Alok Pandey & Narad on Savitri & Yoga

Today’s reading is based on Book One.

Today’s reading is based on Book 10 Canto 4 where Sri Aurobindo reveals to us how the Truth hidden at the base of creation is manifesting itself through a long evolutionary journey.

Today’s reading is based on Savitri Book 10, Canto 4.

Today’s reading is based on Savitri Book 7, Canto 7 describing the speech that flows from the summits of being in a state of inner nirvanic silence.

Today’s reading is based on Savitri Book Seven, Canto Six describing the path of Intuition as it enters the brain.

Today’s reading continues with Book 7 Canto 6 wherein the voice of Light chases away the Voice of Night. Savitri listens to the Voice of Light and absorbed in a witness state, enters the sheer stillness and impersonality of the Absolute, the state of Nothingness, the Nirvana that annuls everything. She becomes one with infinity and eternity.

Today’s reading is based on a passage from Book 7 Canto 6, where the great Shadow, the Inconscient that lies at the back of all things, comes to deviate Savitri from the missioned path. It is the voice of Night that is chased away by the voice of Light.

Today’s reading is based on Savitri Book 7 Canto 5, where Savitri arrives at the doorsteps of the heart’s mystic cave where the soul is hidden surrounded by a wall of mystic fire.

Today’s reading is based on Savitri Book 7 Canto 2 describing the state of our mind and the surface waking consciousness.

Today’s reading is based on Savitri Book 7 Canto 1 revealing the human side of Savitri confronting grief and death on the roads of love.

Today’s talk is based on Book 6 Canto 2, which reveals the difficulty of the Inconscient that opposes God’s plan for earth and man.

Today’s reading is based on a passage on the Mantra from Savitri Book Four Canto Three. A dialogue of Dr Alok Pandey and Narad.

Today we read a portion from Ashwapati’s speech to Savitri on page 374 asking her to go and search for her complementary soul.

Today we read a passage from Savitri Book 3 Canto 4 about the children of the future.

Today we read a passage from Book Four Canto One on the New Consciousness brought to Earth by Savitri.

Savitri Book 2 Canto 15, wherein Ashwapati stands on the borders of the Supermind.

Today’s reading is about the World Soul.

Today’s reading is about the descent into Night and the Light at the end of the tunnel.

Today we read passages from Book Two Canto Six that reveals to us the power of Imagination and its limits.

We read passages that reveal to us the secret forces that operate from behind.

Narad and Alok read together two passages from Savitri and dwell on them.

In this dialogue, Narad and Alok share thoughts on the source of human hope through the lines of Savitri.

We start a new series of dialogues with Narad on Savitri

A conversation between Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in Pondicherry in 2015.

A conversation between Dr Alok Pandey and Narad (Richard Eggenberger) on recent world events and the Wisdom working behind the external appearances.

A video recording of the second conversation on Auroville and spiritual significance of its founding by Alok Pandey and Narad. Recorded in Pondicherry in 2014.

A conversation of Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in 2014.

Dr Alok Pandey in conversation with Narad speaks about a mystery of the Divine Mother’s accepting birth in a human body and then leaving it, and practical consequences of this for spiritual practice of Her devotees and followers. Recorded in 2014.

The first conversation of Dr Alok Pandey and Narad on significance of the Siddhi Day. Recorded on November 24, 2014.

A conversation of Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in 2014 (Part 2).

A conversation of Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in 2014 (Part 1)

A commentary on Sri Aurobindo’s poem “Ahana” in three parts by Dr Alok Pandey, facilitated by Narad.

A commentary on Sri Aurobindo’s poem “Ahana” in three parts by Dr Alok Pandey, facilitated by Narad.

A commentary on Sri Aurobindo’s poem “Ahana”, recorded in three sessions in January 2016 by Narad and Alok Pandey. …it has illustrated once more that poetry is not merely beauty but power, it is not merely sweet imagination but creative vision – it is even the Rik, the mantra that impels the gods to manifest upon earth, that fashions divinity in man.            (Nolini Kanta Gupta, Collected Works Vol. 2 The Approach to Mysticism. Ahana and Other Poems, pp 62-63) “Science and philosophy, introspection and interrogation, fact and myth and symbolism, hope and aspiration and ecstasy, all course through Ahana’s universe of poesy to overwhelming effect. Now and then, and again and again, the resounding cataract crystallises into dazzling images and striking evocations: “Brooded out drama and epic, structured the climb of the sonnet”; “All is a wager and danger, all is a chase and a battle”; “Time’s doors shudder / Swinging wide on their hinges into Eternity”; “Dupe of a figment of consciousness, doped with behaviour and feature”. Studded with iridescent lightnings, Ahana is one long reverberation of music, a feast alike for the physical and the inner ear.              (K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, “Sri Aurobindo – a biography and a history”, 2006, p 625)

