Dear Friends,
Founder of the renowned Indian Silk House (Kolkata) and the first member of the Jain community to join Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, Rishabhchand Samsukha (3 December 1900—25 April 1970) was an extraordinary scholar, a guide to many spiritual aspirants on the path of Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga and a prolific writer. His memorable works include masterpieces like In the Mother’s Light, The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, The Divine Collaborators and Sri Aurobindo: His Life Unique, a biography of Sri Aurobindo for which he was chosen by the Mother herself.
3 December 2025 marked the 125th birth anniversary of Rishabhchand. To commemorate the said occasion and as a humble homage to this great scholar and sadhak, Overman Foundation Trust has published The Teachings of the Mother (an anthology of fifteen essays providing a detailed analysis of the Mother’s scheme of education and guidance to develop one’s inner, spiritual life) and A New Light for a New Life (a compilation of thirty-five essays written on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother vis-à-vis yoga, politics and cultural issues).
Both the books were released by Shri Dilip Samsukha, Rishabhchand’s nephew and owner of Indian Silk House, Kolkata.
Priced at Rs. 650, The Teachings of the Mother (ISBN: 978-81-979623-7-0) includes detailed discussions on themes like The Mother’s Teachings, Sincerity, Surrender, Education (Physical, Vital, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual), The Impersonal and the Supreme Person, How to Attain Knowledge?, The Service of Humanity, Supermind and Nature, Pleasure and Pain, The Secret of Yogic Action and Books—Batteries of Forces to name a few.
Priced at Rs. 700, A New Light for a New Life (ISBN: 978-81-979623-3-2) includes writings on Yoga is True Life, The Mother on Beauty, India and Communism, Sri Aurobindo: Architect of a New World Order, Sri Aurobindo, The Reconciler of Light and Life, Sri Aurobindo as a Philosopher, Sri Aurobindo’s Love for Man and Earth, The Philosophy of Education, An Ideal University, The Three Categories of Spiritual Seekers, Consciousness: The Essence of Man, Self-Transcendence, The Mother’s Victory, Does Austerity Change Body Chemistry?, What is Occultism? and Sri Aurobindo and His Mission to name a few.
To place an order for the aforementioned books, kindly contact us at: (0)9830244192 overmanfoundation@gmail.com
With warm regards,
Anurag Banerjee
Founder and Managing Trustee,
Overman Foundation Trust.
Compliments to unstoppable Anurag.
Thanks for informing of two new publications.
May the books reach to those who are inwardly ready to receive their message.
Luminous Peace 🕊️ 🕊️ ✌️ 🕊️
Aryadeep
Terribly relevant. Everyone is terribly concerned, as they are focused on them. May this burning obligation sustain us. It’s more than time.
The Hour of God
THERE are moments when the Spirit moves
among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the
waters of our being ; there are others when it retires and men are
left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism.
The first are periods when even a little effort produces great
results and changes destiny; the second are spaces of time when
much labour goes to the making of a little result. It is true that
the latter may prepare the former, may be the little smoke of
sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of God’s
bounty.
Unhappy is the man or the nation which, when the divine
moment arrives, is found sleeping or unprepared to use it,
because the lamp has not been kept trimmed for the welcome and
the ears are sealed to the call. But thrice woe to them who are
strong and ready, yet waste the force or misuse the moment;
for them is irreparable loss or a great destruction.
In the hour of God cleanse thy soul of all self-deceit and
hypocrisy and vain self-flattering that thou mayst look straight
into thy spirit and hear that which summons it. All insincerity
of nature, once thy defence against the eye of the Master and the
light of the ideal, becomes now a gap in thy armour and invites
the blow. Even if thou conquer for the moment, it is the worse
for thee, for the blow shall come afterwards and cast thee down
in the midst of thy triumph. But being pure cast aside all fear;
for the hour is often terrible, a fire and a whirlwind and a tempest,
a treading of the winepress of the wrath of God ; but he who can
stand up in it on the truth of his purpose is he who shall stand ;
even though he fall, he shall rise again ; even though he seem to
pass on the wings of the wii1d, he shall return. Nor let worldly
prudence whisper too closely in thy ear; for it is the hour of the
unexpected.
The Hour of God
« There are moments when the Spirit moves among men and the breath of the Lord is abroad upon the waters of our being; there are others when it retires and men are left to act in the strength or the weakness of their own egoism.
The first are the periods when even a little effort produces great results and changes destiny; the second are spaces of time when much labour goes to the making of a little result.
It is true that the latter may prepare the former, may be the little smoke of sacrifice going up to heaven which calls down the rain of God’s bounty.
Unhappy is the man or the nation which, when the divine moment arrives, is found sleeping or unprepared to use it, because the lamp has not been kept trimmed for the welcome and the ears are sealed to the call.
But thrice woe to them who are strong and ready, yet waste the force or misuse the moment; for them is irreparable loss or a great destruction.
In The Hour of God cleanse thy soul of all self-deceit and hypocrisy and vain self-flattering that thou mayst look straight into thy spirit and hear that which summons it.
All insincerity of nature, once thy defence against the eye of the Master and the light of the ideal, becomes now a gap in thy armour and invites the blow.
Even if thou conquer for the moment, it is the worse for thee, for the blow shall come afterwards and cast thee down in the midst of thy triumph.
But being pure cast aside all fear; for the hour is often terrible, a fire and a whirlwind and a tempest, a treading of the winepress of the wrath of God;
but he who can stand up in it on the truth of his purpose is he who shall stand; even though he fall, he shall rise again; even though he seem to pass on the wings of the wind, he shall return.
Nor let worldly prudence whisper too closely in thy ear; for it is the hour of the unexpected, the incalculable, the immeasurable.
Mete not the power of the Breath by thy petty instruments, but trust and go forward.
But most keep thy soul clear, even if for a while, of the clamour of the ego.
Then shall a fire march before thee in the night and the storm be thy helper and thy flag shall wave on the highest height of the greatness that was to be conquered. »
Sri Aurobindo – 1918