoga II, Tome One (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1958), p. 101. 3. Ibid. 4. Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother (1953), p. 253. 5. Ibid., p. ...
... in book-form. They were given to a group of students starting their University career. They appeared in print for the first time in the monthly review of culture published from the Ashram, Mother India, whose editor was himself the deliverer of the talks. They were prepared for publication from jottings and memory — with a few exceptions. In some places they were expanded a little to make the... last talk of the series was never delivered, as the year ended before the day fixed for it. It was to be written out according to the plan originally in view. In the talks that appeared in Mother India, not only were the actual turns of phrase used in the class recovered as far as possible; at the request of the students, even the digressions were sought to be preserved. The talks make, in this ...
... the sake of a Cause that is most sacred to his inmost heart though most intangible to the sober mind: a Bharat Mata, a Mother India — not the monthly review of culture whose editor I am but the ageless Goddess who is the Nation-Soul enkindling all our culture, the Mother India of whom I try to be not too unworthy a son. The reflective adult could never be a Buddha renouncing all the possessions and ...
... very much with us with a background of nearly seventy years and merits a special place for his various contributions in so many disciplines of thought and creative research. His editing of Mother India for nearly half a century is an added glory to his intellectual acumen and literary output. As a writer in English, he earned a special mention from Sri Aurobindo - "He knows how to write... activities of life and thought. His letters to his friends on life, literature and yoga, his literary criticism, his political comments on the burning questions of the day as the editor of Mother India, his researches into Vedic history, Panini's age and historicity, archaeological pre- history and even Einstein's Theory of Relativity prove beyond doubt his breadth of mind and poise, his ...
... into another field but it is delightful: And an intense favourite of mine among poems was Longfellow's The Leap of Roshan Beg. When I came across it I couldn't help featuring it in Mother India. Did you notice it ? You'll be surprised that the only reference to it I got from readers was from Dyuman! As far as I remember, he remarked that he was like the horse of the poem. I suppose... note has with him numerous letters since he met him on the 29th of March 1955 revealing the Human Face of a supra-human genius. K.B. SITARAMAYYA References 1. Mother India, October 1966, p. 16. 2.Ibid, June 1992, pp. 377-8. Page 403 ...
... Bridge to Sri Aurobindo IN THE Ashram who does not know Amal Kiran ? He is not only known to all but much loved by them. Mother India under his editorship is a wonderful magazine one eagerly waits for every month. It is through Mother India that I first met Amal. To be precise, his letters on Life-Poetry-yoga first drew me to his glowing heart and brilliant mind. His, I found ...
... Raja," The Scoria , Chandigarh, January 1996. 6.---, "Musings Of An Ascetic," Sunday Magazine: Deccan Herald, Bangalore, May 19,1996. 7.---, "The Story of 'Mother India': Straight from the Horse's Mouth," Mother India, Pondicherry, February-March 1999 . 8, Korstange, Gordon, "An Interview With Amal Kiran", Collaboration , Berkeley, California, Summer 1994. 9. Chakraborty ...
... laws governing this universe for all time. Now, every phenomenon contains three elements: epistemo-logical, 4.The Mother's Talk, "The Supramental Manifestation and World-Change", Mother India, Dec. 56. 5.J. G. Bennet, The Dimensional Framework of the Natural Sciences. Page 28 ontological and normative, of which function, being and regularity are the three respective... perceptions, but out of it a new knowledge will arise. That, in a most general way, will be the result of the New Manifestation." 36 35. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 1024. 36. Mother India, December 5, 1956. Page 54 Adventure Beckons Science Now, what should science do in this "God's stupendous hour"? All the three pillars - mathematics, logic and ...
... long article in the Ashram review Mother India . Krishnalal and Vasudev—both artists—asked for off-prints of this article to keep in their record. Later Vasudev gave it to Jayantilal—artist—for certain references when the book The Mother: Paintings and Drawings was printed. In connection with that book, I gave a full statement which was published in Mother India of July 1993. The Mother asked ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 2) 21 Your inquiry about the darshans, in response to my article in the November Mother India, 1990, is such that I feel I have succeeded in putting my very soul into this piece of writing. That is always my aim in writing letters. Even if the subject is intellectual, it should be tackled not with the mere mind... "wideness" is all-covering and leaves no room for confrontation with anything outside oneself. (10.9.91) I am glad you liked in my series "Life - Poetry - Yoga" of the October Mother India (pp. 236-37) the summaries I have essayed of the various religions of the world. You feel particularly apt my glimpse of the religion to which you belong and which was also mine until I joined ...
... spontaneous appreciation as you have expressed of Mother India has brought a deeper sense of the Divine Grace at work in this venture to which we have pledged ourselves. May I tell you what happened at the very start of our periodical's career? Perhaps you know the story already, but it may be inspiring to hear it again. Mother India was to be launched as a fortnightly. We had planned ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 2) 16 Your long-distance call was a unique event in the history of Mother India. Never before has any voice from beyond Pondicherry come precisely in reponse to my work in our Monthly Review of Culture with such an irrepressible joy. In more than the sense of sheer surprise the call seemed to arrive "out of the... trying to do ever since February 1949 for a periodical about which he had once said when a carping critic had doubted the authenticity of the views expressed in its pages: "Doesn't he know that Mother India is my paper?" I have mentioned "Sri Aurobindo", but I should add "The Mother". For, the sense of both of them glowed in my being as soon as I reatised the wonder of the far-away, along ...
... Spiegelberg (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1960) and afterwards included with some enlargement in the author's The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo (Mother India, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1968). [Originally published in Mother India, August 1954, p. 36]. Page 57 made recast after recast, not merely addition on addition - and it was rarely because the early versions ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1) Introduction The "personal letters" which started appearing fourteen years ago in Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, published from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, have proved to be a popular feature. A large number of readers from all over the country and even some from abroad have expressed their gratitude for helpful... dates could have been omitted, but certain allusions in the letters called, now and then, for accurate time-pointers to give them definite significance. In the present volume the issues of Mother India in which the correspondence originally found a place run from July 1980 to March 1990. Some changes have been introduced to clarify certain points. A few omissions have been made to avoid repetitions ...
... near her there, and altered the future tense to the present and gave the first line a different as well as a personal turn. In its earlier form the passage had appeared as one of the epigraphs of Mother India ever since the fortnightly had grown a monthly: henceforth it appeared in the new form: Lord, Thou hast willed and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, ... She looked a bit surprised at the tall order, but again laughed and said, "Bien". Then she started the main topic. "I want to tell you something. Somewhere in Mother India — I don't know in what issue — you have said that the Supermind had been descending into Sri Aurobindo's body in 1938 but could not be fixed down. Where did you get this information? It is just ...
... AGNI IN THE RIG-VEDA AND ASWAPATHY IN SAVITRI (SOME REFLECTIONS APROPOS OF A TERM COMMENTED UPON BY NOLINI KANTA GUPTA) 1 In the Mother India of August 15, 1976 Nolini Kanta Gupta has given a very pointed and appealing interpretation of a term in Savitri which had puzzled Huta and me and led us to consult him. The term occurs in the... all-too-human self which is now being exceeded. In short, "For him" applies to our composite being, the Aswapathy that we are, and not to the luminous Visitor who is the higher half of us. (Mother India, August 1982, pp. 524-35) Page 315 ...
... the path was to be cleared for the race to evolve from humanity to supermanhood. Sri Aurobindo meant to concentrate in his co-worker the achievement of his victory in the time to come. * Mother India, November 1975. 1 Collected Poems, SABCL, Vol. 5, p. 575: "The Life Heavens". Page 134 The first step towards this victory was the permanent establishment, in the Mother's... work and he had decided that he would go and she would stay for its completion. 3 1 Ibid., p. 169. 2 Ibid., p. 172. 3 "A 'Call' from Pondicherry" by Dr. Prabhat Sanyal, Mother India, December 5,1953, p. 87. Page 137 Even apart from our faith in such direct references by Sri Aurobindo to his own mission, we may dismiss the idea of failure on the basis of our ...
... back. I remarked to her that the concluding part was of very general application and that it was too beautiful to be left in the dark. She fully agreed. So if you approve, may I use it for the Mother India of October? There is a second text here too for your consideration. WORDS OF THE MOTHER Never forget that, as much outside as in the Ashram, if you want to lead a happy life, you must be... × The Mother evidently approved the publication of these two texts, for they appeared in the October 1960 issue of Mother India . ...
... September 1967 Dearest Mother, Some months back H and I had proposed that Mother India should take up book publication. You did not object. Now we have a book with which to make a debut — a book which we expect to sell. It is a collection of articles by me, which were first published in Mother India , The Advent or other Ashram periodicals. These pieces have been considerably appreciated ...
... to me. It has such a general bearing that I feel its publication in the May Mother India will be very much appreciated. If you approve of my publishing it, I shall send you M’s English translation, along with the French original for scrutiny. You can send it. ( The text mentioned above appeared in the Mother India issue of May 1968; it says: ) There should be an absolutely transparent ...
... to publish in Mother India in block form. It runs: “C’est dans le silence que le vrai progrès peut se faire.” I have translated it: “It is in silence that true progress can be made.” May I have your approval? All right. Blessings 19 May 1968 ( Amal submitted the following the two texts for approval to publish them in the July 1968 issue of Mother India . ) It is certain ...
... with the help of Pitman's exercise-manual. He arrived with a silent smile but left with a stock-formula, seeming to be a translation from the Tamil: "And then I go." * Reproduced from Mother India, Vol. 48, No., 1, January 1995. Page 79 Amrita was one of those with whom I came into close contact right from my early days in the Ashram. Once, when he was typing, a funeral passed... of an illness, she had made the clear-cut assertion: "There was nothing mortal about Sri Aurobindo"—words uttered when I had read out the short note for Page 84 the next issue of Mother India, in which I had employed the conventionally turned phrase: "the mortal remains of Sri Aurobindo." In this mind-boggling denial, which would apply just as well to Sri Aurobindo's partner in spiritual ...
... the Supermind's Descent* A WRITTEN QUESTION AND THE MOTHER'S ORAL ANSWER Q. Here is a quotation from you, which appeared in 1954 in an article by the Associate Editor of Mother India: "Even in 1938 I used to see the Supermind descending into Sri Aurobindo. What he could not do at that time was to fix it here." An article in February 1968 by the Editor has understood this... he could undergo death. The Supramental Force was there up to the subtle-physical, and when he left his body this Force made a halo of light around it, visible for some days. 1970 *Mother India, December 1974. Page 173 ...
... 1938. Served the Ashram in various capacities before the Mi; entrusted him with the responsibility of setting up and organising the Ashram's Archives and Research Library. See Mother India 1999, p. 442; and Mother India 2000, pp. 224-25, 295-98, 383-86. ...
... the idea of the national freedom came to be seen as an extension of the Indian goal of spiritual freedom. India came to be worshipped by millions of people as an eternal Mother India. Under the inspiring call of worship of Mother India, programmes of swadeshi, boycott, passive resistance and national education came to be developed, and the movement which had begun with the dominant minority turned into ...
... go deeper and witness those exceptional individuals whose lives and examples have moulded the national thought and character and shaped the course of events. At a still deeper level, we discover Mother India, Bharat Mata, protector and nourisher of her children, inspiring them and helping them in their battle and victory, and leading Page 435 them to the gradual revelation of her intention... for the world in collaboration with the mother-souls of all the nations in a spirit of collaboration, mutuality and goodwill for the Supreme Good of all. To understand India is to understand Mother India and to grasp and possess four of her essential powers that have been developing since ages, viz., the power of spirituality, the power of intellectuality, the power of vitality, and the power ...
... its presence as a tangible reality. It is this, which has been made almost into a divine being and all who love their country, call it "Mother India" (Bharat Mata), and it is to her that they daily address a prayer for the welfare of their country. Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence, and keeping it ...
... breakdown of political period, 201; reaction to Bengal partition, 207-8; Hour of God, 208-9; on the boycott of 16 Oct., 210; letters to Mrinalini, 213-15,235,265; the "three frenzies", 213ff; on "Mother India", 214; his mahavrata, 214; at Benaras Congress, 216; at Barisal Conference, 217; Prof. at National College, 218; in charge of Bande Mataram, 221ff; on the "Life of Nationalism", 223ff; on Dadabhai... 548; translation of Synthesis, 551; Barindra on her role, 574; on vibration of Harmony, 591; on Savitri, 659, 662; as Savitri, 685; on the Partition, 711; on the Soul of India, 712; prayer to Mother India, 714; on energy inexhaustible, 719; visit of André, 726; talk with Sri Aurobindo on leaving her body, 732; on Sri Aurobindo's passing, 735ff, 739-40; Kapali Sastry on, 748; Surendranath Jauhar on ...
... From “New Birth” For the past few years in India one can see as if a new race is being created in the midst of the old that was dominated by the gross influences. The earlier children of Mother India were born in an irreligious atmosphere or one of religious decline and receiving an education in keeping with that, they had grown short-lived, small, selfish and narrow in spirit. Many powerful... the future greatness and the marvellous activity that awaits this race. It is because of their good deeds that the rays of the new dawn are brightening up all the corners. These new children of Mother India, instead of getting the qualities of their parents, have grown bold, full of power, high- souled, self-sacrificing, inspired by the high ideals of helping others and doing good to the country. That ...
... the Mother once said, “Sudhir is my true Bhakta”. Sudhir’s thoughts, dreams and actions all concerned Mother India. He was one of those visionaries who saw India not merely as a geographical or political entity, but as a spirit that was an emanation of the Divine. For him the concept of Mother India as a Divinity was not a figure of speech but a living experience. Sudhir fervently believed in Sri A ...
... raised platform in front, calm, poised, in a posture of unparalleled elegance and dignity, graceful and powerful. She held in her hand the Indian flag fluttering in the breeze. I felt I was seeing Mother India herself. She assured me that whatever might happen India's good was absolutely certain. I saw some young boys and girls come and sit in front of me, some near my feet on the floor and some beside... are trained and initiated in a special way are capable of this. I have told you about this only by way of information. One person asked: 'Before your illness, Dada, the vision you had of Mother India, what did that tell you about India?' Dada answered: 'India will continue to progress and improve. Whatever the Mother has said about India will come true. There is no other way. . ...
... meant to manifest the unity of this origin upon the earth. 3 Again, when on 25 June 1950, communist North Korea crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea, K.D. Sethna the editor of Mother India (then coming out as a fortnightly from Bombay), asked for Sri Aurobindo's guidelines for his editorial comment on the subject. Sri Aurobindo replied on 28 June in categorical terms: There... not believe till the last moment that Sri Aurobindo was going to leave his body." On the same day, she had told Sethna that Sri Aurobindo would soon read Sethna's drafts for his editorials in Mother India and had let him leave for Bombay that night, because Sri Aurobindo's "departure had not been decided yet". (Contacts: 57-58). Page 492 whole room was strewn with flowers. Presently ...
... Yoga as long as he was in the political movement. Besides, his health was shattered.* * Talks with Sri Aurobindo, recorded by Nirodbaran (1966), p. 48. As recorded by V. Chidanandam (Mother India, February 1972, p. 22), Sri Aurobindo seems to have referred to Das in an earlier (1926) conversation also: "Das asked to come here, but I refused because he would have brought a different world... their molecular energies: the charging of all these with the Truth and effectivity of the Supramental * A roughly equivalent version appears in V. Chidanandam's 'Sri Aurobindo at Evening Talk' (Mother India, July 197O, p. 333): "I did not speak of many of these things before, for then it was dangerous. Now not to speak anything may be dangerous, for I am pulling down the supramental into the physical ...
... cannot solve, the function of India is to restore the youth of mankind and assure it of immortality." It was Vivekananda's intense patriotic feelings which inspired Sister Nivedita. He adored Mother India. This country was not an inert piece of matter. He had seen in the poor of Page 561 this land the richness of spirit, he had seen in the despised of the earth the milk of kindness... standing ovation accorded to Swamiji by the audience at the Parliament of Religions, on 11 September 1893, when he began his address by 'Brothers and Sisters of America,' was in reality a salute to Mother India, for he spoke in her name. Among the many accounts of the impact the 'warrior-monk' made on his audience, we give but one. "The handsome monk in the orange robe," wrote Miss Monroe, "gave us, in ...
... to the infant Jesus. The occasion is appropriate for me to reply to your many-faceted letter, expressing doubt about the historicity of Christ. I am surprised that my article in the Mother India of last December - "Augustus Caesar and the Birth of Jesus" - has revived your scepticism. It accepts the historicity of Christ as much as that of Augustus Caesar. And it would not have done so... are the sayings. The Mother has held that "the writers of the Gospels have tried to reproduce exactly what Christ taught and they have in a certain measure succeeded in transmitting his message" (Mother India, December 1977, p. 842). Page 14 (4) "Two of the Gospels make no mention of the crucifixion and the resurrection, although they should be the outstanding events of Jesus' ...
... thought highly of him as an instrument of progressive change in despotic Russia just as he adjudged Mustafa Kamal for Sultan-ridden Turkey, and ¹ The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo (Mother India, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1968), pp. 201-202. Page 146 to have helped him with his spiritual force to bring about the Revolution against Czardom. It was only with... participation in the war, a participation which could lead to Russia coming into the picture against America and thereby swelling the hostilities to global proportions. I wrote a long article in Mother India exposing the folly of Truman's act. The Mother gave me on 17 April 1951 a paradoxical-sounding thought-provoking message on the situation. It said: "We are sorry to say that the dismissal of ...
... Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 6 October 1960 Mother, May I use the text below — or at least a part of it—for the next Mother India ? WORDS OF THE MOTHER A practical problem comes up more and more often: should one who is preparing to do Yoga and has made it a general rule to offer You everything and depend entirely... 6 October 1960 × The Mother evidently approved the publication of this text, for it appeared in the Mother India issue of December 1960. ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 10 October 1967 Dearest Mother, I intend to publish in Mother India this handout on Auroville. But I have made a few changes to bring in accuracy and to avoid the pompous or rhetorical note. Your French phrase “l’union d’une harmonie compréhensive” is clear — it provides... It is all right. The changes are indeed very good. I wish this new version should be adopted, if more copies are to be printed. ( The handout on Auroville mentioned above was published in the Mother India of October 1967. Its opening sentence, which was written by the Mother in French, is reproduced below in Amal’s English translation. ) On February 28, 1968 the whole world will take part in ...
... Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 15 March 1966 Dearest Mother, The “Words of the Mother” you have permitted me to use for the March Mother India are: Ça ne fait rien! Les difficulties sont là pour le plaisir de les surmonter. Va de l’avant, garde confiance et tout ira bien. Is the following English translation all right? ... the pleasure of surmounting them. Go forward, keep confidence and all will be well. All right. Now about those pictures of D. I believe he hopes that if any is approved I may use it for Mother India . Even otherwise he would like to know whether any is really good. I am told you kept quite silent about this. It’s the second time you have done so. Rather a choking affair for poor D. I am sure ...
