Renaissance Book 8
Author: Beloo Mehra
Released: August 2026
Book Title: Cultivating Soul-Values: Reflections on the Twelve Qualities From the Mother’s Symbol
ISBN: 978-81-7060-486-0
The Mother had once said that the number one problem for India is to rediscover and manifest her soul. When someone asked her – “How to find back India’s soul”, her reply was profound:
“Become conscious of your psychic being. Let your psychic being become intensely interested in India’s Soul and aspire towards it, with an attitude of service; and if you are sincere you will succeed.”
(The Mother, CWM, Vol. 13, p. 370)
This is the essential work the Mother asks us to do for our beloved motherland, for India, our Mother. As we walk the path to a deeper knowledge of the truer self within, we must cultivate in us the 12 qualities that we see in the Mother’s Symbol, if we aspire to become sincere servitors of the Truth, courageous children of Mother India, aspiring children of Divine Mother.
Sri Aurobindo spoke of these twelve attributes or soul-values as being necessary for the full manifestation of the Mother’s Work: Sincerity | Humility | Gratitude | Perseverance | Aspiration | Receptivity | Progress | Courage | Goodness | Generosity | Equality | Peace
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This inner progress can then become the enduring means to sustainable outer progress leading to a rebirth and renaissance in the collective. Our inner work, in this way, becomes our means to gain greater harmony in our outer lives – as individuals and as part of a society or nation.
Inspired by this thought, I worked on editing the 12 issues of Renaissance, Sri Aurobindo Society’s online journal, from August 2021 to July 2022. The aim was not to bring out an exhaustive compilation of all that Mother and Sri Aurobindo have said on these twelve attributes. Rather, the aspiration was to highlight varied dimensions of each of these soul-qualities, with an aim to highlight its significance for a deeper, inner progress of the individual.
This book weaves together selected insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on twelve qualities from the Mother’s symbol and presents them in the context of original write-ups by the author, which served as editorials for the 12 issues on Soul-qualities in Renaissance.
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