The Fire of purification
By James Anderson - Apr 24, 2022
James Anderson is a member of SAIIIHR and coordinating editor of NAMAH.
The Creative Soul
By Nolini Kanta Gupta - Jul 15, 2019
Nolini Kanta Gupta. The Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta.Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education; 1970, pp. 7-9.
Swadharma, a learning journey towards wholeness
By Manoj Pavitran - Apr 24, 2019
Does finding one’sone’s own law of being, have any bearing on the health and well-being of an individual and society? Our current education system is a by-product of the Industrial Revolution and thinks in terms of batch-production ignoring the individual. The idea of the human being as an evolving soul with a unique evolutionary past and its gifts and mission in life is still not part of our mainstream ideas of education and its pedagogy. This is a serious error resulting in individual and collective disorder and demands innovative solutions. Since 2016, Auroville has been offering five-week long educational programmes focusing on the idea of for youths aged between 18 to 28 from around the world.
Physician Heal Thyself
By Nolini Kanta Gupta - Jul 15, 2017
Change is imperative but man is divided in nature and lacks the inclination to change. He looks to the outside for solutions. He has to change himself first in order to change the world. In his true consciousness however, he has the freedom and will to assert his integrality and with that, the world too will inevitably change.
Origin and Nature of Suffering
By Nolini Kanta Gupta - Apr 24, 2025
Suffering there is, some say, because the soul takes delight in it: if there was not the soul’s delight behind, there would not be any suffering at all. There are still two other positions with regard to suffering which we do not deal with in the present context, namely, (1) that it does not exist at all, the absolute Ananda of the Brahman being the sole reality, suffering, along with the manifested world of which it is a part, is illusion pure and simple, (2) that suffering exists, but it comes not from soul or God but from the Anti-divine: it is at the most tolerated by God and He uses it as best as He can for His purpose. That, however, is not our subject here. We ask then what delight can the soul take when the body is suffering, say, from cancer. If it is delight, it must be of a perverse variety. Is it not the whole effort of mankind to get rid of pain and suffering, make of our life and of the world, if possible, a visible play of pure and undefiled Ananda?