... left my apartment, I wrote down what he had explained to me in detail. I have cherished several note-books which are of great value to me. Page 57 Here are Amal's own words in Mother India, May 1979, p. 276: ...An appreciative treatment of Savitri in terms of its quality - an elucidation of its thought-content, its imagery-inspiration, its word-craft and its rhythm-impact:... through all possible occult experiences. She never told them to Sri Aurobindo but later she found them all expressed in Savitri . I should like very much to publish this statement in the February Mother India . Will you permit me and, if you do, will you please send me as soon as possible the exact words as reported by you? I shall be thankful and, of course, I will mention that they are from you. ...
... unfinished work and we just exchanged a few words on Pondicherry, our common base, before parting. Page 29 This chance acquaintance emboldened me later to write an article for Mother India edited by him and on its acceptance I felt encouraged to write occasionally. Once I felt that my articles were mostly quotes from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with my short sentences serving as... and I went to him (we both were at Pondicherry then) and placed this limitation of mine before him for his advice. He at once said, "Go on. Framing is also an art." His editorials in Mother India were eye-openers for me in respect of current affairs, I having been brought up in the Gandhian Congress club in my early days. His writings, I believe, did shake up many others, and led readers ...
... efficiency in printing the book. Roshan Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. 2001 × Mother India , Sept. 1993, pp. 632, 631. 2 : Mother India , March 1993, p. 173. ...
... rolling. We find the Mother’s occult intervention confirmed by Udar, who writes that ‘the Mother told me this the very next morning after her visit to Hitler’; by K.D. Sethna, who wrote about it in Mother India ; and by the Mother herself who talked about it in at least two recorded conversations, the first one on 5 November 1961, the second on 12 January 1965. 54 The reader will remember her description... p. 62. × Udar, ‘Reminiscences’, in More Vignettes of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother , p. 153; Mother India , April 1979, pp. 215-16; and Mother’s Agenda , at the dates mentioned. × Nirodbaran, Talks ...
... ineffectively, to do some part of my duty as a son, a brother and a husband, but there is something too strong in me which forces me to subordinate everything else to it.’ 2 This ‘something’ was Mother India. ‘I entered into political action and continued it from 1903 to 1910 with one aim and one alone, to get into the mind of the people a settled will for freedom and the necessity of a struggle... ries who clustered around Aurobindo’s younger brother Barin; impatient, they preferred acting instead of talking and wanted to accelerate the realization of their holiest aim, the liberation of Mother India, through terrorism. They were naïve and inexperienced, committing one blunder after another, but they made the British nervous. Around this time Aurobindo fell seriously ill, though he still found ...
... The Mother, id., p. 75. × See An Unusual meeting with Sri Aurobindo , in Mother India , December 1989. × Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru – External Affairs, p. 530. ... personal intervention that Pondicherry would merge with the Motherland without difficulties, at a time when the respective positions of France and India had hardened to the breaking point. (See Mother India, January 1990, pp. 9, 10.) × He means Alfassa. ...
... you to change even a comma in Savitri. " I knew she was striking out at something which in the past had led me to make some "editorial" adjustments in three letters of Sri Aurobindo in Mother India. There had been three related questions about the Mother, to each of which he had simply answered "Yes". I put the questions together, followed by only one "Yes". I realised afterwards that... within an enigma wrapped in a mystery. I may add a second small episode where not only I but also a friend of mine was involved. Owing to a disturbance in the established management of Mother India the whole responsibility of running it fell practically on my shoulders, with Navajata appointed by the Mother as a background support. As I was all alone he provided to me a young man from ...
... succeeded in their delaying tactics. Always the result has been: "It will be done some other time.' And the other time may be hundreds of years later or even thousands of years. ¹ See Mother India, March 1954, pp. 1-3. Page 115 Now again the same trick is being tried." Then Manoj obviously remembered Chamanlal's report of the Mother's statement: "Yes, I feel there... "Surely, the Divine, like everybody else, has a right to change His mind." Poor Abhaydev scratched his head all the more. In desperation he presented himself one morning at my personal Mother-India office. This office was located in a large beautiful garden-environment which had led me to abbreviate the description of it as "Editor's den to the designation "E-den". The prelapsarian atmosphere ...
... loud chuckle. She took the note and stood by an inside table near the wall as if she wanted to reply to it. I went over to her. She said softly: "You were under the impression, it seems, that Mother India would be published here in April only. But how can that be? It has to be published here always if you are to come and stay here permanently." I answered: "Yes, of course, but what about Sehra... lifting it out with infinite tenderness she took it to her inner room — her dressing-room, of which Jayantilal had made a painting in that collection of nine pictures which I had once reviewed in Mother India. I saw this room for the first time. The Mother placed the egg on a glass-top table. We came back to the front room. I said: "Roshan, Mina's daughter, has asked me to tell you that today ...
... career. To this end a careful search has been made through all his published works, as well as through other collections to which he has contributed and the journal edited by him for 50 years - Mother India. The collection is presented in two parts. The first consists of complete essays, which have appeared in full as chapters or sections of books or as independent articles in journals. The second... Approaches to Life through Sri Aurobindo's Light, 2 nd ed. 2008 Aspects of Sri Aurobindo, 2 nd ed. 2000 Our Light and Delight: Recollections of Life with the Mother, 1980 Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, since 1949 The quotations from Savitri made by Amal came from different versions over the years. In this collection we have kept the text of these quotations ...
... embarrassing to me, being of a very personal nature and with a flattering suggestion to the little ego that is always ready to pop up. "Coil" in the expression to which you point on p. 731 of Mother India, November 1989 should hardly puzzle you. Surely you must know, as does Macaulay's famous "every schoolboy", that to "shuffle off this mortal coil" is Shakespearian poetry for the prosaic act of... Mother had to pass through all phases of it before founding the Integral Yoga. As regards the French "imbecile" and the English "moron", about which I made some observations in a letter in Mother India I am making unexpected discoveries. I suppose the French locution could have been directly translated by the English one with the same sound and spelling, but, apart from the colloquial meaning ...
... double-aspected depth was there both at the time you wrote and at the time I read. For you have spoken as if you were the mouthpiece of a multitude, the representative voice of all those who turn to Mother India for a glimpse of Sri Aurobindo as their guide, a whisper of the Mother as their impeller. And you have spoken thus because you have intuitively caught Page 285 the sense I often... A Will expressive of soul's deity, A Strength not forced to stumble by its speed, A Joy that drags not sorrow for its shade. You have quoted what I wrote in the April issue of Mother India last year, p. 239. Nothing could have pleased me more to remember. My latest birthday wish was the same as the one you have appreciated so much. Only the words were not the same. My appeal to the ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1) 3 FROM LETTERS TO FLORENCE RUSSELL Your gift for June [1976] cheered up both the 27-year old Mother India and its 72-year young editor "Amal Kiran" (according to Sri Aurobindo's renaming of K.D. Sethna), "the Clear Ray", who, while appreciating Anatole France's advice to writers, "Clarity first, clarity again and clarity... "grasp some meaning without any vocal interpretation". I must one day get together all my poems and send them to you. The immediate packet due to you is, of course, the coming July issue of Mother India: "Spiritual India and Bicentennial America" - which will be out in a few days and wing its way to you so as to reach you by the fourth of the month, the date of the great occasion. I had a ...
... introduction to this little, but precious, selection: "My dear Deshpande Regarding Amal's epistolary wonder: As many of these letters have already been published in Mother India and his book Life-Poetry-Yoga , I cannot object to your compilation. But one important point Amal agreed to: nowhere should there be any mention of my name. I am sure you too won't disagree... with "D": that is, he would be likened to a heap of galleys! * PR: Have I flooded you with work ? If so hold your secrecy of "Splendour" for some time and attend to M.I. [Mother India}. AK; I can bear a lot on my back. Actually the burden becomes so much less when I feel my friend's deep concern for me. PR: "The Secret Splendour" pages. I make a generous gift ...
... body's supramentalisation, may legitimately be taken as delayed in the sense of being put off for a future time or being deferred. The process cannot be so regarded: the * Mother India, September 1974. 1 Mother India, June-July 1974, pp. 438-39. 2 Ibid., March 1974, p. 167. 3 Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (Bombay, 1971), p. 854, col. 1. Page 41 ...
... best discerned from the Mother's own pronouncement to the present writer after Sri Aurobindo left his body on December 5, 1950. When she was shown the Note giving a short account of * Mother India, December 5,1973. 1 Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, SABCL, Vol. 28, p. 15. 2 Ibid. Page 15 the puzzling unexpected event, she paused over the expression: "the mortal... then the power to find it out." At this, she blessed her disciple. Appealing to the Master for inspiration, the disciple spent nearly a fortnight preparing himself for his editorial in Mother India. The light dawned at last and he wrote his piece: The Passing of Sri Aurobindo—Its Inner Significance and Consequence. The Mother gave her full approval to it and later ordered 15,000 copies ...
... would leave my apartment, I would write down what he had explained to me in detail. I have several cherished notebooks which are of great value to me. Here are Amal's own words in Mother India, May 1979, p. 276: ...An appreciative treatment of Savitri in terms of its quality Page 220 — an elucidation of its thought-content, its imagery-inspiration... all possible occult experiences. She never told them to Sri Aurobindo but later she found them all expressed in Savitri. I should like very much to publish this statement in the February Mother India. Will you permit me and, if you do, will you please send me as soon as possible the exact words as reported by you. I shall be thankful and, of course, I will mention that they are ...
... would in a gentle voice ask me to take my seat while he would complete his next sentence on his type-writer or finish reading the paragraph he was reading or give the strike-order to the proofs of Mother India journal. Those few moments of waiting for Amal Kiran to finish his work in hand were the ones during which an indelible image of Amal was engraved in my mental consciousness: a radiant... came down to en-courage the younger minds. Once, in 1969, when I had writ-ten an article on Sri Aurobindo's poem "Love and Death" he spent caring moments to correct it and even published it in Mother India! Another time I ventured to send him a few of my poems and the master of rhythm selected some and even gave a few comments on some of them. Such is his tender heart behind all that 'trumpeting' ...
... useless and meaningless words. Anyone who proclaims loudly his opinions on the present situation of the country, must understand that his opinions are of no value and cannot, in the least, help Mother India to come Page 356 out of her difficulties. If you want to be useful, first control yourself and keep silent. Silence! Silence! Silence! It is only in silence that anything great... 26 January 1963 Page 357 What is the duty of every Indian today in the present emergency? Overgrow your small egoistic personality and become a worthy child of our Mother India, fulfil your duties with honesty and rectitude, and always keep cheerful and confident, with a steady trust in the Divine's Grace. 3 February 1963 1) If you were asked to sum up, just ...
... useless and meaningless words. Anyone who proclaims loudly his opinions on the present situation of the country, must understand that his opinions are of no value and cannot, in the least, help Mother India to come out of her difficulties. If you want to be useful, first control yourself and keep silent. Silence! Silence! Silence! It is only in silence that anything great can be done. 28 October... from the habit of speaking bad Hindi. I am sending you one of Z's files containing reports of incidents in your life. I have put three or four marks. Almost all these things were published in "Mother India". Which of the things can pass in this book? Please give me some criterion by which I may say what is "passable". I have just glanced at the file. All that is the kind of rubbish that, since ...
... all out to set up a record in quick delivery. I would have written back on January 10 itself, but I waited to send the offprints of two essays by me which had appeared some time back in Mother India. I could lay my hands on one but searched in vain for the other. if I can't find my "W. B. Yeats - Poet of Two Phases" I'll bookpost you by air "Poetic Expressions and Rhythms - Greek and English"... P.S. I am sending you by air a copy of Selections from Savitri, along with an offprint of "Letters from Aldous Huxley and Herbert Read on Sri Aurobindo" published in the August issue of Mother India. From Kathleen Raine Thank you for your last letter and for the selections Dick Batsford has made from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. I have long known Dick Batsford, who is ...
... comprised the book then (and most are being retained in the present edition) were from the editorial contributions, either openly avowed or under the pen name 'Libra' to the fortnightly review Mother India that later became a monthly. The rationale for the publication that was offered then by K. D. Sethna has clearly not outlived its time. If anything, there seems to be a greater sense of... strife and unrest, make it imperative to give a fresh hearing to the earlier essays. It is in this context that we may recall the prefatory words of K. D. Sethna offered at the launching of Mother India: We are here to answer a grave need of the times. This country has gained independence, but it has not found its proper line of life. There is a welter of ideologies and our minds are ...
... Note to the First Edition With the selection of K. D. Sethna's writings, Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture from Pondicherry, comes out for the first time in the role of a Publisher of books. The twenty-two articles offered here have previously appeared either in Mother India itself or in other periodicals connected with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, except for the ...
... A Gross Misunderstanding of Sri Aurobindo 1. A LETTER FROM PRADIP BHATTACHARYA Here is something for the Editor of Mother India: I have been in correspondence with Dr. K. K. Nair (Krishna Chaitanya), the eminent philosopher and litterateur, apropos his comment apropos the Peter Brook film on the Mahabharata, "Anticipating... he found the poem 'wonderful'." Here undoubtedly in a couple of places is a deplorable dash of jargon, an unnecessary infusion of gob-bledegook. There, Pradip, you have what "the Editor of Mother India" is provoked by you to say. Perhaps I have said too much. But what is writ is writ. You may do what you like with it. Don't think I have no admiration for Nair. He has penned a series of penetrating ...
... self-giving only, just to close my eyes and plunge myself into Her. There are such wonderful articles in all three monthlies and quarterlies, Advent, Bulletin and Mother India, that I am sending you the last number of Mother India too. And from the Advent I am copying here a few sentences from the Mother that have for me a special value: Perfect surrender Three figures of total self-giving ...
... we in the Ashram are not supposed to take part in politics, we are not at all indifferent to world affairs. In fact, Sri Aurobindo has said that we are immensely interested in them. The journal Mother India which was a semi-political fortnightly, and came out two years after India's Independence, was edited by one of the sadhaks who was living in Bombay and the editorials were sent to Sri Aurobindo... he had invaded England, by now he would have been in Asia. Now another force has been set up against him. Still the danger has not passed." Apropos of this battle and its date, the editor of Mother India wrote, "...Hitler fixed in 1940 the 15th of August as the day on which he would complete his conquest of Western Europe by broadcasting from Buckingham Palace the collapse of Britain... and on ...
... day in the afternoon I went to the Mother to inform her about it. She smiled, heaved a sigh of happiness, and said: Ah, one big work is done. Here are Amal's own words, published in the Mother India Monthly Review of Culture in May 1979, on page 276: An appreciative treatment of Savitri in its poetic quality—an elucidation of its thought-content, its imagery-inspiration, its word-craft... through all possible occult experiences. She never told them to Sri Aurobindo but later she found them all expressed in his Savitri . I should like very much to publish this statement in the February Mother India. Will you permit me and, if you do, will you please send me as soon as possible the exact words as reported by you? I shall be thankful and, of course, I'll mention that they are from you. Yours ...
... those exceptional individuals whose lives and examples have moulded the national thought and character and shaped the Page 61 course of events. At a still deeper level, we discover Mother India, Bharat Mata, protector and nourisher of her children, inspiring them and helping them in their battle and victory, and leading them to the gradual revelation of her intention and will for her children... for the world in collaboration with the mother-souls of all the nations i» a spirit of collaboration, mutuality and goodwill for the Supreme Good of all. To understand India is to understand Mother India and to grasp and possess four of her essential powers that have been developing since ages, viz., the power of spirituality, the power of intellectuality, the power of vitality, and the power of ...
... joined hands with Sri Aurobindo who administered the revolutionary oath to him and Hemchandra: holding a sword and the Gita in their hands, they vowed to strive to secure at any cost the freedom of Mother India. It was also resolved to form six centres of revolutionary work in Bengal and to give training in rifle-shooting. Earlier Sri Aurobindo had learnt of a secret revolutionary society in Maharashtra... yogis. Let me now tell you of the booklet Bhawani Mandir which Sri Aurobindo wrote at this time. It was Barin who conceived the idea that a temple consecrated to the Divine Mother, invoking Mother India as Bharat Shakti, Bhawani Bharati, would be extremely effective for the propagation of the new revolutionary gospel, and at his request Sri Aurobinclo wrote the booklet. It begins: 'A temple is ...
... modern times, this was the whole meaning of Bandemataram and is beautifully expressed in the following words of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. India - a living personality "Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence, and keeping it in being. Such beings are as real and more permanently real... great and generous in the life of a country. True patriots feel its presence as a tangible reality. It is this which has been made almost into a divine being and all who love their country call it "Mother India" (Bharat Mata), and it is to her that they daily address a prayer for the welfare of their country". 4 The need of a political unification We thus see that from the very ancient ...
... in his personality; he was greatly attracted by her rare vigour, love and strength. Above all he was deeply touched by her intense patriotism. Bharati soon had a vision of Mother India or Bharata Devi and visualised Mother India as Bharati Shakti. As a result of these experiences he decided to fight for the independence of India and the equality of women in India. He received an added impetus when ...
... drawn on a mud-plastered mat. And on the map was the image of Mother India in chains. All their songs were about India: "Who seeks escape in the absence of freedom? Who seeks escape?" And so many others. The melodies of these songs, their meaning and the ever-present image of Mother India in chains touched me very deeply. I am told that even after independence ...
... Pondicherry as his "Cave of Tapasya" because it was then French territory, removed further away from Calcutta than Chandernagore, and was yet a part of the Indian subcontinent, a living cell of the Mother India who had inspired millions of her children to sing the soul-stirring anthem, "Bande Mataram!" As we saw, he wouldn't by himself budge from Pondicherry, and neither Darjeeling nor Algeria had attractions... y, enriched his store of knowledge and awakened the psychic self which will not contentedly accept tinsel as gold. Returning to India, his one dominant thought was for service of the Mother, Mother India. He watched the barren political scene in India with anger and distress, and began preparing forces from behind the scenes so that he could come forward and act when the right moment came. His ...
... Mother’s Agenda III, 6.30.1962 × Some Talks of Sri Aurobindo, Mother India, May 1974 × Thoughts and Aphorisms, 17:82 ... Themanlys, op. cit., p. 6 × Some Talks of Sri Aurobindo, Mother India, May 1974 × Mother’s Agenda I, 10.22.1960 ...
