Aurobindo advocated Universal Love

Even though Aurobindo was an intellectual giant, he did not ignore Love


Love is a glory from Eternity's spheres
He is still the Godhead that can make all change

Love should never cease to be upon the Earth
Love is the bright link betwixt Earth & Heaven
Love is the far Transcendent's angel here
Love is man's lien on the Absolute !


The intellect is indeed great, but the ultimate triumph will be the Heart's.

Let the whole world be happy

"Imperfect is the Joy not shared by all ", wrote Aurobindo.


I climb not to Thy everlasting day
As I have shunned Thy eternal night
Thy servitudes on earth are greater King,
Than all the glorious liberties of Heaven,
Too far Thy heavens for me from suffering men,
Imperfect is the Joy not shared by all.


"Let the whole world be happy " prays the Eternal Law ( Sarve Janah Sukhino Bhavanthu ). For such a noble purpose, did He not consecrate His life to humanity ?

Suffering, a must for the Redeemer !

Aurobindo wrote


He who would bring the heavens here
Must descend himself into clay
And the burden earthly nature bear
And tread the dolorous way !

Coercing my Godhead I have come
Into this sordid earth
Ignorant, labouring, human grown,
Betwixt the gates of birth and death !


Transforming Earth into a Heaven is difficult; and we have to sacrifice many personal comforts for such a noble purpose. We have to understand that this is the Law of the Way. Only after the shedding of all mortal dross can we be pure; and only by becoming pure can we hope to get Self Actualisation


In the void of Mind involute
The fleeting Universe rises and floats
And sinks back into the current "I"

Vivekananda - The Hymn of Cosmic Consciousness

Why did He create such a miserable world?

Lord Buddha was aghast at the pain and suffering of this world. He turned his ire on the Lord and asked an important questions. How can the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate create such a miserable world ?

How can it be that Brahm
Could make a world so miserable
And if All Powerful, leave it so; He is not good
And if not All-powerful, He is not God !


Aurobindo answered

"A universe, eternally perfect, eternally manifesting the eternal perfection, will miss the joy of progress".

If everything is perfect, Man, Earth, everything and was created as such initially, will we not miss the joy of progress? So then there were reasons why the Almighty created such an area of Evil & Chaos, deliberately flawing the perfection of His own material creation !

This world is in love with its own Ignorance !

We find that all Redeemers were treated badly by the world. Jesus, Socrates, Mansoor, Bruno etc. Why is it so?

Aurobindo answers


Hard is the World Redeemer's heavy task
The whole world becomes his adversary.
Those whom he came to save are his enemies
Those he would redeems are his adversaries

This world is in love with its own ignorance
Its darkness moves away from the Saviour Light
It gives the Cross in payment for the Crown !

( Savitri - The Book of the Redeemer)

This is a benighted humanity or an ignorant race !



A man who was about to become the Redeemer aks Heaven


Why should I throw my arms against the shut Heavens
Or struggle against a mute inevitable Fate
Or hope in vain to uplift an ignorant race
Who hugs their lot and mocks the Saviour Light ? !

Life, the true field of our Yoga

"Life, not a remotely silent or highly ecstatic uplifted Beyond, life alone is the field of our Yoga ", wrote the Master. He was highlighting the fact that the solution to problems is not escapism, but meeting them squarely and overcoming them.

Our aim must be Self Actualisation and we should not be bothered about the hindrances on the path.

Says he "We have to understand that the Divine Will is leading us, through every circumstance, towards the Final Realisation". We may be confronted by innumerable adversities, but we have to overcome them to arrive at the Goal. "This is the work of the Supramental Shakti, converting our obscure mentality into Her supramentality".

A luminous heart of the Unknown is She
A power of Silence in the depths of God
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The magnet of our difficult Ascent
The Light that leans from the unrealised vasts
The Joy that beckons us from the Impossible."

This Supramental Shakti is at work, converting the mundane into the supramundane.

Horoscope of Sree Aurobindo

He was born with Cancer rising, Jupiter and Mars in Cancer. Jupiter, the wisdom planet, was exalted in Cancer. Cancer represents the Heart of the Cosmic Man and Cancerians are tied and tuned to the Cosmic world.

Jupiter is the planet of divinity and he has conferred Hamsa Maha Yoga, one of the best yogas in Astrology. The native born under Hamsa Yoga not only becomes religious, but will revive true Religion ! Due to the divine nature of Jupiter who had caused Hamsa Yoga, he had the confidence that every step was divinely ordained.

The Roman emperor Augustus Caesar was, like him, born under Hamsa Yoga. A true Raja- Rishi or a Philosopher King, his reign was known as the Golden Age of Rome. Augustus founded the Religion of Numa, defined by Buchan as a probe into the mysteries of the Infinite and the Unknown.

Like those ancient, orthodox Raja- Rishies, Aurobindo had consecrated all his efforts to divinise humanity !

Saturn was in Sagittarius, indicating that a foreign lady will join in his mission. He synthesised the different systems of Yoga as the Integral Yoga. He was one of the greatest Integrators who graced this planet !

Aurobindo, a Realist !

Shankara was an Illusionist; Aurobindo was a Realist ( "Maya is real, because it is the Self's experience of the Self" )

The term assigned by Sankara to the whole process of creation was Maya. Aurobindo, on the other hand, called it Leela or the play of the Divine. Leela includes the idea of Maya and exceeds it !

" This is our Eternal Lover luring us to Himself, through all these flashy masks of Himself, through all this shimmering blazes of His eternal and ineffugable Self-Existence " said the Master !

Integral Yoga

Long before Aurobindo, scholars were disputing which path to Godhead - the Four Noble Paths, Bhakthi, Jnana, Karma, Raja Yogas - was greater than the other.

Aurobindo stressed that all paths are different branches of the Supreme Path, the Integral Yoga.

Universal Love is the quality needed for Bhakthi Yoga. Psychic control for Raja Yoga. The discriminatory intellect for Jnana and Selfless Action for Karma.

Unless an aspirant develops all these qualities, how can he be eligible for Self Actualisation ?

Integral Yoga, therefore, becomes one of the many ways for Self Realisation

Integral Knowlege

Integral knowledge is a blend of vedantic and tantric knowledge

It is only when we view the Supreme in his dual aspect - dual but inseparable - that the truth becomes manifest to the inner experience. Vedanta deals with the Sat aspect of Being ( Absolute Being ). Tantra deals with the Chit aspect of Being ( Absolute Knowledge ). Only a fusion of these two formidable sciences can pave the way for Integral Knowledge, averred the Master, Aurobindo

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A literateur par excellence

Aurobindo was a poet & nationalist. His epic poem "Savitri" is considered to be equal to Dante's Divina Commedia, Goethe's Faust or Milton's Paradise Lost.

He dreamt of a divine principle " The Supermind " and wanted to draw it to earth. When Supermind manifests in matter, matter becomes supramentalised.

His magnum opus is "The Life Divine". He was a universal individual who embraced a universal life

Spirit shall see through Matter's gaze
Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face !