Talks in English: Recent Episodes
Dr. Alok Pandey
This talk at Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America (SAYFNA), New Jersey, is about the ordinary state of consciousness and the change that comes through Yoga.
This talk at Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America (SAYFNA) takes up the inner side of the story of Evolution.
This is a webinar with Gargi College students and staff organised on the occasion of the International Yoga Day. It touches upon various aspects of Yoga. The talk was followed by questions such as:
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Has Yoga evolved over time?
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How does Yoga impact our collective life?
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How to practice Yoga in the busy daily life?
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
This webinar is part of the program on Developing your own Immunity organised by NAMAH. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Shakti Kumbh program in Unity Pavillion, Auroville, on Feb.27, 2024.
This talk at Matriniketan, Sri Aurobindo Society takes up the issue of Integral Health from the evolutionary perspective. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
This talk is about the gradations of the Mind and the emergence of the Mind of Light. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
We look at the dilemma Arjuna faced at the battlefield of Kurukshetra, which is still relevant and can be understood in terms of current times.
Follow-up question: Different units of collectivity and swadharma?
This talk touches upon the role and action of the Adverse forces and ways to get rid of them. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
We look at the great secret of Avatarhood through Divine Birth, Divine work and the Secret of the Divine Incarnation.
The question asked are: 1. Conscious will and dynamic action (beyond the three gunas). 2. How to understand leela of bhagwan?
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey
This talk is on the period of life that we call as adolescence. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
This is a tribute to Sri Aurobindo on the occasion of his arrival to Pondicherry on the 4th April 1910.
This talk touches upon some aspects of the Supramental Manifestation on the 29th February 1956.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Beach Office of the Sri Aurobindo Society in Pondicherry.
This talk delivered at Savitri Bhavan is about dealing with Vital difficulties.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
In this webinar with SAYFNA, New Jersey, we revisit this age old debate on Fate and free will in the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
Webinar with La Grace Integral Life Center, South Carolina, USA. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
This is part of an interactive session held at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Beach Office as part of the Women Council on the 20th November 2023. Some of the questions were:
- Reading Savitri
- Reading Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
- Consecration and Surrender
- Traditional Japa and turning to the Mother.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Sri Aurobindo Centre Gurugram, 2023.
A NOTE: श्रीअरविन्दोपनिषद् śrīaravindopaniṣad is one of the Sanskrit writings of Sri Aurobindo which consists of only 27 lines. Its essence has been summed up as: Brahman is real, the Jagat is also real and the Jagat is fully pervaded by Brahman who is one without a second and the jiva himself is Brahman. The entire thought style and presentation is Upanishadic, arising from Sri Aurobindo’s own spiritual experiences. To read this Upanishad and listen to its rhythmic chanting visit: https://upanishads.org.in/upanishads/10
[both note above and the recitation are by Dr. Sampadananda Mishra]
In this English webinar with Rashtram School we take up the topic of “Knowledge and Ignorance as revealed in the Upanishads”.
We look at some great truths preserved in the form of Upanishads. Follow-up questions were: 1. Difference between Indian and Greek thought. 2. Presence of psychic being in creation
The first in the 17-instalment series on the Upanishads by Dr Alok Pandey. The series is assembled from groups of talks. The first four talks, never published before, were recorded as webinars for the Rashtram School in India in 2022.
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey touches upon certain aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s Mahasamadhi on the 05th December 1950.
Democracy is proving inadequate, but what are the alternatives? This talk is on possibility of higher forms of governance. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
This talk at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville deals with our relation with the Mother with regard to different dimensions of Prosperity.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the 2023 integral Yoga Retreat at the La Grace Integral Life Centre, South Carolina, USA.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the 2023 integral Yoga Retreat at the La Grace Integral Life Centre, South Carolina, USA.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the 2023 integral Yoga Retreat at the La Grace Integral Life Centre, South Carolina, USA.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the 2023 integral Yoga Retreat at the La Grace Integral Life Centre, South Carolina, USA.
Recorded in the Savitri Bhavan, Auroville, this talk followed the first Study Camp on The Life Divine.
A webinar on the concept of Akhand Bharat – an undivided Greater India.
The questions asked were:
– Is the unity in Akhand Bharat primarily cultural, spiritual, or political?
– Given today’s geopolitical conditions, what are the challenges and opportunities for fostering cooperation and unity among the nations of the subcontinent? How do geopolitical factors impact the concept of Akhand Bharat?
– How does the diverse demography of the region influence the idea of Akhand Bharat? Does the presence of different religious and ethnic groups pose challenges or opportunities for unity?
– How do changing mindsets among the younger generations impact how people perceive the concept of Akhand Bharat? What role does generational perspective play in this discussion?
– What is the relevance of cultural unity in power and geopolitics scenarios?
– Is Akhand Bharat possible only on historical and cultural backgrounds?
– Can we define or redefine the Akhand Bharat concept in the context of globalization?
– As Sri Aurobindo says, spiritual nationalism was essential during the national movement. Therefore, it was necessary to define Akand Bharat during those days, but today, how to situate the concept of Akand Bharat without a National Movement?
– Does the Akhand Bharat concept solve the problem in India, which has become a global problem like in Israel?
– How does the concept of Akhand Bharat accommodate Islamic countries, which are opposite to Indianness or Indian cultural heritage?
This talk in Auroville touches upon some core elements of Education. Questions asked were on Free Progress System, Role of example and influence, rootedness in ancient Sanatan Dharma and modern times.
A new Age has dawned upon earth and a new humanity is in the making. This talk is about these new children.
This talk has been given at the Mother’s Garden, Auroville on the occasion of Sri Aurobindo’s birthday.
This talk at the Savitri Bhavan is a broad overview of the Karma Yoga.
A question has been asked on the practice of offering.
An address at the inaugural session of the Indo-American World Yoga Conference organised by Swami Vidyanand ji and Yoga Alliance International.
In this webinar with NAMAH we speak about the hidden reasons of our highest and lows. A question is asked at the end about ways to train the passions.
A Questions and Answers session. Some of the questions:
– Sharing experiences
– Sankhya and multiple purushas
– Reading Sri Aurobindo
– Meaning of the term Psychic being
– More on the psychic being
– The Mother’s Yoga in the physical
– Ultimate Goal of the spiritual seeker
– Sadhana and sickness
– Making choices and the Divine Will
– Dealing with situations.
– Wars
– Getting rid of attachment.
– Story of Ghatotkach and Abhimanyu
– Soul’s true aspiration
– Reading Savitri without understanding.
This talk gives a brief account of some of the fundamental principles of the Integral Yoga.
Q&A on the soul’s journey, the three steps of human evolution, and conceptions of God. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey in Chicago, USA.
This talk is about the various approaches man has taken towards the intended spiritual evolution.
We take up the subject of walking the Supramental Path.
A follow-up question: How to approach global issues currently in the world?
We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take the chapters twenty seven and twenty eight of Book Two.
The questions asked were:
1. Development of the parts of being.
2. How Soul grows through experiences.
3. Can one aspire for a certain kind of next life?
We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take Chapters 25 – 26 of Book Two.
The question asked was ‘Psychic and Spiritual and Beyond’.
We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ by Sri Aurobindo and take chapters 23 – 24 of Book Two.
The questions asked:
– Discipline vs spiritual practices.
We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take the chapter nineteen to twenty two of part two of Book Two.
The questions asked were:
1. Shraddha rituals and it’s significance.
2. Evolution acceleration caused by Supermental manifestation.
3. Aspiration needed while departing from the body and preparation of next birth.
Ascent and Integration. In this this English webinar with Rashtram School we continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take the first four chapers of part two of Book Two.
The question asked was:
1. Where are the roots of habits?
The origin and remedy of Falsehood and Evil.
We take up Chapters Nine to Fourteen of Book Two.
The questions asked were:
1. Psychic being in traditional Kundalini yoga.
2. Good and evil behind all events.
Knowledge and Ignorance. We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take Chapters Four to Eight of the Book Two.
The questions asked were:
1. Subliminal and it’s discussion in written literature.
2. Lucid dreams and hallucinations.
Reconciliation of opposites. We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take the first four chapters of Book Two.
The questions asked were:
1. Insincerity and its origin.
2. Difference between self, individual and being.
We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take the chapters twenty four to twenty eight.
The questions asked were:
1. Reconciliation of opposites.
2. How to know ones swadharma?
3. Deriving energy from different source.
4. Divine life in a divine body.
5. Getting over craving for food.
Mind, life and the soul of man. We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take the chapters seventeen to twenty three.
The Creation and the Creator (Supermind and Maya). We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take the chapters eleven to sixteen.
The questions asked were:
1. Maya and Nature
2. Central being, Jivatman, Soul and Psychic being.
3. Formative power.
Now we continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ by Sri Aurobindo, and take the chapters five to ten.
Human aspiration and the Omnipresent Reality.
We continue the series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo and take the first four chapters.
This is the first talk of a series on ‘The Life Divine’ written by Sri Aurobindo.
The questions asked were:
1. Truth in its totality.
2. Plant medicine.
3. Use of drugs by seekers of lower rung.
4. How to approach reading ‘The Life Divine’.
This webinar with NAMAH takes up the first indispensable step of Yoga that is purification.
This webinar is based on discovering the essence of the Gita with reference to the Supramental Yoga of the future. A webinar with La Grace Integral Life Center, North Carolina, USA
This talk is about the inherent complexity of our being and nature which we have to reckon with for the Yoga.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
An overview of the essence of integral education and its true purpose.
Follow-up questions included:
- The need for unlearning
- Contagion of consciousness
- Yoga and education
In this webinar with La Grace we see how Savitri reveals to us the highest possibility of spiritual realisation.
The questions asked were:
1. How does one know if one has a call or if it is deception of mind to escape?
2. On yoga
3. How to apply Savitri to mental illness?
4. What can I do every day to get closer to the psychic in me?
In this English webinar with participants of the Integral Yoga Retreat at Sri Aurobindo Dham, Karnataka, we take up questions related to the Yoga after a brief background on the subject.