... Reminiscences and Remarks on Events in His Outer Life Letters on Himself and the Ashram Political Career (1906-1910) Mother India When you wrote that you looked upon India not as an inert, dead mass of matter, but as the very Mother, the living Mother, I believe that you saw that Truth. My dear sir, I am not a materialist. If I had seen India as ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes To Kailas Nath Katju Owing to heavy pressure during the last month I am only now able to answer your letter of August 20ᵗʰ forwarding [a] full report of your address on the occasion of the Mahotsav. I had already heard your talk on the radio in connection ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On the Unity Party Amal The Unity Party, Sri Aurobindo says, cannot be said to represent Sri Aurobindo's views [nor can it be said] 1 that its political programme is backed up by him. But perhaps without committing yourself you can say there is ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On Pakistan I don't want Pakistan to endure, made perfectly clear. Division must go—does not mean that division must be allowed to last in some form or other. Continued partition of India into two Federations one Hindu and one Muslim even if somehow connected ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On Cardinal Wyszynski, Catholicism and Communism As to your proposed article on [Wyszynski] 1 , it seems to me that it is better to drop the subject. It had and has no value except as a stick with which to beat the Soviets and their allies. The sole ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On Military Action Amal, Sri Aurobindo's information is that the India Government cannot be justly taxed with unwillingness to take even the strongest action demanded by the situation. But there are difficulties in the way hinging on the [attitude] ...
... new pieces added: "A Sapphire Tale" and an unpublished note related to "On Thought". "A Sapphire Tale" was first published in the original French and in English translation in the monthly journal Mother India in February 1957. At the time of its publication the Mother remarked to the journal’s editor that the story expressed "the ideal of the overmind creation". The original translations of all the ...
... the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education from 1956 to 1963. Between March 1970 and August 1974 a new translation of all the talks was serialised in the monthly journal Mother India . This translation was brought out as a book in 1973 under the title Questions and Answers 1956 . The same book, with minor revisions of the translation, was published in 1978 as Volume 8 of the ...
... * what is the duty of every Indian today in the present emergency? Overgrow your small egoistic personality and become a worthy child of our Mother India, fulfil your duties with honesty and rectitude, and always keep Cheerful and confident, with a steady trust in the Divine's Grace. 3 February 1963 * Page 61 ...
... generous in the life of the country. True patriots feel its presence as a tangible reality. In India it has been made into an almost divine entity, and all who truly love their country call it "Mother India" (Bharat Mata) and offer her a daily prayer Page 42 for the welfare of their country. It is she who symbolises and embodies the true ideal of the country, its true mission in the world ...
... "When He Was a Political Leader", Calcutta Municipal Gazette 50, 20 August, pp. viii - ix. — . 1950. "Sri Aurobindo as I Knew Him: Some Reminiscences of His Political Days", Mother India 2 (15 August). Ghose, Hemendra Prasad. Diary 1906 - 1908. Jadavpur University Library. — — . 1949. "Reminiscences of Aurobindo Ghose", Orient Illustrated Weekly 13 (27 ...
... the four books mentioned above were published in the mid and late 1940s in several journals associated with the Ashram: Sri Aurobindo Circle , Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual , The Advent and Mother India . Many letters in these journals Page 518 were revised by Sri Aurobindo before publication. By the mid-1940s a significant body of letters had been collected, typed and revised ...
... apparently was intended to be the first of a series of works for the use of students of Bhawani Mandir, a "temple to the goddess Bhawani" where young men would be trained to do selfless work for Mother India. The idea of Bhawani Mandir was primarily that of Barindra Kumar Ghose, Sri Aurobindo's younger brother, though Sri Aurobindo did write a manifesto setting forth its ideals around 1905 (see Bhawani ...
... Asuric civilisation, men are anyhow superfluous and only 'incarnated Asuras' are required?"—Ed. × Mother India, a journal published in Mumbai at that time.—Ed. × The correspondent asked: "How can the Divine ...
... the four books mentioned above were published in the mid and late 1940s in several journals associated with the Ashram: Sri Aurobindo Circle , Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual , The Advent and Mother India . Many letters in these journals were revised by Sri Aurobindo before publication. By the mid-1940s a significant body of letters had been collected, typed and revised. In 1945 plans were ...
... The Indian Spirit and the World's Future Dates of Publication of the Articles in 'Mother India' Indian Nationalism at Its Truest How Shall We Grow in Greatness? Our Ancient Wisdom and Its Genuine Revival Our Real National Anthem The Ideal Flag for India Pacifism and the Indian Spirit The Significance of the ...
... SOME QUESTIONS ON TRANSFORMATION AND SRI AUROBINDO A REPLY TO A LETTER I am glad you liked the way our correspondence has figured in Mother India under the caption "Sri Aurobindo's Views vis-a-vis.the Mother's". The new points you have raised on some other matters are welcome. The issue of 300 years for total transformation has several ...
... 1 3, Gaza Road, Jerusalem, Israel, 7-2-52 Dear Mr. Sethna, I acknowledge with many thanks the receipt by airmail of your article "The Mystical and the Misty" in Mother India of January 19, 1952. I have read and reread it several times and was frequently carried away by the exquisite beauty of the language and by the poetry of the thoughts. It is in such poetry ...
... die".* * Sri Aurobindo has read a purely spiritual — pantheistic — experience in the lyric and the present author has written at length to substantiate Sri Aurobindo's interpretation (Mother India, August 1956). Coleridge's authority is not definitive. Does not Wordsworth himself declare in general that nobody Page 215 And we know for a fact that the glow-worm incident ...
... outlined in the sapta catuṣṭaya (see the next item) was probably written within a year or two after Sri Aurobindo's arrival in Pondicherry in April 1910. The Sanskrit text was first published in Mother India in January 2008 with transliteration and anEnglish translation entitled “A Chapter on Tantric Perfection”. Saptacatuṣṭayam . These formulas related to parts of the sapta catuṣṭaya —the system ...
... the Sea is rather obscure in places and it would be worthwhile clarifying it. I had put before the poet the obscurities and had received a full detailed explanation. * Mostly published in Mother India, June-September, 1957. Page 328 Unfortunately the letter has been misplaced and as it had been received several decades ago the explanation cannot be clearly remembered. But some ...
... basic orientation. The poet moves among a * Adapted from Nos. 2,3. and 4 of Talks on Poetry delivered to students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and published in Mother India but not yet collected in book-form. 1 P. 446. Page 199 diversity of things but everywhere he gets into living touch with what seems to overpass the limits of life, he is ...
... to make it accord with the ever higher ascension of his own consciousness in Yoga. But Sri Aurobindo was in no hurry to * Written in 1951 to introduce the serialisation of the Letters in Mother India, then a fortnightly from Bombay instead of a monthly review from Pondicherry as at present. Page 170 show it before it reached the intensest spiritual perfection. It was I, on the ...
... scientific thought, the arts and archaeology -- that it is hard to keep up with him. An attractive man with a handsome face, his years rest lightly upon him. Since 1949 he has edited Mother India, a Review of Culture, first a fortnightly, and after a couple of years a monthly. The list of Sethna's publications is quite substantial and includes five volumes of poetry (now all of them ...
... the spirited white horse of his dreams. But this has not banished the smile from his eyes, nor prevented him from tranquilly continuing to fulfil all his many responsibilities as editor of Mother India. Although he is in his 90th year, he has not yet retired from service. Happily too , it did not prevent Amal and Nirodbaran from completing the tremendous labour involved in their detailed ...
... proves that the chronology of ancient India is wrong and should be pushed back hundreds of years; who, though a Parsi by birth, is a Hindu to the core; whose political editorials written in Mother India decades ago can become a textbook for Indian diplomats; who has written so exquisitely about Sri Aurobindo's poetry that there might never be another to equal him in this field; whose poetry ...
... gave it first to Swadhin of the Ashram Press to read — and enjoy it if he could. Evidently he did — and persuaded me to publish it. He took on himself the responsibility of getting it published in Mother India. Much later some friends mooted the idea that the series be brought out in a book form, with some photos. This too happened. Not being a pucca writer, some shortcomings may stand out which the readers ...
... before and had never married. When he returned to Bombay on a visit they were reunited and married. He told her he would give her ten years of married life and then he would return to Pondicherry. Mother India was launched in 1949 and he continued to edit the magazine from Bombay. He and Sehra eventually returned to the Ashram on February 12, 1954 and Sehra passed away on April 24, 1980. Following ...
... scientific thought and history. He was a correspondent with Sri Aurobindo on Savitri while Sri Aurobindo was writing this monumental tome. He was also founder and for half a century, editor of Mother India: A Monthly Review of Culture . Even now he remains in contact with legions of the scholarly and those in literary circles from all around the world. Udar Pinto came to Sri Aurobindo and the ...
... faced with a profound humility coupled with a passionate love of the country's masses, a noble self- Page 100 effacing gesture towards the wide stretch of earth that is visible Mother India, But along with this patriotic worship there is the upward aspiration symbolised by the aeroplane-flight of the ashes. Ultimately the aim is earth's own service, but after attainment of the far ...
... is certainly hiding in it and glimmering out of it. But it belongs to the poetry achieved, not to the poet intending to say no more than that he was too busy with his monthly review of culture, Mother India, and with other occupations to reply to his friend's critical letter in due time. If the poet's intention was this alone, the achieved poetry is undoubtedly insincere. From its first step it betrayed ...
... the time to rest is not now, Amal continues unceasingly this great adventure that is the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. All these three experiences have probably been published in Mother India. 17 August 1991, about 5 p.m. Suddenly a great quiet took possession of the body and a sound was heard coming from far away and surrounding the still body. Then the body's ...
... sunlight on an ocean's depth. I am among the fortunate recipients of some of these wonderful letters - a few of the longer ones have already appeared in print as part of the series published in Mother India. My first letter from Amal is dated May 18th, 1979. It acknowledges receipt of a short poem I had sent. I remember still the shyness I felt when sending those lines to so eminent a writer ...
... was certainly the glorious champion of Indian writing in English and had himself authored innumerable poems and critical studies on a variety of subjects, was editing a highly admired journal, Mother India and teaching English poetry to Indian students. He came in contact with Miss Raine because of his studies in William Blake and his Christological interpretation of Blake's Tyger. Kathleen Raine ...
... finished his meditation on the seventeenth of April he automatically took a piece of paper and without any thought wrote down the following figures and forgot them the next moment. He requests Mother India to publish them in the hope that some numerologist may be able to shed light on them: 0 x 12 x 60 x 100 x 4 x 800 x 9600 x 720 x 84 x 32 x 2 x 0 x 1 x 0 ...
... tapascharya .” × Motiben is at present the oldest Ashramite, 105 years of age. See “Champaklal's Dear Aunt Motiba”, Mother India , Feb. 1995, pp. 119-22. ...
... Nirodbaran, Memorable Moments with the Mother , p. 165. × Mother India , November 1986, pp. 674-75. × The Mother, Notes on the Way , CWM 11 p. 183. ...
... deported to the infamous jail in Port Blair on the Andaman Islands. In the meantime a profound change had taken place in the political extremist Aurobindo Ghose, reverent son of Bharata Mata, Mother India. Having seen with his own eyes that yoga could give power, and wanting power for political purposes, he called for the help of a tantric yogi. The result of this yogi’s instructions was astounding ...
... Cycle (Sri Aurobindo) IHU The Ideal of Human Unity (Sri Aurobindo) LD The Life Divine (Sri Aurobindo) LY Letters on Yoga (Sri Aurobindo) M The Mother (Sri Aurobindo) MI Mother India (periodical) NC Notes sur le chemin (the Mother) OH On Himself (Sri Aurobindo) P&M Prières et Méditations (the Mother) SM The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth (Sri Aurobindo) ...
... Story of Her Life, p. 26. 952 Id., p. 27. 953 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 652. 954 The Mother: Questions and Answers 1954, p. 38. 955 Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., p. 876. 956 Mother India, Jan. 1989, p. 26. For more details about Golconde see Georges Van Vrekhem: Beyond Man, pp. 204 ff. 957 Id., p. 144. 958 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 266. 959 Peter Heehs: Sri ...
... conditions, to consider my will to help the world as condemned to failure.” 1180 1950 was the year war erupted in Korea – the cold war was turning into a hot one. The editor of the Ashram magazine Mother India asked Sri Aurobindo for his assessment, since he intended to write an article on the subject. “The whole affair is as plain as a pike-staff”, answered Sri Aurobindo. “It is the first move of the ...
... through which the Asura aims at world-domination. It is the descent of the Asuric world upon the human to establish its own power on the earth.” 1159 Moreover, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother India occupies a special place among the nations in the development of humanity. Towards this development every “people” (nation or culture) should contribute the essential elements which constitute its ...
... one, being awakened to the psychic being, remains in undisturbed silence and peace. The Golden Light is seen to rush into the whole adhara and into the body and shall transform man. Source: Mother India, March 1977, Page 176 ...
... of a full-blown flower, the supreme reality that lies dormant in all manifests in a truly realised soul—then, one with the Divine, he becomes a pure vessel of His Light and Power. Source: Mother India, March 1953, Page 54 ...
... Introduction IT is in our four capacities that I am related to this book of Dilip Kumar Roy's which I have been asked — or rather privileged — to introduce. As editor of the fortnightly review, Mother India, I had the delight of publishing it for the first time in serial form. I am also a friend of the author: I have known him for the last twenty three years and have valued his friendship from not ...
... instance Mother’s Agenda, 30 June 1962. × See Marc Twain, Saint Joan of Arc , published in Mother India , December 1990. × Jules Michelet, Jeanne d’Arc et autres textes, pp. 37-38. ...
... × The Mother, Words of the Mother III, CWM 15 p. 104. × Mother India, February 1974. × K.D. Sethna, op. cit., p. 120. ...
... Letter of 5 June 1958, in Sri Aurobindo Circle no. 42, 66 × Mother India January 1989, 26 × Letters on Yoga , 402 ...
... I heard that Sri Aurobindo would not come out again but stay in his room. Disappointed, I placed the garlands on the door of his room and turned back. A chapter of our life was over. Source: Mother India, August 1970 & Nov-Dec 1970 ...
... new possibilities, and that in such a manner that all the old logic would become illogical in the presence of the new logic." (The Mother's Talk, "The Supramental Manifestation and World-Change", Mother India, December '56) And on this hopeful note does our First Chapter close. xix It is not from below but from above, not from outside but from inside, that the new phase of human ...
... friend who may indeed be a little partial, but of one of the most eminent judges of mental clarity and deep insight — Krishnaprem —who wrote to me only the other day about Sethna's contributions in Mother India: "He writes brilliantly. I sometimes think that his editorials are the only clear-thinking ones being written in India today. But what a world we live in! Darkness at noon! If we did not know that ...
... been writing. The Mother encouraged me to do so. She has given this message for it: This is the interesting story of how a being discovers the Divine Life . I am giving only outlines in Mother India . But I have to write fourteen volumes—each will be almost hundreds of pages! Please pray for me. I have so much to tell you—all in tune with the Mother's Consciousness. But I wonder when you ...
... enlarged liver as a result of amoebiasis. Every night I pressed the Kashmiri shawl which the Mother had given me against my heart and slept. This sacred shawl has a magnificent background. In Mother India February 21, 1958, pp. 7-8, it is stated: The Mother's diary which comprised the Prayers and Meditations was started two years earlier. Every day at 5 a.m. she used to sit down to meditate ...
... letters and talks to me and my inner and outer state. I have also drawn upon other writers whenever they appealed to me and seemed relevant. Since an outline of it was published as a serial in Mother India: a monthly review of culture, The Story has been recast at several places, and almost rewritten in some. I felt as if I were painting it, and applying a variety of colours to make it truer, richer ...
... scenery, giving the Spiritual Wealth to people of all Nations. The picture was meant to be a vast conception and not restrict itself to a narrow representation. This aspect also stands for Mother India whom the Mother looking into the future, calls "The Guru of the world." When the Mother saw this painting she suggested one or two alterations which I have made. On seeing the final picture ...
... eternal gratitude to the Mother for releasing me from the guardianship of the Matrimandir. I gave my long article under the title An Important Announcement to Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna) the Editor of Mother India—Monthly Review of Culture. It appeared in the Special Issue—15 August 1994: Sri Aurobindo's Birth Anniversary. ...
... Light of the Divine Truth. It is a mantra of Knowledge. The Gayatri mantra is the mantra for bringing the Light of Truth into all the planes of the being. I came across these lines in Mother India—Monthly Review of Culture : The most sacred Mantra of the Rigveda (111.62.10), the Gayatri of Rishi Vishvamitra directs us to the Solar Godhead of Truth—Surya-Savitri. ...
... devotee from Switzerland who was very active in raising funds for the Matrimandir, wrote numerous letters to me, to the Trustees of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, to Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna) the Editor of Mother India and to certain other people concerned, regarding Auroville and my house near the Matrimandir. Few of them answered him—one was Amal. In June 1977 Amal sent me a copy of Carlo's letter dated ...
... trouble you when you are dead, without the possibility of diverting your mind which you can get when you are alive. 16 July 1969 I have received a rather pathetic letter from a reader of Mother India. He writes: "Though I am sincerely trying to follow the Mother's instructions in my life, I have been very much surrounded by difficulties—to such an extent that suicide is the only solution ...
... in that, too, there are a lot of.... I myself wasn't present, so I don't know what Sri Aurobindo said, but I have a kind of feeling.... Just recently they wanted to publish something similar in Mother India 6 —'Conversations' with me noted by A. Luckily it was sent to me first: I Cut EVERYTHING! Such platitudes, my child! Oh, it was disgusting. I said, 'This is impossible. I have NEVER spoken like ...
... then you might have thought me a dry-as-dust thinker and considered me rather unapproachable. Did I tell you what a sadhak once told me? He said: "We read X and Y and Z and others like them in Mother India - and only when we have nothing else to read we read you." I told him: "Well, I have to be thankful for small mercies. And that in whatever circumstances you do read me at all is God's grace ...
... had departed because of an illness, she had made the clear-cut assertion: "There was nothing mortal about Sri Aurobindo" - words uttered when I had read out the short note for the next issue of Mother India, in which I had employed the conventionally turned phrase: "the mortal remains of Sri Aurobindo." In this mind-boggling denial, which would apply just as well to Sri Aurobindo's Page 301 ...
... The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo. When it was read out to Sri Aurobindo he did not demur. In a note scribbled by him apropos of my friend Mendonca's criticism of Savitri and published in Mother India in August 1991 he refers to the same number as being presumed for Savitri. Nor would Savitri have been only longer: it would have been recast whenever necessary in the forge of ...
... faraway unhappiness, the almost fairy-tale expression: 'Lumb, ago' " I am encouraged as a letter-writer by your saying that the opening part of a letter to a friend published in the July Mother India, dated 7.4.1990, helped you a great deal to counteract your ailment. Remember that when 1 appeal to the Divine at the Samadhi it is not merely for protecting you and keeping you going. The appeal ...
