05-09-2007, 11:22 PM
http://www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in/aug06.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Here is an extract from Sri Aurobindo, where he powerfully emphasises the course India must take in order to fulfil its role & mission:
  <b>India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the Occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sri Aurobindo and Mother on Sri Ganesha:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In his letters Sri Aurobindo writes:
  <b>Ganesha is the Power that removes obstacles by the force of Knowledge;â¦
  Ganesha (among other things) is the Devata of spiritual Knowledge.</b>
Here is the Mother's first encounter with Lord Ganesha, as narrated by herself sometime during 1958:
<b>And one day when the subject of prosperity or wealth came up, I thought (they always say that Ganesh is the god of money, of fortune, of the world's wealth), I thought, 'Isn't this whole story of the god with an elephant trunk merely a lot of human imagination?'Â
  Thereupon, we meditated. And who should I see walk in and park himself in front of me but a living being, absolutely alive and luminous, with a trunk that long ... and smiling! So then, in my meditation, I said, 'Ah! So it's true that you exist!' - 'Of course I exist! And you may ask me for whatever you wish, from a monetary standpoint, of course, and I will give it to you!'</b>
    So I asked. And for about ten years, it poured in, like this (gesture of torrents). It was incredible. I would ask, and at the next Darshan, or a month or several days later, depending, there it was.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Here is an extract from Sri Aurobindo, where he powerfully emphasises the course India must take in order to fulfil its role & mission:
  <b>India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the Occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sri Aurobindo and Mother on Sri Ganesha:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In his letters Sri Aurobindo writes:
  <b>Ganesha is the Power that removes obstacles by the force of Knowledge;â¦
  Ganesha (among other things) is the Devata of spiritual Knowledge.</b>
Here is the Mother's first encounter with Lord Ganesha, as narrated by herself sometime during 1958:
<b>And one day when the subject of prosperity or wealth came up, I thought (they always say that Ganesh is the god of money, of fortune, of the world's wealth), I thought, 'Isn't this whole story of the god with an elephant trunk merely a lot of human imagination?'Â
  Thereupon, we meditated. And who should I see walk in and park himself in front of me but a living being, absolutely alive and luminous, with a trunk that long ... and smiling! So then, in my meditation, I said, 'Ah! So it's true that you exist!' - 'Of course I exist! And you may ask me for whatever you wish, from a monetary standpoint, of course, and I will give it to you!'</b>
    So I asked. And for about ten years, it poured in, like this (gesture of torrents). It was incredible. I would ask, and at the next Darshan, or a month or several days later, depending, there it was.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->