The questions were:
- The Mother’s Yoga in modern life context.
- Please explain: ‘Death is a process of life’.
- Aspiration of the soul in mind and vital.
- Advice to make the best of Spiritual retreat.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Savitri Bhavan, Auroville, in April 2023.
A follow-up question: Is Auroville a spiritual city or just an international township?
This talk at the Savitri Bhavan discusses the ways to collective realisation of the spiritual life.
This talk delivered at the Sri Aurobindo Education Society touches upon some aspects of National Education. Audio only.
How attachments and bonds that one experiences in life can be transmuted into spiritual links. An English webinar with NAMAH – The Integral Journal of Health.
The questions were: 1. How attachments masquerade themselves. 2. How to deal with attachments which are becoming a weakness.
This talk at Sri Aurobindo Bhawan Kolkata takes up the subject of crisis and the way to navigate through it.
This webinar with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi Branch is focused on what is a beautiful life and the ways to manifest it.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Brahmanaspati Kshetram, The Mother Sri Aurobindo Centre, Edayanchavadi, Auroville. Recorded on 29 March 2023.
This is a Q&A session following the main talk on education (TE 462).
The questions asked were :
– Learning from Nature;
– Need of a framework;
– The necessity of school.
This talk is centered around what the education really should be.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Aha Kindergarten in Auroville.
This talk touches upon the gifts that the Mother has brought for earth and humanity. The following texts by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were used:
In this talk we read a message given on the 21st February 1948.
“VICTORY TO THE MOTHER
India is free but she has not achieved unity, only a fissured and broken freedom…. But by whatever means, the division must and will go. [Sri Aurobindo]
O our Mother, Soul of India, guide us so that we may be always on the side of great ideals and show to men thy true visage, as a leader in the ways of the spirit and a friend and helper of all the peoples. [The Mother]
A new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race. [Sri Aurobindo]”
In this English webinar with La Grace Center we read some passages from Savitri that reveal Glory of the Divine Mother.
The questions asked were:
1. Does surrender build a home for the Mother
2. The opening in Rigveda explained
3. Whom does Satyavan represent in Savitri.
This is a webinar with some students of Psychology from the Delhi University recorded on 7th Nov 2022. The questions were as below:
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Traumatic experiences such as sexual harassment how to reconcile with it? Given if we have to again encounter the person who did it on a regular basis?
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At this juncture, when we are trying to enter the professional world, there’s constant unsettling within me with how to progress ahead. There are certain things that I might want to do, and certain others that I don’t want to do as much it comes with certain perks majorly financial- all this with expectations from the family and desire to be financially independent. How do I navigate?
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How do we understand death? It is as much a part of our life as birth, however there a denial about it. Is it just the death of the body or is there any way to view is, to make life more meaningful not just see our existence by some mere chance
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At times it so happens that there’s a thing I have been wanting to do. And when the moment comes, I am doing it but something would happen in the middle of it or when i am just about to complete it, that there would be urges in me which just don’t want to complete it. They will not let me do, I find myself torn apart. I want to do, and there’s a part in me which is not letting me. What is it? Why does this happens? What is the way out?
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How to be with a child and how to be like a child. Keeping the inner wonder and curiosity alive.
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As a generation now we are becoming aware more and more aware about our civilization, its culture and its spiritual roots. Also, understanding how we have been fed wrong information over the years in school. So why it’s that? Is it because of the evolution of consciousness or the political influence that is taking place?
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When sharing our personal journey whether in spiritual or experiences in life how do we know its out of our ego that we are sharing or its an act of giving.
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How do we develop ourselves to be able to help people in their pain and suffering? Especially in metal health.
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Does modern clinical psychology give space for these extraordinary experiences?
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Every time darkness in some form or the other comes up in life, sometimes in form of relationships, in form ambition, in tiny forms. How to be aware of it how to pull ourselves back. How to be in touch with the divine in the worst days
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Strengthening the ego before transcending it (individuality).
This meditation is a demonstration of using guided Imagery, which was shared during a webinar session on Integral Health with Pramukhswami Medical College, Gujarat.
In this English webinar with NAMAH: The Integral Journal of Health we see how one can cultivate the right attitude in Everyday life. A follow-up question: balance between unexpectedness of life, planning and trust.
In this webinar we take up the subject of healing by the intervention of the Divine Grace and the healing Force.
In this English webinar with SAYFNA we discuss the ideals of Swaraj and Swadeshi as propounded by Sri Aurobindo during India’s independence movement and its relevance in present times.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey for Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America, New Jersey, USA.
A session held for a group of teachers trying out an integral approach to teaching in a school based on the ideals of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Education.
A part of the special New Year’s Eve Satsang Programme with Sri Aurobindo Society, Chennai. We read some of the special New year Messages given by the Mother and understand their significance.
Q&A session at the Women Council Meeting of the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
The following subjects were touched upon:
1. Dealing with different kinds of people
2. Difference between Oneness and sameness
3. Worshipping the Snake in tradition
4. Lines from Savitri
A passage from the Mother’s writings:
“QUESTION: What is exactly the nature of religion? Is it an obstacle in the way of the spiritual life?
THE MOTHER: Religion belongs to the higher mind of humanity. It is the effort of man’s higher mind to approach, as far as lies in its power, something beyond it, something to which humanity gives the name God or Spirit or Truth or Faith or Knowledge or the Infinite, some kind of Absolute, which the human mind cannot reach and yet tries to reach. Religion may be divine in its ultimate origin; in its actual nature it is not divine but human. In truth we should speak rather of religions than of religion; for the religions made by man are many. These different religions, even when they had not the same origin, have most of them been made in the same way. We know how the Christian religion came into existence. It was certainly not Jesus who made what is known as Christianity, but some learned and very clever men put their heads together and built it up into the thing we see. There was nothing divine in the way in which it was formed, and there is nothing divine either in the way in which it functions. And yet the excuse or occasion for the formation was undoubtedly some revelation from what one could call a Divine Being, a Being who came from elsewhere bringing down with him from a higher plane a certain Knowledge and Truth for the earth. He came and suffered for his Truth; but very few understood what he said, few cared to find and hold to the Truth for which he suffered. Buddha retired from the world, sat down in meditation and discovered a way out of earthly suffering and misery, out of all this illness and death and desire and sin and hunger. He saw a Truth which he endeavoured to express and communicate to the disciples and followers who gathered around him. But even before he was dead, his teaching had already begun to be twisted and distorted. It was only after his disappearance that Buddhism as a full-fledged religion reared its head founded upon what the Buddha is supposed to have said and on the supposed significance of these reported sayings. But soon too, because the disciples and the disciples’ disciples could not agree on what the Master had said or what he meant by his utterances, there grew up a host of sects and sub-sects in the body of the parent religion—a Southern Path, a Northern Path, a Far Eastern Path, each of them claiming to be the only, the original, the undefiled doctrine of the Buddha. The same fate overtook the teaching of the Christ; that too came to be made in the same way into a set and organised religion. It is often said that, if Jesus came back, he would not be able to recognise what he taught in the forms that have been imposed on it, and if Buddha were to come back and see what has been made of his teaching, he would immediately run back discouraged to Nirvana! All religions have each the same story to tell. The occasion for its birth is the coming of a great Teacher of the world. He comes and reveals and is the incarnation of a Divine Truth. But men seize upon it, trade upon it, make an almost political organisation out of it. The religion is equipped by them with a government and policy and laws, with its creeds and dogmas, its rules and regulations, its rites and ceremonies, all binding upon its adherents, all absolute and inviolable. Like the State, it too administers rewards to the loyal and assigns punishments for those that revolt or go astray, for the heretic and the renegade.
The first and principal article of these established and formal religions runs always, “Mine is the supreme, the only truth, all others are in falsehood or inferior.” For without this fundamental dogma, established credal religions could not have existed. If you do not believe and proclaim that you alone possess the one or the highest truth, you will not be able to impress people and make them flock to you.
This attitude is natural to the religious mind; but it is just that which makes religion stand in the way of the spiritual life. The articles and dogmas of a religion are mind-made things and, if you cling to them and shut yourself up in a code of life made out for you, you do not know and cannot know the truth of the Spirit that lies beyond all codes and dogmas, wide and large and free. When you stop at a religious creed and tie yourself in it, taking it for the only truth in the world, you stop the advance and widening of your inner soul. But if you look at religion from another angle, it need not always be an obstacle to all men. If you regard it as one of the higher activities of humanity and if you can see in it the aspirations of man without ignoring the imperfection of all man-made things, it may well be a kind of help for you to approach the spiritual life. [CWM 03: 76-78]
Deepawali is generally celebrated as the return of Lord Rama after vanquishing Ravana. But there is another mystic dimension to the story that we discover here.
In this webinar with Rashtram school of public leadership, we reflect upon the following sentence from Sri Aurobindo’s “Synthesis of Yoga”: All life is secret Yoga.
Follow-up questions were:
1. The problem of reconciliation in man.
2. Yoga in the animal world through survival instinct.
In this webinar we share some insights into Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga.
The follow-up questions were:
1. What is the Concept of perfection?
2. What do you mean by ego?
3. Is divine an idea of Paramatma?
In this English webinar we share an overview of Sri Aurobindo’s Life.
A follow-up question from the audience was: Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga.
A webinar. Follow-up questions were:
1. With rebirth how does the memories come back?
2. Does the psychic essence become the swabhava of the person?
Some thoughts about the Subjective Age and it’s impact upon mankind.
The follow-up questions were:
1. Where should an individual start his/her journey where this world is bombarded with information?
2. How does modern rationalist see spiritual life?
3. How can this new way potential client by a holistic therapist?
This is a Q&A session, which followed the main talk (TE 439).
