Before we begin, let us say a word about what we are trying to do together.

The Life Divine is one of those books that one can read many times and each time find something new. The Mother once said that Sri Aurobindo's words have a way of working on us even when the surface mind does not fully grasp what is being said. Perhaps some of you have had this experience — you read a passage, and it seems beyond you, and then one day, perhaps months or years later, something happens in your life and su