The Mother & Sri Aurobindo

Om = supreme invocation,  NAMO = total self-giving, perfect surrender, BHAGVATE = the aspiration, what the manifestation must become - Divine

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The mental life thus evolving in man... ... ... Barbarism is an intermediate sleep, not an original darkness. 

The inferior nature equilibrium is the basis and first means of higher movement... ... ... but beyond this intellectual mentality is the divine. 

The three steps of nature: .. that which is already evolved,  that which is still imperfect.. that which is to be evolved. 

O grey wild sea, Thou hast a message, thunderer, for me. Their huge wide backs Thy monstrous billows raise, abysmal cracks

The mind, and physically do not like suffering, It is vital that clings to it, sometimes for the spice of life and other times for higher purposes.

Durga stotram was originally written by Sri Aurobindo in Bengali in 1909. Translated in English by Nolini Gupta. This is my version with minimum changes.

All methods grouped under the common name of Yoga are special psychological processes founded on the fixed truth of nature and developing, 

There are two necessities of Nature's workings which seem always to intervene in the greater forms of human activity, whether they these belong to our ordinary fields or movements or seek those exceptional fulfillments which appears to us high and divine.