A conversation between Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in Pondicherry in 2014.   WORDS OF THE MOTHER Invocation 15th August, 1947 O, our Mother, O, Soul of India, Mother who hast never forsaken thy children even in the days of darkest depression, even when they turned away from thy voice, served other masters and denied thee, now when they have arisen and the light is on thy face in this dawn of thy liberation, in this great hour we salute thee. Guide us so that the horizon of freedom opening before us may be also a horizon of true greatness and of thy true life in the community of the nations. Guide us so that we may be always on the side of great ideals and show to men thy true visage, as a leader in the ways of the spirit and a friend and helper of all the peoples. WORDS OF SRI AUROBINDO The sun of India’s destiny would rise and fill all India with its light and overflow India and overflow Asia and overflow the world. Every hour, every moment could only bring them nearer to the brightness of the day that God had decreed. *** Our aim will therefore be to help in building up India for the sake of humanity — this is the spirit of Nationalism which we profess and follow. We say to humanity: “The time has come when you must take the great step and rise out of a material existence into the higher, deeper and wider life towards which humanity moves. The problems which have troubled mankind can only be solved by conquering the kingdom within, not by harnessing the forces of Nature to the service of comfort and luxury, but by mastering the forces of the intellect and the spirit, by vindicating the freedom of man within as well as without and by conquering from within external Nature. For that work the resurgence of Asia is necessary, therefore Asia rises. For that work the freedom and greatness of India are essential, therefore she claims her destined freedom and greatness, and it is to the interest of all humanity,… that she should wholly establish her claim.”

“…India is a grand old laboratory, chosen by the Divine for a certain kind of evolutionary experiment. As it is evolving and going through many layers, on one level it is a very unpredictable country, and at another level it is a very stable country, containing all the desiderata of the past, making it an amazingly complex, many-sided, fascinating Motherland, Mother, Goddess.” – Sri Aurobindo A conversation of Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in 2014.

A conversation between Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in Pondicherry in 2015.

A conversation of Dr Alok Pandey and Narad.

A conversation between Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in Pondicherry in 2014. SRI AUROBINDO ON HARMONY  For all problems of existence are essentially problems of harmony. They arise from the perception of an unsolved discord and the instinct of an undiscovered agreement or unity. To rest content with an unsolved discord is possible for the practical and more animal part of man, but impossible for his fully awakened mind, and usually even his practical parts only escape from the general necessity either by shutting out the problem or by accepting a rough, utilitarian and unillumined compromise. For essentially, all Nature seeks a harmony, life and matter in their own sphere as much as mind in the arrangement of its perceptions.   THE MOTHER ON HARMONY AND GOODWILL Harmony Harmony: let us strive that the day may come when this will be the means and the end. * Harmony is my aim and all that leads to harmony makes me happy. * Integral harmony: harmony between things, harmony between people, harmony of circumstances and above all harmony of all aspiration directed towards the Supreme Truth. * A harmonious collective aspiration can change the course of circumstances. * Collective harmony is the work undertaken by the Divine Consciousness; It alone has the power to realise it. * There is a deep and true consciousness in which all can meet in love and harmony. * It is only in union with the Divine and in the Divine that harmony and peace can be established. * Surely we must always want peace and harmony and work for it as much as we can–but for that the best field of action is always within ourselves. * Look for the inner causes of disharmony much more than the outer ones. It is the inside which governs the outside. * Do not worry or be impatient–all the disharmonies will disappear, but it must be on the true basis of a settled luminous consciousness leaving no room for the play of the ego. * For all to agree, each one must rise to the summit of his consciousness: it is on the heights that harmony is created. You must rise so high in your consciousness that it dominates the opposition. This is the solution. Collaboration Collaboration: ever ready to help and knowing how to do it. * Collaboration does not mean that everybody should do the will of the man who asks for it. True collaboration is a non-egoistic union of all personal efforts to express and realise the Divine’s Will. * We must replace competition and strife by collaboration and fraternity. * Substitute the spirit of rivalry and competition by the goodwill of collaboration and mutual understanding. * It is when things are going wrong that it is the best opportunity to show one’s goodwill and spirit of true collaboration. Goodwill Indeed, the good will hidden in all things reveals itself everywhere to the one who carries good will in his consciousness. This is a constructive way of feeling which leads straight to the Future. * One should keep goodwill and love constantly in his heart and let them pour out upon all with tranquillity and with equanimity. * Good will for all and good will from all is the basis of peace and harmony. * Goodwill: of modest appearance, it makes no noise but is ever ready to be useful. * Mental goodwill likes to show off a little, but is very useful. Benevolence Benevolence makes life fragrant without attracting attention. * A tireless benevolence, clear-seeing and comprehensive, free from all personal reaction, is the best way to love God and serve Him upon earth. I mean a benevolence sincere and spontaneous in thought and speech and not a supposed benevolence in act...

As to the question of pursuing the Path without an embodied Guru – well, we may not be able to see Her, but She is able to see us, and yoga depends primarily on the Divine rather than on human end. Swami Sharadananda, who was blind on both eyes, came here for a Darshan of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, and when asked why he did come here, he replied that it is having Them put Their gaze upon a person which matters the most…

A conversation of Alok Pandey and Narad, recorded in 2014.

In this opening conversation of the series, Dr Alok Pandey talks about his path to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother