Stories, teachings and more from Auroville, India.
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11/30/15 • 02:06
On the 21st of February 2018, at Unity Pavilion, Loretta shared the first part of her talk “Finding the Soul”. Reading from Savitri and quoting Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s various writings, Loretta took all present on the inner exploration deep within to find their Soul. Grace was emanating through the strong presence of Sri Aurobindo that evening. At the end when Loretta asked if anyone had any questions there was a pure silence in the room. How could any questions arise once the Soul is recognized, so beautiful!
9/1/16 • 44:26
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9/1/16 • 08:01
Mother and Sri Aurobindo have given very clear information about death and transformation. Part of their work was to bring humanity to the point where death and rebirth were no longer necessary for the universal transformation which goes on all the time and which affects everyone, whether they know about it or not. They spoke about an accelerated transformation which would more quickly bring man to this point. In the first talk we had their answers to the age-old questions; what is death, and what happens when we die.
9/1/16 • 23:08
Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Centenary will come on August 15, 2022. In 2021 we begin a year of tribute to honor everything he did for humanity, the earth and the universe. As this year of tribute begins, we look at the beginning of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, which was formed to help and guide the the very first seekers who followed his footsteps on the golden path of consciousness that he brought for all. In Sri Aurobindo’s letters we have his own words describing the consciousness he used to help the early Ashramites, and the work he did together as one with his partner, the Mother of his Ashram. As well, we have Sri Aurobindo’s letters on his teachings about the Yoga Shakti, the evolutionary power which is usually called the Kundalini power. His teachings go far beyond traditional teachings on the subject. Finally we have some beautiful and moving personal experiences of Sri Aurobindo and Mother in those very early days.
9/1/16 • 74:52
In February a group of Chinese visitors requested a lecture on Sri Aurobindo and Mother. Some of them have read Chinese translations of Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s books by scholar Hu Hsu, who lived in the Ashram. Loretta gave two talks and answered their questions. The Chinese interpreter was Anandi Zhang. The first talk is on the lives of Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and their realizations of the new consciousness that the world now feels, and the work they did to help mankind receive this consciousness. The visitors have a small place of spiritual practice at the foot of the Zhongnan Mountains, home to monks, nuns and other spiritual seekers since ancient times. Their aspiration is that more and more people in China will have access to Sri Aurobindo and Mother’s teachings and will be inspired to do the Yoga of Transformation. They hope to bring back to China the energy and blessings they feel here.
9/1/16 • 88:13
In Mother’s Prayers and Meditations, written in 1914, we get a glimpse of Mother carrying on the yoga of the earth-consciousness for the transformation. She speaks of this several times again in Mother’s Agenda. She explains that her body was built for making universal progress. By 1964 Mother’s body is completely identified with the material substance of the earth – the terrestrial consciousness, and the cells of her body want to be totally transparent to receive the descending force. This talk is centered around several original French recordings from Mother’s Agenda, preceded by the English translation. Mother says that she is doing the sadhana for the Ashramites. There are also stories of Mother and Sri Aurobindo materializing in different places in the world to help people.
9/1/16 • 69:17
On February 3, 1958, Mother’s consciousness went to the place where the link between the Supramental World and our material world is being formed. She had been talking about a new world which was being formed and she saw that this growing link was the new world that she had been seeing. The most material Supramental consciousness was penetrating the most material consciousness in the creation. This is the first entry of the new consciousness in our world. She returned from her experience and dictated it to someone who wrote it all down. She read out the report to the Ashramites. She spoke in detail about her own participation in the formation of this world and described some of the place in detail. She recognized a few people there who were in the Ashram and some who were outside.This talk is centered around the original French tape recording of Mother reading her report. The English translation is given before the French recording.
9/1/16 • 68:23
On the night of April 13 1962, Mother woke up suddenly with the full awareness of the Yoga of the world. Mother was the Origin. Fully conscious on her bed, she was great gusts of the essence of Love. There was only the truth of the universe. Mother describes her experience in the recording made the next day.
9/1/16 • 78:04
Starting after midnight on January 1, 1969, Mother felt a new consciousness come into her body – a luminous, benevolent, joyous personality. It was the personality which would manifest in the superman, the intermediary between man and the supramental being, and which would persist through the evolution into the supramental being. Mother received important lessons from this new being in the progression of her work for transformation. This talk is centered around Mother’s Agenda entries about many of Mother’s experiences with the new being preceded by the English translation. Among Mother’s experiences given here, she speaks of looking down and seeing her new body for the first time.