The following questions were addressed:
– Karma;
– Evolution;
– the Supramental Manifestation.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America, New Jersey, USA.
A talk at Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America (SAYFNA) in June 2022. This talk deals with the workings of the Divine Will in creation and how we can align with it.
This is a Q&A session, which followed a talk at SAYFNA , New Jersey, recorded on 25th June 2022. The following questions were covered:
– Faith and Belief
– Surrender
– Jnana and Bhakti
– The Idea of India
A talk at Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America, New Jersey, USA, recorded on 25th June 2022. The topic is the law of change and ways of dealing with it. Also it addresses a question on practicing the truth “I am Divine”
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey. The questions were:
1. Who is a true Yogi?
2. True soul nature and psychological methods of reflecting on it.
3. How to make Indian psychology less descriptive and less religious?
4. How can we connect to the Divinity within us?
5. Our plans for life and a greater plan.
Dr Alok Pandey on discovering the psychic being, planes of consciousness, meaning of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s symbols, guarding our faith, on sects, cults and the spiritual journey.
Deepawali is generally celebrated as the return of Lord Rama after vanquishing Ravana. But there is another mystic dimension to the story that we discover here.
In this webinar with IPI we again take up the topic “relationships” and dive deep into it (the previous conversation is available as “TE 356 Relationships: an Evolutionary Perspective”).
The follow-up questions were:
1. Being a good friend.
2. Connecting to people while conversing.
3. Control of speech and beautiful speech.
4. Love Krishna and become like him.
In this English webinar with “NAMAH” we see what lies deep behind our surface personality, especially the soul within us.
The questions asked were:
1. Overcoming duality between divine love and human love.
2. How to practice stepping back in everyday life.
The questions asked were:
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Narcissistic personality disorder in light of Indian psychology (Story of Narcissus and the story of Indra and Virochan is told).
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It is said: You are where you are meant to be. How true is this? (We hear about: conscious choices, will and attitude, and the choice of Savitri)
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The explanation of biological changes in Psychological disorders in light of Spirituality.
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Understanding the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to learn Indian psychology.
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Promises and goals for self that are not given effort.
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Lack of zest in daily life.
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Future of old institutions like Marriage etc. that brings suffering at times.
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Rituals and strict methods are not needed in spirituality, but for someone who is not ready would it not be hard go forward without these rules.
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To know different things and do different things but still not able to choose one.
On many occasions the Mother would converse with the Gods and Goddesses and give us a deeper understanding of their mystery.
This talk touches upon some of the works of Sri Aurobindo.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Sri Aurobindo Integral Yoga Retreat, Greenville, USA.
This a video address recorded for a medical Conference organised by the Sri Aurobindo Medical Association, Odisha.
This session is about poetic inspiration and rhythm.
Dr Alok Pandey and Narad at the 2022 Sri Aurobindo Integral Yoga Retreat, Greenville, South Carolina.
This talk discusses the inner reason for crisis and ways of dealing with it. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the 2022 Sri Aurobindo Integral Yoga Retreat, Greenville, USA.
In the last part of this tri-series we take up the Avataric work of Sri Aurobindo with regard to the Future.
Today we touch upon Sri Aurobindo’s action on the present state of humanity and the direction he has shown.
This webinar is part of a tri-series of talks on Sri Aurobindo’s action on the past, present and future. In this talk we touch upon his work upon the past.
In this English webinar with La Grace integral life center we look at the Nation-specific souls and their roles in the world and it’s future.
The follow-up questions were:
1. Conflicts in the world currently.
2. Do countries that came up due to political reasons and similar, do they too have nation Soul?
3. Role of America.
4. Comments on Canada and multicultural immigration.
5. Can there be one world government? Can it be positive or dark?
6. Can there be a tipping point?
In this webinar on Psychology in the Light of Indian Culture we take up the topic of Pain and Suffering.
The follow-up questions were:
- Is pain inherent in evolution or does it come due to our resistance?
- Following societal law cushions life while becoming an individual changes that, how to balance this.
- Seeing Spirituality as an escape.
- Through Love and compassion taking on the burden of others.
- Difference between pain and Suffering.
This webinar with IGNCA, organised as a part of the 150th Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo touches upon some unique aspects of Sri Aurobindo and his yoga.
This Aug. 15, 2022 Darshan talk by Dr Alok Pandey is based on some aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s life.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey held at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville. It touches upon some aspects of the victory over Death.
This talk at Brahmanaspati Kshetram looks at the sacrifices Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have made for the redemption of earth and mankind. A follow-up question: Self-control and suppression in context of Sacrifice.
In his well-known message given on India’s Independence, Sri Aurobindo mentions five dreams. The first dream was the freedom of India, rather a free and united India. Though India is free, the time has not yet come to realize its Unity. The second dream was the resurgence of Asia. We can see that happening now and most thinkers and analysts speak of the 21st century as the Age of Asia. The next dream of Sri Aurobindo is World Union. The way to bring this unity is also described by him, the pathways; the detailed roadmap has been given. Here we can see Internationalism is growing in all aspects, though there is still a long way to go for achieving true world unity. The next dream was the spiritual gift of India to the world. India’s spiritual riches are spreading to all the corners of the world in different ways and through many channels. The last dream is the ascension from man to superman, the next step in evolution. The Divine has sown these divine dreams in the human soil. Even though it may seem impossible to the human mind at the present moment, these divine dreams are bound to realize today or tomorrow. But it is a unique and great privilege for humanity to be the instrument and catalyst for this change. Let us live and work for it.
The concluding part of the five-part series on the Foundations of Indian Culture.
Closing with a 10 minute-long Q&A session covering the following questions:
- How to know if the Soul has entered the body.
- Voices heard in Schizophrenia;
- Autism;
- Soul and Psychic being.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Van Niwas), Nainital.
Part four of the five-part series on the Foundations of Indian Culture.
The topics include:
– Dharma
– Story of Satyakam Jabali (as a child)
– Story of Shakuntala
– Story of stone throwing at Sri Aurobindo’s dwelling in Pondicherry
– Story of Achilles
– Shiva ji and Afzal Khan
– The truth of yagna
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Van Niwas), Nainital.
The second part of a five-part a series on the Foundations of the Indian Culture.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Van Niwas), Nainital.
What meditation and concentration really are, what are their importance in life and Yoga, and some techniques.
A webinar with Dr Alok Pandey hosted by the Auro University, Gujarat.
A follow-up question: please explain ‘All life is Yoga’ by Sri Aurobindo.
In this webinar, organized by NAMAH (The Journal of Integral Health), we take a look at multiple knots of habits with which we are tied, and how to get of them.
This talk is part of a seminar on India. It deals with the key concepts and the core of India.
In this webinar we see how the Vital can be refined and how it is necessary to refine and uplift the vital movements. A follow-up question: Generosity and self-giving.
In this webinar with Jaipuriya school we see how the refinement of vital is necessary in life and how it can be done.
In this English webinar we learn how to overcome stress and take the challenges of Life with the right attitude.
Sri Aurobindo has put forward an entirely original and new approach to the Veda, based on his own profound spiritual experiences as well as deep knowledge of Sanskrit. The ancient puzzle of the Vedas has been resolved for us with the perfection that only one who has returned from the higher planes and realized the ancient truths can do.
Dr Alok Pandey shares his thoughts on possible future of humanity and place of the eastern culture and way of life and western understanding of life in it.
In this English talk we look in details at three common terms used in Indian Yoga: Jivatma, Atma and Paramatma. The follow-up questions were:
- Is each soul unique?
- Soul and Psychic.
- Moksha.
- Growth of psychic.
- Glimpses of soul and identification.
The second part of the two-part series with NAMAH (The Integral Journal of Health), while the first part was TE 382 Finding out Truth.
In this webinar with NAMAH (The Integral Journal of Health) we try to understand what is Truth and how can one find it.
This English talk is part of an interaction with children of an integral school in Yalavatti, Karnataka.
In this webinar with Pondicherry University we look at what really Yoga and Spirituality are and how understanding of these two has changed over time.
The follow-up questions were:
1. At what different level is the evolution going on?
2. Mental settlement in life and going beyond it.
3. Do we need God’s Grace for liberation?
In this English webinar with Pondicherry University we take up the foundations of Indian culture in the light of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
In this webinar with NAMAH (The journal of Integral Health) we take a look at the steps we can take towards Freedom and Mastery. The questions were:
1. What is the effect of fear on spiritual practice?
2. Dreams and formation seem to be coming from collective, how to overcome it?
In this webinar with Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi branch, we take up the following phrase of Sri Aurobindo: “Man is a Transitional being.”
The subject is the influence of a developed psychic being on human body and other parts of the being.
The following questions were asked: 1. Impact of psychic being on sleep and sex. 2. How to make body the instrument of the divine?
This talk touches upon finding the Divine through works. The follow-up questions were: 1. Significance of flower and their state. 2. Divine will in works and ego and desire.
This brief talk is about the Divine Mother’s advent and the purpose of Her embodiment. We also share insights on the message of the 21st February 2022 received from the Ashram today.
This talk touches on the following topics: different stages of love, love and attachments, changes love brings, the aspects of love. The question asked was: How can vital reach its highest possibility to love?
This is a Q&A session, following an overview talk on Integral Yoga TE 369. The following three questions were addressed:
1. Kaal/Time and making use of it in the spiritual practice;
2. How can the physical aspire if mind is the one that thinks;
3. How to find the psychic being.
In this English webinar with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi branch we take up the subject of the Integral Yoga.
In this webinar with SAS Hindi Zonal Community, we look at the role of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo in recovering the spiritual past of India and carrying it forward to the future.
Some questions asked were: 1. Vedas and Vedanta. 2. Karma Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda.
We share thoughts on human progress. The questions included:
1. How to proceed, some steps if you can share.
2. Coming out of pain.
3. When I am only able to imagine darkness how to come to light.
4. Ego masks itself as humility
5. Possibilities of transformation in the collective.
Thoughts on creating an ideal healing environment and orienting healers towards the consciousness-based approach.
