In a cloud, all of our applications are running on a shared infrastructure. What that means is that all of our applications are competing for resources with each other. There are no guarantees. They're all fighting with each other, and they are unable to get the resources that they need to perform. Traditional functional silos, when we work in independent teams like network teams, storage teams, compute teams, we use different tools. We use different methodologies, and we are unable to identify these problems and solve them. This new environment, this new cloud environment, it requires us to get new sets of data to identify the problems. Here's what's fundamentally happening. Our applications, they're receiving unpredictable performance. The reason that's happening is because they are contending for shared resources. They're fighting with each other. They're not getting them. What do we do in turn? We spin up more resources. We are constantly sitting in this loop of our applications not performing and are spinning up more resources. This method is extremely wasteful. The reason we spin the resources up is because we don't have the adequate visibility into our infrastructure. We don't know the real reason why the application is not performing. Furthermore, we don't have any kind of control available to fix these performance problems when they happen. So we are stuck in this loop. AppFormics provides a real-time software solution that allows you to monitor your cloud infrastructure. We give you real-time resource monitoring and full-stack visibility. We have granular visibility about everything that's happening on your host, everything that's happening on the hypervisor, the virtual machines, the containers, and the application. The entire stack is made visible by us. We give you the control capability that allows you to dynamically change how much, how much, or how little resource any application gets to use. And in doing that, you can ensure that your applications deliver better performance and meet the SLAs that you need. So our software is an agent that sits on the host. This single agent can make visible to you all of the resources that are being used on the host, how they are being consumed by the virtual machines, how the applications that are running within the virtual machines, how they are consuming the resources. And if you're running containers, how the containers are consuming the resources as well. We are an agentless solution. What that means is that you do not need to change anything in your virtual machines or anything in your containers or anything in your applications. It's a single agent that installs on the host that makes the full stack visible to you. If your data center is a software-defined data center and you're expanding into the cloud, then in that situation, we also give you an agent that can sit in that virtual machine that you spin up on the cloud and make that entire, your entire cloud visible to you. The entire system can be centrally managed. It's all driven using APIs.  The system is currently deployed with several customers and these are the four key scenarios where we have serious impact. So the first one is we provide you the real-time application-level visibility of your infrastructure. In the next case, in this new environment where we are always sharing the services in our cloud infrastructure, for example, you have a shared storage service and you're spinning up virtual machines, you're spinning up containers and all of these VMs and containers and these apps, they're accessing this common shared storage service. What ends up happening is that as we scale out the applications, they content for their resources on the storage service and the storage service starts to kind of not perform. It's almost like you're having a snowball DDoS effect on your infrastructure from your own applications. We can come in and prevent that situation. The other problem that happens very frequently in virtualized environments is that as we increase the level of sharing, as we spin up more VMs, more containers, more applications, all of our workloads fight with each other for resources and there's bottlenecks in our infrastructure. We can automatically identify those bottlenecks and help you fix them and eliminate the contention. The fourth scenario is essentially this thing about not being wasteful in our infrastructure use. Without the adequate visibility, we all go on gut feel. It's almost like, hey, I'll spin so many resources up. If it doesn't work, I'll spin up so many more. If it doesn't work, I'll spin up so many more. We provide you with state-driven infrastructure planning. It's real-time, it's driven by real data, real analysis and gives you better overall infrastructure utilization. Our solution, I mean, it's completely integrated into OpenStack. If you use OpenStack, it's a one-click deployment. You install the agents on the host and everything is automatically on everything from the OpenStack controller and pull everything up on the dashboard for you. We are partners with Mirantis, so if you use a Mirantis OpenStack install, it's a very simple, easy build for you as well. So I'm gonna demonstrate a few things about our software today, both on the monitoring side and the control. What happens when you start spinning up more and more virtual machines or more and more containers on a physical host is that they all start competing for resources on that shared infrastructure. So you start out with maybe two containers. Next thing you know, you've got a couple VMs running on that machine or a couple more containers and each one is getting fewer and fewer resources. And eventually what happens is your application can't get enough resources to meet the performance requirements that you need for a good user experience. So that kind of problem is an absolute lack of resources to get the performance that you need. A second kind of problem that occurs is that the workload on the applications that are running on the same host as you is constantly changing. And as it's changing, the amount of resources that your application can get is also changing and therefore you end up with unpredictable performance and an unpredictable user experience. And we can see that here in our monitoring tool. So this is a view of a single host and it has six virtual machines running on it. And what we're displaying is the memory, the CPU and the network IO of each virtual machine. And what you can observe is that as the workload of some virtual machines comes and goes, the other virtual machines are getting more or less resources. And if you think about the application in yellow at the bottom where it's very clear to see that as the blue workload comes online, the application in yellow is getting fewer and fewer resources and then when the blue workload goes away, the application gets more. And so what's happening here is the application owner is gonna be asking why is my performance not doing what I expect? I've tested my application, I know that it can handle the load that I expect but when I deploy it into production, I see that the application doesn't performance I expect or performance as I expect sometimes but not others and you need the monitoring tools to identify where the problem exists and why you're not getting that performance. And in addition to just showing the resources on the host, what we also can show are application metrics so that application owners can find out if the problem maybe is not in the resources that are being available on the machine, it could be like what a problem that's happening inside the application itself. So for instance, for HTTP, we can actually show the time to first byte. So the time the packet arrives at the physical host to the time that the application sends the first byte of the response back to the client and we can display that in real time. Another thing we can show is the amount of requests that are being received. We can even filter it by the endpoints so that you wanna know what endpoints are getting hit the most in your application, you wanna know what the response codes were coming back for those requests and we can display that in real time as well so you can get deep insight into what your application performance is doing. And I was describing contention on a single host just now but there's also contention in shared services. So more and more applications are being built around shared infrastructure where you might have a shared storage server, a shared database, shared identity service and the contention now is not happening at a single host for CPU and memory but it's also happening at that shared service across the network. So you want to have insight into what's going on in your entire data center, not just on a single host and that's another thing that our farmers can provide through our monitoring tool. So in this view, we've taken a different view instead of looking at a single host we're looking at multiple virtual machines, a logical view of the data center. So instance one, two and three might be running on host A whereas client one might be running on host B and if client one suddenly creates a massive demand for the storage server, then the amount of storage IO available to instance one, two and three diminishes. And if you were just looking at the host A where instance one, two and three are running you would see that they're getting less resources but you wouldn't necessarily know why. You need the view of the entire data center to see oh, there's a sudden burst of demand from client one that caused instance one, two and three to get fewer storage IO resources. And that's what our tool enables is that view that you can see across virtual machines across your whole infrastructure you can see into the applications so that you can identify what bottlenecks are causing the performance problems. And once you've identified those bottlenecks what you need next is the ability to solve the problem. You need to have control to assign and allocate resources to the applications that are highest priority to you. App Formix has an API driven controller that is centrally managed and lets you allocate resources to the applications that have the highest priority and you can do it both in real time or at the time you're provisioning the application. And so just to give you a simple example of what our REST API looks like if you wanted to at real time change the amount of network allocation given to a virtual machine with a simple curl command you can put, make a REST API, put API call to set the network allocation to 200 megabits per second. And I'm gonna demonstrate that in just a moment but I also want to point out that you can do this preemptively if you know an application maybe is a backup job and you want it to not take up too much resources at runtime you might want to say at the time I configure this job when I'm setting up this container I right now when you create the container configure it with this network allocation and this shows an extension we've given to the YAML file for Docker compose that lets you set that at the time the containers created. So if we go back to our example where one virtual machine was overusing the storage and causing other services to get less resources at runtime applied that configuration so that we allocate 200 megabits to client one and now you see in real time that the amount of storage IO client one is getting is only 200 megabits and the other virtual machines are now able to get more storage IO. The key here is that we haven't changed the total aggregate throughput. The aggregate throughput of all the VMs is still the same. We've just reallocated what VMs get which resources to prioritize the VMs that are most important to us and the workloads that are most important. So once again we are for makes and what we have is a real-time software solution that allows you to monitor all of your resources whether they're running on-prem or in the cloud. We give you one central dashboard on which you can visualize the resource consumption of all of your resources by your VMs, by your containers, by your hosts. We give you the fine-grained control. Again in real time now you can change the allocation. How much resources an application consuming? How much is the VM consuming? How much storage IO do they get? All of it in real time and in doing that we can ensure a better performance for your applications and better SLAs. You're welcome to join our early access program here on the web at appformics.com. Thank you.


