How to Meditate and Why

The purpose of Meditation is to fix the Divine or God as the living symbol in the thinking mind initially, and gradually, to enter into a wideness beyond and be seated there in some secure foundation of Truth, different from the physical mind. The object of Meditation can be anything of…

The Conquest of Fear — Part 2 of 3

The triune nature of man is an expression of his constitutional personality, a three-headed flower…

Sri Aurobindo’s Invitation

With wind and the weather beating round me
Up to the hill and the moorland I go.
Who will come with me? Who will…

The Beauty Of The Gopi Symbol

The Foundations Of Bhakti Yoga

In Defence of the Veda — Introduction

Author’s Note: We have sourced our material as well as our inspiration largely from the writings of Sri Aurobindo. His extraordinary exposition of the Rigveda in his book “The Secret of the Veda” helped us understand things from a certain higher perspective, and…

The Conquest of Fear — Part 1 of 3

We are not going to dwell upon the psychological constitution of fear through the Freudian temper, for the Internet is replete with his theories and well substantiated by research scholars and practitioners of modern psychiatry. Such theories, even while they are based…

Traditional Vedic School — An Appeal

Veda Paatshaala is how a traditional Vedic School is called. These were usually Temple driven…

In Defence of the Veda — Appendix

A Truth, which seeks to affirm the spirit of a glorious past in the minds of men and Nation at large, must first prepare the ground for its action. Especially difficult is its action and formidable its challenge, when it attempts to transform the general resistance of…

On Parvati, Shiva’s Consort

From the haze of Life she stood above;

The Four Propensities

The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Veda recognise four propensities in the evolving human individual. Four tendencies in various proportions. First, the impulse to wisdom and knowledge. Second, the impulse to heroism and force. Third, the impulse to skill and enjoyment. Fourth, the…