... desires. It is built of desires. Sweet Mother, here it is written: "A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get that and also create one's own spiritual air to breathe in and live in it, that is the true condition of progress." How can one get that and also create one's true spiritual atmosphere? Get what? This—it is by... precisely by inner discipline; you can... from outside and become immune to the action of people surrounding you, you create such a spiritual atmosphere that nothing can touch it, and it no longer depends at all on circumstances or on whom you live with or on the conditions you live in, because you are enclosed in your own spiritual atmosphere. And that is how one obtains it: by turning Page 356 one's attention solely to... naturally, if you open all the doors, listen to what people tell you, follow the advice of this one and the inspirations of that one, and are full of desires for outside things, you cannot create a spiritual atmosphere for yourself. You will have an ordinary atmosphere like everybody else. Sweet Mother, here it is written: "Do not be troubled by your surroundings and their opposition. These conditions ...
... metre arises from the fact that different arrangements of sound have different spiritual and emotional values, tend to produce that is to say by virtue of the fixed succession of sounds a fixed spiritual atmosphere & a given type of emotional exaltation & the mere creative power of sound though a material thing is yet near to spirit, is very great; great on the material & ascending in force through the... case effort in this direction will not have been entirely wasted; for spirit, when one gives it a chance, is always stronger than matter & he will be able to impose something of the desired spiritual atmosphere even upon an unsuitable metrical form. But if he seize on the right metre, he has every chance, supposing him poetically empowered, of creating a translation which shall not only be classical... reference to an ideal he never entertained. But the ideal of a translation is something different from either of these. The translator seeks first to place the mind of the reader in the same spiritual atmosphere as the original; he seeks next to produce in him the same emotions & the same kind of poetical delight and aesthetic gratification, and lastly he seeks to convey to him the thought of the poet ...
... would suffuse the Playground with their spiritual atmosphere. The tree looked unbelievably beautiful as if the Mother’s love had increased its life force. Like Krishna who by playing his heart-rending flute under the Kadamba tree gave it his love, the Mother also would stand under that neem tree and permeate humanity with this all-pervading spiritual atmosphere. The Mother had named the Kadamba flower... very beautiful neem tree. When the flowers bloomed on this tree you couldn’t take your eyes off them. Their sweet fragrance filled the whole Playground. The Mother’s name for these flowers was ‘Spiritual atmosphere’. When the Playground was renovated and a new building erected in its place the boarding had to be torn down and this neem tree uprooted. I had the privilege of walking alone with the Mother ...
... The Atmosphere You Create Sweet Mother, here it is written: "A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get that and also create one's own spiritual air to breathe in and live in it, that is the true condition of progress." How can one get that and also create one's true spiritual atmosphere? ... it is by... precisely by inner discipline; you can create your... coming from outside and become immune to the action of people surrounding you, you create such a spiritual atmosphere that nothing can touch it, and it no longer depends at all on circumstances or on whom you live with or on the conditions you live in, because you are enclosed in your own spiritual atmosphere. And that is how one obtains it: by turning one's attention solely to the spiritual life,... naturally, if you open all the doors, listen to what people tell you, follow the advice of this one and the inspirations of that one, and are full of desires for outside things, you cannot create a spiritual atmosphere for yourself. You will have an ordinary atmosphere like everybody else. Source ...
... Abyss that I have to plunge to build a bridge between the two. But that too is necessary for my work and one has to face it. 44 What seems to have happened is something like this: the spiritual atmosphere in the Ashram was being gradually charged with increasing power and purpose during the years 1922-6, and this concentration rose to a high intensity in the weeks following Sri Aurobindo's birthday... to accomplish itself and which is of great importance. 56 It would thus appear that the collective aspiration of a flowing stream of sadhaks could itself create a concentration of spiritual atmosphere conducive to a collective advance in the Yoga although spearheaded by the Guru. The gains for the sadhak, of course, are beyond accountancy, and even beyond recordation. But the poets have made ...
... with the idea of expecting sound values and rhythms he is likely to be disappointed. Disciple : So far as the spiritual atmosphere is concerned he does not require a great musician to produce it. A spiritual person singing a very ordinary song can create a spiritual atmosphere. Sri Aurobindo : That is true. Similar is the case with a poem which may be common-place but a clever elocutionist ...
