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The Mother Image in Sri Aurobindo Publication Details S´raddha- Frequency of publication : Quarterly. Published on 15 August, 24 November, 21 February, A Quarterly devoted to an exposition of the teachings of 24 April. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo Annual Subscription : Rs 150.00 Single copy : Rs. 50.00 Those wishing to have the journal mailed to them may please send an additional Rs. 100.00 Annual Subscription for soft copy of the journal : Rs.150.00 Vol.5 No.4 For overseas readers : Annual subscription :US$ 45 inclusive of postal and bank charges for hard copy; US$ 20 for soft copy All payments to be made in favour of Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences All Rights Reserved No matter appearing in this journal or part thereof may be reproduced or translated, in any form, without the written permission of the publishers except for short extracts as quotations. Views expressed by the authors are not necessarily those of the journal. Readers with different viewpoints are requested to write direct to the contributors. Editor, S´raddha-, will be pleased to provide the necessary contact details. All correspondence may be addressed to 24 April, 2014 S´raddha- Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata 700 071 Editor: Arup Basu Phone: 98302 58723 E-mail : [email protected] , [email protected] Published by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Research in Social Sciences Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 8 Shakespeare Sarani Kolkata700071 Phone : 2282 3057, 2282 2162, 2282 1819 Printed by Basab Chattopadhyaya Shilalipi Sri Aurobindo Bhavan 16 A Tamer Lane Kolkata 700 009 8 Shakespeare Sarani • Kolkata 700 071 Phone 0336540 5390 / 98360 37601 which Sri Aurobindo had started single-handedly from 1910 viz. that of building ‘a solid firm and immovable foundation’ (Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works, vol.7, p.407) took him till 1920. With the second and final coming of the Mother in 1920, this work of installing permanently in an earthly form, the presiding Editorial deity, the Mother Divine, the Supreme Adya Shakti (Ibid, p.408), indispensable for the work of transformation, gathered pace and strength and 24 April Darshan could therefore be viewed as the final sanction and seal of their joint endeavour at bringing down the supramental Truth-Consciousness in this earthly atmosphere 100 years ago, on a windless sunny afternoon, Mirra Alfassa, ‘the finest and fixing it there forever as a transforming power to change this earthly life flower of European culture with deep spiritual filiations with India and the East into the life divine. Let us on this blessed day renew once again our pledge to as also with Africa,’ and the incarnation of ‘a practical genius of a rare order, make a total and unreserved surrender of ourselves in all the parts of our being with powers of wide yet precise organisation’ met in the then ghost town of to this supreme and benevolent Power and firmly resolve to reject all the Pondicherry “the ‘Krishna’ she had met so often in her dream-experiences, … movements of the lower nature – all its littlenesses, pettiness, its stupidity, laziness the Master of her occult life”, Sri Aurobindo, ‘an embodiment of the East-West and unwillingness to change, hostility to the Truth, its desires, doubt and disbelief, synthesis’ containing within himself ‘the multi-dimensional spiritual consciousness jealousy and lust and passions and greed and envy (Sri Aurobindo, The Mother). of India’. How should we look upon this meeting or why should we at all consider Let us ruthlessly tear these up from their ‘bleeding roots’ and offer them to the this encounter as something memorable? This momentous coming together of Supreme Mother to bear her ‘touch immaculate’; let us invoke along with the two very rare spiritual personalities ‘represents’, as K D Sethna (Amal Kiran) Mother the fervent prayer she made in her New Year’s Message in 1943 so luminously puts it, ‘the coming together of the necessary creative powers by whom a new age would be born. …. Sri Aurobindo’s main movement of The hour has come when a choice consciousness may be said to have been an immense Knowledge-Power from has to be made, radical above the mind ..