Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother.
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Sri Aurobindo's notes and letters on his life and yoga and letters on Himself and on The Mother. In these letters, Sri Aurobindo writes about his life as a student in England, a teacher in Baroda, a political leader in Bengal, and a writer and yogi in Pondicherry. He also comments on his formative spiritual experiences and the development of his yoga.
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Q: I looked at your photograph in the Reception Room
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after meditation and clearly saw the portrait move its shoulders and as if breathing.
A: There was a movement in the vital plane and you opened to an inner vision of it.
22-3-1933
Q: As I was sitting in prayer, I saw Sri Aurobindo in a vision coming down the staircase till he came just near to the floor. What does this mean?
A: It indicates perhaps the bringing of the Divine Consciousness down from level to level till it is now near the material.
23-9-1933
Q: Today while meditating I saw in a vision that in Sri Aurobindo's light Nataraja Shiva was manifesting with many hands. What does this signify?
A: It is the sign of the manifestation.
Q: Then I saw that in the sky Sri Aurobindo's light and red light were manifesting in the form of a globe. Does this signify the manifestation of Sri Aurobindo's divine light on the physical plane?
A: Yes.
Q: Then I saw that Sri Aurobindo's light was manifesting on a sea along with another light of pale blue colour. Does this mean that in the vastness of consciousness Sri
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Aurobindo's divine light is manifesting through the Intuitive Mind consciousness?
15-10-1933
Q: I saw Sri Aurobindo last night in a vision seated on a chair and writing something. Behind his head there was a circular green light. What does this mean?
A: The green light is that of a dynamic vital energy (of work). As I was writing—at work—it is natural that that light should be behind my head.
5-11-1933
Q: Last night I had a dream that you had come out of your seclusion for once; you were tall, quite young, but very dark. I began to wonder if this was Sri Aurobindo of former years!
A: No. It is not likely. It is probably some subtle physical form—that one corresponding to the Shiva element in me. I have seen myself like that sometimes and it was always the Shiva formation.
11-12-1934
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