Real quick here, and I'm ruining my this is vlog 18 I think I had to I had to get this out of the way before this cheese Goes to waste. This is njroute22.com vlog 18. It's a quick PSA This is a way for you guys to save some cash big time in your life The whole deal is cheese, okay cheese plays a big part in a lot of people's lives people love sliced cheese Shredded cheese blocks of cheese and so on I'm gonna get rid of my cheese costs a lot of money sometimes you get these these fancy aged Cheeses sometimes ten twenty dollars a pound. It's ridiculous. You're making an omelet 99% of the people cannot tell the damn difference between what kind of cheese is in there Just want they just want some creamy goodness in there in their omelet, right? And what I want to explain to you today is a little tip a little tactic It's about these meat and cheese shavings. I'm gonna try and focus here. Let's see if my focus works See that meat and cheese Shavings 79 cents a pound and in this bag. It's God knows what I know. I've tasted Swiss Munster you can tell by the orange and There's some cheddar. There's some American. There's some pepper jack provolone There's like ten different cheeses in this bag I guess when they get to the end of the block to just take the shavings in this somebody Scoops them into this into a bag or bin.  I mean I love the Kelly's or whatever the hell its name I can't remember the name.  It's delicious. It's mysterious. It has a big cheese Rainbow in it now. Here's the deal not every shop right or supermarket has these bonus Shaving ends. Let me add a little note meat. There's like liverwurst ham and turkey and chicken like chicken chicken blocks I mean chicken shouldn't be reconstituted, but whatever I mean, they have these bins where they have the ends of the whatever meat it is normally It's like 10 or 10 bucks eight to twelve dollars a pound like when it's fresh from the middle You get to the end and there's this like whatever casing that keeps the meat blob together when it gets to the end And then like the last five percent they cut it off and they charge like two ninety nine a pound It's typically Branchburg shop, right? And I I believe Clinton shop, right? These are in the central section of NJ route 22 They have these bins where you could find all these end cuts meat And I learned this from my father because he he wants to make his money Last as long as possible and he doesn't care. It's it's sustenance. It's it's Food it's food you eat food for fuel You don't need been conditioned for the last few decades to treat food as as like some sort of entertainment venue That's not right really when you think about it like food is fuel No matter how you sugarcoat it or you you put fancy doilies on it food is fuel We need food to live another day and we've gotten into this fancy kind of eating out and linen tablecloth Fancy dress and so on these meat and cheese shavings bags are not easy to find I'm like I'm making a huge mess of my production student.   It's it's garbage.  Why do I need to pay ten dollars a pound for cheese when I get this is still cheese It's just not fancy perfectly sliced and like arranged in a nice format like like you're at some sort of buffet It's just a blob of cheese cheese shavings. Look here we go guys falling out.  I hate shop right for doing that figure out a better way to bag this stuff All right, I can help you for a fee if you can find the cheese shavings take advantage of it every single time But only after I had my pick because I don't want you guys like stealing my freaking glory here 80 cents I got a 1.01 pound of all this still is so good. Who pays 80 80 cents a pound for cheese That's amazing. Anyway, this this is something that people should when you when you go get to your checkout And you you think you only have a few things in your in your in your cart and it's a hundred dollars This is a way to to make it less than a hundred dollars like 90 dollars I don't know. This is something that oh by the way, they they misspelled it. This maybe this is why it's so cheap It's meat and chess savings Meat and chess chasse if you want to be french chasse. It's meat and chasse shavings It's fancy meat and chasse shavings for 80 cents. I've had this bag for like a week I've been using it for everything like like my eggs whatever i'm making sometimes I make some like You're a freezer week where you say, okay It's time to go through the freezer and and eat some of this stuff before it becomes like freaking like artifacts in some Sort of museum say you have some like weird looking meatballs You throw some meat and chasse shavings on it and boom bada-bing It's it's it's the next freaking like five stars a got Zaggot Z goat rated meal on yelp whatever meat and cheese shavings Have some due diligence, you know exercise due diligence and and and look around your your supermarket because There's deals to be had you just have to focus on on on doing that type of stuff instead of your entertainment And your emotional stuff that you get wrapped up in that's just my two cents I love these shavings and and i'm a big fan.  That that's this uh vlog 18 For for this week this uh episode.  It's gonna be down to like eight seven or eight minutes Maybe even less. I have to get a new uh board now. I don't think it's black on the other side. I think it's white


Why did the ice cream cone carry an umbrella? Because there was a chance of... Sprinkle. Tony here, it's shapegram time. When a shapegram comes your way, use shapes to draw the picture. This shapegram is a delicious cone with a double scoop of ice cream. According to surveys, the top four ice cream flavors in the United States are vanilla, chocolate, cookies and cream, and strawberry.  To draw it, you'll need to duplicate shapes, select multiple shapes at once, rotate shapes and use the curve line tool. I'd like to show you a few things. This ice cream cone is drawn with 35 shapes. 17 of those shapes are sprinkles. The cone is a simple shape, so adding it later is not a problem. So I make the scoops of ice cream first. The scoop is made of a half circle with six circles. I use the pie shape to draw a half circle. Then I move the yellow diamonds to change the shape. I can drag the blue boxes to change the size and adjust the shape. Next, I add a circle by selecting the oval shape and holding down the shift key on the keyboard as I drag my mouse. I go to the edit menu and choose duplicate to get an exact copy of the circle. Let's go back and do that again. Instead of clicking the menu each time, I can use the keyboard shortcut to duplicate. Here's how.  Do the control or command D shortcut a few more times until you have six circles. I line up the six circles. With the pie shape and the circles positioned where I want them, I drag my mouse from just outside of my creation to pass the opposite corner and release. This selects the shapes. Now I can give all of the shapes the same fill color at once. I'll use a light yellow for vanilla. Then I click the border color tool and choose transparent. I drag my mouse to select the scoop. I click arrange and group. Grouping is an easy way to select and move multiple shapes together. I use the keyboard shortcut control or command D to duplicate the entire group. I move the new scoop into place. I go to the fill color tool and change it to a chocolate color. Okay, now I'll add the cone. It's a triangle. This triangle needs to be rotated. I click and drag the blue dot until it's rotated 180 degrees. I give it a brown fill color and a transparent border. I move it into place. The triangle needs to be behind the ice cream scoop. So I click the arrange menu, choose order and click send to back. The sprinkles are rectangles. In order to make it easier to work with the sprinkles, I zoom the canvas. To do that, I click the view menu, choose zoom and select zoom in. I want to zoom in even more. So I again click view, zoom and zoom in. I add a rectangle. I want it to have a transparent border color. I'll give it a blue fill. I'll change the fill colors later, but for now I want to duplicate a bunch of sprinkles and move them around the ice cream. I'll use the keyboard shortcut control or command D. I move the rectangle and rotate it around a random angle. Then I duplicate, move and rotate. I do this again and again until I'm happy with the number of sprinkles. I've added sprinkles, but they are all blue. So now I select sprinkles and give them a variety of fill colors. The cherry is made from two circles and a line.  The stem can be made with the curve line. I select the curve line by clicking the small triangle next to the line tool. I click near the edge of the cherry, then move my mouse away a little and click. I move a little bit higher and to the right and double click. The double click is how you end a curve line. I press escape on my keyboard to stop drawing with the curve tool. If you want to fine tune the line, double click it. Then you can move the purple dots to make adjustments. I give the line a green line color, a line weight of three and move it to the back. My ice cream cone looks legendary. I should cone graduate myself. Now try your cherry best to make your own ice cream cone. If you don't give up, anything is popsicle. I know you can do it. You got this. See you in the next ShakeGram.


