... 9 March 1941 Which of Sri Aurobindo's books should I start with? The Life Divine . My blessings. 11 March 1941 ( The Mother wrote out the following programme for a study group. ) 1) Prayer (Sri Aurobindo, Mother—grant us your help in our endeavour to understand your teaching.) 2) Reading of Sri Aurobindo's book. 3) A moment of silence. 4) One question can ...
... Thou wilt be upon earth, and the whole earth will rise against Thee. But Thou wilt take the earth in Thy arms and the earth will be transformed. 23 From apparently small beginnings - a study. group, a Review, a modest programme of action - a snowballing movement could be generated, there could result the needed transvaluation of values, the definitive courage to take the quantum leap into ...
... must have been considerable. Besides meetings of the nationalistic and anti-Semitic associations, Thule organized a great variety of activities of its own, for it was after all registered as “Study group of Germanic antiquity”. There were lectures on runes, on German history and prehistory, on the Eddas and the Song of the Nibelungs, on other völkisch subjects accepted and promoted by the Germanenorden ...
... value. If each individual makes a personal effort of perfect sincerity, uprightness and good will, the best conditions for the work will be realised. (Reply to a member of the Auroville study group) Aug, 1966 * Everything can be part of "sadhana"; it depends on the inner attitude. Naturally, if one lets himself be invaded by the Western atmos-rhere, farewell to the sadhana ...
... Messages Words of the Mother - III Messages for Centres and Organisations ( Suggested programme for a study group ) 1) Prayer (Sri Aurobindo, Mother—grant us your help in our endeavour to understand your teaching.) 2) Reading of Sri Aurobindo's book. 3) A moment of silence. 4) One question can be put by whoever wants to put a question ...
... established religions. Indeed Mirra never had any belief in the conventional Gods of the religions, the One-God-on-high; it was the God within that she always sought. One of the members of her study group in Paris was Madame Alexandra David-Neel who became well known as a Tibetologist. In later years she used these words in speaking of the Mother of those early days: 'We spent marvellous evenings ...
... Aurobindo at the Crescent Moon Center, Sedona. Part of these, were on The Life Divine, the magnum opus of Sri Aurobindo. These lectures (July 2-August 9)were followed by Questions and Answers in the study-group. Thanks to the keen interest taken by the hosts, Mrs. Lois and Mr. Nicholas G. Duncan, all the proceedings were tape- ecorded. The contents of this volume are compiled from those records. ...
... the country should be organized, he said it to me. It's there, if one reads his books seriously, one can see it. So I said that things should be so organized that THROUGHOUT India there should be study groups, libraries, lectures, anything whatever, so the whole country should know Sri Aurobindo's thought and will. And the Centenary is an excellent opportunity. They asked me, "What's the way out of this ...
... from 4.30 to 7.00 p.m. or so". 10 Without such canalisation of their energies the children may have gone astray, all the more so because of the large freedom they enjoyed in their Ashram life. Studies, group life, physical culture, the ambience of the elected Presence, the psychic opening stimulated by the Ashram environment, all helped the promotion of a gymnastic fused in the harmony of the Spirit... were, in the external life also of us, who were the old... at the age of 60,1 had to join the playground and do gymnastic drill.... 9 The participants were divided into groups by the Mother, Nolini being in the Blue Group with Udar Pinto as Captain. By bringing the young and old together on the Playground, the Mother aimed at a purposeful communion and transcendence, hinting at the ultimate emergence... also an exciting and an all-absorbing experience. Their arrival immediately brought about an agreeable change in the physiognomy and character of the Ashram, for these children of different age-groups seemed to be ready one and all to open themselves out like the petals of a bud responding to the rays of the morning sun. Everything had to be organised for them - dormitories, classrooms, playgrounds ...
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