How a consciousness-based approach can give us a deeper understanding of Healing as we know it. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey for the Sri Aurobindo Medical Association, Cuttack
This talk looks at life in its integrality and from the consciousness perspective. Through practical examples, it reveals to us the truth of Oneness and its deep usefulness in understanding and navigating through life.
In this English talk given in the format of Questions and Answers with ‘Healing triad’ the following questions are answered:
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I experienced Mother’s grace early on, have been hardworking and I believe in sincerity and truth. Often I am able to forgive people who are dishonest/lack sincerity, I am nice and encouraging to them since I believe they deserve a chance. However, I get do get angry and hold back that anger, though I never express it on them and this leads to a lot of pains and aches. Am I not forgiving them or am I being too harsh on myself? I don’t know what’s happening.
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I witness difficulty in maintaining moderation in eating. It’s either total abstinence or overindulgence. Some ways, I can sustain moderation and make it part of my daily life?
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My Ques is related to one of your talks that we heard on Sound health where you suggested to be in a perfect state of consciousness you must Master yourself that nothing affects you at all ..no desire, thoughts, feelings, vibrations, food etc.
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How does one get to that state practically and sustain that in our day to day life of our mental, emotional, social, and physical demands?
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How do we work on making our consciousness clear and clean on a regular basis to uplift ourselves to the higher ranges which we May experience for a fraction or a little longer at times, but to make it a conscious practice and how do we know or identify that we are rising and that what we experience is truly a higher range of consciousness and not just our imagination?
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Can you please provide one powerful intervention to apply for anger management?
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In one of your talks you shared a healing process of a finger by Dr Hedge, supported by magnetic fields and micro currencies. Which role will this kind of healing play in the future?
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There are some healing devices using magnetic fields, micro currencies and quantum sensors developed in Russia, US and Germany and maybe other places too. Which role does India play in bringing forth this kind of new knowledge and technology?
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In Germany Nicola Tesla is widely known. Someone spoke about him being a Vibhuti of Sri Aurobindo. Could you please tell us something about this? Could it be that secular people could find it easier to accept knowledge from a Vibhuti than from the Divine?
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Could you please explain the role of our receptivity on behalf of the Siddhi Day? How can we increase our receptivity to the Divine?
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It is said that our gut is our second brain and there’s a very direct relationship between our gut health and our psychological states. Often I witness that whenever I experience gustatory issues, I am very disoriented, confused and irritated. Are there ways to try and come back to balanced psychological states at such times? And if yes, would it also improve my gut health?
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There is a prayer for the Mother By Dada which you shared in the talks …please can you share it again and also where can we find it?
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Where can we find the Poem on Divine Maths for children? The world is 0, God is 1…
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The dream that you had shared about the story of the snake and the couple ..how was it associated with your healing of your illness of piles? Sorry, I didn’t understand, just need clarity.
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How do we recognise ‘Divine Work’? How can we become exact instruments of Divine Work.
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How does one use one’s will while being surrended?
Among the devotees and disciples of Sri Aurobindo, 24th November is observed as the Siddhi Day, one of four Darshan days. This brief talk is centred on the significance of the event which took place on 24th November 1926 in Pondicherry.
In this English webinar with Auromira centre (London), we look at the relevance of Arjuna and Krishna in the Battlefield of life.
In this English webinar with the Bangalore Centre, we see what a true Surrender really is.
Some questions asked were:
1. The Mother on Rani Lakshmi Bai.
2. Can past karma revert back the surrender done.
3. How to know if one’s will is aligned with the wish of the Divine.
4. What is the role of Surrender to the Avatar.
5. Role of Tapasya in Surrender.
This webinar, conducted for the Sangam Talks platform, reveals some of the unique, wide and progressive aspects of Sanatana Dharma.
A webinar on the vast subject of psychological well-being with a Yogic Perspective. Some of the asked questions: 1. How to extend the higher consciousness in everyday life. 2. How to differentiate between renunciation and rejection.
In this webinar with IPI we try to understand different kinds of relations at different levels. The questions were: 1. Example of perfect relation. 2. Inequality of gender. 3. Ideals of love and romanticism. 4. Bringing up a child in today’s world. Print Friendly, PDF & Email
In this webinar, we look at the causes of pain and suffering and their true remedy. The follow-up questions were: 1. Using spirituality to bypass or escape the pain. 2. The Budha and withdrawal from life. 3. Passage of pain. 4. Hostile forces that affect us psychologically. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at a webinar by NAMAH, the Journal of Integral Health.
A contemplation on what is real freedom with reference to our understanding of self. Follow-up questions were: 1. Can fear jeopardize our freedom? 2. Changes needed for schools to prepare children for inner Swaraj and aatmanirbharta. 3. Inner Swaraj is for self, what about society? 4. Freedom and fear. 5. Freedom and rules of the past.
Some readings and reflections on the Darshan day of August the 15th. A webinar organised by La Grace centre of USA.
In this English talk, we see how the world is changing since the coming of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, how we can progress by this, and what is our relation with Sri Aurobindo.
We take up the vast topic of Spiritual Healing and take an overview of it. The follow-up questions were: 1. How to go about Surrender. 2. Going beyond the Mind 3. A healer should not work for money. 4. Surrender and different relations to God.
In this English talk, we see the messages brought to us through the characters as revealed in Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri.
The talk is based on Sri Aurobindo’s manuscript ‘The Bourgeois and the Samurai’, which was written in 1907-08 but ceased by the police and never finalized for print. Eventually, it was recovered, transcribed and published by Sri Aurobindo Archives in 1978. Now it can be found in the Collected Works [CWSA 7: 1091-1108].
The talk was addressed to a group of medical doctors in Rourkela. It deals with the healing potential of the energy of love within us.
An interactive part of the recent webinar by Dr Alok Pandey with students of the Jaipuria School. Some of the questions asked were: 1. Meaning of Gayatri Mantra. 2. Name of God for protection and filter from surrounding things. 3. Does God not punish even those who commit atrocious deeds? 4. The Law of Karma. 5. Increasing happiness and joy in the heart. 6. Role of luck in life. 7. Why does God not intervene in all bad events of the world? 8. Does luck depend on God?
In this webinar for children we dive into the vast subject of the Art and Science of Life.
In this webinar we look into different levels of Integration. Some of the questions asked were: 1. How to deal with the low points, and how to control speech; 2. How to deal with criticism and blame.
In this talk in English we take up the chapter: ‘Standards of Conduct and spiritual freedom’ from The Synthesis of Yoga, and understand its deeper significance for all times, especially in today’s age of individualism.
This webinar is centered around the origin of Love and its value in our life. Q&A: Practice of Love for a householder.
This is a concluding talk in the series on The Synthesis of Yoga. The follow-up questions were: 1. Conscious sleep. 2. The pressure on the head is the resistance or the opening. 3. Being sensitive to things around.
This is the fourth in the series of five talks on The Synthesis of Yoga. Follow-up questions : 1. The state of Yoga and an ordinary state. 2. When going through a difficult passage what is the right attitude to connect to the Divine? 3. How to know if the Divine consents to what one is doing?
This is the third talk in the series. Follow-up questions included: 1. Transience of body and immortality of Soul. 2. How to develop intuition? 3. Philosophy of tantric masters and Sri Aurobindo. 4. Sri Aurobindo on Hatha Yoga.
The second talk in the series on Sri Aurobindo’s ‘The Synthesis of Yoga’. Follow-up questions include: 1. Craving for appreciation. 2. Getting rid of vanity. 3. Exercise the Will power for mastering greed for food etc. 4. Change of perceptions on the path and differentiating between insensitivity and equanimity. 5. When we see wrong in the world, is it inertia when we do not react strongly.
This is the first of five talks on The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo. Follow-up questions include: (1) Why at times of sickness one is unable to use the mind rightly and effectively; (2) Difference between the major books written by Sri Aurobindo, and (3) Freeing the mind from the physical.
This webinar is centered around the New Creation that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo has brought for earth and men.
Dr Alok Pandey speaks on ways to navigate through the crisis towards a higher evolution. A part of the webinar hosted by La Grace Integral Life Center, North Carolina, USA
This webinar hosted by the La Grace IY Centre, NC is centered around the present crisis that faces humanity.
This talk touches upon some of the aspects of the Mahabharat and takes up some of the questions that baffle the modern mind.
This webinar is based on the following prayer of the Mother:
August 29th, 1914
OF what use would be man if he was not made to throw a bridge between That which eternally is, but is not manifested, and that which is manifested; between all the transcendences, all the splendours of the divine life and all the obscure and sorrowful ignorance of the material world? Man is the intermediary between That which has to be and that which is; he is a bridge thrown over the abyss, he is the great X as the cross, the quaternary link. His true abode, the effective seat of his consciousness should be in the intermediate world at the joining point of the four arms of the cross, where all the infinity of the Unknowable comes to take precise form for being projected into the multitudinous manifestation.
This centre is the seat of supreme love and perfect consciousness, of pure and total knowledge. Establish there, O Lord, those who can, who must and who will to serve Thee truly, so that Thy work may be done, the bridge may be definitively established and Thy forces may spread untiringly in the world.
In this webinar the fundamentals of the Integral Yoga are explained with the help of the booklet ‘The Mother’ by Sri Aurobindo.
This webinar is on the way how the Rishis engaged with the life of the world, with reference to Rishi Agastya and Sri Aurobindo.
A webinar organized by the Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America (SAYFNA).
This talk is about the significance of the Mother’s final coming to Pondicherry on April 24th 1920.
This talk is mainly answers given in response to some queries on Ramayana. (apologies for the poor video quality)
This talk is about the way towards Integral health. Follow-up questions include (1) How come the great yogis such as Ramana Maharshi and Ramakrishna had incurable diseases, and (2) How to find the psychic being.
