We have all been there. In moments – though they feel much, much longer than moments at the time – of hopelessness, feeling harassed by circumstances and happenings that feel suffocating, depressing and unbearable. We have all done it. Ask questions like – why do these things happen to me? Why me? Why now? When… Continue reading Hope
“Love of Nature is usually the sign of a pure and healthy being uncorrupted by modern civilisation. It is in the silence of a peaceful mind that one can best commune with Nature.” (The Mother, CWM 16: 401) What is Nature? When this question was once asked of the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, she… Continue reading Love and Nature
It has been about 13 years. And I still remember that late afternoon as if it was yesterday. While walking home from the place where I worked at the time, I came across an amazing little beautiful flower, deep pink in colour. It looked like some wildflower or some that we normally refer to as… Continue reading Of Flowers, Opening and Receptivity
Certainly, not all is well with the world today. I don’t have to give any examples to prove this fact. Certainly, not all will get well with the world any time soon. I don’t have to give any reasons to explain why. Certainly, not all well-wishers of the world, who are more in love with… Continue reading “A Mighty Guidance”
Change is the only constant, it is often said. But nothing in the world is as simple as a cliché. We must dig a bit deeper if we want to get closer to the truth. What kind of change are they talking about who speak of constant change? Is it only an outer change? Or… Continue reading Enough With the Clichés on Change
The First Time I clearly remember the first time I walked into what is now the living room of our home. That was a little more than nine years ago. We had come to see the house for the very first time, and weren’t even sure if we would consider buying it because it had… Continue reading When the Gods Came Home
Those big, heavy wooden doors with big hinges and a heavy chain-clasp to shut them close. The dark hallway leading to the staircase made of some heavy stone, with no handrail but only the thick wall to hold on to as you slowly climb the high steps. Only when you get closer to the first… Continue reading Uncluttered Simplicity
With all that is going on around us in the world, does it even make sense to think about decorating your home, some may wonder. Well, why not? Perhaps it makes all the more sense to not only think about making our homes more beautiful and more comfortable, but actually doing it – without going… Continue reading Decorating in the Times of Corona
“…[love] exists by itself and its movement is free and independent of the objects in which and through which it manifests. It manifests wherever it finds a possibility for manifestation, wherever there is receptivity, wherever there is some opening for it. What you call love and think of as a personal or individual thing… Continue reading Simplicity and Eternity of Love (Guest Post by Dilip Kumar Roy)
One hundred and ten years ago, on April 4, 1910, Sri Aurobindo arrived at the old port of Pondicherry. And this little town by the bay and rest of India and the world gained a maha-yogi, a purna yogi, whose yoga is meant for the entire earth herself, to make the earthly life a life… Continue reading From Politics to Yoga
Once during his Baroda years, Sri Aurobindo visited a Kali temple on the bank of the Narmada river. Recounting that visit, he later said: “With my Europeanised mind I had no faith in image worship and I hardly believed in the presence of God. I went to Kemali where there are several temples. There is… Continue reading The Great World-Mother
Going through the pictures of some of my personal favourite paintings representing various Indian schools and traditions, including some by famous Indian artists, my mind started to wonder if these paintings have something to say about the past, present and future of India’s civilisational march. The result is this small tapestry that interweaves the pictures… Continue reading Of India’s Destiny and Indian Painting
