Volume 29, Issue 3

By The Mother - Oct 15, 2021

Of all education, vital education is perhaps the most important, the most indispensable. Yet it is rarely taken up and pursued with discernment and method. There are several reasons for this: first, the human mind is in a state of great confusion about this particular subject; secondly, the undertaking is very difficult and to be successful in it one must have endless endurance and persistence and a will that no failure can weaken.

By Unknown Author - Oct 15, 2021

In a significant message, the Mother once remarked:

By Unknown Author - Oct 15, 2021

We are indeed living in fascinating times. It is interesting to watch how the forces of division and falsehood are taking various forms. Now it is the virus, then it is the vaccine, now it is political instability, now it is the collapse of a neat symmetrical fabric of a world built by reason. All around, one sees chaos and confusion.

By The Mother - Oct 15, 2021

Of all lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.

By Soumitra Basu - Oct 15, 2021

In a world of sophisticated gadgetry, the art of listening suffers a great casualty. Listening is a faculty bestowed by Nature and it is a technique that gets perfected in the matrix of interpersonal relationships. Yet, in a world satiated with hedonistic pleasure and the workaholism of corporate culture, who does justice to the art of listening? It would be tragic to squander away a great gift of nature that holds unfulfilled potentialities. Even the great wisdom came down to the listening Self which were articulated by prophets like Moses and expressed as mantras by the great Upaniṣadic seers.