Well, the open race for Minnesota State Auditor finally has a Republican candidate. Former Representative Pam Mayra registered to run late last week for the office. The office is being vacated by current state auditor Rebecca Otto, who is running for the Democratic nomination for governor. The state auditor oversees local government spending. Also Republican David Osmek says he's ending his campaign for governor. Osmek, a state senator from Mound, says he decided to drop out after discussing prospects with family and supporters over the holidays. He finished fifth of seven candidates in a straw poll at the party's state central committee meeting in December. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Right here, we have the white cement Air Jordan 3's and I was lucky to get these from Hearth. They have them at the shop and they let me borrow them for the video. So I'm excited to give you guys a first look at this sneaker. As you can see from the outside of the box right here, very similar to the Lost and Found Air Jordan 1's when it comes to the box, giving you that OG vibe with the overall print and colors. But then you kind of got that old school frayed look like these are OG boxes from back in the day. So I liked that hit on a classic nostalgic sneaker like this. So now that you guys know a little bit more about the box, let's crack these things open and look at the shoes. Lifting off the lid right here, you have a little card. We've seen this in the past as well when it comes to the Air Jordan 3, just breaking down all the details of the shoe when it comes to the insoles, the outsoles, the air units, the upper, the materials, everything like that. And they also use that same design aspect when they did on the box with the frayed edges with the white around the ends. They did that same thing right here on the card as well. So it's nice to see that they stayed consistent with the branding and the overall nostalgic vibe when it comes to the shoe. And then next up right here, you got some elephant paper and then you got the shoe. Oh, you got the shoe. So this shoe right here in particular is probably one of the hottest sneakers to ever come out. One of the most iconic nostalgic sneakers out there in the game and potentially the sneaker that kept Jordan Brand alive. When we talk about him wearing these, jumping from the free throw line in the dunk contest and all the iconic moments back in 1988, it was crazy to think how this shoe had made such a staple in the game then and is still today in current time considered to be one of the greatest shoes of all time. And don't worry, we'll have a bigger history lesson in detailed comparisons when we talk about the previous retros from the past. So we'll make sure we get in that in a full review video. Right now I just want to give you guys a quick early look at the shoe, the materials, the cuts, the overall just vibe of the sneaker because these definitely have more of a vintage look to them similar to the loss and found like we just talked about. So starting with the bottom of the shoe, like we always do, as you can see right here, you got your classic Air Jordan 3 bottom and we know on all OG Air Jordan ones, they had the Nike branding compared to the Jordan branding. So they stay consistent with that. Now, when it comes to the white area right here, it's actually not like a pure white, it's more kind of like a sale colored. So that gives you kind of more of that old kind of vintage yellowing look to the shoe. And honestly, I'm not mad at it. Now, going up to the mid-soles on this shoe, you're going to see similar effects with that as well. You got the same color blocking, but with the white right here, it's actually more of a sale look as well. And then you can see that as you get a little bit closer look, especially if you look at the color of the midsole compared to the upper right here on the mudguard area. So that's also something to take note as well when it comes to seeing this shoe, because if you think you're going to get a fresh, crispy white pair, yes, the white leather is going to be crispy and white, but you're going to have those kind of older vintage look to the shoe as well at the same time. And when it comes to vintage looks on a shoe, that's something that some people like and some people don't like. So let me know what you guys think when it comes to vintage sneakers down below in the comment section. And when I say vintage sneakers, I more mean like when it comes to sneakers that are brand new that look like they are vintage and have that old school look with the yellowing and everything like that. I know that's been a huge thing over the past few years and it looks like they're continuing to stay with that theme, especially on an OG model like this. Now going up to the upper, one thing that I really love about this is they stayed consistent with the cut of the sneaker. So if you have the fire red threes or some of the newer retro aerodraining threes and you see the cut of the tongue or the toe box or just a lot more slim and overall cut and shape of the elephant print on the back end and different things like that. The height, the padding on the back end right here around the ankle area. All these things are very, very similar to the fire red threes. So that's going to be something that you will see that's like, okay, that's very similar. Now one thing I did notice is on these, the jump man is a little bit smaller than the fire red three, which again, we'll get into in the comparison videos in the future. But at the end of the day, I think when it comes to recreating the Air Jordan 3 from 1988 to current time now and re-bringing that back with the new tech and the materials and everything that we have in current time, I think they did a really, really good job. And honestly, this is potentially one of the best retros that we could have ever seen come out so far when it comes to retro iterations, OG style, OG shape, re-imagining, like they call it, re-imagining that OG style and everything like that. So I'm just very, very excited about this sneaker overall to say the least. Now going to the back end of the shoe right here, you have the white tab with the black Nike Air right here, classic OG branding, but on the tab it's gonna be that same vibe as well. You're gonna have more of a sail color tab similar to that midsole like we talked about earlier, giving you more of that old vintage look as well. Now personally, I don't have a problem with it. I know again, like we talked about earlier, some people may have a problem with it. Let me know what you think about the back tab on these down below in the comment section. Now before we get any farther into the video, I gotta mention to you guys, I teamed up with Hearth and we're gonna be giving away either the Amalfors or the Lost and Found Ones. All you have to do is click on the link down below in the description or pinned in the comment section. Sign up for that on the link and then the winner will be announced on Christmas Day and you will have the option to choose if you want the Amalfors or the Lost and Found Ones. It's pretty simple, it's very, very easy and that's gonna be pretty much it when it comes to entering for this raffle. We couldn't decide what the sneaker of the year was between these two. Some people say other iterations as well, but at the end of the day, it's up to you to decide and you get to win. So once you win, you can pick and then we'll ship it right out to you in your size. So good luck to everybody. Hit that link down below and let's continue on with this video. So now taking into more aspects of this sneaker that I really love, you got that OG hang tag right here giving you the Nike Air branding with the orange tag and then on the inside of the insoles right here, red insole, black Nike Air right there. Back into the tongue, you got the red hit right here and overall, this is just a very, very clean shoe. I think they did a really good job when it comes to the elephant print as well on these and this is just, man, it's just so hard to not love this shoe. I feel like there's gonna be a very, very minimal group that doesn't like this shoe. Speaking of that, let me check my IG real quick because I remember I posted a fire or trash the other day and I forgot to check the results one second. Okay, right here it says 96% of the people chose fire and 4% of the people chose trash. So like I was talking about earlier, that clearly means a lot of people like this shoe and what does that mean when it comes to prices, resale, how to get the shoe, all the different stuff? It's naturally just gonna be a demand behind the sneaker and you can understand why. Classic, nostalgic, iconic, OG colorway, you name it. You know, it just checks all the things on the list. This is gonna be a very, very dope shoe that a lot of people love and want to go after. So with all that being said, I'm gonna make sure that I get you guys a how to cop video, more in-depth looks, talk about the classic, just the history of this shoe and I'm gonna try to get a couple of interviews with a couple of people when it comes to this and let me hear their story when it comes to this shoe as well. So stay tuned, I appreciate you guys as always. Again, don't forget to enter the raffle, it's very, very simple. I'll see you guys in another one. All right y'all, I'm out. Yo, before you go, I just launched my sneaker head academy where we got everything on the inside. I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years. When it comes to sneakers, scaling, real estate, you name it, we talk about all of it in there and there's an eight week program plus a bunch of monthly giveaways. I give away shoes literally way too much honestly. But either way, I'll see you guys on the inside. Hit the link down below in my description or pinned in the comment section for DJ sneaker head academy and I'll see you guys over there.