... Rabindranath Tagore while associating himself with the appeal wrote to us suggesting that the question of the advisability of introducing this European form of material recognition into the more spiritual atmosphere of India might be publicly discussed in our columns. The question is an important one and since it is likely to recur as our political life develops, it is as well to clear the air from the ...
... describe in your letter are out of place. What you have to realize is that your success or failure depends, first and always, on your keeping in the right attitude and in the true psychic and spiritual atmosphere and allowing the Mother's force to act through you and move those whom you approach for this work. Or, if you cannot do that always, you must at least be able to put them into relation with ...
... disastrous for him. He would count it as a victory for his own aberrations and would persist in them without any further restraint with results that might be fatal to him. And the intensity of the spiritual atmosphere... Besides when in this condition he brings about here a state of confusion and perturbation, the one thing to be absolutely avoided in this way of Yoga, which if prolonged would make the Sadhana ...
... never without periods of interruption and fluctuation; but these, if properly treated, can then become periods of assimilation and exhaustion of difficulty rather than denials of sadhana. A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get that and also create one's own spiritual air to breathe in and live in it, that is the true condition of progress. If you can achieve ...
... wholly ignorant confusion about it has been at the root of most of the vital revolts that have spoiled many an individual sadhana here and disturbed the progress of the general inner work and the spiritual atmosphere. The supramental creation, since it is to be a creation upon earth, must be not only an inner change but a physical and external manifestation also. And it is precisely for this part of the ...
... may be necessary to come out of the ordinary life and its unsuitable atmosphere, surroundings and activities. But if the Sangha is well founded on a spiritual basis then there ought to be a spiritual atmosphere there favourable to this kind of mukti , the very work itself being a help and a means toward it and not an obstacle. It is therefore not clear why it should be necessary for him to go out ...
... nothing outwardly and who FELT that we wanted to do something never done before ... I found that extremely interesting. It means he has an opening, an opening above, higher than the ordinary spiritual atmosphere." ...
... that sings, as the man that loves, let His light permeate you and radiate in an ever-increasing and widening happiness, a happiness steadily moving onward as the stars move in heaven. Spiritual atmosphere: light, fluid, clear and transparent and so clean! ...
... * Adapted from Journeys with Ramakrishna by Swami Pradhananda. Page 221 Sri Ramakrishna experienced a special manifestation of divine presence at Brindavan. Praising the spiritual atmosphere there, he once told a devotee: "Did you observe the single-minded love of the gopis for Krishna? The ideal of Brindavan is unique." One such ideal is the traditional belief, popularised by Saint ...
... that the atmosphere created is due to something other than the music—his personality, maybe. NIRODBARAN: Can pure music be spiritual? SRI AUROBINDO: Of course. SATYENDRA: So far as the spiritual atmosphere is concerned, it doesn't require a great musician to bring it. A spiritual person singing some devotional songs can create it. SRI AUROBINDO: That is why I don't grant the contention of the ...
... It was curious that I had no spiritual experience to speak of during my long stay, while my previous short visit had been so strikingly different. Still a month’s quiet sojourn in the spiritual atmosphere, with the daily touch of the Mother, could not have gone in vain. At least, it was a very welcome interlude after a life of bhoga in the West and before a plunge into darkness in my native land ...
... as physical courage, self-confidence, a spirit of independence, resourcefulness and a tender heart. Like his mother, he had an extraordinary memory. His earlier years at home were spent in a spiritual atmosphere of purity and truth. A child's first education is usually at his mother s knee, and Narendra's mother was keen to educate her eldest son well. He would listen with rapt attention as she ...
... mouth with her sari. * We were talking about the beneficial qualities of trees and plants. The leaves of neem are extremely valuable. The Mother called the neem-flower Spiritual Atmosphere. Gangaram-da recounted: 'I once went very far in a jeep to get some good cactus plants. I began having a terrible headache because of the sun and the heat. I came back and told the ...
... resurgent India to sow the seeds of a new, a divine humanity and weave a luminous pattern of life for it. They did not meet to swell the traditional cry of world-renunciation and create a parked-up spiritual atmosphere for preparing a few souls to cross over the dark waters of life and reach the haven of Light beyond. They did not meet to widen the gulf between the secular and the spiritual, or preach a shallow ...
