The issue of incarnation and rebirth can always be slippery. And there has to be no fetish of any sort

Re: The former Incarnations of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother—by Anurag Banerjee
by RY Deshpande on Tue 21 Apr 2009 06:11 AM IST Profile Permanent Link
The issue of incarnation and rebirth can always be slippery. And there are too many factors to be reckoned with. The only way to look at it could be to see to what extent these matters can bring to us another kind of intuition or perception of things that are so occultly deep. Their value could lie in just giving us another angle to look into some of the historical aspects also, but there has to be no fetish of any sort. Otherwise just leave them or take them, and there cannot be any imposition of any kind on anybody. ~ RYD Reply

The Mother: An Advice to Newcomers to the International University ...
7 hours ago by RY Deshpande The attitude of those who want to practise Sri Aurobindo’s integral yoga is quite different. When they have found their psychic being and are united with it, they ask it to turn its gaze towards the physical being in order to act on it ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
The former Incarnations of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother—by Anurag ...
19 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande Sri Aurobindo was once asked by one of his young disciples Nagin Doshi what he and the Mother had been doing in their former births. “Carrying on the evolution” was the answer that he received from his Guru. When asked to elaborate, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Nolini Kanta Gupta’s Perceptions of Poetry
18 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande But there is another dimension to this labour and toil, even to death in the sequence of life, put aphoristically by Sri Aurobindo: “He stung Himself with bliss and called it pain.” To the woe of our heart He does not consent but tells ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race: the Mind of Light and the Yoga of ...
16 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande There are people who express doubts about it; they maintain that both she and Sri Aurobindo had promised it in the here-and-now, at this particular juncture, during this birth of theirs, right today, in our own lifetime, and not in some ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—Sri Aurobindo’s Last Set of Writings ...
13 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande This is absolutely the last of Sri Aurobindo’s articles published in the 24 November 1950 issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education. In it the absolutely last sentence dictated by Sri Aurobindo is the following: “It is in this series ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Towards the Intermediate Race—Sri Aurobindo’s Last Set of Writings ...
12 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande This article appeared in the August 1950 issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education and explains what exactly Sri Aurobindo meant by the phrase ‘Mind of Light’. It is relatively a new coinage and has a specific connotation in his yogic ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Towards the Intermediate Race—Sri Aurobindo’s Last Set of Writings ...
11 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande The arrival of the Mind of Light at the evolutionary stage marks a definite transition from the life in Ignorance with all its attendant turmoil and confusion to the great life governed by it, the life of a new humanity. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—Sri Aurobindo’s Last Set of Writings ...
10 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande The following article by Sri Aurobindo, fifth in the series of eight, was published in the February 1950 issue of the Bulletin of Physical Education and presents the impact the descent of the creative power that is the Supermind or the ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Early Writings: Record of Yoga ...
9 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande Belonging to the writings of this early period, we include here a relevant record Sri Aurobindo made in his jottings of yogic experiences, dated March 1914. These jottings or records were more for his personal use than for publication. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Early Writings of Sri Aurobindo ...
8 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande The Spirit manifest as Intelligence is the basis of the world. Spirit as existence, sat, is one; as Intelligence it multiplies itself without ceasing to be one. We see that tree and say, "Here is a material thing"; but if we ask how the ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Early Writings of Sri Aurobindo ...
7 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande The disservice which scientific materialism is unintentionally doing the world is to encourage a return to this condition; the suddenly awakened masses of men, unaccustomed to deal intellectually with ideas, able to grasp the broad ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Early Writings of Sri Aurobindo ...