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey is an overview of grief and some psycho-spiritual ways to deal with it. Conducted as a part of a webinar organized by NAMAH, the Journal of Integral Health.
The talk was followed by the following questions: 1. When in a relationship, how to know if one is loving the Divine? 2. Does the soul has a form too? 3. Do souls come back in the same family? 4. When a departed seen in a dream, is that real? 5. Detachment and Indifference. 6. If the departed parents come in a dream, is there a connection? 7. If departed loved ones come in a dream and say they don’t want to leave us, what does it mean?
This webinar is centred around the subject of prayer and its efficacy.
The follow-up questions include (1) If Divine is going to give us everything then why don’t we just connect to Him in meditation, and (2) How can we surrender.
The webinar was hosted by The Mother’s International School, Delhi Branch of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
This talk is about the yoga of Nature as she brings out new possibilities of manifestation from within.
This talk is about the significance of the soul.
Presented by Dr Alok Pandey as a part of a webinar “New Approaches to Medicine and Health” hosted by NAMAH.
This talk is an Interaction with Auro University, Surat group on the Aspects of Life and Yoga in Q & A form.
This is a question-answer session of the webinar on the deepening of consciousness. Questions include meditation, psychic discernment, surrender etc.
This webinar is focussed on going deeper within ourselves especially with reference to finding the psychic being.
This talk is based on the understanding and the path of building the Divine Perfection.
This webinar is primarily focused around the chapter The Four Aids from the Synthesis of Yoga.
This talk, which is Part 1 of a three-part series, touches upon the preliminary basis of the Synthesis.
The last talk of the series takes up the penultimate portion of Book One Canto Two, giving us the secret issue of man’s life and the way to find it.
This talk is woven around book Two Canto Two of Savitri regarding the evolutionary challenges of humanity.
This talk is based on portions of Book One Canto Two of Savitri where the being of Savitri is described that could harbour the power of Love.
This talk is on portions of Savitri Book One Canto Two. Here we see Savitri waking up to her mission.
This talk is about the resistance to the Divine change that lurks within the dark recesses of creation including the human heart.
This talk is a further elaboration on Book One Canto One in Savitri.
(A series of seven talks on Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey).
A series of seven talks on Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri by Dr Alok Pandey.
This talk introduces us to the very first Canto of Savitri in Book One.
This talk touches upon a series of three questions. The first question is whether the Divine is in everything including the criminal and things that we regard as waste. The second question takes up whether everything that happens to us in our life can be taken as coming from the Divine. The third question is about the purpose that the Undivine serves in creation.
Human beings start their journey with some kind of a working conception of themselves and the world. Those with a little more awakened thoughts also form some conception of the Divine or God or call it by whatever Name. This conception is normally formed by our past evolution that has determined our present trend of nature, our immediate religious and socio-cultural milieu. These are largely belief systems and help or hinder our progress depending upon the stage and need of our evolution. All these conceptions are however a scaffolding while the real truth of the Divine can be found only as we enlarge the field of our spiritual evolution. This talk focuses upon some of these conceptions of the Divine as we encounter in our spiritual journey.
THE MISSING PIECES OF THE HUMAN PUZZLE
Dr Alok Pandey talks on psychic and spiritual education for children.
Follow-up Q&A include:
1. If someone doesn’t want to take responsibility, can his nature change?
2. Why people who are closest to us hurt us most?
3. Psychic education is easier with smaller children rather than older.
4. How to involve the parents in a child’s Psychic education.
5. Does a soul choose its environment?
This talk is a Part Two of the ‘Aligning Yourself’ webinar with Dr Alok Pandey. The topics include (1) Relation of Prakriti and Purusha; (2) Divine Mother and The Mother; (3) Causes of Suffering; (4) When one doesn’t know the goal, how to find it; (5) Good books for beginners on the path of Integral Yoga; (6) Transformation; (7) Why one loses contact with The Mother at times.
This is the first part of a webinar on how we can align ourselves as we go through the various changing situations of life.
Questions & Answers include:
1. How to constantly act out our goal when we are surrounded and bombarded by lots of forces.
2. Divine as the Beloved, what is this relation with Divine.
3. Disinterested work, what does the Mother mean by it.
4. Conflicts in work.
5. Beauty you are my way to Divine.
6. How to know when children have a true calling.
This webinar is part of an anger management program. Here we touch upon understanding this in the yogic light.
This webinar is centred around the process of transition from our present humanity to the super-humanity of tomorrow as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, with emphasis on the role of the younger generation.
This webinar with Dr Alok Pandey is centred around developing positive aspects of life and securing them.
This talk is part of a webinar on the Adventure of Consciousness being initiated and carried forward by Sri Aurobindo [apologies for a foggy video due to the moisture problem in optics].
This webinar has been organised by the Mother’s International School to touch upon how to encourage children towards excellence.
His talk is about Sri Krishna’s message and how Sri Aurobindo has carried it further to its logical conclusion. The talk also includes Sri Aurobindo’s sonnet on Krishna.
Today’s talk touches upon certain key aspects of Evolution and the importance of 17th November. We also touch briefly upon Adhikarbhed (readiness for Yoga) in the light of the message received on 17th November 2020.
This webinar is a follow-up session to the Talk TE 283**
The questions include:
1. What should be the routine for an expectant mother?
2. Where does love comes from?
3. What is the new consciousness in layman’s term?
4. Mindsets
5. Peace and stillness.
6. Breaking mental framework.
7. Ideal Student teacher ratio.
8. Dealing with “difficult” students.
9. Despite of family and friends around why do we still feel lonely.
This talk deals with the various aspects of decision making. The following topics were briefly touched upon:
– Choices and Consequences; Making a Conscious Choice
– Discovering a True Self behind the ego-self
– Thoughts, Desires, Emotions driving our actions, and Reason justifying them
– Immediate and long-term results of the action
– Transitory Aims and the Eternal Aim
– A True Individual impulsion
– Courage and sincerity needed to follow the Call
– Practical advices for making a decision
– Keeping an eye on the Goal.
This webinar centers around the emergence of a new generation of children and how we need to rethink about our education. Questions asked in the webinar include: 1. How to define Consciousness. 2. New Framework for Education. 3. Concentration techniques. 4. Dealing with old method and expectations of Education. 5. How to change mindset of parents.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey with Web International Democratic Education Conference IDEC 2020.
This webinar revolves around the immense dance of Energy, Power, Force that is operative in the universe. The questions include: (1) Maya and Shakti, (2) Why we give importance to others opinion, (3) Dharma, Dhyana and Dharana, and (4) Divine Mother as “Our Magnet of difficult ascent”.
The webinar, organised by The Mother’s International School, Delhi Branch of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, is about trying to understand the roots of difficulties and ways to deal with them.
In this talk we share thoughts on the Integral transformation as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The touched questions include what is transformation, why is it needed, how does it happen, when and where it is to be done, what is the the Power that would execute it, how to participate in the process.
This webinar is focused on discovering and aligning ourselves to the aim of life.
The talk is followed by questions from the audience, including:
– consciousness of the mind and expression of harmony
– acquiring knowledge
– how do we open ourselves to the Divine Love
– intuitive knowledge and imagination
– is being emotional a sign of weakness?
This webinar, organised by the Auromira Centre (London) was based on portions of sixth chapter of the book The Mother. Questions included other powers and personalities of The Mother, Equanimity, test by the forces, adhikar bheda, Asura and Deva, among others.
Relationships can be seen along the dimensions of consciousness and from an evolutionary perspective. This talk is centered around this idea of an evolutionary relationship.
This is an online interaction of Dr Alok Pandey with a group of psychologists keen on exploring psychology from the standpoint of Indian Spirituality.
Following the talk, the following questions from the audience were answered:
Q1. What was the third kind of suffering… can you clarify again?
Q2. Can share the aspect of “attachment” in suffering?
Q3. You talked about habitual conditions of the cells, is menstruation a habit in the body? And all the pain it causes to the body and then to other parts of the being… can there be an end to this?
Q4. How to deal with physical suffering? How does one detach from physical pain? And other genetic physical and psychological suffering one inherits which feels like a hard rock to overcome?
Q5. Is seeking yourself selfish when on the other side we can help others..like a jain muni, is he selfish to renunciate everything to find himself?
Q6. So, to procreate is the natures will and not divine will?
Q7. What is a new creation? In what all forms in matter it will manifest or has it already started manifesting?
Q8. How to deal with past memories that come to surface and cause pain?
Q9. Please shed some light on process of matter being divinized?
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey is about the remedy suggested by the Mother about the human problems. It lies in a progressive growth of consciousness and its purification. Delivered as a 2020 Prof. Jagdish Vyas Memorial Lecture, hosted by SAYFNA.
This talk given as part of a webinar organised by Utkal University touches upon the future of humanity in the context of the widespread shuffle we see going on the world over it. The talk is followed by question and answers related to the subject and briefly touches upon the future of religions, ideologies, education etc.
This talk focuses on education of the vital and the ways and means to help change this recalcitrant part. It deals with the sources of energy that we use and character of the changes. After the talk there were few questions also taken up such as how to deal with obstinate problems with this part of nature, tapping into higher sources of energy, difference between rational and psychic control, psychic education, role of hormones in determining behaviour, marriage and other ceremonies, refining love.
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey takes up different aspects of healing that exist within us and activating them in life. A part of a webinar organized by Sri Aurobindo Society in Pondicherry.
This short talk picks up a beautiful leaf from Savitri (p. 393) when Savitri following her quest for the perfect partner who would share her work and mission meets Satyavan. Here we have a wonderful description of Satyavan that we can read in the wake of the event of 29th March 1914 when the Mother met Sri Aurobindo for the first time.
A webinar on Perseverance, a much needed quality for the yoga. A question on obstinacy is also taken up in the end.
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey takes up the subject of life and death as seen from a spiritual perspective. Followed by questions ‘Practical means to find the soul,’ ‘Physics and metaphysics’, ‘Buddhist and other perspectives of the individual soul’.
