Light and the Shadow
There is a deeper purpose behind the weaknesses and defects in our character. The most effective way for manifesting a hidden potential or virtue within us is to conquer its opposite. So if we have aRead More…
There is a deeper purpose behind the weaknesses and defects in our character. The most effective way for manifesting a hidden potential or virtue within us is to conquer its opposite. So if we have aRead More…
What we need today is a character-building discipline incorporated into the education, training and development programmes in every organ and institutions of human society. But character cannot be built by lectures and sermons. The conceptual rigmaroleRead More…
This is from a letter of Sri Aurobindo to a disciple who seemed to be suffering from some serious weakness in his nervous system and difficulties in his character. The letter provides comprehensive and compassionate guidanceRead More…
We have discussed in some detail the theme of shaping values in one of our earlier issues of FDI. (December, 2011). This task of inculcating values requires leaders with strong character. One of the main causesRead More…
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking? The entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.” – Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī “To take on debtRead More…
(The key to effective use of money lies in right giving and proper circulation with an intuitive understanding of the rhythms of the vital force behind it.) Homepage intro: how to use money in the rightRead More…
(On the occasion of India’s Independence day on 15th August) There is almost a consensus among modern intelligentsia that secularism, as it was conceived and practiced in the West, is the best ideology for democratic governance.Read More…
A Synopsis of Sri Aurobindo’s Major Works M.S.Srinivasan Sri Aurobindo is a versatile spiritual genius, who is not only a Master-Yogi with profound spiritual realizations, but also a great scholar and thinker who wrote extensively onRead More…