Pearls of Wise

=============================================================== Sunday 04, Feb 2024 05:30. Sri Ramakrishna Mission BELUR MATH. ================================================================ The first group of religious ideas that we see coming up — I mean recognised religious ideas, and not the very low ideas, which do not deserve the name of religion — all include the idea of inspiration and revealed books and so forth. The first group of religious ideas starts with the idea of God. Here is the universe, and this universe is created by a certain Being. Everything that is in this universe has been created by Him. Along with that, at a later stage, comes the idea of soul — that there is this body, and something inside this body which is not the body. This is the most primitive idea of religion that we know. We can find a few followers of that in India, but it was given up very early. The Indian religions take a peculiar start. It is only by strict analysis, and much calculation and co

================================================================ Saturday 03, Feb 2024. 05:30. Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Spiritual Method A Radical Approach to Evolution ================================================================ Sri Aurobindo's advanced world vision, the backbone of Auroville, takes one into wider areas relating to the self, and to life. The spiritual path - or sadhana - as developed by him, works with a combination of a voluntarily adopted psychological discipline and various yogic practices. Already a century ago he declared "All life is Yoga". The text below was written by Sri Aurobindo himself, in 1934. ================================================================ The teaching of Sri Aurobindo starts from that of the ancient sages of India that behind the appearances of the universe there is the Reality of a Being and Consciousness, a Self of all things, one and eternal. All beings are united in that One Self and Spirit but divided by