6 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande The theme of evolution was central to Sri Aurobindo’s thought almost throughout his life. We have a set of essays written by him in 1909 which first came out in the weekly review Karmayogin edited by him when he was in Calcutta; ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Sri Aurobindo’s Prose Style—by Goutam Ghosal
5 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande Sri Aurobindo’s Prose Style by Goutam Ghosal is one of the professional studies which examines the characteristics and nuances as much as influences and traditions given to the creation of newer possibilities of expression. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Remembering my Uncle Dr Mangesh V Nadkarni—By Shodhan B Nadkarni
4 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande Dr Mangesh Nadkarni was a master of the English language and spoke brilliantly on Savitri, a 24000-verse epic poem by Sri Aurobindo. The poem recounts the saga of human victory over ignorance and the conquest of death. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Chapman’s Homer—Keats’s Sonnet
3 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande Sri Aurobindo says the following about Keats in The Future Poetry: “Keats is the first entire artist in word and rhythm in English poetry,—not grandiose, classical and derived like Milton, but direct and original in his artistry, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Datta—by Anurag Banerjee
2 Apr 2009 by RY Deshpande Sixty years ago the first disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother from the West breathed her last in the Ashram. Her life has been associated with the Mother’s since the time she was known as, not the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Book of Benediction: the Descent ...
31 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande Sri Aurobindo says: the first word of his Yoga is surrender; the last word is also surrender. In between these two happy surrenders it is its power that grows when is kindled the yajna to make our will transcendentally genuine. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Rijuta—by Anurag Banerjee
29 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande She came to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1956 with her husband Michael and when she met the Mother, she caught ‘something’ and she declared to her husband that she would not return. Eventually she became the Mother’s secretary and also ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Theme of Evolution in Savitri [10]
29 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande Sri Aurobindo was writing this in 1950, and the Mother was engaged with the operative details, intensely more so during the last decade of her presence in the physical here. The Yogi saw the obscure mind of the body, of the very cells, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Theme of Evolution in Savitri [9]
28 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande Sri Aurobindo saw the necessity of this Intermediate Race and yogically worked out the methodology for its appearance in the evolutionary process. This is a race of beings who will be governed by what he called the Mind of Light, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Theme of Evolution in Savitri [4]
23 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande In The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo explains these occult-metaphysical aspects as follows: “The complete separation can take place only when the stage of Inconscience has been reached and our world of manifold Ignorance arises out of that ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—the Supramental Change is a Thing ...
19 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande While this is the grand finale of the evolutionary scheme on its way to supermanhood, the actual modus operandi to effect it as a reality on earth, to look into details in the context of the existential parameters, is the pressing ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Towards the Intermediate Race—Evolution: A Metaphysical Discussion
17 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande If material creation is a manifestation of the Divine, then there is a possibility of it being Divine in every mode of activity. Presently it is not, but it can. That is the compelling or true sense of evolution. From darkness to light, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
This Author must have been from Cambridge
7 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande In this connection let me briefly narrate an interesting research a friend of mine carried out recently. She was conducting a class in Cambridge when she wanted to find out the kind of responses she would get from students when ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Foretelling the Future: from the Evening Talks Recorded by AB Purani
3 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande Disciple: There are two ways of foretelling the future: the astrological calculations which are based upon the general lines of character and happenings indicated by the stars, another is that of clairvoyance in which the image of the ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
The Events that Sway the World—Sri Aurobindo
3 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande The events that sway the world are often the results of trivial circumstances. When immense changes and irresistible movements are in progress, it is astonishing how a single event, often a chance event, will lead to a train of ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
The Mother on Herself
2 Mar 2009 by RY Deshpande When and how did I become conscious of a mission which I was to fulfill on earth? And when and how I met Sri Aurobindo? These two questions you have asked me and I promised a short reply. For the knowledge of the mission, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Insights into Sri Aurobindo’s Early Yogic Life—by Auroman
28 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande This article is an attempt to demonstrate how Sri Aurobindo’s spiritual realizations could be presented through a non-devotional approach by developing a proper metaphysical background. For the sake of brevity, this article will not ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
“What Thou Willest, What Thou Willest”
