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ARTICLE : The Mother on India's Spiritual Atmosphere
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To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: ARTICLE : The Mother on India's Spiritual Atmosphere
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From: Srinivasa Chakravarthy <srini@monod.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu>
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Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 10:09:32 -0600
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu, soc.culture.indian, soc.culture.indian.kerala, soc.culture.indian.karnataka, soc.culture.indian.marathi, soc.culture.indian.gujarati, soc.culture.indian.delhi, soc.culture.indian.jammu-kashmir, soc.culture.tamil, soc.culture.bengali
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Organization: Baylor College of Medicine
India is known to be a land of spirituality. The country had
produced great kings, poets, philosophers etc but the sage and the
saint have always won the highest respect. India is praised as a
Punyabhumi and a Karmabhumi so much so that the Bhagavata says: "one
who would achieve rapid spiritual progress would choose to be born in
the Bharavarsha." Surely there must something special in the very
atmosphere of the country. Here are a few lines from the Mother of
Sri Aurobindo Ashram on this point:
"There are places that are favorable for occult
experiences. Benares is one of these places, the atmosphere there is
filled with the vibrations of occult forces, and if one has the
slightest capacity, it spontaneously develops there,in the same way
that a spiritual aspiration develops very strongly as soon as
one lands in India. These are Graces. Graces, because it is
the destiny of the country, it has been so throughout its history,
and because India has always been turned much more towards the heights
and the inner depths than towards the outer world. Now, it is in the
process of losing all that and wallowing in the mud, but that is
another story..."
The Mother
From "Mother's Agenda" Vol I
