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Question asked to Artificial Intelligence Gemini
Question text:
A new webpage INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATION is released in the link: https://www.srimatriniketanashram.com/objective/integral-transformation
Will you kindly review this web page?
Flower Offering on 17th December 2025
Past Editions
“Science gives us the objective truth of existence and the superficial knowledge of our physical and vital being; but we feel that there are truths beyond which possibly through the cultivation of our subjective being and the enlargement of its powers may come to lie more and more open to us. When the knowledge of this world is ours, we are irresistibly impelled to seek for the knowledge of other states of existence beyond, and that is the reason why an age of strong materialism and scepticism is always followed by an age of occultism, of mystical creeds, of new religions and profounder seekings after the Infinite and the Divine. The knowledge of our superficial mentality and the laws of our bodily life is not enough; it brings us always to all that mysterious and hidden depth of subjective existence below and behind of which our surface consciousness is only a fringe or an outer court. We come to see that what is present to our physical senses is only the material shell of cosmic existence and what is obvious in our superficial mentality is only the margin of immense continents which lie behind unexplored. To explore them must be the work of another knowledge than that of physical science or of a superficial psychology.”
SRI AUROBINDO
CWSA/23/THE SYNTHESIS OF YOGA-458
November 2025
“The mental and physical sciences which examine into the laws and forms and processes of things, those which concern the life of men and animals, the social, political, linguistic and historical and those which seek to know and control the labours and activities by which man subdues and utilises his world and environment, and the noble and beautiful Arts which are at once work and knowledge, — for every well-made and significant poem, picture, statue or building is an act of creative knowledge, a living discovery of the consciousness, a figure of Truth, a dynamic form of mental and vital self-expression or world-expression, — all that seeks, all that finds, all that voices or figures is a realisation of something of the play of the Infinite and to that extent can be made a means of God-realisation or of divine formation. But the Yogin has to see that it is no longer done as part of an ignorant mental life; it can be accepted by him only if by the feeling, the remembrance, the dedication within it, it is turned into a movement of the spiritual consciousness and becomes a part of its vast grasp of comprehensive illuminating knowledge.” CWSA-23/The Synthesis of Yoga-141-143,
October 2025
“To see, know, become and fulfil this One in our inner selves and in all our outer nature, was always the secret goal and becomes now the conscious purpose of our embodied existence. To be conscious of him in all parts of our being and equally in all that the dividing mind sees as outside our being, is the consummation of the individual consciousness. To be possessed by him and possess him in ourselves and in all things is the term of all empire and mastery. To enjoy him in all experience of passivity and activity, of peace and of power, of unity and of difference is the happiness which the Jiva, the individual soul manifested in the world, is obscurely seeking. This is the entire definition of the aim of integral Yoga; it is the rendering in personal experience of the truth which universal Nature has hidden in herself and which she travails to discover. It is the conversion of the human soul into the divine soul and of natural life into divine living.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA/23/The Synthesis Of Yoga-63
December 2025
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Forthcoming Events
Event 1 New year-2026, Midnight Meditation
Event 2 Ashram Foundation Day-01.02.2026
Event 3 Publication of Amazon Kindle Book: "The Integral Yoga and Sanatana Dharma" on 01.02.2026 Its free circulation from 01.02.2026 to 05.02.2026
Announcements
Announcement 1 A Souvenir-4th National Sri Aurobindo Women Study Circile (Mahila Pathchakra) Conference -1,2 December 2025 is published by Sri Aurobindo Nivas, Vadodara, Gujarat. In that Souvenir, our paper 'The Mother's Consciousness' is published. The Souvenir is attached here: Attachment
“If you want to know what is really happening in the world, you should not read newspapers of any sort, for they are full of lies."
“To read a newspaper is to take part in the greatest collective falsehoods.”
The Mother
TMCW-17/More Answers from the Mother/p-323
“Question by a disciple: Z told me that if I had no time to read newspapers, I should at least glance at them. I asked him, “Is it a law that we must read newspapers?” He answered, “I have to know what is going on in the world too; I am not a sannyasi.”
Answer given by The Mother: I am not a sannyasi and I never read a newspaper! ... I don’t have time for it. It is difficult to read newspapers without having the consciousness descend to a very ordinary level. Only when the consciousness is firmly established in union with the Divine is it possible to read newspapers without any risk of falling into a lower consciousness.”
The Mother
TMCW-17/P-19, 5 December 1933
"Sweet Mother,
How can we know the truth of the facts when reading newspapers? What is the best way of knowing the truth of the world?
The best way is to find the truth in ourselves — then we shall be able to see the Truth wherever it is.... Blessings."
The Mother
TMCW-16/Some Answers from the Mother/P-419,
“Rules like these [not reading newspapers, eating a fixed diet, keeping only a few things] are intended to help the vital and physical to come under the discipline of sadhana and not get dispersed in fancies, impulses, self-indulgences; but they must be done simply, not with any sense of superiority or ascetic pride, but as a mere matter of course. It is true also that they can be made the occasion of a too great mental rigidity — as if they were things of supreme importance in themselves and not only a means. Put in their right place and done in the right spirit, they can be very helpful for their purpose.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-29/Letters on Yoga-II/p-383,
“If one is always in the inner consciousness, then one can be not dispersed even when doing outward things — or if one is conscious of the Divine at all times and in all one does, then also can one read newspapers or do much correspondence without dispersion. But even then though there is not dispersion, yet there is less intensity of consciousness when reading a newspaper or writing a letter than when one is not putting part of oneself into quite external things. It is only when the consciousness is quite siddha that there is not even this difference. That does not mean one should not do external things at all, for then one gets no training in joining the two consciousnesses.”
Sri Aurobindo
CWSA-31/Letters on Yoga-IV/p-324-325
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