Q&A session, following the talk “Dealing with Depression”. Topics include need in moments of silence, solar eclipse, and biological depression.
This talk, delivered as a video conference, touches upon some of the causes of depression and ways and means to prevent it.
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey takes up some of the attitudes such as equanimity in the practice of yoga.
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey touches upon some of the processes through which spiritual evolution takes place.
A Questions and Answers session with Dr Alok Pandey. Questions include (1) who created the Creator, (2) achieving unity from within outwards, (3) physics, science and spirituality, (4) imagination and reality, (5) our role in the various challenges and threats to the earth.
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey focuses on different changes we see in the world, which are signs of an emergent new creation and progressive spiritualisation of the human race.
This discussion centers around the key psychological elements and practices of the Integral Yoga. It mainly focuses on Aspiration, Sincerity, Humility, Rejection, Trust and Surrender as they come together to help us navigate through the journey of Yoga.
This talk is about origin and meaning of this creation, and the long preparation, signs of coming and eventual birth of the New Creation.
This talk by Dr Alok Pandey is centered around the inner methods of understanding human nature. It was the process undertaken by ancient Indian mystics whose records give us such profound insights into human nature. Some processes discussed are self-study, self-reflection, observing the complexity of nature, the true psychic center within us, states of consciousness and an integrated spiritual living.
An interactive online session on the Integral Yoga by Dr Alok Pandey with participants of Purnam Svadhyaya 2.0, an online Integral Studies Programme https://www.svadhyaya.auroville.org/. The subjects include Sanatana Dharma, concentration in the heart, transformation, rejection and other topics taken in the light of the Integral Yoga.
This talk touches upon physical, biological, psychological, occult and spiritual dimensions of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
This talk was given at the inaugural session of a flower exhibition in Savitri Bhavan, Auroville. It touches upon the interesting subject of flowers and their symbol and significance as revealed by the Mother.
The 10th Dr M. V. Nadkarni Memorial Lecture, recorded on Feb 19, 2020 at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville.
This talk is based on the story of the Divine Mother as it unfolds in Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri.
This talk is centered around the problem of harmony and the means to create it. Following the talk there are Q & A related to how far one should go in creating harmony in relationships, in following one’s own truth, in dealing with the terminally ill.
This is an interactive session with a group of seekers from Brazil. Some of the questions taken up include India, Auroville, Ashram, Freedom, Present condition of the world, Suffering, Compassion.
This talk deals with some practical aspects of psychology as it relates to life problems, counselling etc., approached from a spiritual perspective, and is followed by Q&A.
Dr Alok Pandey in an interactive session with school students.
Subjects include decisions, impulses and resolutions in everyday life.
This session is centered around the practice of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, including the Savitri epic.
Sri Aurobindo spoke of transformation and the collective yoga. This talk takes up this subject of how we can participate in the process of world transformation in the light of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
Why do bad things happen to good people? The talk deals with this question in a comprehensive manner based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
The talk is centered around how to bring up the children, especially of the coming Age in the light of spirituality.
This is an interactive session with Dr Alok Pandey on cheerfulness, laughter, sincerity, overcoming obstacles. Recorded at the Society Beach Office, Pondicherry.
Dr Alok Pandey shares his thoughts on two landmark events on Nov 12 2019 in the Indian subcontinent. These events are the opening of Kartarpur Corridor from India to Pakistan and, second, the final judgment on the Ramjanambhoomi, a case that was being battled in the Indian courts since nearly 150 years. It may be noted that in India the Deity is regarded as a Jurist, a living Deity so to say.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America, New Jersey, USA (SAYFNA) in 2019.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America, New Jersey, USA (SAYFNA) in 2019.
The focus is on how to deal with the growing fanaticism and evil in the world. Questions on the psychic being and it’s growth.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America (SAYFNA), New Jersey, USA in 2019.
This talk focuses on the way events and circumstances shape us and the hidden forces move us. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America, New Jersey, USA (SAYFNA) in 2019.
This talk delivered at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville takes up the subject of conquest over death including physical immortality.
Questions include role of techniques such as counting the numbers, deep breathing, mindfulness methods, righteous wrath, Agni, practice of equanimity etc. This Q&A Session follows a talk at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville, from a series on psychological difficulties in yoga, sponsored by Santé – Auroville Institute for Integral Health.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey from a series dealing with psychological difficulties in yoga. Recorded at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville, and sponsored by Santé – Auroville Institute for Integral Health.
A short video with Dr Alok Pandey sharing on the mystery of the Divine taking a human birth.
Video recording of the 3rd M V Nadkarni Memorial Lecture.
The third Dr M. V. Nadkarni Memorial Lecture given by Dr Alok Pandey at Savitri Bhavan on August 23 2012
Here we explore the issue of earthly life, the problem and the solution to the enigma of existence. This is discussed against the background of Savitri Book One Canto Two titled ‘The Issue.’ This Canto reveals to us at length the real problems that bind our life to error and suffering and pain. In the process we find many sidelights on subjects such as memory, the significance of crisis, the law of karma, the challenge of earthly life among others.
Comfort zones and the stress we experience when pushed out of them. Role of Viveka (discriminating intellect). Q&A on family life and parenting.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at SACAR, Pondicherry
The twelfth dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The eleventh dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Creator and the Creation Pt 2: The Oneness
The tenth dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Creator and the Creation Pt 1: The Unity between the Creator and the Creation
The ninth dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Old and the New Creation Pt 8 : The New Children
The eighth dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Old and the New Creation Pt 7: New Consciousness and Material Nature
The seventh dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Old and the New Creation Pt 6: The Boons for Earth and Man
The sixth dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Old and the New Creation Pt 5: Challenges and Difficulties
The fifth dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Old and the New Creation Pt 4: Oneness
The fourth dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Old and the New Creation Pt 3: Plane of the True Gods
The third dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Old and the New Creation Pt 2: The Divine Mother’s Embodiment
The second dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
The Old and the New Creation Pt 1: Introduction
The first dialogue on Savitri with Narad in a new format – following Savitri’s themes and perspectives rather than doing line-by-line reading and summary.
Self-mastery is a long and difficult process. This talk dwells upon some of the fundamental issues in the practice of self-mystery. It is an overview of the subject reflecting upon the need and process of self-mastery. It is followed by question and answers on ‘effort and Grace’, ‘offering the field of nature to the Divine’, ‘becoming an instrument of God’ etc.
After a brief background, certain stories are taken up as illustrative examples of the many layers on which the myth works and the subtle and profound truths it expresses. The stories taken up are from the Devi Purana, Shiv Purana, Srimad Bhagavatam and Ramayana.
Breaking free from both tradition and modernity, the talk brings fresh insights into child development and human nature. A few examples from scriptures and real life draw attention to the real needs of a child. We need to look at a child as a soul in evolution, whose purpose is to bring out the divine possibilities within it.
Surely a time must come when science and spirituality will unite, but for that to happen both have to change much. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Centenary Celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s Arrival in Pondicherry. Recorded at SACAR in 2010.
Why does one get married? Or, why should one bring a child into this world? Reflecting upon such fundamental questions in a sincere and objective manner helps an adult become more conscious of his or her choices when it comes to entering the householder stage of life. Given the deep significance of parenting on a child’s growth and progress throughout life, this work must be done with a deep awareness and consciously. Only a fully conscious human being can become a conscious parent, so the real work begins by becoming conscious of oneself as an individual, as a human being, as a soul in evolution.
Dr Pandey speaks about intrinsic inner equality between men and women, the place held by women in ancient India, the deeper significance of Hindu marriage traditions, the gradual evolution of man-woman relationship within the context of marriage, and the necessity for an independent path of growth of each partner in the relationship.
Fragment of a talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Bharat Nivas in February 2010 on Evolution of Consciousness.
There are two lines of evolution along which humanity can advance. One is the Asuric line which is primarily towards the capacities of his mental, vital and physical life. It is a life centered around the ego, even though more powerful than our present humanity. Other is the line of the Devas, the godlike climb of man which is a change of human into a diviner, nobler human being with a change in quality. This talk touches upon these two aspects of our existence.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Brahmanaspati Kshetram, a Centre dedicated to The Mother and Sri Aurobindo and located in Edayanchavadi village, Auroville area.
Destiny is a complex affair given the forces at play that weave it. We have to go beyond the over-simplistic notion of good and bad fortune and look at the deeper causes that work from behind. It is in these depths and heights that we can discover the secret levers that can change our fate.
Video and audio recordings of a talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Beach Office, Sri Aurobindo Society in December 2018.
The talk and a brief interaction are centered around yogic insights into our body, everyday life and how we can live better and healthier.
This talk cum interaction centers around the psychic approach to the Yoga. Questions such as relevance of old forms of worship, love for the Divine, intuition have been discussed. A talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
On the occasion of Sri Aurobindo’s Mahasamadhi day we discuss an aspect of His vast yoga which baffles many. It is this possibility of physical immortality. Though Sri Aurobindo made it abundantly clear that this was to be the crown, the last inevitable step of the Yoga, there are many who emphasize on this aspect, as if the Yoga stands or falls by this. The traditionalists argue against the very possibility. All this is obviously a narrow and limited reading of the tradition where also we find ample evidence of efforts towards physical immortality, albeit incomplete, because the crucial key was missing. This talk focuses upon this hitherto much misunderstood aspect of the Integral yoga.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at SACAR on 25th August 2018
Yoga is a concentrated evolution; it is a means of bringing out the highest and deepest possibilities latent in man. Right now our life is hampered and limited in many ways. The human mind and senses as they are presently organized are fundamentally incapable of overcoming these limitations. Yet there is, in man, a quest sublime, to exceed and transcend himself, at arrive at some perfection of his individual and collective existence, to discover his own ultimate Origin which is one with the Source of creation itself. This talk centers around these preliminary considerations and a basic understanding of the fundamental principles of Yoga.