... Now I should like to say a few things about the first and the most general of my definitions: "Not only sight but also insight." And I shall take up a line from Sri Aurobindo which 1. See Mother India, October 1987, pp. 636-37. Page 99 initially seems nothing save a vivid seeing. It will be a good opportunity to elucidate genuine poetry's invitation to the reader in diverse ...
... where all formalities drop in the light of a spontaneous inner relationship as of soul to comrade soul. It is the first time a Parsi has responded warmly and happily to my monthly series in Mother India and with such an originality of expression. The word "celebration" brings a gesture both of rejoicing and of honouring - it carries an air of festivity on the one hand and on the other an aura ...
... of flour had come and my wife and her sister made chapartis. I said, "Why not give me a little flour?" They gave it and I made a chapatti on the table where I had been working on an article for Mother India. This table was a big round one and served many purposes. So it had an assortment of bottles or cans on it. I got the brilliant idea to add to my chapatti a drop from whatever stood there. So ...
... help of the Guru and cannot be done without it." (Ibid., p. 1051) Finally, there is Nirodbaran's Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo (Vol. 2, p. 900), which I have already quoted in Mother India some time ago: "Is it only for physical transformation that staying here is necessary? Otherwise sincere sadhana can be done elsewhere as well as here." "I don't suppose the later ...
... point of significance." (9.2.1991) . A Corrective Letter to Amal Kiran Apropos your comments in "Life - Poetry - Yoga" on Sri Aurobindo's poem "Is this the end?" in Mother India (December '92) I have not understood why you have called the last two stanzas a paradox. To me it appears that the poem rises from stanza to stanza until it declares in the last one that ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3) Introduction The "personal letters" which started appearing sixteen years ago in Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, published from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, have proved to be a popular feature. A large number of readers from all over the country and even some from abroad have expressed their gratitude ...
... Satyavan. Satyavan is called __________ 1 Adapted from Nos. 2, 3 and 4 of Talks on Poetry delivered to students of the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. [Published in Mother India and later in the book Sri Aurobindo -The Poet (1970).] Page 158 A wanderer communing with depth and marge. [p. 393] This semi-Wordsworthian turn is a suggestive ...
... The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn, The great creators with wide brows of calm, The massive barrier-breakers of the world ________________ 1 Mostly published in Mother India, June-September 1957. [Here are included only the passages related to Savitri.] Page 98 And wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will, The labourers in the quarries ...
... immobile upon Silence' marge. The common impression is that the very beginning of the universal manifestation is spoken of. According to _____________ 1 [Originally published in Mother India, August and September 1975.] Page 246 Sri Aurobindo's spiritual philosophy, the manifestation, of which earth's history is a part, begins with a stark Inconscience in which ...
... qualified in all the scientific disciplines, he had a multitude of talents and capacities and could cope intellectually with almost any kind of commission. I recall that when my associate editor on Mother India, Soli Albless, was planning to go to a philosophical conference at Brussels and some hitch temporarily arose, the Mother suggested that André should take my friend's paper with him and represent ...
... looked calm and radiant as if nothing in the world troubled her. I sat on the floor, put my head on her feet and received her blessed. I spoke of the editorial I had written for the next issue of Mother India, at that time a fortnightly of Bombay: "The Chinese Dragon." She said: Don't write anything implying war for India. No such thought should be expressed. You can discuss, if you want, ...
... hast willed, and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. This Message is reproduced on the imprint-page of Mother India every month. Mother India's motto from the very start has been: "Great is truth and it shall prevail." We may say that with the manifestation of the Supermind, the supreme dynamic divine plane ...
... in me has let himself stray too far afield apropos of the opening words of your poem. I must be on guard against a similar temptation offered by your "Helen"-lines which I have reserved for the Mother India of February 21, the anniversary of our Divine Mother's birthday. They are liable to set me off on another trail of enchanting quotations starting with Marlowe's never-stale ecstatic confrontation ...
... jokes were even unreportable! (laughter) When editing Nirod's accounts, I submitted a few of Sri Aurobindo's jokes to the Mother for approval and she said: "No, no, you can't publish that in Mother India." Sri Aurobindo and the Mother do not deliberately keep any barriers between themselves and their disciples. I have found the Mother behaving without the slightest sense of the gulf ...
... understood." (laughter) Later Pavitra told me he realised the joke and greatly enjoyed it. Now, what else can the Mother make of one? A big shock came to me when I learnt that Mother India, of which I had been appointed Editor, was to be a semi-political paper. I writing on politics was something unthinkable! I told the Mother: "1 have no grasp of politics, no interest in it." She ...
... consciousness, as though Page 273 once again that Beloved were concretely in front of us and lavishing on us her unforgettable time-transfiguring smile. 21.2.1980 (Mother India, October 2003, pp. 834-36) Page 274 ...
... I knew Nagin very intimately and was often in his room collecting and copying Sri Aurobindo's answers to his questions in the notebooks he used to send to his Guru every night. And my * Mother India, July 1997 . Page 66 constant impression of him was of a spontaneous persistence in the act of both standing back and remembering to offer all one's being to the secret ...
... "How beautiful!" Then I say to myself again, "Some day in the future, Mother and Sri Aurobindo will come and stay here." So again I search for another room where I may see Mother. * Mother India, February 21, 1976. Page 174 I find a third room. This room is not of moon-silver. It is a little golden in colour. The carpet is also as if of gold stuff—very soft, with a ...
... me, and I try to see you but I can't. How can I with my eyes open-unless you do something for me?" She laughed and, tapping my left shoulder, said: "Have some patience." SEHRA ** Mother India , November 21, 1975. Page 184 ...
... an impression of life and have an effect in the world. HUTA A COMMENT BY NOLINI It is self-explanatory. The hostile force is destroyed, but its shadow remains for some time. *Mother India, January 1975. Page 183 ...
... vivid and concrete impression. HUTA A COMMENT BY NOLINI It is a true and very beautiful experience. Naturally, it is Mother's Presence and the living action of Her Force. *Mother India, September 1974. Page 181 ...
... BEFORE PASSING IN A QUEUE THROUGH THE MOTHER'S ROOM "Do not look for me only in my room. I have liberated myself from my human's body. I am now everywhere." SEHRA * Mother India , February 21, 1975. Page 184 ...
... written by Amal to my father, 11 years ago. Here it is.: My dear Doctor, I don't think you ever wrote a prescription so much appreciated by a patient as the cheque of Rs 501 for Mother India to help set right its recent deficiency in that very important member of the Vitamin B group - namely Vitamin BB (Bank Balance). We thank you for your thoughtfulness. I look forward ...
... 237, 245, 252, 261 Monier-Williams, 264, 304, 410 Morgenstierne, Georg, 282 mortars, 319 mortuary practice (see also burial; cremation), 323-5 Mother India, 159 mṛdhrá-vāc, 350 Mujavant, 344 mule, 183 Mundigak, 228, 231, 232, 250 Murghab, see Margos Müller, Max, 164, 188, 286 Mutibas ...
... with The Mother May 1955 Mother, Kishor has given me — with your sanction — the following two letters of yours on women for publication in Mother India. I would certainly like to publish them. Will you please tell me what is to be done about two or three points to which I have drawn attention in the margin? Of course, essentially and originally ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother c. February 1963 Dearest Mother, Will you please approve this for Mother India , March 1963? THE ALL-INDIA LANGUAGE QUESTION The Mother’s Views The only immediate solution is that each province should keep its own language as official language of the State and ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother c. July 1962 Amal, do you want this for Mother India ? It pleases Him to be like that, He is like that. And the secret is simply to be in the “it pleases Him”. Not only to be in what is objective, but also to be in He who objectivises. That is all. 15 c. July ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 4 June 1965 Dearest Mother, May I publish these three pieces in the June Mother India ? The second piece has already been approved for publication by you. WORDS OF THE MOTHER The Lord is always victorious in His way — not in the human way — according to His will, not according ...
... Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 3 March 1966 Dearest Mother, Indra Sen has suggested that we bring out a special issue of Mother India dealing with “The Integral Culture of Man”. He writes: “This is a supreme idea of Sri Aurobindo propounded long ago and visibly becoming dynamic today and needing deeper and larger clarifications ...
... suspenseful silence. If one is wrong, one must know it from you. Will you be kind enough to tell me exactly what you think of the proposals I conveyed to you on Saturday [for a special issue of Mother India ] after a talk between Hari and me? Please don’t tell us, “Do what you like.” Thanks for your message. I thought my message was a sufficient answer. For me “ culture ” (read in French) ...
... Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 11 March 1965 Dearest Mother, I am on the point of giving up hope of receiving from you “Words” for Mother India . Won’t you save the situation by a thrilling last-minute intervention of Grace? Why do you want me to say something? In silence is the greatest power. 11 March 1965 ...
... e with The Mother 3 August 1967 Dearest Mother, Kindly look at what follows. I shall be very thankful if you permit me to publish it in the Mother India of August 15. It will be most appropriate. You can publish both after corrections. These corrections are important and must not be forgotten. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SRI AUROBINDO’S BIRTH ...
... with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 16 August 1967 Dearest Mother, Some days back I wrote to you asking permission for Mother India to approach Suren Mohan for his memoirs. I hope you haven’t forgotten my letter. It is purposely that I did not answer. Because you can ask him if you like — but you must not tell him “Mother ...
... Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 13 August 1967 Dearest Mother, We have the idea to persuade Suren Mohan 23 to write his memoirs for Mother India . They will indeed be valuable. We shall provide him with all facilities — secretarial help, etc. But we must first have your permission for our idea. If we have it, we can go ahead and see whether ...
... with The Mother 18 February 1968 Dearest Mother I am giving here the English translation of some matter which you have approved for the March Mother India . Is it all right? I wish my money to be used exclusively to conquer the causes of our sufferings and miseries. It is for this that we are working here, but not in the artificial manner ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 10 July 1968 Dearest Mother, May I publish the following in this month’s Mother India ? THE MOTHER ON THE ASHRAM AND AUROVILLE What is the difference between the Ashram and Auroville? The Ashram will keep its role as pioneer, inspirer and guide. Auroville will be an ...
... 79. 2 Ibid., p. 34. The use of the third person is characteristic of Sri Aurobindo when speaking of himself. 3 Ref. My article entitled Aswapati in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri in Mother India, February-March 1999. Aswapati's Yoga falls into three parts. First, he is achieving his own spiritual fulfilment as the individual and this is described in the Yoga of the King. ...
... in the afternoon I went to the Mother to inform her about it. She smiled, heaved a sigh of happiness, and said: Ah, one big work is done. Here are Amal's own words, published in the Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, in May 1979, page 276: An appreciative treatment of Savitri in its poetic quality—an elucidation of its thought-content, its imagery-inspiration, its word-craft ...
... mouth and fell out in my hand and on the floor. Thinking—in the dream itself—that this must be a dream, I dreamed that I got up. But in that condition also I discovered that my teeth came * Mother India, February 21,1973. Page 72 loose and I spat out quite a lot of them. I was terribly pained to see such a thing. I really woke up after this and, understanding that the falling ...
... of Rs. 50 for the task. The Mother accepted the assignment. In advance of the thesis, she had received a letter from the student. He said in effect: "My work was not considered up to *Mother India, February 21,1975. Page 66 the mark last year. I have been made to toil at it again. I have done my best. But I don't know my fate. I am a whole-hearted admirer of Sri Aurobindo ...
... The Mother - Past-Present-Future Introduction The writings collected here—with slight revision at times—first appeared in Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, in various issues from December 1973 to February 1976. All of them relate to the Mother. Several bear upon the event of the Mother's passing ...
... human face! Make me a worship-vigil everywhere, Slumber and wakefulness one memory That You are God: O let each pore of me Become a mouth of prayer! * Mother India, November 1974. Page 19 ...
... perfection. Born on February 21,1878, she passed away on November 17,1973. Her Ashram is still full of her though without her bodily presence. But no! we should only say: "without her bodily * Mother India, February 21,1974. Page 1 existence." For, if ever there was a bodily presence which could never be effaced, it was the Mother's. Timeless she was not only in her inmost being ...
... realised that this was not Sri Aurobindo but a demon with a characteristic recorded in Indian tradition: the feet had the position of their toes and heels reversed. The disciple stopped *Mother India, February 21,1974. 1 Based on notes made on the 9th of May 1962. Page 164 himself and the demon vanished. The experience was told to the Mother, who found it significant ...
... when I opened my eyes I found them as after any meditation. I myself had to make a special effort to come into my external being and it was with great difficulty that I could utter a world. *Mother India, February 21,1974. Page 161 Was this advent unexpected? THE MOTHER: Absolutely. But all my greatest experiences have come like that. I am in my usual consciousness and they ...
... pain. And not only the pain but whatever damage there may be in the organ is set right much more easily when the consciousness is taken away from the trouble. Also, I may say that pain * Mother India, January 1975. Page 108 is not always indicative of great damage in the organ. The two are not balanced. The one can be without the other. AMAL: What you have written out for ...
... the Supreme Will came down. You see, this Will does not always intervene. One puts forth consciousness but the Will does not act. It is rarely that the Will descends like this. It is a * Mother India, November 1974. Page 106 direct action from the Highest. Well, it came down with a view to take your Mamma's soul. And your Mamma's soul, instead of making any kind of reaction ...
... and have only the thought to serve the Truth. I hope the men hearing me will not be offended, but it is only women who know how to use the Power that comes from serving the Truth. * Mother India, April 24,1974. Page 171 The laws of man cannot stand before the laws of the Divine and ultimately it is the laws of the Divine that will prevail. The new Consciousness that ...
... One must cling to the Divine within. All these things—harmony in the collective and so on—they are all right, but it is to the Divine within that you have to cling. Reported by SRIMAYI *Mother India, February 21,1975. Page 169 ...
... now. I believe in this process and have accepted it and it is giving good results and unless I complete it, I cannot do any other work, i.e. I do not want to multiply disciples nor can I think of Mother India. When I will get it, it will act in such a way that other people will get it without much trouble. .Even at present I can give something worth giving to others but I do not wish to attempt this ...
... had not wanted it, but circumstances forced him to do it. The Advent also was known as the Mother's magazine. In the beginning, it was published from Madras according to her instructions. Mother India was known as Sri Aurobindo's paper; it was at first published from Bombay and later from Pondicherry. Sri Aurobindo used to give instructions and guidance to Amal Kiran, its editor. After Sri ...
... Aurobindo to K.D. Sethna, a scholar- disciple who first came to the Ashram in December 1927 and, after some decades, settled here for good. Since its appearance on 19 February 1949, he was editor of Mother India where he published “The War behind the War” as the editorial in the issue of 14 May 1949. All his editorials were seen by Sri Aurobindo before publication. ...
... Advent .” A Tamil gentleman had begun the publication of this monthly in Madras, under Mother's guidance. The Mother considered it her journal and that is why she refused to publish it there. ( Mother India was considered Sri Aurobindo's paper.*) ...
... is it light? × Dara first visited the Ashram in June 1926. See Prabhakar's article “Among the not so great” in Mother India , Nov. 1999, p. 1101, and Dara's “Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo” in Bulletin, from August 1998 onwards. Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's letters to Dara's brother Rene and his sister Chinmayee ...
... new way. Prof. Deshpande,— a well acclaimed poet, writer, critic and scientist,—is a professor of physics at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education and also the Associate Editor of Mother India, a monthly review of culture, published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. A major part of The Wager of Ambrosia, a phrase taken from Jnaneshwari, was first serialised in the Ashram periodical ...
... measure of its help to the future of humanity." 5 Let us hope that we shall become aware of the implications of these tasks and rededicate ourselves in carrying them out in the service of Mother India. Page 33 × The date of the Vedic age is controversial, but according to a conservative ...
... full being. We want to prepare the youth to be free from dogmatism, communalism, casteism, divisions. We want our youth to be filled with the free man's worship of the country, of the spirit of Mother India. We want our youth to be soldiers and warriors to fight against ignorance, selfishness, and all that obscures and obstructs our path to a glorious future of humanity's unity and harmony. We want ...
... beauty armour-clad, Mother, giver of victory, India awaits thee, eager to see the gracious form of thine. Listen, O Mother, descend upon earth, make thyself manifest in this land of India. O Mother, India awaits thee... The mass of Indian action is still at the moment proceeding under the impress of the European motive and method and, because there is a spirit within us to which they are foreign ...
... graph was written by Sister Nivedita in her small book Cradle Tales of Hinduism. The reader may be interested in knowing more about its author, an extraordinary woman who devoted her life to Mother India. Sister Nivedita's original name was Margaret Elizabeth Noble. She was born in 1867 in Ireland. Margaret's grand father, John Noble, was one of the Irish fighters for freedom. Her father ...
... p. 279. 38. Ibid ., p. 367. 79. Ibid., pp. 284-85. 39. Ibid., p. 2. 80. LLY, p. 1. 40. Ibid., p. 5. 81. LLY., p. 2. 41. Ibid., p. 7. 82. Mother India, March 1991, p. 143 Page 317 ...
... publisher whose name he may have inadvertently forgotten to mention in the body of the book. My deepest obligation is due to Mr. K.D. Sethna, the renowned Editor of the cultural monthly Mother India and a great poet, savant and authentic exponent of Sri Aurobindo's vision of the future, for agreeing to write a Foreword to this book. How can I adequately express my gratitude to revered ...
... the progress made about the inner consciousness receiving in spite of the inertia that the tamas rose so strongly in order to assert its right to obstruct the progress. 1 Mother India, July 1952, pp. 2-3. Page 5 There is an attempt in my being to support and help the working of the Mothers Force. If it succeeds sufficiently the tamas would hardly ...
... Sri Aurobindo carried on with his disciples over many years; but it is a chapter with a big difference. It is in the new tone and manner of it that its special charm lies, of which the readers of Mother India have already had a foretaste. The matter is also of no less importance, but it gains an extra interest and novelty from this quality. About Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo , the Mother said, "Thanks ...
... corresponding inner progress, moral and spiritual, is all the greater. On February 21, 1949, the Mother's 71st birthday, two new journals were started. A cultural and semi-political fortnightly, Mother India, commenced publication from Bombay. It was edited by K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), a close disciple of Sri Aurobindo and a poet of distinction as well as a brilliant writer with wide intellectual interests ...
... the proceedings five pictures were garlanded with flowers, namely those of (1) the goddessKali, the patron saint of the Bengal revolutionary movement, (2) Bharat Mata, the personification of Mother India, (3) B.G. Tilak and (4) and (5) Khudiram Bose and Profulla Chaki, the two young Bengalis who threw the bomb which killed Mrs. and Miss Kennedy at Muzaffarpur in April, 1908. It was remarked that ...