I'll welcome everybody Okay, okay. I'm no fan here Yeah, well for me no fan for other people they can see Welcome everybody We're here to honor Sri Aurobindo We're here to honor his realizations of nirvana and cosmic consciousness Last year on August 15th of 2021 We began the year leading up to 150th birth centenary of Sri Aurobindo And now everyone is talking about Sri Aurobindo everywhere in India People are speaking about him and the great things that he's done The more we learn about him The more our hearts are hushed with respect and love And really deep gratitude But we'll never know the full depth and scope of his accomplishments He said that no one would ever know the inner man that he was But we're immensely fortunate to know what he has written about himself He wrote about himself as part of the great work that he did The work that he did for us so we can follow the pathway that he created for mankind to evolve more quickly The best way to honor Sri Aurobindo is to do what he wanted us to do To follow the path he created to work for our own yogic accomplishments and One way to do this is to open ourselves to the consciousness that he put into his writings So instead of talking about what he wrote I'm going to be reading what he wrote So that we hear his teachings and we receive the consciousness that he put into those writings for us to get It's much better to hear his words than to use our words and As part of this We're going to honor him for the great work that he did for his beloved country of India and Then the work that he did and continues to do for the whole world Sri Aurobindo wrote about himself in Savitri when he wrote about King Ashwapati Savitri's father The King's story starts with book one canto three The yoga of the King the yoga of the soul's release In this part of Savitri, he tells us that even before he began his yoga He knew where he came from and he knew what he came here to do This is what he first wrote about himself His was a spirit that stooped from larger spheres into our province of a femoral site a colonist from immortality a Pointing beam on earth's uncertain roads His birth held up a symbol and a sign his human self Like a translucent cloak Covered the all wise who leads the unseeing world Affiliated to cosmic space and time and paying here God's debt to earth and men a greater sonship was his divine right a Power was in him from the unknowable His soul lived as eternity's delegate His mind was like a fire a sailing heaven His will a hunter in the trails of light This is his own description of himself before he began his yoga And we have another description of him before he began his yoga It was written by a man who lived with him This was in 1898 through 1900 and this fellow came to teach Sri Aurobindo how to speak Bengali This is what he wrote Sri Aurobindo's laughter was like a child's simple liquid and soft an Inflexible will was visible in the set of his lips But there was not the least force of worldly ambition or ordinary human selfishness in his heart There was only a longing rare even among the gods To give himself in order to relieve others suffering as I became acquainted with him Living with him day and night. I realized that Aurobindo was not of this world He was a God fallen from heaven by some curse As long as I lived with him and observed him he was absorbed in his studies Sensitive to the suffering of others and always self-sacrificing like a Sanyasana a renunciate It seemed that he had made a vow to devote his life to the acquisition of knowledge Even in the midst of the hustle bustle of this world. He was immersed in intense tapasya Spiritual effort in order to fulfill this vow The students of Baroda looked upon Aurobindo as a God And we've just read that Shri Aurobindo wrote in Savitri about himself His mind was like a fire a sailing heaven his will was a hunter in the trails of light So he has described his own abilities to acquire knowledge The known history of his life is filled with praises from everybody His teachers praised his scholarship his co-workers praised his work and his character His students praised his teaching and his personality But the time Shri Aurobindo began to have disciples They didn't have enough praises or enough words to praise him to describe his greatness All this leads us to believe that Shri Aurobindo was a highly developed person all of his life It's no wonder that the known history of his yogic Realizations shows us a person who advanced very quickly on the path once he decided to start He was born in Bengal, India on August 15th 1872 He was educated in England from the age of 12 and at the young age of 17. He vowed He was going to free his country He returned to India three years later to work in the Indian Civil Service in 1893 but his first interest his primary interest was to free India and He began his revolutionary activity within six months after he came back He himself said he was not interested in yoga Because he didn't want to become the kind of yogi who gives up his life in the world This is another sign of Shri Aurobindo's innate wisdom Later he taught that a fully realized yogi must also be successful in any area of life He must do this in order to serve the divine and That this was a necessary part of his yoga and indeed a necessary part of human life This truth was part of the ancient Vedic teachings These teachings are the basis of Indian spiritual philosophy and yoga But it had been lost to modern India and Shri Aurobindo brought it back for the world Now people interested in yoga practice often hear those two terms Nirvana and cosmic consciousness They are told that a spiritual seeker should work to attain these two states of consciousness But they also find that it takes many years of hard work and in fact many do not attain them even after a lifetime of work Shri Aurobindo attained nirvana after three days of yogic practice After that it took only four months for cosmic consciousness to begin to emerge in him He told some of his disciples how he realized nirvana and then he described the actual experience in some letters His nirvana experience came in January of 1908 With the yogi named Vishnubhashkar Lele He told his disciples. I didn't begin with Lele. I first began on my own with pranayama Drawing the breath into my head This gave me good health lightness and an increased power of thinking Side by side certain experiences also came but not many Nor important ones. I began to see things in the subtle Then I had to give it up when I took to politics. I Wanted to resume my sadhana, but I didn't know how to begin again. I Wanted spiritual experience and political action together. I would not take up a method that required me to give up action in life When I came to Baroda from the Surat Congress My brother Baran wrote to me that he knew a certain yogi whom he would introduce me to at Baroda Baran sent a wire to Lele and Lele came On the top floor in a room.  I did it. We sat in meditation together. I realized the silent Brahman consciousness Sure, you're a vendor described this experience a little more fully in a letter. He wrote Lele said sit in meditation, but do not think only look at your mind You will see thoughts coming into it Before they can enter throw them away from you until your mind is capable of entire silence. I Had never heard before of thoughts coming visibly into the mind from outside But I did not think of either questioning the truth or the possibility. I Simply sat down and did it In a moment My mind became silent as windless air on a high mountain summit and Then I saw a thought and then another Coming in a concrete way from outside. I flung them away before they could enter and take hold of the brain and In three days, I was free from that moment In principle the mental being in me became a free intelligence a Universal mind not limited to the narrow circle of personal thought or a laborer in a thought factory but a receiver of knowledge from all the hundred realms of being and Free to choose what it willed in this vast site empire and thought empire Giving a personal mental form to the thought stuff from the environmental nature force However, she her Mendo says that it took some time for the fullness of this to completely develop In another letter he wrote For of course the later fullest development of this new untrammeled mental power took time many years Then soon after this Shri Yoramindo had to address a large public gathering. It was on January 19th 1908 his mind was completely silent Lely told him to make namaskar to bow to the audience and Wait and speech would come to him from other sources than the mind Shri Yoramindo followed Lely's advice. He said in fact speech came and That ever since then all thought all speech all writing Came to him from that same source above the brain mind Furthermore, he said that after this experience the yoga was going on in him all the time even in outward action These other yogic achievements are not small developments. They take years to fully achieve Shri Yoramindo doesn't quite say it this way But it certainly looks like he got these major yogic attainments in one day soon after he realized nirvana Not only that he wasn't even looking for them Later he taught that these achievements are only one step in the system of the yoga practice that he gave to the world In the practice of Shri Yoramindo's yoga The second major stage to achieve is to receive the impetus of our movements from above First we realize our soul and our psychic being is sufficiently formed Our consciousness settles in our heart We are guided more and more by our soul consciousness Then the next step is that our consciousness also takes its place above the head over the highest chakra in the body Instead of being guided by our imperfect misleading mind or The different parts of our imperfect misleading vital being we are guided both by our soul and by the higher consciousness above us Lele taught Shri Yoramindo these yogic methods, but Lele did not remain in his life as his guru Lele himself said that he was made by a voice within him to turn Shri Yoramindo over to the divine within him So he asked Shri Yoramindo Whether he could surrender entirely to the inner guide within him and move as it moved him If so, he would need no instructions from Lele or from anybody else Shri Yoramindo wrote that he accepted this and he made it the rule of his sadhana and of his life Shri Yoramindo believed that he was here to free India And at that time his whole life was devoted to it In his greatness he was the perfect instrument for the divine to use for this work And then when he took his part in this work to free India Did his work and that work was finished