24 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande If we have to mark a few important stages in the process of physical transformation, here are these: Sri Aurobindo’s descent into death, 1950; supramental manifestation in the earth’s subtle physical, 1956; realization of the surhomme ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Instruments of Higher Knowledge
22 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande In Sanjnana there is an action of the sense-mind which is superior to the particular action of the senses and is aware of things even without imaging them in forms of sight, sound, contact, but which also as a sort of subordinate ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
21 February 2009 Darshan Blessings
20 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande Live always as if you were under the very eye of the Supreme and of the Divine Mother. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence. Sri Aurobindo.Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Some Dates Connected with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
20 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande 15 August 1872 Thursday: Sri Aurobindo’s Birthday; 21 February 1878 Thursday: The Mother’s Birthday; 4 April 1910 Monday: Sri Aurobindo’s Arrival at Pondicherry; 29 March 1914 Sunday: The First Meeting of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo …Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
A Question of Hagiography and Biography
15 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande Related to Rationalism and Devotion or, to put it a little differently, Reason and Faith is in a way the question of Biography and Hagiography; in fact to stretch the argument from a certain point of view, they are in that context just ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
India pays back the great Cultural debt it owes to Europe—by AB Purani
14 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande It augurs well for the cultural unification of mankind that India has begun to pay back the great cultural debt it owes to Europe by her new creations in the English language. It was therefore a phenomenon of very great significance ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
The Statue of Responsibility to Oversee the Freedom of Expression
11 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande During his talks with the disciples Sri Aurobindo observed how “one nation after another was hypnotised by Hitler's asuric māyā and submitted to his diabolical charm, how the intellectuals did not raise any voice against the Hitlerian ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Sri Aurobindo’s Collected Poems—by Sunayana Panda
10 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande Poetry is truly a complete expression of beauty because it combines many different kinds of beauty: the beauty of sounds, of images, of thought, of emotions and of expression. And yet, unfortunately, the word “poetry” conjures up only ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Beyond Religion: Perspective of the Realistic Adwaita—by Ranajit ...
9 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande The new spirituality as conceived in the Realistic Adwaita is not based on the notion of a far-off God. The Transcendence here is a thing of living experience. The divinized creature will be in constant union with the Supreme. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
A Set of Rules Described by the Mother and the Lives of Sri Aurobindo
8 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande ….the sole aim of life is to dedicate oneself to the divine realization. You must first (you may deceive yourself, but that doesn't make any difference), first be convinced that this is what you want and you want this alone—primo. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Beyond Religion: Perspective of the Realistic Adwaita—by Ranajit ...
7 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande In the monotheistic religious mind nothing could be more false and reprehensible than polytheism. The religion of the Hindus has often been vilified by the Western religious mind which finds that the idea of a superior one god is the ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Udar: One of Mother's Children—Edited by Gauri Pinto
7 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande This book commemorates the birth centenary of Laurence Pinto (1907–2001), who was given the name Udar by Sri Aurobindo in 1938. Printed on art paper, it is a collection of anecdotes, facts, stories, and over 400 photographs that reveal ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Hail to Angiras—by Raman Reddy
3 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande …Now the first question I would like to ask Angiras is, “What was the necessity of coming down to such a personal level of argument? Why take names and target particular persons?” I can anticipate the knee-jerk reaction to my question, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
André Morisset, the Mother’s Son—by Anurag Banerjee (Part F)
2 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande It is often debated as how well did André realize the importance of the Work, that is, the Yoga of Transformation, the Mother was carrying on in her body. Some people claim that what he understood was next to nothing, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
André Morisset, the Mother’s Son—by Anurag Banerjee (Part E)
2 Feb 2009 by RY Deshpande In 1956, André established the Sri Aurobindo Study Centre; this organization sent teaching materials, class textbooks and other objects to the Ashram School. However, this organization did not increase in size. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
André Morisset, the Mother’s Son—by Anurag Banerjee (Part D)
31 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande The best way of preparing for the descent [of the Supramental] is the spreading of Sri Aurobindo’s teachings. But they have to be correctly understood, because misunderstandings would do more harm than good. If the Master’s message is ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
André Morisset, the Mother’s Son—by Anurag Banerjee (Part C)
30 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande In 1949, an opportunity arose for André to visit India and meet his mother after a gap of thirty-three years. “It was his first opportunity to arrange a business trip,” informs Janine, who also adds that before 1945, there were “no ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