9/1/16 • 78:06
On January 20, 2011, started a series of five talks on some of the Mother’s major experiences in Her work of transformation. Loretta wants to simplify things for people who are on the journey of Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga. Along with her explanations, she brings Mother’s Presence by translating and playing recordings of Mother telling of these experiences, and telling stories about Ashram life when Mother was here.Loretta was asked if she thought Mother finished Her work before She left the body. As part of her answer, Loretta relates her own experience standing alone in the Ashram Meditation Room with Mother’s body in the early morning.
9/1/16 • 18:18
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9/1/16 • 36:00
The Transition School teachers chose “Peace” as the special value this year. Loretta was invited to speak to four different classes of 9-10 year old children on Mother and Peace. She brought photographs of Mother with the Ashram school children and read a text of Mother teaching on how to find peace. This talk brings stories of Mother and the Ashram children and Auroville in the early days. Mother’s teaching on Peace is useful for people of every age.
9/1/16 • 22:32
Aurovilian Loretta speaks of the openness and reception of the people and the spiritual force at two International workshops in October, one in Italy, sponsored by the Community of Living Ethics, and one in Canada, sponsored by The Mother’s Circle study group. Fiorenza Bortolotti, A community leader in the Italian community, gives the history of her community. Their teachings about the new force and the new age, and the yoga related to its coming are similar to Sri Aurobindo’s. Called Psychosynthesis, these teachings and methods were created by psychologist Roberto Assagioli, a contemporary of Sri Aurobindo. He based it all on teachings from the East, including Sri Aurobindo’s teachings and the transmissions received by Helena Roerich, wife of the Russian painter, Nicholas Roerich, and combined it with his knowledge of psychology and medicine. Auroville and the Community of Living Ethics have many spiritual things in common.
9/1/16 • 61:52
Loretta speaks about the deep, mystic relationship that Sri Aurobindo and Mother have as the Purusha, the Supreme, divine unmanifest, and the Prakriti, his power of creation and manifestation who is the whole creation. She gives things from Savitri which show us that this relationship is an Eternal love affair. She tells about the coming of the Supramental Force and Mother’s experience in bringing it, and some of its results in Mother’s life. She also tells about some prophesies of the coming of the force and also one prophecy about the coming of Auroville.
9/1/16 • 95:59
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9/1/16 • 51:22
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9/1/16 • 79:59
Sri Aurobindo advanced very quickly on the path of Yoga as soon as he started. Nirvana and Cosmic Consciousness take many years to achieve. He attained Nirvana after only three days of Yoga practice. After that, it took just four months for Cosmic Consciousness to begin to emerge in him, and a year later he realised it in full. In this tribute we have Sri Aurobindo’s own words describing his experiences and realisations.
9/1/16 • 86:02
The first major step in the practice of Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga is to realize our individual soul. Sri Aurobindo said he used his writing of Savitri as an exercise of putting consciousness in writing. As he was doing his own yoga he changed what he had written according to the new level of consciousness he achieved. He described two journeys from the outermost part of a human being through all the planes of consciousness from the most gross to the most subtle, the soul. Savitri makes the journey to her own soul in her heart chakra at the center of her subtle being. This is her yoga to realize her soul. Savitri’s father, King Aswapathy, is already a soul-realized person. He makes the same journey for a different reason. He travels consciously and simultaneously through the planes of his own being and through the universal planes of being to the World Soul, in the heart of the world at the Centre of Creation. First we travel with Savitri through one part of our subtle being, and then we journey through the same part with the King. Sri Aurobindo wrote each journey as a different teaching and a different experience. He wrote his own yoga history in the journey of the King, and Savitri’s journey is the Mother’s journey. Today we enter the inner worlds from the outside and begin a wonderful journey with two most remarkable people; Savitri and King Aswapathy.
9/1/16 • 75:43
Members of the Italian Community Of Living Ethics attended a talk by Loretta on integral health and healing according to Sri Aurobindo and Mother. Many of the visitors were Naturopaths. They learned about the planes of the physical, mental, and vital and how an illness could be in any or all of these parts of the patient. Mother taught that illness is always a fall back into some kind of unconsciousness because we are not able to keep up with the movement of transformation of our consciousness. This is true whether it is Nature’s slower evolution in us or when we do yoga to work for faster transformation. All illness is a disharmony in the being. The healer’s work is to restore harmony. All healing is a change of consciousness. The talk ended with this quotation from Mother; “The method we use to deal with our body, to maintain it, to keep it fit, to improve it and keep it in good health, depends exclusively on the state of consciousness we are in, because our body is an instrument of our consciousness and our consciousness can act directly on our body and can obtain what we want from it.