The divine took him on to do the work of freeing all of humanity These were Shri Yoramindo's aspirations In response, the divine put him where he could most quickly have the experiences and receive the inner guidance that he needed in order to fulfill both of these aspects of his own destiny Shri Yoramindo was moved by the divine for his spiritual evolution and for the spiritual evolution of the world On May 2nd, 1908, at the height of Shri Yoramindo's revolutionary activity Without prior warning or any knowledge Shri Yoramindo was suddenly arrested on a charge of conspiracy and taken to the local jail He was moved to the Alapur jail on May 5th And he was kept in solitary confinement for one solid year He was released exactly one year later on May 6th, 1909 Later he said that the inner voice which he had accepted as his guide told him that his Revolutionary activity had to be stopped He had to concentrate on his spiritual development But he was so attached to freeing his beloved country that he refused to listen So the great power which was guiding his destiny put him in jail for one year Shri Yoramindo wrote about all this and he wrote about what it did for him he said The year of 1908 Friday 1st of May Nor did I know at that time that this day would mark the end of a chapter in my life And that there stretched before me a year's imprisonment Though I had described it as imprisonment for a year It was in effect like a year's seclusion in an ashram or a hermitage Finally the compassionate Sarvamangalam Shri Hari the all-good Lord brought me to a yoga ashram and He himself stayed as guru and that's tiny sadhana kutir that seat of spiritual discipline This yoga ashram happened to be the British prison The British government's wrath had but one significant outcome. I Found God in Shri Yoramindo's book tales of prison life He wrote in detail about the really terrible physical mental and emotional tortures Coming from the horrible Horrible inhumane conditions of his solitary confinement in the Alapur jail It's is really distressing to hear that any human being should have to go through this But when Shri Yoramindo wrote about them he wrote about them with a fine ironic sense of humor It was hard for him to go through it at first But each torture became a direct pathway to a significant spiritual experience Finally his inner work and the resulting spiritual attainments were so great that he wrote Although it cannot be said of suffering that there was none The period on the whole passed in self-existent bliss He wrote about some of the circumstances of his God realization Because he described what he called the necessary Vessens that God gave him in jail. He wrote Then I did not know that God was having a game with me Through which he was giving me a few necessary lessons First he showed me the state of mind in which prisoners condemned to solitary cells move towards insanity and He wholly turned me against the inhuman cruelty of the Western prison administration So that I might to the best of my ability Turn my countrymen and the world from these barbarous ways to the path of more humane prison organization This was the first lesson. I Also understood his second purpose It was to reveal and expose before my mind its own weakness so that I might get rid of this weakness forever For one who seeks the yogic state crowd and solitude should mean the same Indeed the weakness dropped off within a very few days and Now it seems that the mental poise would not be disturbed even by 20 years of solitude in The disposition of the all-good even out of evil cometh good The third purpose was to give was to give me this lesson That my yoga practices would not be done by personal effort but that a spirit of faith or reverence and a complete self-surrender were the road to attain perfection in yoga and Whatever power or realization the Lord would give out of his benignity to accept and Utilize these should be the only aim of my yogic endeavor Since the day when the deep darkness of ignorance began to lessen I Started to see the true nature of the all-good Lord's amazing infinite goodness As I watched the different events in the prison ward. I Was troubled by mental listlessness I spent a few days in agony in this manner One afternoon as I was thinking Streams of thought began to flow endlessly and then suddenly these grew so uncontrolled and Incoherent that I could feel the mind's regulating power was about to cease Afterwards when I came back to myself I Could recollect that though the power of mental control had ceased the intelligence was not self-lost Nor did it deviate for a moment But it was as if the intelligence was watching quietly this marvelous phenomena But at that time Shaking with the terror of being overcome by insanity.  I have never known before Just as a child sleeps secure and without fear on the lap of his mother So I remained on the lap of the world mother From that day all of my troubles in the prison were over It was for this realization that God had brought about this situation or experience Without turning me mad He had enacted in my mind the gradual process towards insanity That takes place in solitary confinement He kept my intelligence as the unmoved spectator of the entire drama out of this came strength and I had an excess of kindness and sympathy for the victims of human cruelty and torture I also realized the extraordinary power and efficacy of prayer Shri Yorobindo was put into an outward physical solitary confinement Inside he was living in a state of sheer emptiness His description of this interstate is a treasure It's a treasure for any seeker Because people can have similar experiences, but they may not know their yogic value Fortunately for us he described his interstate of nirvana He described it in detail in a long letter of 1934 He wrote Now to reach nirvana was the first radical result of my own yoga It threw me suddenly into a condition above and without thought Unstained by any mental or vital movement There was no ego No real world Only when one looked through the immobile sense something Perceived or bore upon its sheer silence a world of empty forms Materialized shadows without true substance There was no one or many even only just absolutely that featureless relationless sheer indescribable unthinkable absolute yet supremely real and solely real This was no mental realization Nor something glimpsed somewhere above No abstraction. It was positive the only positive reality although Not a spatial physical world It was a positive reality pervading occupying or rather flooding and drowning dissemblance of a physical world Leaving no room or space for any reality, but itself Allowing nothing else to seem actual positive or substantial. I Cannot say there was anything exhilarating or rapturous in the experience as it then came to me The ineffable Ananda the bliss I had years afterwards But what it brought was an inexpressible piece a stupendous silence an infinity of release and freedom I Lived in that nirvana day and night Before it began to admit other things into itself or modify itself at all and The inner heart of experience a constant memory of it and its power to return Remained until in the end it began to disappear into a greater super consciousness from above but meanwhile realization added itself to realization and fixed itself with this original experience at An early stage the aspect of an illusionary world Gave place to one in which illusion is only a small surface phenomenon With an immense divine reality behind it and a supreme divine reality above it and An intense divine reality in the heart of everything that had seemed only a cinematic shape or shadow Shri Aurobindo has a footnote here Explaining what he meant by illusion He says in fact it is not an illusion in this sense of an imposition of something baseless and unreal on the consciousness But it is a misinterpretation by the conscious mind and sense and a falsifying use of manifested existence Then he goes on about the world which replaced the illusionary world He says and this was no re-imprisoning in the senses This was no diminution or fall from supreme experience It came rather as a constant heightening and widening of the truth It was it was the spirit that saw objects not the senses And the peace the silence the freedom in infinity Remained always with the world or all worlds only as a continuous incident in the timeless Eternity of the divine Nirvana was Shri Aurobindo's interstate when he was put into solitary confinement Wherever he found himself must have been planned and orchestrated by God Today when we look back at the history of his life We can see a pattern of yogic realization emerging in clear steps and stages We can also see how every detail was carefully arranged for his swift spiritual progress The prison doctor Came regularly to Shri Aurobindo solitary cell to ask him questions At one point the doctor managed to get permission for Shri Aurobindo to walk outside of his cell So that he could have some much needed exercise During these walks, they're awakened in Shri Aurobindo the deep the tender the all encompassing love that everyone who had his darshan felt in his presence He wrote about how his nature changed into love for everything during his walks He wrote, I would take a stroll every day in the morning and in the evening in the open space above the decree The decrees were the rooms for the special punishment of solitary confinement in the jail There were six decrees in the Alapur jail On one side were the jail industries on the other the cowshed My independent kingdom was flanked by these two From the industrial section to the cowshed from the cowshed to the industrial section Traveling to and fro I would recite the deeply moving, ageless, powerful mantras of the Upanishads Or, watching the movements and activities of the prisoner I tried to realize the basic truths of the imminent Godhead, God in every form In the trees, the houses, the walls, in man, animals, birds, metal, the earth With the help of the mantra, all this is the Brahman, Sarvam Kalvidham Brahma I would try to fix or impose that realization on all of these As I went on doing like this, sometimes the prison ceased to appear to be a prison at all The high walls, those iron bars, the white wall, the green-leaved trees shining in the sunlight It seemed as if these commonplace objects were not unconscious at all But were vibrating with a universal consciousness They loved me and they wished to embrace me, or so I felt Men, cows, ants, birds, are moving, flying, singing, speaking Yet all this is nature's play And behind all this is a great pure detached spirit wrapped in a serene delight Once in a while, it seemed as