André Morisset, the Mother’s Son—by Anurag Banerjee (Part B)
29 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande At the age of eighteen, André joined the army in October 1916 as an artillery officer. Meanwhile the First World War had started (in 1914) and in March 1916, the Richards left for Japan where they arrived on 18th May. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Signs of Spiritual Aptitude—Presented by Auroman
27 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande In the Evening Talks, Sri Aurobindo observes that one can determine the spiritual aptitude of a person from the "signs in the eyes and the face". In several places in the Gospel, Ramakrishna also makes notes of such signs. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Spirituality of the Future given to us by Sri Aurobindo
22 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande Connected with the ancient Sankhya System is the all-encompassing aspect of physical transformation as envisioned by the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. If the present material formation given by it has the origin in the ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
A Summary of the Sankhya Discussions
20 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande I’m compiling here excerpts of all the articles dealing with the Sankyha theory of material creation, articles posted during the last couple of weeks on the Mirror of Tomorrow. It is expected that a complete unified picture of the theme ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
The Ideal we must Keep before Us
19 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande There is a higher state in which the consciousness, though it still remains principally mental or partially mental in its functioning, is already open to higher regions in an aspiration for the spiritual life, and open to the ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Two Book Reviews of Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography by Peter Heehs
19 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande …In a preface, Heehs quotes L. Gordon's characterization of previous Aurobindo biographies as "hagiographies," that is, as attempts to "read back the holy man into the earlier stages of his career" (p. ix), and distinguishes these from ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
The Symbol Dawn as Introduced by the Mother
18 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande Sri Aurobindo is giving all the process of rebuilding the Consciousness into the Unconscious. He calls the separation “the fall”: that is truly a fall of the Consciousness in the Unconscious. And now he describes how the message sent ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
The Occult-Spiritual Alchemy in the Context of the Sankhya Theory
14 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande In Savitri there is a striking phrase, “the sense-formed ear” given to us in the context of what Aswapati listens to in an unusual situation. His daughter Savitri has grown up into ripened maidenhood and it is his duty, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
"I am Here, I am Here": Sri Aurobindo—by Nirodbaran
13 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande When all over the world there was a growing eagerness to know more and more about Sri Aurobindo and the interest in his work was on the increase, he suddenly disappeared from the earth-scene. Superficially, this is a terrible irony of ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
God Departs or Passing Away of Sri Aurobindo—by Nirodbaran
10 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande In the late forties we began to notice a change coming over Sri Aurobindo. He was becoming more and more silent, aloof, as if deeply preoccupied with some problem and the talks were less and less frequent till they ceased almost ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Two Powers: Aspiration and Grace—by Sri Aurobindo
10 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande If you call for the Truth and yet something in you chooses what is false, ignorant and undivine or even simply is unwilling to reject it altogether, then always you will be open to attack and the Grace will recede from you. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
A Call from Pondicherry—by Prabhat Sanyal
9 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande On the evening of the 29th November 1950, as I was resting after a heavy day, a servant brought me a telegram which read: "FLY—URGENT—MOTHER". Never could I have imagined the amount of meaning there was in those few words. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
A Few Comments Apropos of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo—by Auroman
9 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande ...And here is the famous account about the disciples of Sri Aurobindo: “As a rule people spent most of their time in what Sri Aurobindo called the lower consciousness, caught up in the play of ordinary thought and emotion. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
It is a Spiritual Battle Inward and Outward—A Letter from Sri ...
8 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande …here there is a work to be done, a Truth to be established against which immense forces are arranged, invisible forces which can use visible things and persons and actions for their instruments. If one is among the disciples, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Sri Aurobindo and the Future of Humanity—a Comment
6 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande It is possible to look at Sri Aurobindo in context of the future of humanity but that should be primarily done recognizing him as a Master-Yogi and perhaps not so much as a traditional or professional Master-Philosopher appealing to the ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
The Theory of Proto-Atoms
4 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande In the opening passage of the Book of Fate in Savitri, we have a complete description of the proto-atoms constituting our material world. The beginning of the objective universe starts from the Akash-element viewed as the etheric sea ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
The Former Incarnations of the Disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the ...