... forces a chance. Secondly, they want to frustrate any such effort. Thirdly, there are some forces in them in whom you find a mixture of two tendencies, something in them wants to get into the, spiritual atmosphere and likes it while another part of their being is opposed to it. Disciple : How does a man open himself to these forces ? Sri Aurobindo : There are various ways : for instance ...
... January. The group meditation and evening sitting were discontinued. When asked about the group meditation, Sri Aurobindo said, "It always requires an individual who can create the necessary spiritual atmosphere. That atmosphere is due to his presence; it cannot be created by effort." One of the reasons for stopping the collective meditation was that "it obliges Sri Aurobindo to descend lower in the ...
... passed several hours in anger and confusion and in search for a direction or duty under the circumstances — in fact the path I should follow for a governmental action in an area of spiritual atmosphere (absolutely disturbed). Lunched and slept. Near waking a vision came : Navajata standing with a big whip in his hand, as a ring leader of a circus where specimens of human forms were ordered ...
... the short-lived but psychically very potent effort at communion known as the Soup ceremony was described: its distant filiations with the Japanese Tea Ceremony, the evocation of a unique spiritual atmosphere in the Reception Room where it was held in the evenings, the mystic phenomenon of sharing and exchange, the rewarding experiences of some of the participating sadhaks, the gradual decline in ...
... China, etc. After seeing your programme last night, I was greatly impressed. I have listened to the best of musicians from both the East and the West but I had never felt before the kind of spiritual atmosphere your programme created last night. It was absolutely unique. That's why I would like to show to the world the kind of work that is being carried out in the Ashram. I would like to spread the ...
... Upanishads is to seize the mind and draw it into a magic circle, to accustom it to the thought of God and aspirations after the Supreme, to bathe it in certain ideas, surround it with a certain spiritual atmosphere; for this purpose it plunges & rolls the mind over & over in an ocean of marvellous sound thro' which Page 169 a certain train of associations goes ever rolling. In other words it ...
... disastrous for him. He would count it as a victory for his own aberrations and would persist in them without any farther restraint with results that might be fatal to him. And the intensity of the spiritual atmosphere here would prevent him from coming back to his normal self. Besides when in this condition he brings about here a state of confusion and perturbation,—the one thing to be absolutely avoided ...
... Page 563 certain agreement of the philosophic idea is quite insufficient. Only two kinds of people can stay here with any true profit; (1) Those who are ready to absorb the spiritual atmosphere and change. (2) Those who, if not yet ready, can still surrender to the influence and prepare slowly till they are ready. It may be that X cannot advance precisely because of this ...
... work becomes a sadhana and a Yoga. What you have to realise is that your success or failure depends, first and always, on your keeping in the right attitude and in the true psychic and spiritual atmosphere and allowing the Mother's force to act through you. Page 242 If I can judge from your letters, you take its support too much for granted and lay the first stress on your own ideas ...
... in surroundings where all was turned and centred towards the one endeavour and, next, when things were ready, to formulate and develop the new life in those surroundings and in this prepared spiritual atmosphere. It might be that, in such a concentration of effort, all the difficulties of the change would present themselves with a concentrated force; for each seeker, carrying in himself the possibilities ...
... which the soul must abandon, the moment their utility has passed and the state of oneness with the Supreme and with all beings has become our normal consciousness and the bliss of that state our spiritual atmosphere. Often, we see this desire of personal salvation overcome by another attraction which also belongs to the higher turn of our nature and which indicates the essential character of the action ...
... feasible, though hardly in the sense of a coup de grace to the old civilization by any likely newcomers. I could stop here. But a long familiarity and a natural affinity with the Rigveda's spiritual atmosphere leads me to take up for a negative comment Parpola's opinion that the god Varuṇa, one of the most important in the Rigveda and the inspirer of some of its most exalted poetry, came into its ...
... The silence that is in the starry sky. The sleep that is among the lonely hills or The light that never was on sea or land. In directly imaged verse, a rare mystical and spiritual atmosphere is reached in his The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep and the very acme of it in Page 140 Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone, There is here ...
