Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Love

by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and Pavitra

This book reveals the true nature and movements of the great universal force that is Love, its purification and liberation, and the manifestation of Divine Love and Ananda.

At first one loves only when one is loved. Next, one loves spontaneously but one wants to be loved in return. Further on, one loves even if one is not loved but one still wants one's love to be accepted. And finally one loves purely and simply without any other need or joy than that of loving. The Mother This is a miracle that men can love God, yet fail to love humanity. With whom are they in love then?

-Sri Aurobindo

About the Authors:

Born in Paris in 1878, the Mother studied painting at an art studio and became an accomplished artist. Primarily interested in inner development, she was associated with several groups of spiritual seekers in France.

In 1914 she journeyed to India to meet the Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo in Puducherry and settled there permanently in 1920. For nearly fifty years, she was the head of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, from its founding in 1926 until her passing in 1973. She also established a school, the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, in 1952, and an international township, Auroville, in 1968.

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and practice of a new spiritual path which he called the "integral yoga," the aim of which was to further the evolution of life on earth by establishing a high level of spiritual consciousness which he called the Supermind that would represent a divine life.

Sri Aurobindo wrote prolifically in English on his spiritual philosophy and practice, on social and political development, on Indian culture including extensive commentaries and translations of ancient Indian scriptures, on literature and poetry including the writing of much spiritual poetry.