if God himself was standing under the tree To play upon his flute of delight, and with his sheer charm to draw my very soul out Always it seemed that someone was embracing me, holding me on his lap The manifestation of these emotions overpowered my whole body and mind A pure and wide peace reigned everywhere It's impossible to describe that The hard cover of my life opened up And a spring of love for all creatures gushed from within Along with this love, such satvic pure and high emotions As charity, kindness, ahimsa, harmlessness, etc Overpowered my dominantly majestic act of nature And found an abundant release And the more these qualities developed, the greater the delight And the deeper the sense of an unclouded peace The anxiety over the case had vanished from the beginning Now it was a contrary emotion that found room in my mind God is all good He has brought me into the peace He has brought me into the prison house for my good My release and the quashing of the charge was certain I grew firm in this faith After this for many days, I didn't have to suffer any troubles in the jail We can see that in a few months Shri Aurobindo was put through everything that he needed For most of the realizations that he says will come to us If we practice his system of yoga How can anybody honor him enough for going through everything that he went through To learn the quickest road to realization that humanity has ever had And can we honor him enough for the dedication of his life to do all of this for us We can try to summarize his progress in the jail He saw the true nature of the all good Lord's infinite goodness He knew that whatever comes to him in life is for his good And for his progress and for the progress of the whole creation He learned that complete faith in God and surrender to God Were the road to attain perfection in yoga Moreover, he did not only learn it as intellectual knowledge He attained this exalted state which never left him He realized that the aim of his yoga was to accept whatever power or realization God gave him and used them in a life dedicated to God's service He saw the imperfect nature of mind's workings to such an extent That he was liberated from being controlled by his mind The high psychic soul qualities like love and kindness Like compassion and faith and wisdom All these took over the areas of his being that were not so developed And replaced any lower qualities of the anger and vital that he still had left Therefore he was living in soul consciousness He gained universal compassion He gained love for everything in the creation And he gained the realization that all of the creation is God's love And God's delight of being And within all of this Cosmic consciousness was beginning to emerge in Sri Aurobindo Later he wrote that by mid 1909 Soon after he was released from jail He had already realized in full two of the four great realizations On which his yoga philosophy and his yoga are founded The first one was the Brahman The silent the silent Brahman His nirvana attainment And the second realization was of the cosmic consciousness and the divine as all beings And all of this is the active dynamic Brahman These came in full when he was jailed Besides these two great attainments He was already on his way to the other two great realizations During his meditations in the Aleppo jail He wrote that the other two realizations Are the realization of the supreme reality With both the static Brahman and the dynamic Brahman as its two aspects And then the realization of the higher planes of consciousness leading to the super mind Sri Aurobindo wrote two poems while he was in jail One is a poem speaking only about the physical world The world that we all know He didn't wait to begin his wider work for the whole world Alone there Imprisoned Solitary He wrote to us He wrote to call us to join him on the path of consciousness that he was traveling on He called his poem invitation Here is his poem calling to everyone who's ready Invitation With wind and the weather beating around me Up to the hill and more land I go Who will come with me Who will climb with me Wading through the brook and tramp through the snow Not in the petty circle of cities Cramped by your doors and your walls I dwell Over me God is blue in the welcome Against me the wind and the storms rebel I sport with solitude here in my regions Of misadventure have made me a friend Who would live largely Who would live freely Here to the windswept uplands ascend I am the lord of Tempest and Mountain I am the spirit of freedom and pride Stark must he be An akincement to danger Who shares my kingdom and walks by my side Anybody who is doing the yoga Who has accepted Shri Aurobindo's invitation Can tell you how very real and true this poem is The other poem that he wrote in jail Comes from a consciousness that we can only marvel at It takes us out of our mundane plane of physical existence To a place that we can even hardly imagine This poem is called Who It is a poem of Shri Aurobindo's God Realization It has eleven verses But I'm just going to read the first and the last Who In the blue of the sky In the green of the forest Who is this hand that has painted the glow When the winds were asleep In the womb of the ether Who was it roused them And bade them to blow It is he in the sun who was ageless and deathless And into the midnight his shadow was thrown When darkness was blind and engulfed within darkness He was seated within it immense and alone Shri Aurobindo did not write letters to explain His realizations of cosmic consciousness He didn't speak in the personal way about this In the way he wrote his letters about nirvana But one of the places he wrote in beautiful detail about this realization Is when he wrote about Savitri's yoga And he explains cosmic consciousness in other books Like the life divine and the synthesis of yoga We can find more on the subject in his letters on yoga We can find them in his letters to guide the early ashramites yoga practice When they had some experiences of cosmic consciousness He does not write that he is speaking about himself But we can look at these writings as his own descriptions of what happened to him And how they changed his life In the life divine he wrote The being breaks out of his imprisonment He breaks out of the imprisonment in a separated individuality He becomes universal He assumes cosmic consciousness in which it identifies itself with the spirit and the self The life, the mind, the body of all things and all beings In the letter to an ashramite he wrote Cosmic consciousness is an experience in which one's separate personal existence Shut up in a body ceases to be the normal thing One feels the body as a point or small thing in a vast existence consciousness or ananda That is the divine And one feels oneself as spread out in that vast consciousness As if the world were within us and not we inside the world Or as if the world were one with us and one with the divine For our yoga this is a beginning only Not the end as it is in the ordinary yoga A liberation not the sidhi And Shri Aurobindo has a definition of sidhi It means fulfillment success perfection Shri Aurobindo described his full state of cosmic consciousness When he wrote about Savitri's cosmic consciousness This is in the best is in the book of yoga It's in Kanto 7 the discovery of the cosmic spirit and the cosmic consciousness For Savitri it was the final result of her yogic preparation to face death To bring her beloved husband back so that they could work for the divine on earth This was the most important thing in her life For Shri Aurobindo the most important thing in his life Was to save his country to bring his country back for its divine work in the world And here is what he wrote about himself as Savitri And he's telling us the stages of cosmic consciousness that he went through A spirit a being saw created things and cast itself into unnumbered forms And was what it saw and made All now became an evidence of one stupendous truth A truth in which negation had no place A being and a living consciousness a stark and absolute reality It was herself it was the self of all It was the reality of existing things It was the consciousness of all that lived and felt and saw It was timelessness and time It was the bliss of formlessness and form It was all love and the one beloved's arms It was sight and thought in one all-seeing mind It was joy of being on the peaks of God She passed beyond time and slipped into eternity Her being rose into unreachable heights and found no end of its journey in the self It plunged into the unfathomable deeps and found no end to the silent mystery That held all world within one lonely breast Yet harbored all creation's multitudes Her spirit saw the world as living God It saw the one and knew that it was he All nature's happenings were events in her The heartbeats of the cosmos were her own She inhabited the vastness of the world Its distances were her nature's boundaries Its closenesses her own life's intimacies She was a single being yet all things She was space and the dreams of God in time From this she rose where time and space were not The superconscient was her native air The superconscient was her native air Infinity was her movement's natural space Eternity looked out from her on time All of these writings give us quite a good idea About the change of Sri Aurobindo's consciousness into cosmic consciousness One could ask whether he already had a certain amount of this Because of his complete dedication to selfless service and the liberation of India Since he hasn't written about it we can only speculate He returned to his political activity as soon as he was released from jail He was now living in a state of nirvana and cosmic consciousness And we can see that it was not just Sri Aurobindo the human being Leading the national movement to free India It was a supreme divine creator of the universe in a human body It's a very clear example for us of a human being serving the divine And acting according to the divine will When he was released he was the only leader of the revolution against the British Who was not either in jail or in exile For 10 months he ran the whole revolutionary movement single-handed In this condition of complete silence Receiving high realizations and guidance from above When he was in jail the inner voice of the guide which he followed Told him to go forth and take what was shown him in jail to the people One of the first things he did was to have his book tales of prison life Published in 1909 and 1910 in the Calcutta and Lanzli journals Suprabhat And Suprabhat means dawn on May 30th, 1909 21 days after Sri Aurobindo was released from jail He was asked