... ignorant confusion about it has been at the root of the most of the vital revolts that have spoiled many an individual sadhana here and disturbed the progress of the general inner work and the spiritual atmosphere. The Supramental Creation, since it is to be a creation upon earth, must be not only an inner change, but a physical and external manifestation also. And it is precisely for this part of ...
... is the chief activity in a life along Aurobindonian lines, but the preparation of the psychological and physical being of the young by a special system of education within the permeating spiritual atmosphere of the Ashram-consciousness can be considered a very important mode of building with the minds and bodies of aspirant youth a new illumined future. I believe we can consider Sri Aurobindo ...
... disastrous for him. He would count it as a victory for his own aberrations and would persist in them without any further restraint with results that might be fatal to him. And the intensity of the spiritual atmosphere .... Besides when in this condition he brings about here a state of confusion and perturbation, the one thing to be absolutely avoided in this way of Yoga, which if prolonged would make the ...
... many-sidedness of sense in which poetry is neither crammed nor allowed to disperse in a facile uncontrolled manner. Though pretty ornate, this poetry is highly reflective and throughout there is a spiritual atmosphere. In its calm arrive mysterious sounds whose source is hidden in the depth of silence that upholds everything. Though not quite mantric, the Word unmistakably carries in its gleaming contents ...
... Friendship is a good thing but when tainted with the sex feeling it becomes baneful to the development of sadhana. Sex-governed friendship between two members of the community cannot but lower the spiritual atmosphere of the Ashram. For the benefit of these novices we quote below some of the words of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo concerning this vital issue: (1) "For one who has known love for the Divine ...
... which all is turned and centred towards this one all-important endeavour; and (ii) as and when things get ready, to formulate and develop a new kind of collective spiritual life in the prepared spiritual atmosphere of the Ashram. All other achievements are secondary and incidental: this alone is the real raison d' ê tre of the Ashram founded by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. And to fulfil it the main ...
... Hebrew or even the Zend does not seem to have reached that peak, that absoluteness of the' spiritual tone which seems inherent in the Indian tongue, although those too breathed and grew in a spiritual atmosphere. The later languages, however, Greek or Latin or their modern descendants, have gone still farther from the source, they are much nearer to the earth and are suffused with the smell and effluvia ...
... n still more manifest, widely established and universally practised. Sri Ramakrishna opened this immortalising fount of true spirituality and Vivekananda spread it abroad to create a living spiritual atmosphere. The spiritual leader of the future will fix for ever its concrete and permanent form. Page 229 ...
... Sri Aurobindo : Such things happen very often. These outer things serve as excuses, or rather occasions, for giving the necessary touch, especially in a country like India where the spiritual atmosphere is all around you, and the least touch is sufficient to open a man to it. Disciple : Do you think that it is more easy to get the spiritual life in India than in any other country ? ...
... Hebrew or even the Zend does not seem to have reached that peak, that absoluteness of the spiritual tone which seems inherent in the Indian tongue, although those too breathed and grew in a spiritual atmosphere. The later languages, however, Greek or Latin or their modern descendants, have gone still farther from the source, they are much nearer to the earth and are suffused with the smell and effluvia ...
... I saw in front of the Ashram the same religious atmosphere that exists in front of a temple: a crowd of religious pilgrims, shoe-racks, etc. A totally religious atmosphere. The silent, spiritual atmosphere of former times was no longer there.' Then Dada remained silent for a while after which he added: 'People cannot hold on to the spiritual, probably they do not want to. They want this ...
... At Darshan time, several hundreds could take their meals in the course of less than two hours. Modern in their superlatively efficient organisation as well as intimately Oriental in its spiritual atmosphere, the Ashram kitchen and dining halls were a tribute to the Mother's imagination and eye for detail as also the sadhaks' unstinted sadhana of service. By and by, the Mother's Dairy, Bakery ...
... to "help those gathered around him to realise it". The children of the Ashram, still plastic enough for being moulded into and shaped as the pioneers of the coming race, were exposed to a spiritual atmosphere and the influence of the right teaching and example so as to facilitate their growth towards a supramental future. Page 531 But, on their part the children should develop a resolute ...