There are several aspects and facets of Sri Aurobindo’s vast and complex personality, namely poet, philosopher, revolutionary, journalist, visionary, seer, yogi. But what is the essential core of his being, the central lever of his immense personality so to say? On one side we see him as an embodiment of tyaga (renunciation) and tapasya (concentrated spiritual endeavour). On the other hand we see his tremendous compassion for earth and humanity.
The last talk of a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sept 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is based on the boons granted to Savitri, especially the Supramental Creation and the coming of a New Race upon earth as envisaged in the passages on pp. 704–710 (B11).
The eighth talk from a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sept 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is based on a passage from Savitri pp. 295 – 296 (B2C14), when Aswapati is face to face with the World-Mother and his gesture of complete surrender to Her. It is She who then opens the doors to the Greater Knowledge for him.
The seventh talk from a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sept 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is based on the passage in Savitri pp. 345–346 (B3C4), describing Aswapati’s final invocation and the Divine Mother’s sanction of the boon of Her coming.
The sixth talk from a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sept 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is based on understanding the symbol behind the characters in Savitri as revealed in the Author’s note, the symbol of Death that surrounds earthly life and its eventual annihilation. The talk also touches upon Tantra. The passages taken up here are from Savitri pp. 480 – 483 and 664 – 667.
The fifth talk from a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sept 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is based on pp. 685 – 689 of Savitri. It starts with a question from one of the participants about the problem of action. After initial discussion the conversation turns towards Savitri.
The fourth talk from a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sep 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is based on a passage from Savitri pp. 323 – 325, where Aswapati is shown the secret plans of the Supreme that the Divine Mother has hidden in Her heart.
The third talk from a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sep 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is based on passages from Savitri pp. 312 – 316 where the Seer-Yogi Aswapati stands face to face with the Divine Mother, seeking the fulfillment of his tapasya which is essentially the redemption of all mankind.
The second talk from a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sep 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is based on a passage from Savitri pp. 69 – 73 (B1C4), where Sri Aurobindo describes the soul as a sailor voyaging through Time towards Eternity. The steps and stages of the journey are beautifully marked through significant images and the eventual goal of the soul’s tremendous adventure.
The first talk from a 9-part series “The Goal of the Human Quest” with Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Sep 2018 at the Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry.
This talk is about the various aims of human life through which the soul moves along its evolutionary journey. This aim is not so much of a mental choice as of a growing unfolding of the Divine Script in man.
Sri Aurobindo’s poem ‘Bride of the Fire” is very much Vedic in essence as well as in its occult and spiritual significance.The used images belong to the Vedic imagery, and the power of Fire (referred to here as the bride of Fire) is being invoked by the Seer-poet to uplift the entire being in its ascension towards the Divine Purity and Truth-Light and Delight.
There has never been any age of mankind when yoga was withheld from man. In every age of mankind there have been great beings, luminous Masters who have shown the Path towards the Divine. This time however there is something new. It is the Divine coming as the Mother that changes the approach and forges a new bond between the seeker and the Master.
A question is often asked about the initiation in this yoga. Savitri in fact starts with this process. It opens with an initiation of the earth and humanity into the yoga of creation. Indeed reading Savitri itself may serve as an initiation for the Path.
Sri Aurobindo has brought and implanted upon earth a new aspiration, the aspiration for terrestrial perfection, for an integral fulfillment of life. Savitri serves as an intermediary to awaken and help this aspiration to grow in man.
Savitri, the mantra of transformation is not only a vision but also an action. Sri Aurobindo has revealed here all that has to be known of our past, our present and the future of the human race with earth as the center-stage of the epic drama of creation. But it is also an action, since this revelation carries with it the power of the mantra that uplifts us nearer to those heights from where the vision has descended.
A talk and following question and answer session by Dr Alok Pandey at the Centurion University, Paralakhemundi, Odisha, which took place in January 2018.
A talk and following question and answer session by Dr Alok Pandey at the Centurion University, Paralakhemundi, Odisha, which took place in January 2018.
This Q&A session with Dr Alok Pandey dwells on matters belonging to metaphysics and theology. Recorded in Coimbatore in 2018.
Video and audio recordings of Dr Alok Pandey’s interaction with audience at the Coimbatore Branch of Sri Aurobindo Society in December, 2017 (Session No 3).
Video and audio recordings of a talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Society, Coimbatore Branch, in December of 2017.
Video and audio recordings of Dr Alok Pandey’s interaction with audience at the Coimbatore Branch of Sri Aurobindo Society in December, 2017 (Session No 2).
Video and audio recordings of a talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Society, Coimbatore Branch, in December of 2017.
Video and audio recordings of Dr Alok Pandey’s interaction with audience at the Coimbatore Branch of Sri Aurobindo Society in December, 2017.
Video and audio recordings of a talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Society, Coimbatore Branch, in December of 2017.
This is a re-post from April 2018 – now with a beautifully made Auroville WIKI page with a full transcript and supplementary materials.
This is a questions and answers session, which followed the Main Talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Savitri Bhavan, Auroville, in April of 2018.
Any sincere practitioner of yoga knows that the journey of yoga is not a bed of roses. An ancient scripture speaks of it as ‘the razor’s edge’. True, the Grace is there as also many beautiful experiences on the way. But each stage and sometimes each step forward is marked by challenges thrown by the great ‘Adversary’ whose work it seems is to test the aspirant to a higher life. Therefore arises the need for balance and moderation, humility and vigilance, courage and sincerity, faith and endurance as one advances on the way.
Many are the forms these forces adverse and hostile to the yoga can take, some extremely deceptive in nature. Yet there are ways to detect them and keep them at arm’s length; to escape their snare and, if caught in their diabolic web, means to address the crisis.
There is a tendency to overlook this aspect of yoga or even deny their existence. While it is true that they need not be given more importance than it is due but their effect and the dangers they can create is very real. It is therefore good is one is well equipped to deal with them when the situation so arises. The present talk will be centered around this subject.
This is a re-post from April 2018. Now video has subtitles in German, kindly contributed by Funda Astel. Also, a beautifully made Auroville WIKI page offers full transcript of the talk and supplementary materials.
The continuation of this talk is a separately posted Questions and Answers Session.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research (SACAR) on April 9, 2018.
A preceding talk (also on the Katha Upanishad) was been posted on our website earlier.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research (SACAR) on April 9, 2018. The follow-up talk is also on the Katha Upanishad ( to be posted next week).
With anniversaries of The Mother’s arrival to Pondicherry (March 29 1914 and April 24, 1920) approaching, Dr Alok Pandey talks on significance of Her coming, with Narad’s participation.
The second talk by Dr Alok Pandey about dealing with psychological challenges on the spiritual path in the light of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Delivered at the event, organised at the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture, Auroville, by Sante (Auroville Institute for Integral Health). A full transcript is beautifully presented, along with multiple supplementary materials, at Auroville WIKI article, please explore.
A follow-up talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the SACAR / NAMAH workshop in Dec 2016 in Pondicherry.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the SACAR / NAMAH workshop “The Inner Approach to Health”, Dec 2017, Pondicherry.
This is a re-post from December 2017 – now with a beautifully made Auroville WIKI page with a full transcript and supplementary materials.
This is a questions and answers session, which followed the main talk by Dr Alok Pandey.
Sponsored by Sante-Auroville Institute for Integral Health.
The presentation includes a talk by Dr. Alok Pandey, followed by questions and answers (a separate post and video). Sponsored by Sante-Auroville Institute for Integral Health.
This is a re-post from December 2017 – now with a beautifully made Auroville WIKI page with a full transcript and supplementary materials.
How can one deal with psychological difficulties on the spiritual path in the light of Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s teachings?
The spiritual energy surrounding Auroville is tremendous. What are its effects on our different bodies: mental, vital and physical? What are the effects of that force of revelation and transformation on each of us?
Loneliness, misunderstanding, confusion, relationship problems, are just some of the challenges a seeker faces on the spiritual path. Meanwhile, the ego could become inflated from spiritual experiences and develop distortions of perceptions.
A family may reach Auroville together and find the variation in levels of progress and knowledge between individuals leads to conflicts within the family. This could be between parents or between parents and children.
Finally, what are these subtle forces that we don’t even notice or that we feel sometimes within us that could lead us in a particular direction? Are we always protected or is there danger on the spiritual path?
A Questions and Answers Session, following a talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Workshop on Integral Counselling, 10-12 November 2017, at SACAR (Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research).
A talk at the annual All USA Meeting (AUM), held on 20–24 July 2001 in Redwood City, California
From the account by August Timmermans in “Collaboration (2001)”:
“Alok Pandey, the third speaker who spoke on “Evolution,” is such a colourful person. For him, the yoga means union with the Mother and her force. It is surrender. Life is lifted up by her force and inspiration, and becomes transformed. His speech was colourful and contained a great sense of freedom in expression while being infused with a healthy sense of humour. Off-lecture, he is as fascinating, being true to his own words. As is typical for Indians, speaking without reading from a paper came naturally to him.”
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Workshop on Integral Counselling, 10-12 November 2017, at SACAR (Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research).
A sharing by Dr Alok Pandey with the students of H M Patel Centre for Medical Care and Education, Karamsad, Gujarat.
Dr Alok Pandey addresses a young audience at the Beach Office of Sri Aurobindo Society. The fifth, concluding part of the series “Savitri, – The Ancient Story and Sri Aurobindo’s Epic Poem. An Overview in Five Parts.”
Dr Alok Pandey addresses a young audience at the Beach Office of Sri Aurobindo Society. The fourth part from the series “Savitri, – The Ancient Story and Sri Aurobindo’s Epic Poem. An Overview in Five Parts.”
Dr Alok Pandey addresses a young audience at the Beach Office of Sri Aurobindo Society. The third part of the series “Savitri, – The Ancient Story and Sri Aurobindo’s Epic Poem. An Overview in Five Parts.”