... heroes of the Indian Freedom Movement. They laid down their precious young lives at the altar of their motherland, Bharatha Mata. The stirring story of one such group of noble patriotic sons of Mother India, which spun round the murder of a British civilian officer, came to be known as 'Ashe Murder Case'. It occupies a place of honor in the history of the Indian Freedom Movement. Robert W ...
... whom God has destined to govern and subdue' was shared by every Englishman in India, said W. S. Seton Kerr, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India (C. S. Ranga Iyer, Father India, Reply to Mother India, p. 90). Had India as a whole been less moderate and more aggressive, then it would doubtless have obstructed the triumph of a handful of Europeans in India. Who was Veerapandyan Kattobamman ...
... great and generous in the life of a country. True patriots feel its presence as a tangible reality. It is this which has been made almost into a divine being and all who love their country call it "Mother India" (Bharat Mata), and it is to her that they daily address a prayer for the welfare of their country.'2 It was this feeling that was at the psychological root of most of the freedom fighters ...
... seen in the light of future developments. Meanwhile I await your answer with regard to the question I have put you. Afterwards I shall write again especially about the stand to be taken by Mother India". Sri Aurobindo25 Page 82 Events in India Immediately after attainment of Independence, India set up a Constituent Assembly with the intention of giving ...
... world by spreading knowledge and beneficence and love and strength and finally when one has been able to satisfy the Mother of the worlds by one's un stinted labour and high service for the good of Mother India, then it will not be amiss to retire from the world into the forest (Vanaprastha), and take to the ascetic life. Otherwise there arises confusion of social values and growing dominance of the wrong ...
... December 1976. [29] At the Feet of the Master , T. Kodanda Rama Rao. [30] "Their Presence: Vast and Unfathomable", Yogananda, Mother India , January 2009, p.61. [31] A few parts of that house now form components of The Studio built over and beside it in 1994-98. Around 1950, Rukmini moved into ...
... reported this prediction to Sri Aurobindo, he simply smiled. There were quite a number of predictions about this time to the same effect. Surendra Mohan Ghose has narrated a similar one published in Mother India which I have already described at some length in the previous chapter. Still, I was not a little surprised to find Sri Aurobindo giving credence to such seemingly wild forecasts. For his view with ...
... stars shooting across a mind More vast than galaxies of the blind Who may touch one day after time's long famine The rare and occult flesh of Savitri and Satyavan. (Mother India, August 1966, p. 76) Page 692 ...
... birthday on 15 August 1942. Sri Aurobindo Circle, the first Annual appearing on 24 April 1945. The Advent, a Quarterly Journal, the first number appearing on 21 February 1944. Mother India, first a fortnightly, later a monthly. The Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (originally 'Bulletin of Physical Education'), a Quarterly in English-French-Hindi ...
... , but in vain. It appeared that the gloomy night of the nation would never see the dawn of freedom — She seemed prone to lose Herself and Her Soul. Then came Sri Aurobindo, the first son of Mother India to call for her unqualified freedom. He awakened the nation by launching a new movement of Passive Resistance, Boycott, Self-arbitration Courts, National Education etc. He reached the heart of the ...
... undivided past and winning a future for remoulding our common destinies. It would also mean the fulfilment of Sri Aurobindo's prophecy - uttered on the grave occasion of Gandhiji's martyrdom - that Mother India would yet "gather around her her sons," now numbering 800 millions, "and weld them into a single national strength in the life of a great and united people". 31 VI The synchronisation ...
... Dawn", had been launched as a symboltownship heralding a revolutionary "Next Future". The Mother's letters, messages and conversations were being regularly published serially in journals like Mother India and the Bulletin, as also separately in book-form and there appeared to be no limit to the range of her experiences and realisations or to the ramifications of her ministry. How was that Infinity ...
... Ascent to the Truth, a group of pilgrims go up a mountain till only the Aspirants reach the summit ready to live the New Life. Again, when asked to identify the central aim of the Ashram journal, Mother India, she had said: "Why and How to live for the Future, in the Future." The entire Auroville conception itself was a stupendous offering to the Future, and her letters and talks during 1967 often revealed ...
... met the pupils and teachers of the Centre of Education, and had a lively and fruitful discussion with them. 4 A special brochure, "A True National Education", was published as a Supplement to Mother India in October 1965 as an "offering to the Commission and the Country". The Mother herself, in her message in the context of the Commission's quest for a national system of education, had written on ...
... *Sethna has advised the original "ten" be replaced by "six". †One of the sadhaks had in a trance seen Anilbaran Roy as a white swan rising. and Anilbaran Roy himself saw a vision of Mother India seated on a lion "as we see in Jagaddhatri figure ... a crown on her head, a sceptre In her fight hand and a book In her left hand. which seemed to me to be the Vedas 16 Page 244 ...
... talks, given in English, were noted down in abbreviated long-hand by K. D. Sethna and afterwards reconstructed. Several of these were first published with the Mother's approval in the monthly Mother India and in the annual Sri Aurobindo Circle of 1949. A larger collection, entitled Words of the Mother: Third Series, Was published in book-form in 1951 and 1966 In the centenary edition of the ...
... the surge of mutual suspicion and hatred, and the enthronement of communal and sub-national egoisms that were alien to the spiritual ideal of oneness, wholeness and integrality, India was the Mother - India was Bharati, Bhavani Bharati 25 - and the Mother was not limited to the head alone, the feet alone, the hands alone, or even the visible body alone. The Mother's ambience of protective love and ...
... included those overhead dimensions. We saw that in the beginning the seeking for beauty _______________________ ¹ For a study of this subject refer to Prof. Gokaka's series in the "Mother India", 1953. Also refer to Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Savitri. Page 92 is not rational, rather it is an impulse, an instinct which seeks satisfaction and enjoyment. It seeks the joy ...
... state of the liberated individual being, living in the Divine and exclusively devoted to His work, the Mother ¹ It has been dealt with in our article "THE MOTHER ON TRANSFORMATION” in the Mother India of August 19, 1950, Page 311 says, "To be immersed at once in Thee and in Thy work....To be no longer a limited individual...to become the infinitude of Thy forces manifesting ...
... bring into focus the essential elements of the Divine Life which, according to Sri Aurobindo, is the ultimate destiny of the evolving being of man. All these essays appeared serially in the Mother India) to the editor of which I am much indebted. April, 1955 RISHABHCHAND Page x ...
... few essays, written later, have also been incorporated. RISHABHCHAND PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Most of these essays were originally published in the Mother India of Bombay, one in Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual , and one in the Advent , all organs devoted to the exposition of Sri Aurobindo’s vision of the future. Here they are reproduced with slight ...
... Mothers Agenda I, 10.22.1960 × Some Talks of Sri Aurobindo, Mother India, May 1974 × Prieres et Meditations, 12.29.1913 ...
... she asked Champaklal, "Which do you prefer?" He replied, "Both are nice, Mother". The caption and citation were also approved. A quotation from Sri Aurobindo's talk which appeared in 'Mother India', May 72, was approved for the Sri Aurobindo's Action journal: "Patriotism satisfies the vital needs of the being. Patriotism is true when it takes count of the spiritual possibilities of the ...
... Anjani Dayanand's request, a long-playing record titled "Loving Homage" was brought out by Sri Aurobindo Society_containing two of my compositions: Sri Aurobindo's Durga-stotra and Invocation to Mother India . We were faced with a problem after we were ready with these two compositions: where were we to record them? There was no recording studio then either in the Ashram or in the town. The only solution ...
... the Congress at Surat was God's will.... We shall not be eager for compromise to avoid trouble and persecution as sufferings are welcome if it be God's will that we should suffer, so that our Mother India would be saved." 48 And of course, Sri Aurobindo was right in the long run. History is with him, not with the Mehtas, Gokhales and Rash Beharis. The Surat split led to the Home Rule movement ...
... a man of God, that his Nationalism was really a new religion. If it was the purpose of religion to take men to God, it was the purpose of the religion of Nationalism to bring men to their Mother, India - Bhavani Bharati or Prabuddha Bharata! To strive for the country, for India, was work for the Divine, and the Divine would give one the necessary strength to fight on, to persevere, even to ...
... the golden husk of day * The reader is referred to Prema Nandakumar's article on 'Sri Aurobindo's Unfinished Plays' in Sri Aurobindo Circle, Nineteenth Number (1963), pp. 31-50. ** Mother India (May 1971) has published yet another of Sri Aurobindo's dramatic fragments. It has no title, and is cast in the form of a conversation between King Esarhaddon and the priest Achab, who between ...
... starlit sky, the sea. It was in 1909 that Sri Aurobindo's translation of Bankim's song, Bande Mataram, appeared in Karmayogin; and years later, in 1941, his translation of Dwijendralal Roy's Mother India was published in the Modern Review. When Sri Aurobindo wrote his series of articles on Bankim in 1893-4, although he made a casual reference to Anandamath, there was no mention of the song itself ...
... issue out of the cave and the temple, adapt itself to new forms, and "lay its hand upon the world".* * Reproduced from Bulletin (August 1970), pp. 144-8. In the January 1967 issue of Mother India. however, the views are given on p. 7 as "A message from the Past to the Future: What Sri Aurobindo said to Lala Lajpat Rai in early 1915". This was immediately after the Madras Congress of December ...
... three storeys to have tea with us. As I rose to introduce him and started speaking in praise of him, he made a gesture to stop me and said, 'We are all children of the Mother.' By 'Mother', he meant Mother India. Then he spoke to us, in a calm contained tone, of our responsibilities to our country. His very silence was inspiring to all. "As long as he was in the political field, he was the sole inspiration ...
... hear about him." Repeated D. K. Roy, "Today millions of Bengali readers are, indeed, very anxious to know something of the past life of Aurobindo. I hope the holy saga of this dedicated votary of Mother India will be appreciated by the youth of Bengal.... I believe that in future, people born in Bengal with a heart will feel joy and satisfaction discussing the life of Aurobindo." He admits feeling ...
... with chiselled profiles, such distinguished air and a flaming look, make us sense that Bengal is awakening, and it is among them that India will find young heroes who will sacrifice themselves for 'Mother India'. ..." Page 31 ...
... Way. He fixed a new principle in the earth's atmosphere. Supermind. The full fullness of evolution. Sri Aurobindo, who had passed his childhood without a mother's love, loved Mother India passionately in his youth, and in his manhood he loved profoundly this planet, Mother Earth. "I am concerned with the earth," Sri Aurobindo wrote in 1932, "not with worlds beyond for their ...
... burden of 'trifles light as air.' Singing its swan song it had disappeared for ever, giving place to the smiling new child: 1893. The youth was soon to pick up its drum of victory and the call of Mother India was to be echoed and re-echoed as it went forth. For this was the year when Swami Vivekananda went to America to take part in the Parliament of Religions at Chicago, in September, and Sri Aurobindo ...
... sampling of some daily accounts' kept by Sri Aurobindo in May-June 1913. Miscellaneous Expenses 1 From an article by Nirodbaran, "Sri Aurobindo's Bazar Account," published in Mother India, November 1977. Sri Aurobindo wrote this account in a notebook he called "Record of Yogic details." The figures are: rupees, annas, paisas. Page 353 Dear reader, rest assured ...
... is one hand-written manuscript of this piece, the writing of which has completely faded away. A transcription made years ago was published in the Page 725 journal Mother India in April 1974. The editors have verified and corrected this transcription using images made by means of infrared photography, scanning and imaging software. Several words in the text ...
... also be taken as a divinely appointed destiny. We shall not be eager for compromise to avoid trouble and persecution, as sufferings are welcome if it be God's will that we should suffer, that our Mother India would be saved. But in the meantime, we are a democratic party. At Pabna, at Dhulia and other places, people wanted a united Congress and it is our duty to try for it if no vital principle is sacrificed ...
... FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION Most of the writings collected in this book come from the pages of the monthly review of culture, published from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry: Mother India, whose editor the author has been for the last thirty-two years. They draw, directly or obliquely, the inspiration of their various life-stances from the spiritual truth set shining ...
... introduction. Both are contained in the chapter, "What came out of an Easter Egg", in my book, Our Light and Delight: Recollections of Life with the Mother, a chapter first published in Mother India before Sehra passed away. What primarily stands forth as an act of super-Grace on the Mother's part is the letter she wrote to Sehra after I As there were some temperamental hitches ...
... to Pondicherry. He lived in the Ashram for the remaining fifty-seven years of his life. Many of his letters to the Mother during this period deal with his work as editor of the monthly journal Mother India . ) Amal, I find Usha a very good and receptive girl and do not approve at all of her going or rather of taking her away against her own will; as for her mother I do not want her here, it ...
... with The Mother 1 January 1955 Mother, Happiest New Year to you! If you don’t have other plans, will you let me publish in this month’s Mother India all that you read and spoke last evening? Part of it, of course, will have to be translated. Before anything can be decided on the subject I must first see the complete report (taken by the ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 1 August 1967 ( The following text was published in the July 1967 issue of Mother India . On the typed sheet sent for approval, the Mother added the final sentence in her own hand. ) THE JEWS AND THE ARABS SOME ANSWERS BY THE MOTHER How is one to explain this age-old enmity ...
... ence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 5 September 1967 Dearest Mother, May I use the following in the September Mother India ? I am accompanying it with an English translation. Will you please check it? (Amal sent both the French original and the English translation. Below only the English is given.) WORDS OF THE ...
... political in it nor anything personal to Vishwa. If you consider it publishable, will you kindly permit me to approach Vishwa to give me either a copy of it or let me have a photostat taken for the Mother India of July? I shall be thankful to have the chance to publish it, following up what has appeared from you in the June issue. I have not written, I have only spoken, and it has been written down ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 1 July 1966 Dearest Mother, I thank you for the Message sent for Mother India . Please see if my English translation will pass. I am giving the French also. Qu’est ce que c’est la Conscience? Quand le Seigneur prend conscience de Lui-même, ça crée le monde. La ...
... The Mother 10 May 1967 Dearest Mother, The following is going round the Ashram as emanating from you. If it is authentic, may I publish it in Mother India ? “4th May 1967 (4-5-67): the Supramental will start working on earth, but the working may start even a little earlier. “I observe this day as the Supramental Manifestation day thus: this ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother March 1966 ( Amal sent to the Mother two proposals for a special issue of Mother India on the theme “The Integral Culture of Man”. She replied: ) If in man the seed of aspiration is watered with true spirituality then he will grow into divinity. March 1966 ...
... the one who revealed to him the source, nay was the source, that swept him off in its deluge. Hearken to what he says about how his music was revealed to him. (The following is reproduced from Mother India June 1998 from Jhumur’s article): Some twenty years ago I heard for the first time the Mother of our Ashram improvising on the organ. In the beginning the music seemed strange to me. It was ...
... most self-effacing men one comes across. With that assurance backing me, I would start this, an eulogy of the great man who wouldn’t be “so great”. Jhumur has already written about him in Mother India (June 1998). She being his niece had a close view of him, yet I would pen my views, also close, with often a clash (physical — in football). In my opinion he was a genius and what is my opinion ...
... political or soap-box meeting (of patriots) somewhere in Andhra Pradesh, Ongole district Again, it was ‘chance’ (seems more like a planned chance) that a young poet read out a poem wherein he addressed Mother India thus: “O Mother, why are you so sad, crestfallen, head bowed — when Sri Aurobindo is there to save you?” etc…. Our young man’s interest was roused. The first buzz of a bee in his bonnet. He thought ...
... translated from Gujarati by Champaklal himself, some by the late Shri Pujalal and some by Sushilaben with the help of Champaklal and Kamalaben. Many of them have appeared in the English monthly Mother India. We present this book with a deep sense of gratitude and reverence to Champaklal for his guidance, kind co-operation and patient hearing. We also offer our sincere thanks to an eminent scholar ...
... that one cannot understand nationalist extremism without acknowledging the place of revivalist Hinduism in it. A corollary is the extremist movement in Bengal where the nation was transformed into Mother India and a whole tradition of Sakti and Tantrik worship underscored the recourse to violent revolutionary methods. I shall be referring to this later. Page 324 I believe that ...
... improved their game greatly, achieving smooth strokes, fine ball control and intense concentration. Against this backdrop, when Amal Kiran's poem "Tennis with the Mother" appeared in Mother India in the year 1954, it is no wonder that I took a special interest in it. I had studied the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayya m in school, so when I saw the title "Tennis with the Mother", Fitzgerald's popular ...
... more and was to be in a wheelchair, he was admitted into the Nursing Home for some time. When I went to meet him, I was surprised to see that he was sitting in his bed and editing the papers of Mother India . When he saw me, he immediately stopped his work and started talking to me. I felt rather guilty that his work suffered due to me. But he told me fondly that he could continue it after I ...
... observed by a few to be blazing forth In the deepest recesses of your noble heart; Others get glimpses of your beatific soul-journey. Your marvellous, marathon labour of editing Mother India for more than half a century, Leaves behind a legacy of luminous literature With glamorous English's fragrance ever permeating. Your magic-pen and style make readers spell-bound ...
... (Correspondence with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 9 September 1963 Mother dearest, May I use this in Mother India ? It is based on what you told S apropos of my kidney stone and our house problem. Of course you may edit the report as you like. WORDS OF THE MOTHER Even when doctors say something is impossible, it ...
... 8 September 1963 Dearest Mother, The following “Words” of yours will go very well as an accompaniment to those on modern art which I am using for the September issue of Mother India . Do you approve of their publication? ( Amal sent both the French original and his English translation. Below only the English is given. ) Why do you want to do the details? They are not at ...
... The Mother 3 August 1965 Dearest Mother, I hope you have seen the letter I sent three days back. I had asked if I could print in the August Mother India your message on J. And, finally, I had reminded you that I had no “Words” yet for the August issue. Block-making will take some time, you know. I said NO. It is quite a private message and ...
... with Amal Kiran) Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 30 April 1965 Mother, Do you think we may use one of these two pictures by D in Mother India ? But which of the two? Both are meant to illustrate the phrase from Savitri: “A mighty guidance leads through all.” Why do you ask me? I find these pictures very poor but I do not want to ...
... are first required. Will you give me a push? All right. Blessings 30 May 1969 ( Amal submitted the following two texts for approval to publish them in the September 1969 issue of Mother India . ) Here sensibleness is indispensable and the integral yoga is based on balance, calm and peace and not on an unhealthy need to suffer. (12 May 1969) ...
... photostat of what you have written on Auroville: “At last a place where one will be able to think only of progressing and transcending oneself” etc. Is this also reserved for the Bulletin —or can Mother India use it? It is reserved. c. February 1968 ...
... Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces 4. A halya Kunti Draupadi Tara Mandodari tatha/ Panchakanya smarenityam mahapataka nashaka/ See my "Riddle of the Pancha Kanya" in Mother India elaborated further in "Panchakanya: Women of Substance" at http://wiow.boloji.com/hinduism/panchkanya/pk01.htm Page 196 occurred on May 29 and October 3 in 7 B.C., tallying ...
