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To celebrate Sri Aurobindo's 150th birth anniversary this year (2022), a High Level Committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Sri Narendra Modi, Honourable Prime Minister of India, o...
The mind cannot be in a vacuum. So if you don’t want the mind to be occupied by the outside world with its distractions and disturbances, engage it in something within. The easiest and the best way...
This happiness which you seek is not something outside. It is right inside - you just have to turn, reverse your search and look within.
Devotion is spontaneous. We can teach all the ways leading to it but what it is, can’t be taught. Suddenly, the seed sprouts; we don’t know how. It sprouts in different ways for different people.
When one is full of worldly knowledge and begins to feel that one knows everything, when one worships knowledge just for the sake of it and not for finding the Truth, then one enters into greater d...
Ultimately, what we are seeking from understanding the Upanishads is not something that can be known through the conceptual mind at all! When all the defenses are completely gone, then what remains...
As long as you have a physical body, there is nobody who knows everything. So we need to learn. At any time, one should be prepared to learn.
Holistic living is to live with the understanding that the entire universe is pervaded by that blissful Supreme Being and we are a part of that!
In the ultimate sense, when happiness is found inside, one realizes that there is no difference between the inside and the outside! But first one has to start from the inside.
If I begin the enquiry by saying ‘I know’ then there is no enquiry. So one should sit with that humility which comes out of the understanding that learning has no end. One can learn any time then...
The theory of Vedanta is that all bliss and happiness lies within every living being, and when the senses come in contact with a particular object, a little bit of it is released.
When all the ‘mala‘ or ‘delusions’ of the mind are cleared, then what remains is the true essence which is complete happiness, the Truth, known as the Brahman.