A cacophony has no appreciable theme or melody we can follow. Notes fall into one another helplessly, they jostle with each other in what strikes our ear as a discordant chaos, a disturbing disorder. Our 20th […]

Let us now apply these aphorisms to our experience. The PURPOSE for the present trials is to strengthen the Centre. That is, to provide a FIELD in which this strengthening can ensue. This is an important part of […]

 
…I am finding the book immensely interesting. Not for the newness it reveals, but for the ‘oldness’ which affords us another concrete example of the contrast between this work and others seeking along t […]

Of course, when I read your letter I cannot really understand what the problem is. I mean, it seems to me you are making a problem where there ought not to be one. But this is usually the way it seems to someone […]

I have always sustained that the course the evolution of consciousness takes on this planet is easily discernible in a host of ordinary developments. That is, we can, when equipped with the proper keys of higher […]

In a letter dated 5.2.1989, a pupil wrote to Thea about his understanding of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga: ‘First there must be a call or a need, then a preparation or purification of the nature. Depending on the str […]

What I was particularly wanting to speak to you about this time was the change we see, the big shift… Yes, I think that is what everybody is interested in right now. There are remarkable things happening in the w […]

 
In the New Delhi edition of The Times of India, dated 9 March 1989, an interesting news item appeared. It provides another example of the special quality of our work: the symbol is the thing symbolized. Over […]

My tendency had always been to focus on the individual as the intrinsic nexus in a transformation process that might ultimately change conditions in the world.  With the expansion I was feeling this inclination […]

It must be obvious to all clear-thinking people that there is an accelerated process of dissolution taking place. And for those in some way involved in the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, this process is […]

      ‘And to the woman were given two wings

of a great eagle, that she might fly

into the wilderness, into her place,

where she is nourished for a time, and times,

and half a time, from the face of t […]

     An overview of the political scenario of the subcontinent
in relation to the number-powers of the ennead/decades.

 
The close of this important year merits a brief discussion regarding its place in the […]

 
 In memory of
SUNDARI,
the Beautiful One
 

 
‘It was as cool and quiet in the patio of don Juan’s house as in the cloister of a convent. There were a large number of fruit trees planted extremel […]

 
‘…I must make it clear that I do not discourage questioning. On the contrary. I believe that in the early stages of one’s quest it is very necessary to question in order to hone one’s discrimination and to a […]

Dadhikravan  [the Vedic Horse] is he of whom now we must do the work; may all the Dawns speed me on the path! For the Waters and for the Dawn and the Sun and Brihaspati, he of the puissance, the […]

OF NOTE

 
With this August 1988 issue, we commemorate the 116th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, of whom the Mother wrote on 14 February 1961, ‘What Sri Aurobindo represents in the world’s history is not […]

A NOTE
from the Aeon Centre of Cosmology
 
The three appendices of this Supplement to the June 1988 issue of VISHAAL, offer an important means to view the development in our work over the years covered by […]

 
In The Times of India, New Delhi, dated 7 April 1988, the following news item appeared under the title, ‘More than just another temple in the making’:
 

Auroville, April 6 (PTI)
Not far from the be […]

The transcript I have presented in Part 2 of this series, the Mother’s disturbing encounter on 7 April, 1973, with one of her closest aides, throws up another of those ‘painful enigmas’. Sincere disciples, coura […]