to give his first public speech It was at Uttarpara He knew that he was the only man left of the great revolutionaries who could lead his nation to freedom He had prepared what he would say But he couldn't say it His Uttarpara speech is deeply moving. It's profoundly touching We already know something about him by learning of the circumstances and the realizations God gave him in jail In the parts of his speech that I'm going to read We hear his greatness And we feel the great heart of this great man Speaking his love and dedication to the whole of his beloved country He began his speech by saying As I sat here There came into my mind a word that I have to speak to you A word that I have to speak to the whole of the Indian nation It was spoken first to myself in jail And I have come out of jail to speak it to my people It was more than a year ago that I came here last When I went to jail, the whole country was alive with the cry of Bhande Mataram Honor to Mother India Alive with the hope of a nation The hope of millions of men who had risen out of degradation When I came out of jail, I listened for that cry But there was instead a silence But one thing I knew That as it was the almighty power of God who had raised that cry that hope So it was the same power which had sent down that silence I knew I would come out The year of detention was meant only for a year of seclusion and of training How could anyone hold me in jail longer than was necessary for God's purpose He had given me a word to speak And a work to do And until that word was spoken I knew that no human power could hush me Until that work was done No human power could stop God's instrument However weak that instrument could be or however small Now that I have come out Even in these few moments A word has been suggested to me Which I had no wish to speak The thing I had in my mind He has thrown from it And what I speak is under an impulse and a compulsion Sri Aurobindo told the people of the great experiences and realizations That God gave him while he was jailed And then he said God said to me I have another thing for you to do And it is for that that I have brought you here To teach you what you could not learn for yourself And to train you for my work Then he placed the Gita in my hands His strength entered into me And I was able to do the sadhana of the Gita I realized what the Hindu religion meant This is the Dharma That for the salvation of humanity Was cherished in the seclusion of this peninsula From of old It is to give this religion that India is rising She does not rise as other countries do For self or when she is strong to trample on the weak She is rising to shed the eternal light entrusted to her over the world India has always existed for humanity Not for herself And it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great After seeing this After seeing this Sri Aurobindo told the people how God showed him that he was in everything And everyone in the jail In the courtroom In the judge In the lawyers Then he repeated what God said to him Now do you fear he said I am in all men And I overrule their actions and words My protection is still with you And you shall not fear This case that which is brought against you Leave it in my hands It is not for you It was not for the trial that I brought you here But for something else The case itself Is only a means for my work And nothing more Then Sri Aurobindo told the people I knew all along what he meant for me For I heard it again and again Always I listened to the voice within me I am guiding Therefore fear not Turn to your own work for which I have brought you to jail And when you come out Remember never to fear Never to hesitate Remember that it is I who am doing this Not you nor any other Therefore whatever clouds may come Whatever dangers and sufferings Whatever difficulties Whatever impossibilities There is nothing impossible Nothing difficult I am in the nation and it's uprising And I am Vasudeva I am Narayana And what I will shall be Not what others will What I choose to bring about No human power can stay I strove long for the realization of yoga And at last to some extent I had it But in what I most desired I was not satisfied Then in the seclusion of the jail Of the solitary cell I asked for it again I said Give me thy adesh Thy command I do not know what work to do Or how to do it Give me a message In the communion of yoga Two messages came The first message said I have given you a work And it is to help uplift this nation Before long the time will come When you will have to go out of jail For it is not my will that this time Either you should be convicted Or that you should pass the time As others have to do in suffering for their country I have called you to work And that is the adesh for which you have asked I give you the adesh to go forth and do my work The second message came And it said Something has been shown to you in this year of seclusion Something about which you had your doubts And it is the truth of the Hindu religion It is this religion that I am raising up before the world It is this that I have perfected and developed Through the rishis, the saints, the avatars And now it is going forth to do my work among the nations I am raising up this nation to send forth my word When you go forth speak to your nation always this word That it is for the sanatanadharma that they arise It is for the world and not themselves that they arise I am giving them freedom for the service of the world When therefore it is said that India shall rise It is the sanatanadharma that shall rise When it is said that India shall be great It is the sanatanadharma that shall be great When it is said that India shall expand and extend herself It is the sanatanadharma that shall expand and extend itself over the world It is for the dharma and by the dharma that India exists When therefore it is said that India shall rise It is the sanatanadharma that shall rise What is this religion which we call sanatana, eternal It is the Hindu religion only because the Hindu nation has kept it But it is not circumscribed by the confines of a single country That which we call the Hindu religion is really the eternal religion Because it is the universal religion which embraces all others It is the one religion which impresses upon mankind the closeness of God to us And embraces in its compass every means by which man can approach God It is the one religion which insists every moment on the truth Which all religions acknowledge that he is in all men and all things And that in him we move and have our being It is the one religion which enables us not only to understand and believe the truth But to realize it in every part of our being Then Sri Aurobindo said to the people This is the word that has been put into my mouth to speak to you today What I intended to speak has been put away from me And beyond what is given me I have nothing more to say It is only the word that is put into me that I can speak to you That word is now finished This Hindu nation was born with the sanatanadharma With it it moves and with it it grows When the sanatanadharma declines, then the nation declines And if the sanatanadharma were capable of perishing With the sanatanadharma it would perish The sanatanadharma, that is nationalism This is the message that I speak to you We can see that all of Sri Aurobindo's yoga Sri Aurobindo's yoga is a sanatanadharma He's just described it And we can see that bringing his yoga to the world is the God given work that he was given And in these words we can feel the greatness of Sri Aurobindo's heart And the greatness of his being As part of his work to free India Two days later his Uttar Parva speech was published in the Bengali And English newspaper in Calcutta Then Sri Aurobindo revised this text and published it in his own weekly journal The Karma Yoga in June of 1909 It was brought out as a pamphlet in 1919 And has been republished many times since then After his speech at Uttar Parva Sri Aurobindo addressed more than 12 meetings in Bengal, East Bengal and Assam As many as 2,000 people attended these meetings People who were there reported that even though 2,000 people were sitting there When Sri Aurobindo spoke there was a complete silence We can imagine that those 12 speeches were just as moving and just as powerful as his Uttar Parva speech To continue his work he started 2 weekly publications One in English called the Karma Yoga And one in Bengali called the Dharma All of this was done in his condition of the complete silence of Nirvana And the vast fullness and receptivity of cosmic consciousness The way he wrote about the British government And the Indian situation And everybody was just as powerful and moving In his writings, in his publications As the way he gave his Uttar Parva speech When you read them you can see it His goal was to awaken his people He wrote with intelligence, he wrote with clear common sense And he was direct and honest in his criticisms of everyone If 2,000 people were there to hear Sri Aurobindo speak at one time We can imagine that thousands more wanted to read what he wrote At that time High officials in the British government Considered Sri Aurobindo to be the most dangerous adversary to the British rule Who was still at liberty to act And we can understand exactly why They were hoping to jail him again And they were looking for the opportunity to arrest him 1909 and 1910 Early 1910 Was a period when revolutionaries belonging to various groups in the country Carried out several spectacular assassinations The British government decided to clamp down harshly on any nationalist activity It brought in harsh laws Including the Indian Press Act Which effectively forbade the free expression of opinion In the press and on the public platform This raises a question We know that the British were hoping to arrest Sri Aurobindo Were the laws restricting free speech in the press And on the public platform Particularly planned and designed So that the British government could arrest Sri Aurobindo again His work against the British rule had always been in his published writings and his public speeches And now he was doing nothing but writing and public speaking On February 12th of 1910 The Advocate General of Bengal gave his opinion That the government had a good chance of success If it chose to prosecute Sri Aurobindo On the charge of sedition For an open letter to the people Which he had published in the Karma Yogan On December 25th 1909 The British wanted to clamp down harshly on any activity of the nationalist party And this letter called to the nationalist party It exhorted it It called it It said the time is now To rise to reform itself and to act strongly