Sri Aurobindo is the sage
and seer who, along with his partner
The
Mother, dedicated
their lives to bringing about the next stage of
evolution of life on earth.
Throughout his life Sri Aurobindo worked outwardly on his massive
body of writings, and worked inwardly to connect to the divine consciousness to bring down
its properties into the world. His partner, The Mother, followed a similar path, focusing
on the transformation of her own physical body to be the forerunner of a new type of human
being. She also served as an intermediary between her followers and the new evolutionary spiritual force
that
Sri Aurobindo had uncovered.
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother worked to
establish the spiritual power on earth, so that suffering, pain, falsehood, cruelty, and
poverty in any form would be fully and finally abolished forever from earth’s
existence.
Sri Aurobindo's basic tenet is
that mankind is not the last rung in the evolutionary scale. Mankind too
will evolve beyond his current capacities, ushering in a new man, or species if you will,
guided by and filled with the knowledge, truth, substance, and energy of the new spiritual
consciousness.
In his
voluminous writings Sri Aurobindo described amongst
other things -- the nature, process, and
purpose of creation, and life as we know it on earth;
the process of transformation of the individual from
his current limited status to his ultimate evolutionary possibility; and
the likely course of the future
of humanity; i.e. his ultimate purpose and destiny in
the cosmos. These
subjects of inquiry were covered in his great
metaphysical opus
The Life Divine; in his
tome on the path of personal
evolution, The Synthesis of Yoga,
and in his 20,000 line epic poem
Savitri.
The Mother's attempts to bring down the new consciousness
into life and her personal effort of physical transformation of her own body are described in the
fascinating 13-volume series of books known as The Agenda.
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The
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In
1968 The Mother founded Auroville,
the international community of peace and spiritual growth. Its purpose is
to be an experimental community where individuals can make the effort to
evolve beyond their present limitations. Auroville has been established as
an experiment in Human Unity where each individual is freed from bondage
to moral and social conventions and the necessity of working for material
possessions. There is no religion practiced there, nor is there ownership
of property. The emphasis is on each person discovering his/her own inner
center behind the social, moral, cultural and racial heredity and
appearances, and actively living from that center, expressing it in outer
work for the community. Auroville is a UN sponsored endeavor that attracts
people worldwide because of its openness, new age lifestyle, and
dedication to a vision of a new humanity.
The Mothers Service Society is an organization
dedicated to further extending the ideas of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, and applying
them in the areas of personal growth, business development, social development, economics,
education, literature, and science. Over the last few decades the Society
has been actively engaged in world economic and social forums, presenting breakthrough
ideas in various areas of social development, and has worked in tandem with the highest governmental officials throughout the world in applying their ideas to real world
economic and social problems.
Many of the ideas of the
society have been used throughout the
Growth Online site, and this
New
Insights into the Life and
Teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother
site,
including topics related to the individual, business, society, science,
education, the universe, spirituality, and other fields
of life.
