Sri
Aurobindo came to Pondicherry on 4 April 1910 to pursue a spiritual
goal—the goal of supramental transformation—never before successfully
attempted by anyone. While engaged in the freedom struggle in Bengal,
Sri Aurobindo received an adesh (a divine command) to go to Pondicherry.
In one of his letters to a disciple he wrote:
“Pondicherry is my place of retreat, my cave of tapasya, not of the ascetic kind, but of a brand of my own invention.”
This day marks a most significant event which led to a revolution in the destiny of Man, bringing in the possibility of a New World, a New Humanity whose life will be based on a higher consciousness. From the moment of his arrival at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo was constantly engaged in the tremendous work of laying the foundations of this new world.
He said:
“We do not want to exclude any of the world’s activities. Politics, trade, social organisation, poetry, art, literature—all will remain. But all will be given a new life, a new form...”
And then, his call for working collectively to achieve this goal:
“If we are spread out everywhere as individuals, something no doubt will be done; if we are spread out everywhere in the form of a Sangha*, a hundred times more will be accomplished.”
[*Sangha: a collective body, divine fellowship]
“Pondicherry is my place of retreat, my cave of tapasya, not of the ascetic kind, but of a brand of my own invention.”
This day marks a most significant event which led to a revolution in the destiny of Man, bringing in the possibility of a New World, a New Humanity whose life will be based on a higher consciousness. From the moment of his arrival at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo was constantly engaged in the tremendous work of laying the foundations of this new world.
He said:
“We do not want to exclude any of the world’s activities. Politics, trade, social organisation, poetry, art, literature—all will remain. But all will be given a new life, a new form...”
And then, his call for working collectively to achieve this goal:
“If we are spread out everywhere as individuals, something no doubt will be done; if we are spread out everywhere in the form of a Sangha*, a hundred times more will be accomplished.”
[*Sangha: a collective body, divine fellowship]
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