again The Lieutenant Governor's office began to prepare the case against Sri Aurobindo We can ask another question here We know that by now everything Sri Aurobindo wrote and said was given to him from above Was this letter and all the events that followed Were they planned and orchestrated by his divine guide To bring him to the next stage of his work for us A member of the Karma Yogan and Dharma staff Had a relative who worked in the police department One evening in February 1910 This staff member appeared in the midst of a gathering at Sri Aurobindo's house With the news that the British government was going to arrest Sri Aurobindo again Everything was ready, he said And it might be that very evening Sri Aurobindo seemed to think for a few seconds Then he said I shall go to Chandranagore Just now This very moment He stood up and he left the house Within a short time he was in a small boat Moving down the Ganges River Later he wrote in a letter I suddenly received a command from above and a voice well known to me Go to Chandranagore In ten minutes or so I was in the boat for Chandranagore Thus Sri Aurobindo started on the first stage Of the journey which was to end in Pondicherry on April 4th, 1910 There he followed his inner guidance To concentrate on his spiritual development And to do his work for us His work for the whole world We have a rare written account Of a foreign visitor's experience Of what both Sri Aurobindo and mother were like Just before Sri Aurobindo left his body He had been doing his work in Pondicherry for 40 years He left on December 5th, 1950 The visitor was there for his last darshan on November 24th, 1950 This is what she wrote At last it was the morning of November 24th At Golconda rumors flew Although thousands had now arrived for this darshan It was said that Sri Aurobindo was ill And might find it impossible to appear Then at the last minute we were told that he was well enough A long line led from the main building around the block People of every color Every style of dress Government officials High ranking professors Young and old from dozens of countries Wanted to see the philosopher's sage Each of us finally climbed the stairs To the floor where, at the end of a long narrow room Sri Aurobindo in white And the mother in a gold sari Sat side by side upon a slightly raised platform As a westerner The idea of merely passing by these two With nothing being said Had struck me as a bit ridiculous I was still unfamiliar with the Hindu idea That such a silent meeting Could afford an intensely spiritual impetus I watched as I came up in line And I noted that the procedure was to stand quietly Before the two of them for a few silent moments Then to move on at a gesture from Sri Aurobindo What happened next was completely unexpected As I stepped into a radius of about four feet There was a sensation as if moving into some kind of a force field Intuitively I knew it was the force of love But not what ordinary human beings usually mean by the term These two were geared straight up, so to say They were not paying attention to me As ordinary parents might have done Yet this unattachment seemed just the thing that healed Suddenly I loved them both as spiritual parents Then all thought ceased I was perfectly aware of where I was It was not hypnotism as one Stanford friend later suggested It was simply that during those few minutes My mind became utterly still It seemed that I stood there a very long and uncounted time For there was no time Only many years later did I describe this experience As my having experienced the timeless in time When there at the Darshan There was not the least doubt in my mind That I had met two people who had experienced what they claimed They were Gnostic beings They had realized this new consciousness Which Sri Aurobindo called the Supramental Only someone who was had the same realizations as Sri Aurobindo Could find the right words to honor him For his achievements of nirvana and cosmic consciousness And what words of ours are good enough To honor him for all that he did for India And for all that his work continues to do for the whole world This honor is too deep for our outward words of praise We honor him with our hearts and with our souls And we can end this tribute to honor Sri Aurobindo in his own words With a poem that he wrote right after he had these great realizations He wrote this poem in 1909 When he was still leading the movement against the British rule He wrote about himself and what he had become And he called his poem Reminiscence Reminiscence My soul arose at dawn And listening heard one voice abroad A solitary bird A song not master of its note A cry that persevered into eternity My soul leaned out into the dawn To hear in the world's solitude its winged compere And hearkening what the angel had to say Saw luster in midnight And a secret day was open to it It beheld the stars born from a thought And knew how being prepares Then I remembered how I awoke from sleep And made the skies built earth Formed ocean deep If any of you people have a question I can answer it I guess there are no questions Oh thank you Yes, yes I'll tell you what Let me email it to you Okay Because I haven't written just to search through the papers Yeah Okay send me an email to remind you And I'll send you the exit page number and everything Yes sir How to activate inner guide? Oh what a great question Is there anything written How to activate the inner guide I can't say that I've ever read those words Like mother saying activate the inner guide by doing this I think you have to ask for it I think you have to I mean the yoga is a triple labor of aspiration rejection and surrender And we know that it's the consciousness The full consciousness and the inner guide That is doing everything and leading us and calling us So ask for it to come That's my personal advice I'm sorry I don't have a quotation for you Yes sir Yes sir You have Tell me Uh missions of those objectives have been given like cosmic consciousness we have Described that to uh two three places Yes So your dindo has written Yes We have used nirvana and number of places Yes And we have not used moksh Liberation, moksh Liberation No I haven't three or didn't didn't write the words moksh So I was reading what he wrote Yes, sir I I agree with you I I my understanding from what mother and shura binda has said Is that nirvana especially from the buddhist side of things Is the liberation and it's the liberation out of this existence And you you attain nirvana you get that high emptiness that vastness and it's finished You have got that and shri arabinda's teachings is that that's only halfway there So that's not liberation The liberation is the full complete consciousness when you get that that's the silent brahman Then the other half is the active brahman which is the cosmic consciousness Where the action the whole brahman acts through you in the world So you are free but you're not free to run away You are free to become a full complete divine instrument Okay, I will answer the question He shri arad the question is what is evolution has shri arad bindo defined evolution Shri arad bindo has said first I will define involution The supreme divine all consciousness decided to become all of this In order to do that he had to become less and less conscious in stages To become the complete unconsciousness of physical matter of things So the supreme is involved in our matter Evolution is the supreme becoming himself again for the delight of doing all this In all these levels and in us that's why we do the yoga That consciousness that we eventually have is we are conscious of the supreme all consciousness that we are At the moment we're not But doing the work is is we could call evolution fast forward We're speeding up our evolution to gain that full consciousness and again It is not moksha unless you define moksha as complete action with the divine Acting in us and through us harmony through conflict I'm sorry. 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August 2017, a big month for astronomy presented by Science at NASA. Sky watchers in the United States have been waiting for this date for years. On August 21, 2017, there's going to be a total eclipse of the sun. With the path of totality stretching from Oregon to South Carolina, people can see the eclipse from coast to coast. The timing of the eclipse will provide the opportunity for viewers to see one of the biggest astronomical events of the century, just a few weeks after enjoying one of the biggest meteor showers of the year. Every August, Earth passes through a stream of debris from Comet Swift Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. This year, the shower will peak on the nights of August 11, 12, and 13. Although the comet is far away, currently located beyond the orbit of Uranus, a trail of debris from the comet stretches all the way around its orbit back to where it nears, Earth's orbit. As our planet crosses the debris zone, the upper atmosphere will be pelted by specks of comet dust traveling 132,000 miles per hour. At that speed, even a flimsy speck of dust makes a vivid streak of light when it disintegrates. A meteor. Because Swift Tuttle's meteors streak out of the constellation Perseus, they are called Perseids. Astronomer Bill Cook of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office offers these observing tips. If it's not cloudy, get away from the bright lights, lay on your back, and look up. Remember to let your eyes get adjusted to the dark. It takes about 30 minutes. You'll see more meteors that way. You don't need to look in any particular direction. Meteors can generally be seen all over the sky. Not all the meteors you'll see belong to the Perseid meteor shower. Some are sporadic background meteors. Others are weaker showers, also active in August, including the Alpha Capricornids, the Southern Delta Aquarids, and the Kappasignids. But the vast majority will be Perseids. Cook says if you see a meteor, try to trace it backwards. If you end up in the constellation Perseus, there's a good chance you've seen a Perseid. Under ideally dark skies, observers can often see dozens or even more than 100 Perseids per hour when the shower peaks. This year the glaring light of a bright, waning, gibbous moon will interfere, reducing the number of visible meteors. Now for the good news. That same moon is heading toward the sun, narrowing as it goes until the thinning crescent disappears into a black disk that will perfectly cover the sun on August 21st. A meteor shower, followed by a total solar eclipse, August doesn't get much better than that. For more news about Backyard Astronomy, stay tuned to science.nasa.gov.