... his voice has a spontaneity and concreteness of an experience which is real and constant to him. The reader who would appreciate the poem has to get accustomed to the Master's high and wide spiritual atmosphere. The most outstanding power of Sāvitrī as poetry is its power Page 92 of Truth, its Light of Knowledge. I deliberately refrain from calling it power of "thought", for the ...
... India to sow the seeds of a new, a divine humanity and weave a luminous pattern of life for it. They did not meet to swell the traditional cry of world-renunciation and create a parked-up spiritual atmosphere for preparing a few souls to cross over the dark waters of life and reach the haven of Light beyond. They did not meet to widen the gulf between the secular and the spiritual, or preach a ...
... as open to the Mother as possible, I would try and enrich myself with all my heart and soul. In those days, the artists who came here came primarily for the Ashram, to spend some time in its spiritual atmosphere and to imbibe a little bit of the Presence that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had charged the Pondicherry air with. Presenting their music was not their principal objective. Thus, many of these ...
... saw a garden to the left. A smallish one, but with trees. Particularly a Neem tree, like many other old houses in Pondicherry. Because of its purifying quality Mother named the Neem flower 'Spiritual Atmosphere.' There was another fruit tree, 'Janblon' in local parlance, we call it Black Jamun; it is, I think, Rose Apple tree (Eugenia jambos). To its flower Mother gave the meaning 'Mastery' and explained ...
... conclusion the poem's spiritually philosophical atmosphere combines already with its clarity a mystery projected in either challenging concepts—like "Single and free, yet innumerably living"—or adventurous images—like "O Word gathered into the heart of the Ineffable". At the very close the roles are reversed. We have mystery confronting us and breaking across the philosophical atmosphere with a sheer epiphany... its own direct right. But the challenging concepts and adventurous images of the preceding poetry are not effaced: they play their subsidiary roles and waft to us, like background music, the atmosphere of spiritual philosophy. And the burst of pure sight is mediated, so to speak, by the lines: One with the Eternal, live in his infinity, Drowned in the Absolute, found in the Godhead... ... as language should be when it attempts the revelation of spiritual reality. It can be simple but with a direct stroke and not with an easy-going fluency, or it can be rich but with a density of semi-occult semi-physical vision and not with a loose decorativeness of intellectual or emotional stuff" coupled with pleasing images. The spiritual style simple is in "outbreak of the Godhead in man". Just ...
... efflorescence of personality during the difficult passage from boyhood and girlhood to adolescence and maturity. There was, in the third place, the provision of opportunities in the healthy spiritual Ashram atmosphere for the spontaneous evolution of leadership and responsibility among the pupils. In the fourth place, there were the well-organised Faculties of Arts and Science, and the many academic d... clarity and shining purpose to the Centre of Education - as, indeed, to the Ashram as a whole - was the dual spiritual power of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, their vision of future possibility, and their involvement in the destinies of their disciples individually and as an evolving spiritual community. IV The Ashram was a growing community, and by 1959 the inmates and the children numbered... many other New Year messages, this too had a history of its own. On 5 November 1958, at the time of the meditation in the Playground, the Mother had had the experience of going down into the mental atmosphere of the people around her, to look for the steady small light that should be somewhere in all that mass and would respond to her call; but she was only dragged literally into a sort of deep hole or ...
... May 30, 1909, Sri Aurobindo delivered his historic speech at Uttarpara, from which I have already given you extracts relating to his spiritual experiences in jail. At Uttarpara ten thousand people listened to him in pin-drop silence in a spiritually surcharged atmosphere. He began by contrasting the situation before his arrest with what he now saw. He said: 'It was more than a year ago that I came here... Divine and attain to a complete spiritual consciousness, but also to take all life and all world activity into the scope of this spiritual consciousness and action and to base life on the Spirit and give it a spiritual meaning'. To say therefore that he had shunned the world is to misunderstand the nature and purpose of his Yoga. The vast range and significance of his spiritual force and action which he... ' ...day after day, He showed me His wonders and made me realise the utter truth of the Hindu religion. I had had many doubts before. I was brought up in England amongst foreign ideas and an atmosphere entirely foreign. About many things in Hinduism I had once been inclined to believe that they were imaginations, that there was much of dream in it, much that was delusion and Maya. But now day after ...
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