3 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande "…each being in a new birth prepares a new mind, life and body—otherwise John Smith would always be John Smith and would have no chance of being Piyush Kanti Ghose. Of course inside there are old personalities contributing to the new ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
A Talk with Sri Aurobindo—Noted down by Pavitra
1 Jan 2009 by RY Deshpande In the West the higher minds are not turned towards spiritual truth but towards material science. The scope of science is very narrow: it touches only the most exterior part of the physical plane. And even there, what does science ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
To Walk through Life—by Sri Aurobindo
31 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear? ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
In Defence of the “Extracts from The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by ...
30 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande I give a brief history of the Extracts for the benefit of the reader who is not familiar with the circumstances in which they were compiled. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs was published by the Columbia University Press in New ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Editing Savitri—A Brief Discussion
29 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande The way Sri Aurobindo had drafted his epic Savitri with utmost care and precision is what is to be first appreciated, and therefore to try to read with our mental faculty his “intentions” while editing it will only be foolhardy, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Sir Stafford Cripps—by Sunayana Panda
28 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande We know that the national leaders did not think that Sri Aurobindo could advise them since he had left the field of active politics long before this incident. They may have imagined that a man who was immersed in his spiritual pursuits ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
The Significance of the Mother’s Passing Away—A Talk at the Sri ...
27 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande ...The Mother’s main work was to bring down the supramental consciousness in the material world, so that the physical transformation of the body could take place. She did it. Now it is this supramental consciousness which will go on ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
A Page from the Record of Yoga—undated Notes, c. January 1927
26 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande Record of Yoga has a few entries about the past lives or associations of some of the early companions of Sri Aurobindo. It may be noted that The Lives of Sri Aurobindo which vouches so much about the Record is altogether silent ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Regarding Peter Heehs’s Proclamation of Suresh Chakraborty (Moni ...
24 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande Many an Aurobindonian has reacted sharply to the controversial biography of Sri Aurobindo titled The Lives of Sri Aurobindo penned by Peter Heehs where he has denounced the fact that Sri Aurobindo was an Avatar. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
The Lives of Sri Aurobindo—a Controversial Biography by Peter Heehs
23 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande Peter Heehs’s Lives of Sri Aurobindo is a recent arrival in the thriving genre of biographies and professes itself to be founded on researched material. It essentially treats the subject as a human person, one in our nature, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Celebrating Christmas: an Interview with Gauri Pinto—by Anie Nunnally
21 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande Gauri told me that she was born Judy Ann Pinto on 16 November 1937 to Mona and Laurence (Udar) Pinto. They had just had their first darshan of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo a few months earlier. The Mother had requested that the baby ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Peter Heehs’s The Lives of Sri Aurobindo—by Raman Reddy
20 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande Peter Heehs has a crisp and racy style; he comes straight to the essential points and there is a masterful weaving of historical data which hitherto has never been done in a biography of Sri Aurobindo. But that is about all that can be ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Your Lamp Lights up Three Streets, Lord
20 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande This was during the World War II when the Japanese bombing had penetrated deep into India. There were mandatory stipulations to see that all windows are closed and no light streaked out on the streets. Nirodbaran reports the following: ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Sri Aurobindo to Dilip Kumar Roy—Received from Alok Pandey
20 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande …It is not at all unnatural that the anger brought back peace and harmony; for this anger was a form of loyalty to the Divine and that put you in touch with your psychic consciousness again. Sri Ramakrishna was quite right about anger. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Sri Aurobindo and the Cripps Proposals of 1942
19 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande The end of March and the beginning of April 1942 are memorable for one of the very few interventions of Sri Aurobindo in India's public affairs. World War II was in full swing and Japan had joined hands with Hitler and posed a threat to ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Sri Aurobindo as I Knew Him—a Talk by Nirodbaran
17 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande September 1993, AVT 56: For me the September issue was a very special issue. Nirodbaran was the first speaker from the Ashram who spoke to us and it was the beginning of Auroville's opening up towards the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Intellectual Fundamentalism—by Raman Reddy
