Long back, a college student visited Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantiniketan where he met Dr. Gurdial Malik, eminent scholar and Tagore’s personal secretary. In response to a request for his autograph, Dr. Malik complied adding the message “Know Thyself”. Emboldened, the student then met Tagore with his autograph book. The great man looked at Dr. Malik’s observation, smiled a bit and wrote “Forget Thyself” along with his signature. These two ancient laws of living are profound in wisdom; in this e Book we present some passages excerpted from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on these two counsels.
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KNOW THYSELF – WORDS OF SRI AUROBINDO
1. Reminiscence
2. Realise Who He Is
3. Realise Thy Self in All Things
4. Become Thy True Self
5. Living of an Ordinary Man and the First Necessity
6. Behind the Frontal Consciousness
7. The Inner Being
8. Recognise the Inner Guide
9. What Man Is
10. The True Object of Our Birth
11. Steps to Get Out of the Ignorance
FORGET THYSELF – WORDS OF THE MOTHER
1. A Blank Page for the Divine’s Will to be Written
2. O Lord, Deliver Me from Myself
3. Annul Thyself That Only God May Be
4. Individual Effort
5. Why Do We Do Sadhana?
6. Expression of the Divine in Manifestation and Return of the Force Without Personal Use
7. Crystallisation and Surrender
8. Looking at Oneself Acting
9. A Way to Forget Oneself
10. The First Thing to Learn
11. When the Intellectual Mind Is Enlightened