The Mother
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Mental health is generally understood as an absence of marked psychological disturbances such as fear. anxiety, depression, anger, jealousy, etc. However it is increasingly felt that it is not the mere absence of these elements, but the presence of certain positive characteristics such as peace, inner security and confidence that should denote mental health. Moreover, the constant chatter and distractibility of the mind, the perpetual hankering for different ...
Physical culture has been an important part of life at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram since 1945 when a formal exercise programme for both the students and the members of the Ashram was first organised. The Mother considered physical education and culture vital to the integral development of the individual:
The human body must be improved, perfected, and it must become a superhuman body capable of expressing a being higher than man.... It is by an enlightened physical ...
In December 1943 the Mother opened a school for the children who had come with their families to settle in the Ashram. The number of students steadily increased and the school eventually grew into the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, with classes ranging from nursery to college level. The Mother asked some of the Ashram sadhaks to become teachers and offered her guidance to both students and teachers to create a centre of education whose aim was ...
Experts from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother published in AIM booklets are the editor’s selection intended to give the reader some basic idea on the subject. These are by no means exhaustive. These compilations, we hope, will inspire the reader to study the complete work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Titles to the excerpts are given by the editor.
Prayers and Meditations is a record of the Mother's early spiritual life. The 313 entries in this book were selected by the Mother herself from her spiritual diaries. Most of them are from the period 1912 to 1917.
"How beautiful, grand, simple and calm everything is in the hours when my thought takes its flight to Thee and unites with Thee! And from the day it becomes possible for us to keep this supreme clear-sightedness constantly, with what an airy and ...
Excerpts from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother published in AIM booklets are the editor's selection intended to give the reader some basic idea on the subject. These are by no means exhaustive. These compilations, we hope, will inspire the reader to study the complete works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Titles to the excerpts are given by the editor.