The Heart of Sadhana
The Heart of Sadhana
M.P. Pandit‘s The Heart of Sadhana contains his talks on Sri Aurobindo‘s book The Mother — the classic text in which Sri Aurobindo described the Divine Mother and her Four Powers. In seventeen short chapters Pandit takes up the central themes of the spiritual life: aspiration and grace, the conditions of the sadhana, personal effort, the conquest of desire, universalisation, and the four great powers of the Mother — Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. Written with the clarity of a lifelong practitioner, this is an ideal companion to the study of The Mother, guiding the reader from the first stirrings of aspiration to the conditions of complete transformation.
- 1. Aspiration and Grace
- 2. Conditions
- 3. Keep the Temple Clean
- 4. Obstacles
- 5. Perseverance
- 6. False Ambitions
- 7. Ascent and Descent
- 8. The Light Above
- 9. The Conquest of Desire
- 10. Universalisation
- 11. The Sacrifice
- 12. Equanimity
- 13. The Divine Mother
- 14. Maheshwari
- 15. Mahakali
- 16. Mahalakshmi
- 17. Mahasaraswati
- Conditions for Transformation
Book Details
Author: M.P. Pandit
Print Length: 122 pages
Publisher: Lotus Press
Sold by: Amazon.com
Book format: Kindle + Paperback
Language: English
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Aspiration and Grace
The book “The Mother” came to be written under some special circumstances. When Sri Aurobindo retired in 1926 leaving the Ashram in charge of the Mother and asked all the Sadhaks who were staying with him to look to her for guidance and help in their sadhana and instructed that thenceforward their contact with him would be only through the Mother, some of the people who had come here long before the Mother came asked the question, “But who is the Mother?”. When this question was asked repeatedly, Sri Aurobindo wrote his answer to “Who is the Mother?” He wrote on foolscap sheets which are still preserved, and his first draft was the final. It was written in 1927, and this constitutes the main part of the book — the fourth section, The Four Powers of the Mother. The earlier sections are mostly extracts from letters written by Sri Aurobindo during those days. They were included because they prepare the mind to receive the Truth that has been enunciated in The Four Powers. Even after Sri Aurobindo answered at length this question, “Who is the Mother?” some had doubts whether Sri Aurobindo meant the Mother here in the physical body or the Divine Mother on some higher plane. So the question was framed more pointedly, “Do you mean this Mother who is in the Ashram?” and he said, “Yes, it is she”.
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