Dr Alok Pandey addresses a young audience at the Beach Office of Sri Aurobindo Society. The second part from the series “Savitri, – The Ancient Story and Sri Aurobindo’s Epic Poem. An Overview in Five Parts.”
Dr Alok Pandey addresses a young audience at the Beach Office of Sri Aurobindo Society. Recorded in September 2017.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Stress and Growth Seminar, organised by SACAR and NAMAH in Pondicherry in Sept 2017.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Study Camp on Integral Personality Development at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research (SACAR) in August 2017
Q & A session, following “Our Sunlit Path” talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the SAYFNA Foundation, New Jersey, USA, in July 2017.
A talk at the SAYFNA (Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America), New Jersey, USA, in July 2017.
An informal sharing on Savitri with Dr Alok Pandey before a talk at the 2017 Retreat at Sri Aurobindo Yoga Foundation of North America, New Jersey, USA.
The eighths, concluding talk at the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, which had Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as a central theme.
The seventh presentation at the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, which had Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as a central theme. A series of 8 talks, all of which are being posted here, approach this vast and all-important subject from different perspectives. This talk focuses on The Mother’s Yoga for the Earth.
The sixth presentation at the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, which had Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as a central theme. A series of 8 talks, all of which are being posted here, approach this vast and all-important subject from different perspectives. This talk focuses on the story of Savitri and Satyavan.
The fifth presentation at the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, which had Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as a central theme. A series of 8 talks, all of which are being posted here, approach this vast and all-important subject from different perspectives.
The fourth presentation at the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, which had Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as a central theme. A series of 8 talks, all of which are being posted here, approach this vast and all-important subject from different perspectives.
The third presentation at the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, which had Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as a central theme. A series of 8 talks, all of which are being posted here, approach this vast and all-important subject from different perspectives.
The second presentation of the 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, which had Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as a central theme. A series of 8 talks, all of which will be posted here, approach this vast and all-important subject from different perspectives.
An opening presentation of 2017 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, which had Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri as a central theme. The following 7 talks, all of which will be later posted here, approach this vast and all-important subject from different perspectives.
Physicians routinely encounter the phenomenon of Death as also those involved with the care of Terminally ill. It brings us face to face with our human vulnerabilities and is indeed a great challenge. The present interaction with the medical fraternity takes on some of these issues.
A special session at the Savitri Readers’ Foundation, Bhubaneswar, in April 2017 (Part 2)
A talk by Alok Pandey on the significance of 24th April, celebrated in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram as Darshan Day. Recorded in Pondicherry in 2017.
The 24th of April occupies a special place in the Ashram History. It was the day when the Mother returned back to Pondicherry for good; the day of Her final arrival which marked a new phase of Her Work with Sri Aurobindo for Earth and man. Historically also the 24th April is the day when queen Hatshepsut (a previous incarnation of the Mother) had assumed powers in Egypt leading to revolutionary changes. It is also the day when the Greeks enter Troy leading to its downfall. Whether the Mother’s final coming is connected in any way with these events or not but it marked a definitive change in the rhythm and scope of the Ashram life. The Mother has noted that it ‘…was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces.’
This day is also one of the four Darshan days at the Ashram. Today we share some thoughts on some aspects of the Darshan day with the background of the Mother’s final arrival to Pondicherry.
A special session at the Savitri Readers’ Foundation, Bhubaneswar, in April 2017 (Part 1)
On the occasion of Darshan Day of Feb 21, 2017, Dr Alok Pandey shares his thoughts on significance of The Mother’s Birth.
A conversation of Alok Pandey and Narad on the significance of the Siddhi Day. Recorded on November 24, 2016 in Pondicherry.
Of all the powers that have gone into creation, the most powerful admittedly is Love. Without Love, creation could not be, without Love creation could not be pulled out of its darkness. But what really is Love, this most powerful lever that moves all things? It is the Mystery of mysteries, the Great Secret. The Mother reminds us in Her conversations with a disciple (May 16, 1960):
‘That is the great Secret, that which is behind the Existent and the Non-Existent, the Personal and the Impersonal – Love. Not a love between two things, two beings … A love containing everything….And what is wonderful is that at each moment the Grace, the Joy, the Light, the Love never cease pouring down in the very midst of all this – despite the ego, despite the shame, despite the unworthiness.’
Though there is only one Love, it takes different forms in different vessels just as the pure crystalline water from its pristine source mixes with mud in the container and becomes muddy. In human beings love takes an appropriate human form. Because of the very nature of our humanity it thereby gets tainted with ego and desires, lust and vanity. Yet human beings are not fixed like other species. We can and do consciously evolve. The force or power of Love can be upgraded, refined and purified, uplifted and restored to its diviner heights. This is true of all divine forces that labour and suffer here upon Earth. Of course this is not an easy task since it is so much mixed in the human vessel with not only animal movements but sometimes even given dark and vicious distortions by the ‘Inconscient’ that constantly exerts a downward pull on man. In this talk we share some reflections on human love and its evolutionary possibilities especially in the context and backdrop of Integral Yoga.
As 2017 US Integral Yoga Retreat is fast approaching, we are sharing a concluding talk of the 2016 Retreat by Alok Pandey (below).
We know that yoga is not a set of physical exercises, the meaning of the word yoga is a union, but union with what or whom? What are the way and process in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother? How can we build our relations with Them? These are the major questions each of us has to find an answer to follow the Pathway to the Future They have prepared.
Questions and Answers Session with Alok Pandey
Why do we die and what’s wrong with this question? How we do the Yoga of Cellular Transformation and what is incorrect with this question also? How to keep body fit for the physical transformation? What is The Mother’s vision and how does she see us? Finally – role of Gurus, Babas and other middlemen in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo.
A video recording of the talk by Alok Pandey at the 2016 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, SC.
Spiritual evolution can be very disorienting. We live our lives according to certain set patterns, ideas, beliefs, which are appropriate to the humans. But as we enter into higher levels, experience touch of the limitless vast, these ideas and patterns must fall away…
A talk at the 2016 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, SC.
The age of religions is over. When a great Master comes and releases certain teachings, they have to be expressed in a body of words, which we understand in a human way, with a very inadequate means of receiving the state in which there truths were expressed. When a great truth is spoken to us – Gita, Ramayana, Bible – there are two ways we can approach it. We can keep a holy book on the altar, routinely read it as a scripture, pick up a few things, select some temporal elements, connected to time and space context when this truth was revealed, and treat them as eternal truth, observe some rules and rites, and form a religion. On other side, every great teaching has an eternal element, the Sanatan Satya, but to receive it we have to go beyond the customs and external things in which it is trapped, beyond the written words, which are inadequate to fully capture the great truth…
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the 2016 Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina.
A talk of Alok Pandey at the Integral Yoga Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina.
This world is not what it appears to be. It is a distorted appearance of a reality, and we are playing with this distorted appearance. Because we don’t perceive it rightly, therefore our responses are also not right responses. And here we use “right” not in the sense of a morally right and wrong, but from a higher standpoint. Moral framework we use to navigate through the appearances …
A talk of Dr Alok Pandey about the meaning of Darshan of the Divine in general Indian spiritual tradition, and Darshan Days in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram context.
The Supramental Manifestation of Feb 29, 1956
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Savitri Bhavan in Auroville.
An audio recording of a talk by Alok Pandey, Video Conference for Finland on January 3rd, 2016
Integral Yoga is a many-sided evolutionary journey towards the Divine. It is not just about liberation of the soul to a higher Divine status but most importantly a liberation and transformation of the field of Nature through which the soul moves and experiences so as to eventually embody a higher Supernature. It is impossible to describe this wide movement of yoga and hence only a few fundamental aspects are being presented here in this talk.
Five talks, aimed at all interested in a healthier life pattern and natural and self-healing line of treatment.
They were delivered as part of the 8th “Living Within” Study Camp at SACAR, along with talks by Dr. Falguni Jani.
Five talks, aimed at all interested in a healthier life pattern and natural and self-healing line of treatment.
They were delivered as part of the 8th “Living Within” Study Camp at SACAR, along with talks by Dr. Falguni Jani.
Five talks, aimed at all interested in a healthier life pattern and natural and self-healing line of treatment.
They were delivered as part of the 8th “Living Within” Study Camp at SACAR, along with talks by Dr. Falguni Jani.
Five talks, aimed at all interested in a healthier life pattern and natural and self-healing line of treatment.
They were delivered as part of the 8th “Living Within” Study Camp at SACAR, along with talks by Dr. Falguni Jani.
Five talks, aimed at all interested in a healthier life pattern and natural and self-healing line of treatment.
They were delivered as part of the 8th “Living Within” Study Camp at SACAR, along with talks by Dr. Falguni Jani.
A talk at the retreat “The Dialogue with Death, and Quest for Immortality” at SAYFNA. Satsang with Dr Alok Pandey.
It is the second talk of the retreat “The Dialogue with Death and Quest for Immortality”, which took place in July 2015 at SAYFNA (www.sayfna.org). Satsang with Dr Alok Pandey
It is first talk of the retreat “The Dialogue with Death, and Quest for Immortality”, July 2015 at SAYFNA (www.sayfna.org).satsang with Dr Alok Pandey.
The eighth and concluding talk of Alok bhai’s series “Finding Divine in Daily Life” – The Discovery, 2015 Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
The seventh talk of the series “Finding Divine in Daily Life”. 2015 Retreat in Greenville, SC
The sixth talk from the series “Finding Divine in Daily Life” 2015 Retreat in Greenville, South Carolina, USA
The fifth talk from the series “Finding Divine in Daily Life”, 2015 Retreat in Greenville, SC.
The fourth talk from the series “Finding Divine in Daily Life” 2015 Retreat in Greenville, SC.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the Beach Office of Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, recorded in the April of 2010.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the AUM Conference in Port Townsend, Washington, recorded in 2005.