... 15 p.m. on August 15 but had gone in because it had started raining. I felt there was something wrong with the information, for it was hardly like the Mother to be frightened by a bit of * Mother India, November and December 1975 Page 110 rain. But I was elated by the fact that after all she had given Darshan. I went to sleep concentrating on her. Round about 6.15 this morning ...
... opened before I could do it. I tried to recall what he had written, but failed. I saw this dream on the same night of 2.9.76 when I saw the “Wonderful Dream” which has been published in the Mother India of November 24 last year. I had given Nirod my accounts of both these dreams but he took no interest in the second dream. So I put aside my account of it. But when I saw in our playground programme ...
... Kali Yuga, when it was enough for a few individuals to gain liberation and the collectivity was too caught in tamas. As we move back towards 33 This early version has been published in Mother India, 1983. 34 Collected Poems, SABCL, Vol. 5, p. 132. the ages of light it is arising again. The Rig Vedic Rishis were at the dawn of this cycle of civilisation and were mainly ...
... absorb all hostile attacks and maintain a steadfastness. 101 98 Questions and Answers , CWM, Vol. 5, p. 231. 99 Savitri , p. 264. '°°Ibid., p. 474. 101 R.Y. Deshpande, Mother India , April 1987, p. 240. Page 511 Sri Aurobindo empowers the gemstone topaz in a unique manner. After she completes her Yoga and reshapes human destiny, Savitri is asked the following ...
... now. I believe in this process and have accepted it and it is giving good results and unless I complete it, I cannot do any other work, i.e. I do not want to multiply disciples nor can I think of Mother India. When I will get it, it will act in such a way that other people will get it without much trouble. Even at present I can give something worth giving to others but I do not wish to attempt this until ...
... human! Mother always helped wherever she saw some possibility. × See Yvonne Artaud's “A Child of the Ashram” in Mother India , November 1974, pp. 840-43. × This second-floor room is between the Mother's room which, since ...
... clay; Failure cannot repress, defeat o'erthrow; Final manuscript of Book Four, Canto One, with dictated revision. For the printed text see Savitri, SABCL, Vol. 29, pp. 353-54. Refer Mother India, May 2000, p. 351. Page 552 ...
... Savitri Vyasa's Savitri R Y Deshpande ********* Publishers' Note The work being presented here had first appeared in Mother India, the monthly review of culture, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry. We are thankful to its editor for serialising it in his periodical. Our thanks are also due to M/S Amravan Group for the ...
... article The Imponderables* It is a very good article. I have taken an off-print also. Your arguments are very sharp and there is a wideness in your thoughts. You must continue to write. * Mother India, February 1995, pp. 135-47 . Page 43 You have written about the work of the Avatar and also emphasised the importance of the instrument in this work. Both are necessary. ...
... the Tapasya, Sadhana — everything in its unique body. It has an extraordinary 15 The Future Poetry, SABCL, Vol. 9, p. .57. 16 Raymond Frank Piper, Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, see Mother India, pp. 38-39, November 1958. 11 Perspectives of Savitri, p. 45. Page 85 power, it is the Truth in all its plenitude that he has brought down here on earth. These are ...
... she resembles me very much. That is true.” × Andre Morisset, Mother's son (23 August 1889-29 March 1982). See Mother India , May 1982, pp. 301-06. ...
... name is not valid or authentic unless supported by my signature. I do not authorise anybody to speak on my behalf. Sd/- 4 March 1983 Nolini Kanta Gupta Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. Mother India , p. 197 April 1983 Who Approved “… if Nirod approves”? Jayantilal Parekh compares the Revised Edition with the earlier editions and says: “The Revised Edition (1993) may be considered ...
... Man-handling of Savitri Of “has left” and “had left” In February 2004 issue of Mother India Richard Hartz writes: Here is an instance, "has left" was emended in 1970 to "had left" in lines in Book Three, Canto Three, which were printed in the following form in The Advent , the 1947 fascicle and the 1950 and 1954 editions: Although the afflicted Nature ...
... compromise as the only ideal worthy of a self-respecting nation”, wrote Sri Aurobindo about himself; now he had to support the colonial power which he once had described as a demon sucking the blood of Mother India. The first time Sri Aurobindo and the Mother made their position public was on 19 September 1940, just after the Battle of Britain, when they sent 500 rupees, then a considerable sum, to the ...
... × 12 Years ,107 × Mother India , November 1988 × Satprem, Mère II, 177 ...
... × P. Heehs, op. cit., 44 × Mother India 1993, 554 × Evening Talks (recorded by A.B. Purani), 29 ...
... × Idem, 255-56 × Mother India , December 1991, 778 × 12 Years , 262 ...
... × Prières et Méditations , 113 × Mother India 1975, 95 × Savitri, 21 × ...
... meditating. With open eyes and not in an inner vision, I saw the Mother sitting on the bed with a glowing divine golden body which looked most concretely physical beyond a shadow of doubt. Source: Mother India, June 1980, Page 358 ...
... × Sujata Nahar, The Mother’s Chronicles III , p. 32. × Mother India, January 1983, p. 37. × Sujata Nahar, id., pp. 273, 270, 271. ...
... × The Mother – Paintings and Drawings, p. 160. × Mother India, January 1983, pp. 36 ff. × Ibid. ...
... undermined his health and was indirectly responsible for his death in May 1964. The Mother followed the evolution of the situation closely, not only because one of her emanations is Bharat Mata, Mother India, but also because her spiritual support was entreated from several sides. Private conversations demonstrate her constant attention to the happenings at the front, where she said she was present ...
... supreme Grace bears, in the midst of all impediments from within and without, the conviction caught in that line of Sri Aurobindo: I, stumbling, clouded, am the Eternal One. 1 Mother India, May 1978, p. 306. Page 107 ...
... P. 6 " ...her luminous smile Kindled to fire the silence of the worlds." Does the word "fire" imply that all leapt to life or that all rose in aspiration? 1 Published in Mother India, January and February 1969 Page 78 Perhaps your first two points will be best clarified against the background of what seems to me the meaning in general of the difficult opening ...
... Pranam. I am sure many of you are familiar with the numerous letters that Sri Aurobindo has written on the abuse and misuse of Pranam committed by the sadhaks and sadhikas. In a recent issue of Mother India there is a letter on this very subject. Instead of Pranam being a spiritual function we made it, to our shame, a dramatic function. Far from absorbing what the Mother was giving us, we tried to ...
... Dante, is titled: "A Mere Manuscript." Strange things have been happening of late to me. I have written of them to two or three friends and at least one letter will appear in a future Mother India relating them. But I mustn't make you wait till then. Let me tell you my story. For some time I was feeling as if the usual radiance that had seemed to pervade my mind and heart had diminished ...
... responsive Vigilance alert to the rhythm of our human cry - serving by their combined or rather fused influences the cause of our sadhana. (5.5.1992) Thank you for your donation to Mother India. A regular generous feeding like that is good for a 43-year-old journal. I am glad my latest letter has proved a source of increasing guidance after each further reading. On my part ...
... it quite lightly. I mean the cataract operation. I have had both my eyes operated on for cataracts -of course, not at the same time - and from the very next day 1 was reading the press-proofs of Mother India with the other non-bandaged eye. People keep frightening one about movement. I was told: "Once somebody shook his head and everything got spoiled. So do take care." Very solemnly I said "Yes" ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 3) 6 I have been much interested by your comment: "Apropos your 'Life - Poetry - Yoga' in the May Mother India , where you have quoted St. Augustine's well-known sentence 'Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee', I remember to have read it originally in German ...
... materialism - a prelude to conventional Christianity returning to power? I wonder whether they can grasp what I was trying to say in my last letter to you which has been published in the April Mother India. Russia is indeed a country religious at heart, but, as far as I can see, the modern enlightened mind among its people is likely to turn towards a non-sectarian spiritual view such as their Indological ...
... thereby a message to the modern world and to Indian culture a fresh validity. That is quite enough for my purpose. I have been reading of late Sri Aurobindo's criticism of Savitri 1 in 'Mother India'. I wish Srsi Aurobindo's comments on literary criticism may be collected in book-form. Who is Rishabh Chand? His exposition is masterly. More when we meet. With kind regards, ...
... is dedicated to the Perfect Form I have spoken of and by this self-giving shares in its blissful beauty. (15.9.1983) As soon as I received your letter I fished out the issue of Mother India in which I had published from the Times Literary Supplement an article just right for soothing your wife's nerves and yours. As the book reviewed in it has been published from the States ...
... have asked for the correct method of meditation and the correct idea or movement on which to meditate. Then you say that you follow my method of meditation as given in the February (1993) issue of Mother India, namely, to concentrate on the Presence of the Mother in the heart and offer all the movements as quietly as possible to the Presence. Then you put the question: "Can it also be done that one ...
... conveyed in your letter of 27.6.93. There is nothing foolish in your wanting letters from me. Your eagerness only shows how much you value my words, my regard for you. I am so glad my writings in Mother India help to clear away whatever depression comes to you. (6.7.1993) You have never been absent from my thoughts. Not only at the Samadhi where you in your wheelchair next to mine are ...
... expression of your helpfulness and your delightful picture and, above all, your deeply moving letter are the best things I have received to start off a happy new year. Thanks for all these gifts. Mother India also appreciates your gesture of assistance to it. Your picture tells me a great deal. First of all, there is the charming resemblance between you and your little cousin, whom you are carrying ...
... 1950, with six poems inscribed in ink in her own hand on the blank spaces. It confirmed the very favourable judgment prompted by three poems she had sent me for publication in the cultural review, Mother India, whose editor I was. My opinion has not changed over all these years. And that has made me wonder all the more how English critics could be completely oblivious of a poet not only genuine but of ...
... But rare verbal slips are a possibility the editors must accept when there is very clear evidence for it, particularly from the standpoint of Sri Aurobindo's consistent yogic teaching. (Mother India, November 1990, pp. 745-54) Page 365 ...
... authentically and completely as possible what for all practical purposes may be designated the Ur-Savitri. (from 'Sri Aurobindo's First Fair Copy of His Earliest Version of Savitri', Mother India, August 1981, pp. 421-27) Page 297 ...
... opportunity to have a dig at Sri Aurobindo who, while fully conversant with all modern moods and techniques, refused to confine himself to them. He used the ______ 1 [Originally published in Mother India, January 1983, pp. 31-34.] Page 333 English language in varied ways to express high spiritual visions and experiences in the framework of a Legend that is a Symbol in the nearly ...
... Page 367 A music goes home to our human concerns with the whisper of an ultimate assurance when Sri Aurobindo says: All can be done if the God-touch is there. [p. 3] (Mother India, January 1992, pp. 9-10) Page 368 ...
... AND DELIGHT Foreword This book took shape originally in response to the Mother's birth-centenary. The first article appeared in the special issue of Mother India dated 21 February 1978. The last was expected to coincide with the issue of January 1979 completing the twelve months of commemoration. But there was so much to tell and the public appreciation ...
... Integral Life Foundation, Waterford CT, 06385, U.S.A. Our Light and Delight: Recollections of Life with the Mother, Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna), 1980, 2003, Clear Ray Trust, Pondicherry Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry Page 369 ...
... semi-political fortnightly I developed an understanding of political ideas, issues and events, but that was due to Sri Aurobindo's inner help for a job he wanted to get done through me. Before Mother India was launched, all concerned with it had a meeting with the Mother. I was expected to write editorials on politics from the point of view of Sri Aurobindo's world-vision. I said to the Mother: "I ...
... keep up the practice of remembering the Mother and offering to her all our movements inner and outer. By the way, the statement you have quoted about the Supermind and 29 February 1956 from Mother India, February 1988, p. 96 - "Now on February 29, late in the evening it came down for good. What Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had worked for during 30 years happened at last" - was made before the ...
... over which you would stride with "fury and fervor" but lifts it to a height Page 28 where Godhead is just the last stage of Man being truly himself. * The two cheques to Mother India which you had to cancel are still wanderers like Demeter searching for the lost Persephone - the latter's role in this case being played by a less gorgeous personage, though one may not go so far ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1) 5 TWO LETTERS TO AN AMERICAN FRIEND I've received two Sister Americas as against your receipt of one Mother India. This is a rather idiotically ingenious way of saying that you have written me two letters while I have sent you one copy of our periodical. But today I am in a somewhat ingeniously idiotic mood and this very ...
... lives all dreams A dense divinity no time-strokes cleave. Page 198 A Reader's Criticism Dear Mr. Sethna, I read your poem "Love and Death" in the Mother India of December 5, 1969. Your first line, "We sign mortality in our marriage-beds" has a fribbling intervention of mind. Marriage is a flame which must have lighted you. The poem is rigged up in 'dense ...
... of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo provided him with an abundance of energy. A clean-shaven man with a handsome face, his years rest lightly upon him. Since 1949 he has been editing Mother India, a Review of Culture, first a fortnightly, and after a couple of years a monthly. The list of Sethna's publications is quite substantial and includes five volumes of poetry (now all of them along ...
... call to doubt the indomitableness of the Mother's spirit in what has been described as her prolonged pleading with her attendants to lift up her disabled limbs and make her walk. Here she * Mother India, January 1974. Page 33 suggests a pitiful picture of helplessness, if not even of absurdity, knowing as we do that on the first occasion when her pleading had been answered she ...
... place. "One can't fix the precise time of his return. It may even be five hundred years later. I can't say anything, since the knowledge has not come to me. I only say things when I get * Mother India, December 1974. Page 104 them. This much I have said: Sri Aurobindo will be the first to have the supramental body. "People keep asking me: 'When Sri Aurobindo comes back in ...
... sitting on Purani's bed. It was introduced to me as "Amar", the name signifying "Immortal". An unusual name—but I never knew its relevance till November 25,1975, my seventy-first birthday. *Mother India, February 21,1976. Page 157 It would seem that this beautiful cat was born on November 26,1926 and got its name from the event that signalised that day, between which and the Day ...
... meaning evaded me. Actually, words as we know them were not uttered, but I could hear within me what was silently conveyed. You added, "I have not left you and never will. Forget ego, * Mother India, December 5, 1973. Page 178 give up self; live and work in harmony and unity for the Divine." Then, opening both Your palms and interlacing Your fingers, You finally said ...
... moving about. At times, of course, when he wants to take rest and repose he comes and lodges here. A remark-able story. A great and very difficult thing Pavitra has done. 25-5-1969 * Mother India, May 1974. Page 170 ...
... spirit, modern in mind but most expressive was her abiding faith in the spiritual greatness of India and the role which India could play in giving new light to mankind. November 18,1973 * Mother India, December 5,1973, from newspaper reports. Page 177 ...
... Keeper of our souls, Of our very lives the Treasury— Those two fragile hands the Safety of our universe. Our inner citadel rests for ever in Thee! MINNIE N. CANTEENWALLA *Mother India, December 5,1973. Page 180 ...
... amazement. She then became invisible but I distinctly heard Her parting words: "I am coming..." HUTA A COMMENT BY NOLINI She showed to you her living presence still continues. * Mother India, November 1974. Page 182 ...
... " Mother is present amongst us and Her work continues. Let us once more dedicate ourselves for Her work of transformation with utmost sincerity and faithfulness. 21-11-1973 * Mother India, December 5,1973. Page 176 ...
... order and may have been scholars in their limited academic fields, but their works do not really bear rigid scrutiny on points of historical methodology. The author has been editor since 1949 of Mother India published from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, and the book under review was published by a follower of Sri Aurobindo. Whether because of this or otherwise, I cannot tell, but Sethna is very obviously a ...
... Expose of the Ancient Vedanta" appears for the first time in print. Part Two "The Basic Teilhard de Chardin and the Modern Religious Intuition" brings together the articles published in Mother India , Monthly Review of Culture, an organ of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, from July 1973 to May 1974. The two parts have as their starting-points either interpretative studies ...
... Mind and Spirit of Our Age Dilip Kumar Roy's Interviews with Five World-Figures The review of Dilip Kumar Roy's Among the Great was first made by Amal Kiran in Mother India edited by him: We present in the following the article fully as it appears in his book The Indian Spirit and the World's Future. The clarity of thought and expression, as well as the grasp ...
... higher planes and this sense of beauty comes only after a great purification. In trying to imagine, Sethna's eyes open to the *This article appeared first in the March 1992 issue of Mother India. - Editors Page 212 magic worlds of beauty. There is a search for purer images. The Mental poet has an inkling of the supramental weather. As a result there is ...
... national and international issues and events; hundreds of letters to friends and admirers dealing with matters spiritual, yogic, literary, personal; editorship of a monthly review of culture Mother India for more than 45 years; and, above all, interpreting Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in a most luminous way as something coming from his full-fraught spirit — any one of these should be sufficient ...
... when it comes to pursuing spiritual journalism to advocate, elaborate, elucidate and to counter criticisms of Sri Aurobindo's pursuits by 7. Amal Kiran, " The Aurobindonian Poet" , Mother India , February 2001, pp. 99-101. Page 84 people endowed with partial knowledge, preoccupied with preconceived notions, and limited ability to see things holistically. I used to think ...
... × The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth , 39 × Mother India , March 1975 × Notes sur le chemin , 268-69 ...
... Nolini Kanta Gupta, Counouma, Dyuman, André, Amrita, Champaklal, Vasudha, Navajata and others that I had received the correct vision. It was nice to read the Mother's talk of 23-6-65 in Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture , special issue of February 1967: Have you heard of Auroville? For a long time, I had a plan of the 'ideal town', but that was during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime, with ...
... Ashram and sat in the corridor upstairs near the room of Pavitra with some people to listen to the music which the Mother was playing on her old organ. The Mother has stated about her music in Mother India , May 1960, p. 42: This music aims at awakening certain profound feelings. To hear it one should make oneself as silent and passive as possible. And if, in the mental silence, a part of the ...
... was as a sublime queen, Hatshepsut. Here is a statement by Medhananda (name given by the Mother), the gentleman from Germany who was in charge of the Sri Aurobindo Library. It appeared in Mother India , June 1958, p. 40: Standing in front of a portrait of Queen Hatshepsut, the Mother told us the following story when she came to the Library to open an exhibition on "Ancient Egypt" in August ...
... The Spirit of Auroville Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna) the Editor of Mother India—Monthly Review of Culture also read the manuscript. He wrote to me on 7.5.74: Dear Huta, I have the feeling that the publication of your booklet by Auroville Press will somehow be prevented by Aurovilians. Perhaps even the page-proofs won't come back. Better to ...
... 1959 My Savitri work with the Mother 21 June 1959 The Mother never failed to send me cards, letters, Messages, the Bulletin and Mother India . She was in constant touch with me outwardly as well as inwardly. I received a card from her dated 21.6.1959. On it I found her own writing, with love and blessings: Never forget that you are not alone. The ...
