Talks by Alok Pandey in Engish
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 Mother2. The opening in Rigveda explained3. Whom does Satyavan represent in Savitri.
This meditation is a demonstration of using guided Imagery, which was shared during a webinar session on Integral Health with Pramukhswami Medical College, Gujarat.
This is a webinar with some students of Psychology from the Delhi University recorded on 7th Nov 2022. The questions were as below: 1. 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? 2. 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? 3. 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 4. 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? 5. How to be with a child and how to be like a child. Keeping the inner wonder and curiosity alive. 6. 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? 7. 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. 8. How do we develop ourselves to be able to help people in their pain and suffering? Especially in metal health. 9. Does modern clinical psychology give space for these extraordinary experiences? 10. 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 11. Strengthening the ego before transcending it (individuality).
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 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.
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.
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 people2. Difference between Oneness and sameness3. Worshipping the Snake in tradition4. 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.
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.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey, recorded in Antwerp in October 2022.
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: 1. Narcissistic personality disorder in light of Indian psychology (Story of Narcissus and the story of Indra and Virochan is told). 2. 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) 3. The explanation of biological changes in Psychological disorders in light of Spirituality. 4. Understanding the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to learn Indian psychology. 5. Promises and goals for self that are not given effort. 6. Lack of zest in daily life. 7. Future of old institutions like Marriage etc. that brings suffering at times. 8. 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. 9. To know different things and do different things but still not able to choose one.
What happens when one loses mental balance in the course of the spiritual journey.
On many occasions the Mother would converse with the Gods and Goddesses and give us a deeper understanding of their mystery.
In this webinar with NAMAH we touch upon the action of truth in healing.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at Savitri Bhavan (Auroville)
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 talk shares the importance of India and its true destiny and role.
This session is about poetic inspiration and rhythm. Dr Alok Pandey and Narad at the 2022 Sri Aurobindo Integral Yoga Retreat, Greenville, South Carolina.
A talk by Dr Alok Pandey at the 2022 Integral Yoga Retreat, Greenville, USA.
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.
Today we touch upon Sri Aurobindo’s action on the present state of humanity and the direction he has shown.
In the last part of this tri-series we take up the Avataric work of Sri Aurobindo with regard to the Future.
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.
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