15 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande Of late, the view that Sri Aurobindo has to be presented either intellectually or with faith and devotion, historically or hagiographically, is fast catching up among the admirers and devotees of Sri Aurobindo. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
A Chapter from The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs
14 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande I’ve just gone through the chapter entitled The Ascent to Supermind: Pondicherry 1915-1926, the first of Part Five: Guide, of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs, and find it rather hastily written. It is also crude and easily ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
A Few Comments Apropos of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo
13 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande We go to a spiritually accomplished Preceptor or Master to seek his spiritual help, crucial help to make spiritual progress. We gratefully accept it and endeavour to follow it if we are centrally alert to its assuring methodology and ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
The Divine Body—by Sri Aurobindo
7 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande The new type, the divine body, must continue the already developed evolutionary form; there must be a continuation from the type Nature has all along been developing, a continuity from the human to the divine body, no breaking away to ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
Divine Sight—A Sonnet by Sri Aurobindo
7 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande Each sight is now immortal with Thy bliss: My soul through the rapt eyes has come to see; A veil is rent and they no more can miss The miracle of Thy world-epiphany...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
A Declaration by the Mother, dated 25 April 1954
7 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande Sri Aurobindo always loved deeply his Motherland. But he wished her to be great, noble, pure and worthy of her big mission in the world…Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
The Riddle of this World—as Unraveled by Sri Aurobindo in a Letter
6 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande As long as the outward personality we call ourselves is centred in the lower powers of consciousness, the riddle of its own existence, its purpose, its necessity is to it an insoluble enigma; if something of the truth is at all conveyed ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Higgs Boson—A Matter of Physics
5 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande About the nature of science Sri Aurobindo writes: “Scientific laws only give a schematic account of material process of Nature—as a valid scheme they can be used for reproducing or extending at will a material process, but obviously ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog - References
The Early Work of Sri Aurobindo
4 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande I am developing the necessary powers for bringing down the spiritual on the material plane… What I perceive most clearly, is that the principal object of my Yoga is to remove absolutely and entirely every possible source of error and ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Physical Transformation—the Early Beginnings
3 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande …In July 1938 the Yogi-Poet had an assignation with the primordial Night, the Night of Creation. He went to meet her, carrying “God’s deathless light” in his breast. He was aware that this was going to be a very bold and dangerous ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
The Avataric Work: Towards the Intermediate Race
2 Dec 2008 by RY Deshpande The Gita reveals that the purpose of the divine Incarnation or coming as an Avatar is to do the divine work, divyam karma. This is not only to destroy evil and establish the righteous Law, but is actually to take the progressive ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
A Key Statement about the Integral Yoga
29 Nov 2008 by RY Deshpande …As far as the Integral Yoga is concerned, we have to make absolutely certain that there is a call for the spiritual life as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo. If this is not followed even while proclaiming as a practitioner of this ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
An Entry from Record of Yoga
28 Nov 2008 by RY Deshpande …we should be cognizant of the historical perspectives of the several early yogic formulations by Sri Aurobindo. This should imply that, their limitations were actually being tackled in their several occult-spiritual connotations. ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
The Path: by Sri Aurobindo
27 Nov 2008 by RY Deshpande …the powers of our mind, life and body are bound to their own limitations and, however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise above their natural ultimate limits or expand beyond them. But, still, mental man can ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Ascent to Supermind
26 Nov 2008 by RY Deshpande In a recent book presenting the life of Sri Aurobindo we have a chapter entitled The Ascent to Supermind. This gives an impression that during the period 1915-1926 Sri Aurobindo was making progress in the discovery of supermind, ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Some Letters of Sri Aurobindo to Paul Richard and the Mother (1911 ...
25 Nov 2008 by RY Deshpande I need some place of refuge in which I can complete my Yoga unassailed and build up other souls around me. It seems to me that Pondicherry is the place appointed by those who are Beyond, but you know how much effort is needed to ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog
Mirror of Tomorrow
17 Nov 2008 by RY Deshpande Mirror of Tomorrow—The Human Aspiration The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and... his inevitable and ultimate preoccupation... is also the highest which his thought can envisage. It manifests itself in the ...Mirror of Tomorrow - http://www.mirroroftomorrow.org/blog