... conveys something of the form, but it is fairly certain that if there is an eternal form of that eternal beauty it is a thousand times more beautiful than what man had as yet been able to see of it. Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such Beings are as real and more permanently real ...
... the four books mentioned above were published in the mid and late 1940s in several journals associated with the Ashram: Sri Aurobindo Circle , Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual , The Advent and Mother India . Many letters in these journals were revised by Sri Aurobindo before publication. Page 586 By the mid-1940s a significant body of letters had been collected, typed and revised ...
... the four books mentioned above were published in the mid and late 1940s in several journals associated with the Ashram: Sri Aurobindo Circle , Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual , The Advent and Mother India . Many letters in these journals were revised by Sri Aurobindo before publication. By the mid-1940s a significant body of letters had been collected, typed and revised. In 1945 plans were made ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On the Kashmir Problem Now let us come to your article. All you have written up to the X mark against the beginning of a para is very good and needed to be said; but after that there are certain things to which I have to take objection. For instance, ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes To K. M. Munshi [1] K. M. MUNSHI: In the Constituent Assembly there is debate about the use of international numerals with the Hindi language. The whole of South India will not accept Hindi as the national language unless international numerals ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes On the Communist Movement September 19, 1950 Naturally I am in agreement with the views expressed about Communism in the Manifesto, 1 but before associating myself fully with Masani's organisation and his movement I will have to wait and see how ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes To Surendra Mohan Ghosh I have strong objections to your giving up your position as President of the B.P.C.C. But I recognise that there are good reasons for your not wishing to disappoint Jawaharlal, also the great importance of this other work at Dacca ...
... Private Letters to Public Figures and to 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 co ...
... can Page 68 leave it to its own secrecy until the moment of its action. 14 January 1945 What has happened to my letter of request for a Message to grace the Special Number of Mother India of August 15? I have heard nothing from you. I have been trying to get you informed without success about the impossibility of your getting your expected Message from me for the 15th August ...
... disciples in 1930 and 1931 were recorded by a disciple in abbreviated long-hand and later reconstructed and elaborated. Several of them were published in 1949 in two journals of the Ashram, the monthly Mother India and the annual Sri Aurobindo Circle . Twenty-five talks were published under the title Words of the Mother: Third Series in 1951 and in 1966. A new talk, “Difficulties in Yoga”, was included ...
... Other black nesses threaten to overshadow or even engulf mankind, but they too will end as that nightmare has ended. 129 Page 242 December 2, 1946 (From a letter.) Mother India is not a piece of earth; she is a Power, a Godhead, for all nations have such a Devi supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such Beings are as real and more permanently real ...
... GO. This is my final decision. This famous chapter is closed. Page 339 Very good. And everything I did was precisely to bring you to this decision! 23 August 1966 Sweet Mother, India is supposed to be the Guru of the world in order to establish the spiritual life on earth. But, Mother, in order to occupy this high position she must be worthy politically, morally and physically ...
... meaningless words. Anyone who proclaims loudly his opinions on the present situation of the country, must understand that opinions are of no value and cannot in the least Page 162 help Mother India to come out of her difficulties. If you want to be useful, first control yourself and keep silent—silence, silence, silence. It is only in silence that anything great can be done. That was just ...
... will be engraved (in French) to let people passing by know what Auroville is. Page 126 ( Mother files her note on "goodwill" after deciding she would give it for publication in "Mother India." The disciple remarks that it's a pity for the "Bulletin." ) Oh, ( laughing ) I can make you as many as you like! It comes like that—something having fun. The way it comes is amusing too ...
... edited by Haridas Chaudhuri and Frederic Spiegelberg (George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1960) and afterwards included with some enlargement in the author's The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo (Mother India, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1968). Page 148 set up by him of character, incident and plot. This aim and the artistic method employed for achieving it were to be explained ...
... general of the difficult opening passage. One may easily suppose that the description in this passage is of the beginning of the cosmos, the universal evolution from * Published in Mother India, January and February 1969. Page 178 the Inconscient. But I believe that the description is not directly of any such thing, though certainly connected with it. Just as we get ...
... Jesse Roarke. He has a translation of the entire Iliad waiting for an imaginative publisher. 1 Ibid., p. 1 Page 314 Some passages have seen the light in the pages of Mother India. 1 Quite a few of their quantitative units may take some time to go home to the ear accustomed to Sri Aurobindo's handling of the form; but that would be due mostly to Roarke's more frequent use ...
... hearing which is the soul of the art of * Adapted and expanded from an essay written in 1953 to go with a projected volume, Selected Poetry of Sri Aurobindo, and published a little later in Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, Pondicherry. Page 56 poetry. They seem to clip again and again in even the most serious, most symbol-charged compositions the wings of what Bloc calls ...
... insight exposed the smallness of the poet's scope, the book came out under a different caption: A Country Mouse (The printer's hand has tried its tricks with me also in the course of editing Mother India. In reprinting some words of Sri Aurobindo on the spiritual visions of the past, the phrase "Buddhism was only a restatement of Vedanta" was saved at the last minute from appearing with "restaurant" ...
... s from the Supermind they will never have a rationale. 5-8-1975 Page 24 Notes and References 1. "From my reading of Plotinus, it would seem that Monchanin errs (Mother India, December 1974, p. 924) when drawing a distinction between the systems of Plotinus and Spinoza as to the coincidence of the points of departure and arrival in the Eternal, the One. In Plotinus ...
... 29, 1967 ( At the beginning of this conversation, Mother expresses her strong displeasure that her so-called note on Arabs and Israelites was published in "Mother India" under the title "The Jews and the Arabs." Mother protests against the use of the word "Jew," which corresponds to only one Israelite tribe and has taken on a pejorative meaning. ) [See conversation ...
... may see several implications pertaining to our outer existence, the master implication by virtue of this particular pattern remains the Infinite and the Divine. In Sri Aurobindo's flag of Mother India and her spiritual mission we have also the promise of India's unity. For, the genuine indefeasible unity can come only of a sense in all men of the one God within, the God in whom alone are eternal ...
... done, the author of Le Phenomène humain and the Master of the Integral Yoga - a many-sided treatment built up by collecting the present writer's essays on Teilhardism first printed in Mother India has been published under the title: The Spirituality of the Future - A Search apropos of R.C. Zaehner's Study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin, by Associated University Presses ...
... "Your Passing of Sri Aurobindo admirable. Fully approved by Mother. Nothing to change. " (27.12.1950) 2.The Mother's words as conveyed by Yogendra to Soli Albless, Associate Editor of 'Mother India': "I have read Amal's article. It is excellent. Tell him I am extremely satisfied. I would like to have it printed in booklet form. He can get it printed in Bombay. If not, I'll print it here. " ...
... Roy's Interviews with Five World-Figures Dilip Kumar Roy was a famous Bengali musician, poet, novelist and disciple of Sri Aurobindo. Several of his articles appeared in 'Mother India'. (K.D.S. 2004) " AMONG the Great" 1 - a book of conversations packed with pleasure and instruction, a book that is in the short compass of 367 pages and at a trifling expense a most ...
... correspondence column in the Weekly. " As C.R.M. is a gifted writer of considerable popularity and his readers may accept his estimate of Sri Aurobindo, it is necessary that I should voice in Mother India what was originally meant for the Weekly. The Originality of a Master of Yoga C.R.M.'s paragraphs, though appreciative in places and hitting off the truth here and there, seem ...
... SRI AUROBINDO, PARTHASARATHY IYENGAR AND PONDICHERRY A NOTE TOWARDS CLARIFYING THEIR CONNECTION This article by the Editor of Mother India is published at the request of readers who wanted his views on the subject apropos of some views already in print. In the issue of Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research ...
... The Destiny of the Body Foreword As the Editor of Mother India, Monthly Review of Culture, published from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, I was happy to bring out most of the essays that make up this book. It is not always that an editor comes across plentiful evidence of an understanding that grows bright Gazing on many truths. Reading the ...
... venture to say that India is pre-eminently the country of the soul, of the spirit, way beyond any external appearance. And some of us who have come to this blessed country are just humble servants of Mother India, whatever the colour of their skin. I passionately follow the evolution of India, its torturous but undeniable progress and I do believe that India will achieve greatness despite so many formidable ...
... that he had. He wrote hundreds of letters to Sri Aurobindo, and he got answers from Him, on a number of subjects. He also used to be with Sri Aurobindo for many, many years. And if you read Mother India, you'll often find excerpts from Talks With Sri Aurobindo there - they are all recorded by him for he was a participant of those talks. He had a correspondence with Sri Aurobindo, and a part ...
... VIVEKANANDA'S VISITATIONS IN ALIPORE JAIL The following note throws further light on the subject of Vivekananda's visitations to Sri Aurobindo in Alipore jail: It was written by the editor of Mother India , the journal in which these talks first appeared. See also the talk of 25 January 1939. Nirodbaran's report of Sri Aurobindo's statement about his discovery of the Supermind after the pointer ...
... the material is being published for the first time. Parts of the edition were serialised in the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (November 1971 to August 1975) and Mother India (May 1980 to November 1982). ...
... average middle-class family was reluctant to let its family members join in the political movement, because of fear and the uncertainties of the situation. 202'I salute the Mother' (referring to Mother India) and 'God is great', respectively. Page 139 students. The others were mill-hands, labourers and workers. So you can imagine how hungry we all were by the end of the day. I never ...
... He was very monosyllabic. So I couldn't get any impression about the quality, the tone, the timbre of the voice itself. The other day, somebody who had heard His voice long ago had written in Mother India that Sri Aurobindo had a feminine voice. I simply uttered, "Rubbish!" The man didn't know what he was talking about; or perhaps, at that time, Sri Aurobindo had had a feminine voice, which later ...
... Morisset (whom she had married in 1897). It was to these sisters that she had entrusted her son, Andre, who was born in 1898. _________________________ ¹'Some Talks of Sri Aurobindo' in Mother India, May, 1974. Page 38 In 1908, there was divorce from Henri Morisset. Paul Richard was a theologian and a philosopher. He was also a lawyer and a brilliant orator. In Mother's words: ...
... always Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's Force and Presence to see me through. I may clarify that the Mother never wanted anybody to be present during our Savitri work. I was surprised to read in Mother India — Monthly Review of Culture—June 1993—page 400— Nirodbaran's talk on Champaklal . He has stated about Champaklal: He used to be present during the Mother's work with Huta. This is a mistake ...
... towards a hesitating acceptance, but I am certain that I was never certain about it..." (2)Amal Kiran : What happened to my request for a message to grace the special number of [the journal] mother India of August 15? I have heard nothing from you . Sri Aurobindo: I have been trying to get you informed without success about the impossibility of your getting your expected Message from me for ...
... seriously. Recently, in a letter dated 2 April 2000, my friend and colleague Deshpandebhai (R. Y. Deshpande, a professor of Physics in SAICE and the associate editor of the cultural monthly Mother India) requested me to write an article on Savitri. He specified that the article could be about 10000-words long, that is, it could cover eighteen typescript pages in double-spacing. So far ...
... 8. SAH, p. 116. 16. 715. SAH, p. 46 Page 115 17. Ibid., pp. 79, 92. 65. Ibid., p. 57. 18. SAC, pp. 278-79. 66. C-Compl., p. 366. 19. Mother India, March 1991, p. 143. 67. Ibid., p. 664. 20. C-Compl., p. 680. 68. Ibid., p. 309. 21. SAH, p. 414. 69. ZW., p. 354. 22. Ibid., p. 119. 70. Ibid., p. 354 ...
... measure of its help to the future of humanity. 5 Let us hope that we shall become aware of the implications of these tasks and rededicate ourselves in carrying them out in the service of Mother India. Page 471 × Yoga is a comprehensive system of concentration, passive and dynamic, leading to a living contact ...
... Pranam. I am sure many of you are familiar with the numerous letters that Sri Aurobindo has written on the abuse and misuse of Pranam committed by the sadhaks and sadhikas. In a recent issue of Mother India there is a letter on this very subject. Instead of Pranam Instead of Pranam being a spiritual function we made it, to our shame, a dramatic function. Far from absorbing what the Mother was giving ...
... Aurobindo, unbidden and without his seeking it. He was not a yogi at the time; in fact, he knew nothing about yoga then, and was not even interested in it. Nonetheless the experience came. It was as if Mother India was welcoming the return of her son by giving him, unasked, her spiritual treasures for a greater rebirth in him of her ancient glory. This incident illustrates how the unusual and the unexpected ...
... at least, it's an open secret. Amal is supposed to be our ... what shall I say ... our poet, our archaeologist, our scientist, and he had many other feathers in his cap, like being the editor of Mother India. 82 I shall tell you what he did to almost cut short his life. He had gone over to Bombay from here, for a short while. He wrote to Sri Aurobindo in 1938, towards the end of July 83 : ...
... Aurobindo, A Garland of Tributes × For a full exposition of the subject, see Amal Kiran’s article in Mother India, August 1973. × I am astonished to see that I was like that. All that is so far off! ...
... compilation, I found the job not a little complicated and tedious. Fortunately, Albless, a Parsi disciple-friend who Page 47 was living in the Ashram and was Amal’s associate in editing Mother India, took up this work and helped me to publish the book. But he was of a puritan temperament and would not allow any flippant note or the playful swear words of Sri Aurobindo to see the light. Neither ...
... whole concentration was on the deeper and eternal elements of the Hindu religion. This was inspired by what may be called the religion of patriotism. It was made up of, first, the identification of Mother India as a soul; second, the attempt to introduce the Kshatriya element in the Hindu psyche; and third, the conviction that India was destined to be the leader of the human race in the spiritual progress ...
... series of selected letters we have Sri Aurobindo's guidance to a boy in his late teens. Some of them are published for the first time, while most are taken from the pages of the Ashram monthly. Mother India, where they appeared as several series: (1) "My Boyhood under Sri Aurobindo", (2) "Guidance from Sri Aurobindo", (3) "My Sadhana with the Mother", (4) "The Problems of the Integral Yoga". The ...
... even as Agastya had done, in this spade-work. For he was to erect a huge edifice, a Temple dedicated to God. He had once dreamed of a Temple for Bhawani, Bhawani Mandir, where he would install Mother India. Now too he desired the same thing, a Temple for Bhawani, a Temple-city in fact. That needed a solid, firm and immovable foundation. For this .he had to dig into the farthest abyss, to fix, one ...
... even as Agastya had done, in this spade-work. For he was to erect a huge edifice, a Temple dedicated to God. He had once dreamed of a Temple for Bhawani, Bhawani Mandir, where he would install Mother India. Now too he desired the same thing, a Temple for Bhawani, a Temple-city in fact. That needed a solid, firm and immovable foundation. For this he had to dig into the farthest abyss, to fix ...
... " Swadharma " and " Swaraj " and the method adopted was guerilla warfare. After three centuries the same "will to freedom ' burst forth with the cry of " Vande Mataram " with a vision of free Mother India, and satyagraha was the method or the technique. The earlier movement ended in the establishment of the Maratha confederacy falling short of a united India and now the latest movement has given ...
... Numbers published since 1945 on behalf of the Sri Aurobindo Circle, Bombay. The Advent, Quarterly Journal, published since 1944, first from Madras and now from Pondicherry. Mother India. First published as a fortnightly from Bombay (since February 1949), and subsequently converted into a monthly and published from Pondicherry. Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International ...
... for the little I have been able to do for them, amply repays any apparent trouble or misfortune my public activity may have ¹ Ibid., p. 68. ² S.R. Das, "A Reminiscence of Sri Aurobindo', Mother India , Vol. X, NO. 11 (January 1959), p. 51. Page 115 brought upon me. I attribute my escape to no human agency, but first of all to the protection of the Mother of us all who has never ...
... Aurobindo International Centre of Education) with Sri Aurobindo's "Message". Seven more articles written by Sri Aurobindo appear in subsequent issues. First issue of the cultural review Mother India. 1950 Publication in book form of Part One of Savitri. December 5 Mahasamadhi: Sri Aurobindo withdraws from his body. December 9 Sri Aurobindo's body is placed in a vault ...
... charged with an ideal ism that raised politics to the heights of religious fervour and Page VI spirituality. It converted hundreds to a life of dedication to the cause of freedom of Mother India. But over and above his solid contribution to literature and the struggle for freedom, he has given a loftier vision to the modem world — the vision of man's destiny of divine life on earth ...
... saw each other at the Ashram and just exchanged smiles. They were happy moments. Humour and cheer seemed to flow out of him. When my article on Sri Aurobindo's journal "Arya" appeared in "Mother India", he told me that it was interesting and added, "There are things in it I did not know!". I answered that whatever I had written there was gathered from printed material. Then he said, "But I was ...
... trip to Europe and I carried a letter of introduction from Navajata who, I discovered on reaching there, had never met Carlo till then, but was known to him by name due to his association with Mother India of which Carlo was a subscriber and with Sri Aurobindo Society which was a rising star then. In fact, Navajata had assigned me the task of getting Carlo involved in the Society and to have a ...
... meditation used to take place in the Ashram gardens with the Mother on the terrace. Suvrata had written a poem in French on 6 Sep 1945,'Soirs A L'Ashram', which I translated in 1967 and appeared in Mother India, along with the original French. The last stanza of this poem 'Ashram Evenings' is: Page 58 O! the splendour of the evenings in the Ashram gardens! Invisible descends...Joy, Sweetness ...
... help of Kanai. There are others, too, who sacrificed their lives for the Motherland. The Mother: It is not sacrifice which is written on their face, it is joyful offering to the Motherland — to Mother India. And they have proved something, they have proved that adoration of the Motherland is dearer than the life itself. They faced all dangers and fought bravely, whatever the cost. Their psychic beings ...
... the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) with Sri Aurobindo's "Message". Seven more articles written by Sri Aurobindo appear in subsequent issues. First issue of the cultural review Mother India. 1950 — Publication in book form of Part One of Savitri. December 5 Mahasamadhi: Sri Aurobindo withdraws from his body. December 9 Sri Aurobindo's body is placed in ...
... them died. We saw their photos the other day. And they did their duty with utter devotion. One after another, they gave up their lives, humbly, quietly. They were true disciples and patriots of Mother India, courageous, noble, brave and selfless workers. Sri Aurobindo shaped them according to His will, and they gave themselves to Him. It is something exceptional. Mona: Yes, Mother, they had no sense ...
... (Personal Letter) Page 349 On the evening of the 28th, back from our tour in the South, a journey of almost 2,500 km, first we came across a letter from Sethna [the editor of Mother India , an ashram review] ... then, fortunately, the first copy of the Agenda , brought by Jean-Marie in the night. It was very moving. It is so beautiful. Exactly the color of Divine Love. It represents ...