… The Mother’s chief movement may be said to have been and definitive. Lord, give us an intense Love-Power from behind the heart. …. When she and Sri Aurobindo the strength to reject falsehood and met, they completed each other, brought fully into play the spiritual energies in emerge in Thy truth both and started the work of total earth-transformation from high above and pure and worthy of Thy victory deep within’, ‘blending them’ and leading ‘to a common all-consummating goal’. Let us then salute to the coming of the new dawn which will gradually light up and sincerely pray that she can fill us up with her ‘calm, the light, the power, the the lives of ‘thousands of beings plunged in the densest ignorance’(CWM, vol.1, bliss, the freedom, the wideness, the heights of knowledge, the seas of Ananda’(Sri p.113) and usher in a world ‘when darkness shall be transformed into light, and Aurobindo). Thy reign shall be indeed established upon earth’(Ibid.) We wish to record our grateful thanks to the Overman Foundation, Kolkata, It is known that after the accident to Sri Aurobindo’s leg in Nov 1938, — for letting us publish the text of the inaugural Subhas K Mukherjee Memorial which he said was due to the attack of the hostile forces – the two subsequent Oration by Prof. Murali Sivaramakrishnan, organised on October 15, 2013. We Darshans, that of 24 November and February 21 had to be put off. Finally are also grateful to the Editor, Mother India, for permitting us to use a few when, responding to the pleading of her children, the Mother requested Sri lines taken from Amal Kiran’s answer to an ‘inquiring outsider’ published in Aurobindo if 24 April, the day of her second and final coming to India in 1920, Mother India in February 1973, pp.11-12. Last but not the least our sincere could be considered as Darshan day He consented. From that time onward, 24 thanks to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust for April became the fourth Darshan day and it is often held that this day, being the anniversary of her second and final coming to India, is ‘the tangible sign of the — the passage by Sri Aurobindo entitled ‘The need of a Spiritual Change’ sure victory over the adverse forces’. It is as if the work of New Creation taken from ‘The Life Divine’, SABCL, vol.19, pp.1053-60, which later appeared on the website of the e-magazine, Next Future, on 13 Nov, 2013, — a few lines occurring in vol.7, pp.407-8 of the Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta, and The Mother by Sri Aurobindo — the photograph of the Mother from the Ashram catalogue of photos. Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are reproduced here with acknowledgement and thanks to the Trustees of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry. Erratum: Our sincere apologies for a grave oversight on our part in our last issue, February 2014. The passage entitled Transformation is by the Mother and not Sri Aurobindo, as wrongly printed, and was taken from her writing On Education, CWM, vol.7, pp.80-81. The error is much regretted. Contents The Need of a Spiritual Change Sri Aurobindo 9 Path of the Isha Alok Pandey 15 The Mother Image in Sri Aurobindo Prema Nandakumar 27 Evolution — Part II Debashish Banerji 36 Sadhana of sounding the Word Vikraman Balaji 64 Ethics in Sri Aurobindo’s ÍF FŸFFc··F⁄F∂FW £FFŒFk Integral Philosophy R.C.Pradhan 71 S´raddha-va-m·l labhate jña-nam· Unending Education, Constant Progress and a Youth that never ages. Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of Who has faith. .........he attains knowledge Education in today’s context Deepti Tewari 82 —Gita IV. 39 The experience of the Psychic Being and its Becoming Alain Grandcolas 94 They First Met Hundred Years Ago Ashoke K Sengupta 110 Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo – a comparison Kundan Singh 121 The World: in its Becoming A Perspective of our Times Aster Patel 132 The Strength of Stillness: The Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Murali Sivaramakrishnan 135 Polemics of Decolonisation: the Art Criticism of Sri Aurobindo and Ananda Coomaraswamy Sachidananda Mohanty 148 Notes On Authors 163 Cover : Painting by Giles Herdman push, hungers and calls for life satisfaction of individuals, classes, nations, a rich fungus of political and social and economic nostrums and notions, a hustling medley of slogans and panaceas for which men are ready to oppress and be oppressed, to kill and be killed, to impose them somehow or other by the immense and too formidable means placed at his disposal, in the belief that this is his way The Need of a Spiritual Change out to something ideal. The evolution of human mind and life must necessarily lead towards an increasing universality; but on a basis of ego and segmenting Sri Aurobindo and dividing mind this opening to the universal can only create a vast pullulation of unaccorded ideas and impulses, a surge of enormous powers and desires, a chaotic mass of unassimilated and intermixed mental, vital and physical material At present mankind is undergoing an evolutionary crisis in which is concealed of a larger existence which, because it is not taken up by a creative harmonising a choice of its destiny; for a stage has been reached in which the human mind light of the Spirit, must welter in a universalised confusion and discord out of has achieved in certain directions an enormous development while in others it which it is impossible to build a greater harmonic life.
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