Soon after coming to Auroville, I had an encounter with Vazhumuni, a legendary thief who lived in the neighbourhood. Everyone knew him like a shadow in the forest. He made us befriend our own shadows, the primordial fears that lurk in the dark. …

It was long long ago… but long after the dinosaurs, long after the Bronze Age. To be more precise, it was when the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Reason were coming to end. The New World was still an open secret that even when seen or heard, no one…

According to Sri Aurobindo, mankind has one original language and from this original source, all the languages of the world emerged and diversified. The story of the Towel of Babel in Genesis 11:1–9 says something similar. According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating…

The post is part of my ongoing research into the spiritual history of India and a way of collating data from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the topic. If you have any related data to share, that will be a great support. …

“What is the best transformational practice?” This is a question that comes my way quite often. In the context of the innumerable transformational practices that are available these days often people are moving from one practice to another looking for the best that would do some miracle. Unfortunately, this shopping…

There are three foundational ideas, the soul ideas, of Indian civilisation that remained unchanged over at least five thousand years of Indian history. They were always there expressed in many different ways across millennia using different words giving the central orientation to India’s evolution. …

The conscious part of our being is only a small portion that is accessible to us in our normal wakeful state. This too is not a stable state because the submerged parts rise up and take over the conscious part every now and then and we experience this as mood…

Every action has a consequence, both inner and outer. In our inner space, they leave an imprint with corresponding emotional energy. When an action or an event that happened is unpleasant or painful, the conscious mind tries to evade the memory and related emotions by hiding it consciously or unconsciously…

The Mother gave the name ‘Integral Gratitude’ to this flower. She described this flower as “The whole being offers itself to the Lord in absolute trust.” The native soil of gratitude is the psychic being, our evolving soul, the inmost being. The psychic being knows that it is an eternal…