... Barin a corroboration of his intuition that the one thing necessary for the effective propagation of the new revolutionary gospel was a Temple consecrated to the Divine Mother, a Temple invoking Mother India as Bharat Shakti, as Bhavani Bharati. Sri Aurobindo fell in with the idea, which was to find a solitary place somewhere among the hills and erect the proposed temple there and train a band of sannyasins ...
... maintained of Sri Aurobindo's conversations with his disciples at Pondicherry; and yet another record of the talks, the condensed version by Veluri Chidanandam, has been appearing serially in Mother India. Besides, thanks to the dedicated labours of disciples like Nolini Kanta Gupta, K. D. Sethna and Kishore Gandhi, an increasing number of Sri Aurobindo's poems, plays, translations, essays, c ...
... doctor friend, but when one is actually faced with the fact, it makes one aghast. Herewith an extract from Pranab's talk at the Playground, a few days after Mother's departure (this comes from Mother India magazine). There is mentioned in this talk the drug which they were continually giving to Mother. This drug is siquil . Now I entered a pharmacy, asked for Siquil, took the pamphlet and ...
... sight of this wave-tossed wind-vexed mariner at last. And other experiences too crowded upon Sethna day after day, and the Mother told him one day that she wished to shift the journal, Mother India, to Pondicherry from Bombay, to be printed at the Ashram Press - and this of course meant that he should permanently shift his residence too. Attending the Mother's class in the evening, he heard ...
... Secretary. Navajata was the name the Mother gave Keshav Dev Poddar, a prominent Bombay businessman, who had organised the "Sri Aurobindo Circle" at Bombay in 1943 and later launched the fortnightly Mother India with K.D. Sethna as editor. The Mother knew that Navajata was born for her work, and so she had permitted him to wind up his business interests and join the Ashram. Under his intrepid leadership ...
... of Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's writings and pondering over their meaning; and there was also the Mother's personal interest and involvement. The more important papers were duly published in Mother India so as to reach a wider audience and, in 1977, were published in book form as The New Age. The seminars were thus an aspect of life in the Ashram and they had their own role to play in the larger ...
... 1944 Sri Aurobindo Circle (Annual) since 1945 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (formerly Bulletin of Physical Education) (Quarterly) since 1949 Mother India (Monthly since 1951- originally fortnightly) since 1949 Srinvantu (Quarterly) Calcutta, since 1953 World Union (Quarterly, then Monthly, now Quarterly) since 1961 Sri Aurobindo's ...
... The Divine Collaborators Preface In these six short chapters, the first five of which were published in the Advent and the last in Mother India, I have tried to trace the remarkable identity that existed between the thoughts, aspirations and ideals of the Mother and those of Sri Aurobindo before they had know I or even heard of each other. Their first meeting ...
... The exit from the second web. × Sri Aurobindo, Unpublished Letter, Mother India (Sept. 1975) check in Dilip × Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 13, 8.1.72 ...
... his address to various audiences, and hear him deliver lectures. They would see the crowd of villagers come to have a glimpse of him. It was not just that he was a famous Nationalist, a lover of Mother India and its suffering inhabitants, but because the news had spread fast that he was a Yogi, and the villagers came to seek his blessing. In the camp, if one of the boys awoke in the middle of the night ...
... Blessings . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: India I was very much impressed to read in The Illustrated Weekly of India , January 26, 1964, The State of the Nation. There were questions by the Editor and the Mother's answers for which she won the first prize! "If you were asked to sum up, just in one sentence, your vision of India, what would be your answer? India's true destiny... Words of the Mother - I: India Mother has explained regarding diplomacy: If diplomacy could become the instrument of the Truth and Divine Grace, instead of being based on duplicity and falsehood, a big step would be taken towards human unity and harmony . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Human Unity ... The Spirit of Auroville One more message from the Mother about India: India has or rather had the knowledge of the Spirit, but she neglected matter and suffered for it. The West has knowledge of matter but rejected the Spirit and suffers badly for it. An integral education which could, with some variations, be adopted to all nations of the world ...
... are the Mother's words on India: India has become the symbolic representation of all the difficulties of modern mankind. India will be the land of its resurrection—the resurrection to a higher and truer life . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: India The following message the Mother gave in February 1954 about India is quite apt: The future of India is very clear. India is the... the Guru of the world. The future structure of the world depends on India. India is the living soul. India is incarnating the spiritual knowledge in the world. The Government of India ought to recognise the significance of India in this sphere and plan their action accordingly . The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: India ... to be the Silver Jubilee of the Independence of India. It was significant, because for India Sri Aurobindo's birth was the beginning of a New Age. India got her independence on Sri Aurobindo's 75th birthday. About India, Sri Aurobindo has written: The old forms and methods are no longer sufficient for the purpose of the Time Spirit. India can no longer fulfil herself on lines that are too ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India THE MOTHER INVOCATION 15 August 1947 O our Mother, O Soul of India, Mother who hast never forsaken thy children even in the days of darkest depression, even when they turned away from the voice,served other Masters and denied thee, now when they have arisen and the light is on ...
... November Mother’s Agenda 1965 November 10, 1965 ( Mother hands Satprem a brochure, "Spiritual Unity of India," in which quotations from Sri Aurobindo and Mother on the partition of India have been gathered, in particular Mother's declaration: "India must fight until India and Pakistan have once more become ONE." ) It has gone around India. Thousands... made a lot of noise, it has shaken people up a bit. Page 291 But unless outward circumstances COMPEL India to reunite with Pakistan, they won't budge. But it's being prepared. It's being prepared. It's going to break out all at once. The impression is that if India isn't pushed from the outside, isn't forced to re-create this unity, they won't budge. The army is completely... Thousands of copies have been distributed in India. There are even lots of newspapers that have written about it. It has made a lot of noise in the country. But they don't seem—the leaders at least—to have understood at all. The Prime Minister has fully approved. But he is a weak man. They are afraid of the United Nations. Oh, they're afraid of everything. But to the United Nations I have ...
... attacked India [in 1965], I had a sort of very clear intuition that the conflict, if there is to be one, that is to decide the fate of civilization, can only be played out in India ... Yes. Because this is where the last Asura [demon] must symbolically come and die. It isn't being played out anywhere else. 2 ( Mother remains silent ) ( A month later, a disciple sent Mother the following... really and symbolically—that is India. That is where, therefore, the disease of the earth must be focused. It is in the order of things that the last Asura should come and die at the feet of the Mother. But India, supposed to embody the forces of truth, is herself prey to the same Falsehood as is the rest of the earth. The Asura is also Page 187 in India, perhaps more dangerous there as... legend that the first thing that arose from the churning of the Ocean of Life was poison. Nectar came last. The action now looks to be similar. India is going on in the same old way, placating Pakistan and the Musulmans and Russians. "One sentence in the Mother's reply in connection with the Israeli-Arab war seems to me to be very ominous: 'This is not the conflict that will decide the future of our ...
... × See Sri Aurobindo and Mother on India and Her Destiny , p. 13. × In his message of August 15, 1947, on the occasion of India's independence, Sri Aurobindo wrote: "...The old communal division into Hindus and Muslims seems now... × Interestingly, Mother had at first written shall fight , then, in the afternoon, she changed shall into must . × Here is the exact text of the question: "If India, who held (till recently) the hope for humanity in the light of her spiritual... and the triumph of Truth that India is fighting and must fight 1 until India and Pakistan have once more become ONE because that is the truth of their being." September 16, 1965 A member of UNESCO has asked a stupid question, something to this effect: "There was a time when India represented the spiritual consciousness" (or "taught the spiritual consciousness," I don't remember now), "but ...
... flame of renunciation and utter self-sacrifice: but all are the Mother in Her new phase, remoulding, creating. She is pouring Her spirit into the old; She is whirling into life the new. WE IN INDIA FAIL IN ALL THINGS FOR WANT OF SHAKTI. But in India the breath moves slowly, the afflatus is long in coming. India, the ancient mother, is indeed striving to be reborn, striving with agony and tears... THINGS NEEDFUL. We need three things answering to three fundamental laws. I. BHAKTI—THE TEMPLE OF THE MOTHER. We cannot get strength unless we adore the Mother of strength. We will therefore build a temple to the white Bhawani, the mother of strength, the Mother of India ; and we will build it in a place far from the contamination of modern cities and as yet little trodden by man... May we yet remember that it was Kali, who is Bhawani mother of strength, whom Ramkrishna worshipped and with whom he became one. But the destiny of India will not wait on the falterings and failings of individuals; the mother demands that men shall arise to institute her worship and make it universal. TO GET STRENGTH WE MUST ADORE THE MOTHER OF STRENGTH. Strength then and again strength and ...
... especially requested the Mother for Her consent. The Mother had asked Nolini-da to hand over this responsibility to me. And so, I prepared a programme entitled Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on India and Her Future which was conceived to evoke and invoke the soul of India. The core of the programme was composed of extraordinary lines from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother touching upon India's past, present and... offer to the Mother. The Mother returned one portion of this money to me. Page 199 In honour of Sri Aurobindo's centenary, numerous programmes were held throughout India. Several directors of radio stations, film directors, organizers of different schools and colleges, music and dance directors came to Pondicherry to look at the Ashram as it had grown under the Mother's guidance.... two-three days. Udar-da and perhaps Kireet-bhai, if I remember rightly, participated in them as the Mother's emissaries. The Mother had told Udar-da to take me with him to the meetings. I did attend the meetings but I am not so sure today if Kireet-bhai also came with us. I met a lot of well-known people from India in these meetings. I requested the different directors of radio stations to play Sunil-da's ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India THERE are moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters of our being; there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism. The first are periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes destiny;... fallen and imperfect nature. . . . Self-surrender to the divine and infinite Mother, however difficult, remains our effective means and our sole abiding refuge,-self-surrender to her means that our nature must be an instrument in her hands, the soul a child in the arms of the Mother. . . . The change that is effected by the transition from mind to Supermind ...
... groups first marched past with the band as the Mother took the salute, standing against the spiritual map of undivided India, which had been engraved in green cement upon the wall, with the Mother's symbol in brass at its centre. About this map of India the Mother has stated: The map was made after the partition. It is the map of true India in spite of all passing appearances, and it will... will always remain the map of the true India, whatever people may think about it. The Mother, Words of the Mother - I: India After this the Mother withdrew to her room in the Playground. We watched the Ashramites marching. At the end they observed a few minutes of collective concentration with the Mother, who had come out of her room again. Then her special chair and foot-rest were placed... and united India will be there and the Mother will gather around her her sons and weld them into a single national strength in the life of a great and unified people. This message was on the back of the card. On the front was the date, 1 November 1954, above a picture of the Mother's symbol against a silvery-blue square. Beneath this were the words: The spiritual flag of united India. That ...
... thanksgiving.' 1947 August 15: he day of India's Independence synchronising with Sri Aurobindo's birthday. Sri Aurobindo's historic Declaration broadcast by the All-India Radio, Trichinopoly, along with Mother's sigli6cant Invocation to the Soul of India. Mother hoisting the spiritual flag of India on the roof of Sri Aurobindo's room was greeted with cries of... 1954 February: In an interview Mother predicted India's great future, pointing out how her Government should conduct itself to that end. August I5: Mother's declaration of her Indian citizenship and her soul's relations with India. November I: De facto transfer of the French territories to India. Ashram's full participation in the celebrations... 'affirming most strongly' that it was 'Mother's war' 'against the threatened reign of the Asura, the forces of Darkness represented by the Axis Powres. December 2: The Ashram School started. The threat of war coming closer over India, a number of disciples with their families wanted to be under Mother's direct protection. Mother allowed certain relaxations in the ...
... renunciation and utter self-sacrifice : but all are the Mother in Her new phase, remoulding, creating. She is pouring Her spirit into the old; She is whirling into life the new. Page 267 We in India Fail in All Things for Want of Shakti But in India the breath moves slowly, the afflatus is long in coming. India, the ancient Mother, is indeed striving to be reborn, striving with agony... the Mother of Strength Strength then and again strength and yet more strength is the need of our race. But if it is strength we desire, how shall we gain it if we do not adore the Mother of strength? She demands worship not for Her own sake, but in order that She may help us and give Herself to us.... Religion, the Path Natural to the National Mind All great awakenings in India, all... made of her clay and reared by her sun and winds, I am Bhawani Bharati, Mother of India." Then if you ask why we should erect a temple to Bhawani, the Mother, hear Her answer, "Because I have commanded it, and because by making a centre for the future religion you will be furthering the immediate will of the Eternal and storing up merit which will make you strong in this life and great in another ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India SRI AUROBINDO INDIA's nature, her mission, the work that she has to do, her part in the earth's destiny, the peculiar power for which she stands is written there in her past history and is the secret purpose behind her present sufferings and ordeals. A reshaping of the forms of our spirit... and aim at making the future of the race and the future of India. Our ideal is a new birth of humanity into the spirit; our life must be a spiritually inspired effort to create a body of action for that great new birth and creation. A spiritual ideal has always been the characteristic idea and aspiration of India. But the progress of Time and the need of humanity demand a... the firm faith that India must rise and be great and that everything that happened, every difficulty, every. reverse must help and further their end. The trend was upward and the time of decline was over. The morning was at hand and once the light had shown itself, it could never be night again. The dawn would soon be complete and the sun rise over the horizon. The sun of India's destiny would rise ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India The Present Crisis AT PRESENT mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed a choice of its destiny; for a stage has been reached in which the human mind has achieved in certain directions an enormous development while in others it stands arrested and bewildered and can no longer find its way. A structure ...
... whole of India. I have given it. ( Mother hands the text to the disciple .) Supreme Lord, Eternal Truth Let us obey Thee alone and line according to Truth. It is a terrible onrush of Falsehood. It was as though the whole world, everyone were lying, even the most unexpected people-everywhere, everywhere, everywhere. And for me it was a living thing ( Mother makes... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India Messages and Visions THE Victory has come, Thy Victory, O Lord, for which we render to Thee infinite thanks-giving. But now our ardent prayer rises towards Thee. It is with Thy force and by Thy force that the victors have conquered. Grant that they do not forget it in their success and that they keep... nothing, nothing is straight. And then the body asked itself, Where is your falsehood? It looked at itself. And it saw this old story: The Lord is to be called only when the matter is important! ( Mother laughs ) You don't expect to be with Him all the time! Then it got a good rap! .. . It was not aggressive, it looked something like humility-it got a good slap. It was a mad fury of ...
... afford only a few minutes, his daughter spent a longer time with the Mother and the Ashramites. 22 Early in November that year, the President of India, Rajendra Prasad, also visited the Ashram and was with the Mother a long time. Among other things, they discussed the disturbed international situation, and the Mother said: "India must rise to the height of her mission and proclaim the Truth to the... Page 594 can stand up to the Divine Will. This is the Mother's charter of charters, the true Magna Carta. VI It was during 1955 that Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, paid two visits to the Ashram and met the Mother. The first visit was on 16 January, not long after the integration of Pondicherry with India on 1 November 1954. At 11 a.m. when he arrived at the Ashram gate... On The Mother CHAPTER 43 "I want only You" I The year 1954 was a time of all-round progress in the history of the Ashram. The de facto merger of Pondicherry with India on 1 November and the freer two-way traffic resulting therefrom were but the outer recognition of an inner aspiration and of a progressive deeper reality. Sri Aurobindo's and ...
... new thought and new efforts will be made to reach new ends. Amidst these revolutionary changes, India will become free. 32 India was to become free thirty-seven years later. What strange Fire was burning within him? He used to sign all his letters then Kali —the Warrior of the Worlds, the mighty Mother who pokes the world and the hearts because She loves human beings, not in their small virtues... virtues or spotless whiteness, but in the upright Truth of their hearts and a greatness greater than all our humanisms. For the Mother, She who is called the Mother in India, the Shakti, She whom Sri Aurobindo served and venerated in his acts as well as in his works and his silence, is indeed the very Force, the powerful Fire that drives the worlds to their supreme evolutionary achievement. Without Her,... and fulfills it, will be the leader of humanity. 40 He was thinking of India, of course, as long as they do not merely copy European politics, 41 but He was also thinking of France, for which He felt an “attachment... as a second country.” 42 With France's intellectual quality, the quality of her mind, said Mother, the day she is truly touched spiritually, it will be something exceptional ...
... 1 You have said that you have begun to doubt Whether it was the Mother's war and ask me to make you feel again that it is. I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother's war. You should not think of it as a fight for certain nations against others or even for India; it is a struggle for an ideal that has to establish itself on earth in the life of humanity... leader at the time of his tragic ending; as it brought us freedom, it will bring us unity. A free and united India will be there and the Mother will gather around her her sons and _____________________________ 1 Given in answer to a request from the All India Radio, Trichinopoly, on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's death. Page 35 weld them... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother - On India ON THE WAR 1 Some forces are working for the Divine, some are quite anti-divine in their aim and purpose. If the nations or the governments who are blindly the instruments of the divine forces were perfectly pure and divine in their processes and forms of action as well as in the inspiration ...
... version: Mother Durga! Rider on the lion, giver of all strength. Mother, beloved of Shiva! We born from thy parts of Power, we the youth of India, are seated here in thy Temple. Listen, O Mother, descend upon the earth, make thyself manifest in this land of India.... Mother Durga! Giver of force and love and knowledge, terrible art thou in thy own self of might. Mother beautiful and... fitness?" Sri Aurobindo: "Surrender yourself to God and in the name of the Divine Mother get along with the service of India. That is my Diksha to you." 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... and fierce. In the battle of life, in India's battle, we are warriors commissioned by thee; Mother, give to our heart and mind a titan's strength, a titan's energy, to our soul and intelligence a god's character and knowledge.... Mother Durga! India lies low in selfishness and tearfulness and littleness. Make us great, make our efforts great, our hearts vast, make us true to our resolve. May ...
... subject of India’s freedom here. Sri Aurobindo was the first to formulate the need of India’s unconditional freedom. His concern with his motherland and its culture is evident throughout his work, specifically in writings like The Renaissance of India, The Secret of the Veda, Essays on the Gita, Writings in Bengali, articles from Bande Mataram and the Karmayogin, etc. The Mother said that India was... Reading the above quotations from the Mother, does one have to conclude that “the family of the aspiration”, the souls who have descended to undertake the great but demanding job of the transformation, were or are to be found exclusively at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, in Pondicherry, South India? In August 1957, one year after the descent of the Supermind, the Mother said the following: “It is only quite... of the Avatar has been stated explicitly by Sri Aurobindo as well as by the Mother. “I affirm again to you most strongly that this is the Mother’s war”, wrote Sri Aurobindo to an Indian disciple when circumstances were critical. “You should not think of it as a fight for certain nations against others or even for India; it is a struggle for an ideal that has to establish itself on earth in the life ...
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