Four great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with the terrestrial play. -One is her personality of calm wideness and comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity, inexhaustible compassion and sovereign and surpassing majesty and all ruling greatness.-Another embodies her power of splendid strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her impetuous swiftness and world-shaking force. -A third is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty and...

The author visited Italy early Spring April-May 2015 and went to a few places where he gave talks and conducted extended weekend seminars. The subjects covered were essentially connected with Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. At the Retreat in Motrano, Siena, south of Florence, the subject chosen was The Book of the Divine Mother which was taken up Friday-Saturday-Sunday 8-9-10 May 2015. There were about 20 participants who also had very good background about Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's works. This made things pretty easy though there was a difficulty about the language. Most of them did not know...

There are silences so deep one can hear the journeys of the soul, and it is that which gives meaning and substance to idealism, to nobility, grandeur, eloquence, to skylarks and to green cottages and to flower beds. There may not be overtones and undertones to set the absolute tempo of a masterpiece. But if that journey has to be a soaring ascension to snow-white peaks of silence in the ardour of climbing, in the warmth and intimacy of a vibrant experience, then it has yet to grow in the abundance of subtleties and suggestions that constitute multi-tonal harmonies of silence. Given to...

Questo libro raccoglie il lavoro di due giorni sul poema epico di Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, che si e svolto in Toscana a Motrano, nei pressi di Colle Val D'Elsa, nel Ritiro che il professor Deshpande, in visita in Italia dallo Sri Aurobindo Ashram di Pondicherry-India, ha tenuto nella primavera 2015 con un gruppo spirituale che segue l'insegnamento dello Yoga Integrale. Savitri si puo considerare uno dei testi piu importanti di Sri Aurobindo(Calcutta 1872-Pondicherry 1950), grande yogi, poeta e filosofo indiano, che concepi fin dai tempi della giovinezza e in varie versioni, cui lavoro...