ESSAYS ON SPIRITUALITY IN LIFE
(written by Mother's Service Society)

The Spirit Center

The following essays on spirituality in life were written by members of the Mothers' Service Society.
Clicking an item will take you to that article at the MSS site.

On Sri Aurobindo's Works and Ideas:

Sri Aurobindo, The Mother and the Ashram

The Age of Sri Aurobindo -- Mother's Yoga

Assumptions Behind the Works of Sri Aurobindo

Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine

The Life Divine,  Levels of Comprehension

A Discussion on Aspects of The Life Divine

Sri Aurobindo's View of Existence
Sri Aurobindo's Theory of Creation

The Absolute

A Glimpse of Sri Aurobindo's Delight 

Spiritual Realisation in Yoga 
Some Fundamentals of Yoga

Detachment and Integral Yoga

Significance of Sri Aurobindo's Surrender 
Surrender Renders Strength

Evolution of the Spirit
From Becoming to the Being of the Becoming

The Moment of the Movement

Attainment of Higher Consciousness

Brahma Jananam
Slow, Deliberate Joy of Nature
Rational Approach to Mysticism

Integrality of Life

Changing Dimensions of Consciousness
Gross and Subtle Planes
Infinite Expressing the Finite
Moment of Truth 

The Vision of Savitri 

Science and Spirituality

On Human Accomplishment:

The Hour of God
  
Limiting the Limitless
Human Choice During Times of Transition  

Making the Unreal Real   
The Process of Decision-Making  
Organising the Higher Consciousness in Us 
Everlasting Freshness

Silent Will
The Moment
The Secret of Values

On Human Personality:

Organisation of Personality
Nine Levels

Levels of Personality One to Nine
Wills at Several Levels of the Personality

Composition of Human Personality
Planes and Parts of the Being
Human Personality

Human Development
The Process of Personal Growth 
The Significance of Passion -- Napoleon
Psychological DNA


On Success and Luck:

Swabhava and Prosperity
What is the Key?
 
Abundant Prosperity
 
The Creative Power of Money
A Wonderful Beginning, Steady Expansion

Prosperity -- Spiritual & Material  
Unfailing Success
Unfailing Conscious Efficiency that is the Formula for Luck 
Formula for Universal Luck

Social Power Multiplying the Money Power
Money--Subtle Knowledge

History of Human Accomplishment
Potentials are Infinite


On Education:

Genius of the Child 
Teaching is One Part of Education

Newspaper as a Tool of Teaching a Language  
Fiction
Reading and Writing

Educating the Child
Education
The Energy Behind the Genius
Information -- Spiritual Grace
Wisdom that Explains World Events
Santa Claus


On the Family:

Marriage 
Formula for Family Happiness  
Family and Mother's Truth

Peaceful Domestic Happiness

On Yoga in Life:

Felicity and Joy    
Mother's Force Can Abridge Evolution 

Prayer as Consecration 
Karma vs. Luck  
Whether Faith can be Created or Increased?

The Power of Prayer
Enjoyment and Ego

Methods by which Strength Gathers
What is a Choice
Goodness

Calling The Mother into Us
Negative Changes into Positive
The Other Man's Point of View -- Identifying with Mother

Inner Self-Awareness
Romance is the Eternal Emerging in the Ephemeral
The Rationale of the Irrational
What is a Conscious Act?
Significance of Surrender that Transforms

I am NOT Born Like That
Moving to a Higher Centre

Surrender
Consecration of the Past
Self-giving  

To Speak Only the Truth
Patience
Force  

Flowers and Their Messages
Why is Consecration Powerful?
Silence
Sincerity

Offering


On Life Response in Books and Films:

"Sabrina"
"Erin Brockovich"  

  Siddhartha    

"Contact" - The Movie
"Gone With the Wind"
"An Affair to Remember"
Notes on "An Ideal Husband"
Notes on Anthony Trollope's Warden and Barchester Towers
Notes on Jane Eyre 
Social Evolution in Pride and Prejudice

On the Mind and Knowledge

Mind in its Purity  
Memory 

The Occupation of the Mind
Knowledge of the Future is There in the Past 
Subtle Knowledge
Knowledge
Intellect Acquiring Subtle Instinct
Intellect and Intelligence


On Society:

India and Her Great Future
Perception of Poverty 

Youth and the Wisdom of the World

The Great Institutions of the Society

Individuality of Values and Light in the Body
The Actual Reason and the Assumed Reason  

The Power of a New Ideal
Religion in Politics

Self-Generation of Prosperity by the Society
Corruption
True Leader and Public Opinion
The Creative Collective
Social Evolution
Planes of Existence and Strategies


On Organisation:

Potential for Organisation 
Hierarchy of Organisation

Evolution of Organisation
Various Levels of Organisation in Language
Mind the Organiser
Physical Organisation of the World
The Living Organisation


On Problems:

Vertigo
Anger

Habits
Situations that Defy Surrender or Consecration
Insoluble Problems
Breaking the Human


On Problems:
Spiritual Opulence