Nolini Kanta Gupta

By Nolini Kanta Gupta — Apr 24, 2025

Suffering there is, some say, because the soul takes delight in it: if there was not the soul’s delight behind, there would not be any suffering at all. There are still two other positions with regard to suffering which we do not deal with in the present context, namely, (1) that it does not exist at all, the absolute Ananda of the Brahman being the sole reality, suffering, along with the manifested world of which it is a part, is illusion pure and simple, (2) that suffering exists, but it comes not from soul or God but from the Anti-divine: it is at the most tolerated by God and He uses it as best as He can for His purpose. That, however, is not our subject here. We ask then what delight can the soul take when the body is suffering, say, from cancer. If it is delight, it must be of a perverse variety. Is it not the whole effort of mankind to get rid of pain and suffering, make of our life and of the world, if possible, a visible play of pure and undefiled Ananda?

By Nolini Kanta Gupta — Oct 15, 2024

Fatigue, it is said, comes from overwork. The cure for fatigue is therefore rest, that is, do-nothing. But the truth of the matter is that most often fatigue is due not to too much work, but rather...

By Nolini Kanta Gupta — Jul 15, 2020

Nature is at a parting of the ways. She has done with her experiment of self-conscious man. Everything follows the evolution of consciousness. A choice has to be made: to be divine or remain human. It is time for man to become super-conscious and unveil his concealed divinity.

By Nolini Kanta Gupta — Jul 15, 2019

Nolini Kanta Gupta. The Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta.Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education; 1970, pp. 7-9.

By Nolini Kanta Gupta — Jan 15, 2018

The body is the world in microcosm and, if truly destined and attuned to the supreme Consciousness, can reflect and determine massive shifts on a world-scale.