9/1/16 • 76:02
The first major goal to attain in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga is to realize your own soul, called by Sri Aurobindo the Psychic Being, from the Greek (and French) word, Psyche. In July, 2010, at the Matagiri AUM Conference in New York, Loretta gave a lecture called Finding the Psychic Being, which presented recordings of Mother teaching the Ashram school children how to find their soul.That tiny portion of the One Supreme which decided to forget its universal totality in order to become an individual and to grow back into itself by successive realizations through many lifetimes is our individual soul. This lecture radiates the atmosphere of the Psychic Being and explains how to find it through Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s teachings.
9/1/16 • 13:14
On the 22nd of February, at Unity Pavilion, Loretta shared the second part of her talk “Finding The Soul”, whilst using Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem “Savitri”, which he says contains all of his teachings in the form of mystic poetry, as her main reference. Loretta starts the talk by saying “We are traveling with Savitri through her inner body, she’s making her way to find her immortal Soul”. This beautifully sets the tone for what follows. Loretta goes on saying that “they taught us we have to be conscious of our soul (psychic being) as this makes everything in life much easier and also those around us much happier too”. So lets find a quiet time and place to listen and travel within with Savitri, guided by Loretta, to the recognition of Soul and to share the experience of all the deep and powerful things that happen when our Soul comes forward within us.
9/1/16 • 65:37
Mother and Sri Aurobindo taught a lot about death, and most of the time they also spoke about life and transformation being connected with death. Both Mother and Sri Aurobindo had a lot of experience and did a lot of work connected with death and rebirth. Part of their work was to bring humanity beyond the point of needing to go through death and rebirth.
9/2/16 • 63:12
In this talk we travel with Savitri as she makes her way through the huge crashing waves of vital energy that normally flood the human vital. We see how we can be affected by strong lower energies. And we see how we can be carried away when we have not mastered our own energies and the energies that come into us. Then we travel with King Aswapathy as he takes the dangerous journey all the way down to the bottom of the Inconscient to solve the mystery of life’s pain and struggle in human beings. As we travel, we have Sri Aurobindo’s teachings about adverse forces, hostile forces, possession, and vital beings: what they really are, how they have shaped history in the past, how they affect the world today, and what we can do about it.
9/2/16 • 79:29
Loretta speaks of the inner and outer lives and the inner and outer work of Sri Aurobindo and Mother. She tells about Mother’s early realizations as a child, and Sri Aurobindo’s realizations before he came to Pondicherry. Throughout all of this history she tells of the great Love they have for the world, for humanity, and she shows us what great Beings came here to bring the new force.
9/2/16 • 73:11
The third talk resume our journeys to travel first with Savitri through the human mind. The mind is an organized, orderly place. Here the life energies which ran wild and free in the uncontrolled vital being, in the absence of the soul’s influence, are bound and tamed and held under strict control. Savitri was told to seek for her soul in “matter’s body”, so she goes only through the usual mental functions which all people have.
9/3/16 • 83:25
Members of the Italian Community Of Living Ethics attended a talk by Loretta on integral health and healing according to Sri Aurobindo and Mother. Many of the visitors were Naturopaths. They learned about the planes of the physical, mental, and vital and how an illness could be in any or all of these parts of the patient. Mother taught that illness is always a fall back into some kind of unconsciousness because we are not able to keep up with the movement of transformation of our consciousness. This is true whether it is Nature’s slower evolution in us or when we do yoga to work for faster transformation. All illness is a disharmony in the being. The healer’s work is to restore harmony. All healing is a change of consciousness. The talk ended with this quotation from Mother; “The method we use to deal with our body, to maintain it, to keep it fit, to improve it and keep it in good health, depends exclusively on the state of consciousness we are in, because our body is an instrument of our consciousness and our consciousness can act directly on our body and can obtain what we want from it.
9/4/16 • 72:25
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12/10/18 • 65:09
This is the story of Savitri very briefly told with excerpts from the book.
8/15/21 • 39:08
The second half of the story begins with the birth of the Divine Mother as Princess Savitri, King Aswapathy’s daughter. As Savitri grows up, there is no one is worthy to marry her, so her father sends her to travels the world to find her mate. She finds Satyavan in the forest, but Satyavan has only one year to live. They marry and Savitri prepares herself to face Almighty Death. When Satyavan dies, Savitri follows Death through the nether worlds to convince Death that Satyavan should be returned to her so they can do their Divine work together on earth.
8/16/21 • 49:07
