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Inaugural Message of the Mother
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STUDENTS' PRAYER Make of us the hero warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born against the past that seeks to endure; so that the new things may manifest and we may be ready to receive them. 6 January 1952 |
Q. Sweet Mother, where does our true spiritual life begin?
The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the Divine in the psychic, when one is conscious of the divine Presence in the psychic and in constant communion with the psychic. Then the spiritual life begins, not before.
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Why
are we here in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram?
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There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from the stone to the plant, from the plant to the animal, from the animal to man. Because man is, for the moment, the last rung the summit of the ascending evolution, the considers himself as the final stage in this ascension and believes there can be nothing on earth superior to him. In that he is mistaken. In his physical nature he is yet almost wholly an animal, a thinking and speaking animal, but still an animal in his material habits and instincts. Undoubtedly, nature cannot be satisfied with such an imperfect result; she endeavours to bring out a being who will be to man what man is to the animal, a being who will remain a man in its external form, an yet whose consciousness will rise far above the mental and its slavery to ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this consciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered around him to realize it.
You have the immense privilege of having come quite young to the Ashram, that is to say, still plastic and capable of being moulded according to this new ideal and thus become the representatives of the new race. Here, in the Ashram, you are in the most favourable conditions with regard to the environment, the influence, the teaching and the example, to awaken in you this supramental consciousness and to grow according to its law.
Now, all depends on your will and your sincerity. If you have the will no more to belong to ordinary humanity, no more to be merely evolved animals: if your will is to become men of the new race realizing Sri Aurobindo's supramental ideal, living a new and higher life upon a new earth, you will find here all the necessary help to achieve your purpose; you will profit fully by your stay in the Ashram and eventually become living examples for the world.
-The Mother
THE SCIENCE OF LIVING
To know oneself and to control oneself
An aimless life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not
forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your
life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this
will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
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HOW TO BRING UP A CHILD?
Every child is a lover of interesting narrative, a
hero worshipper and a patriot. Appeal to these qualities in him and through them let him master without knowing it the
living and human parts of his nation’s history. Every child
is an inquirer, an investigator, analyser, a merciless anatomist. Appeal to these qualities in him and let him
acquire without knowing it the right temper and the necessary fundamental knowledge of the scientist. Every child has an
insatiable intellectual curiosity and turn for metaphysical enquiry. Use it to draw him on slowly to an
understanding of the world and himself. Every child has the gift of imitation and a touch of imaginative power; Use it to give
him the ground-work of the faculty of the artist. - SRI AUROBINDO
Copyright : Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust
