Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 9637

Mantras Written by Sri Aurobindo [4]

ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।

तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।

मृत्योर्माऽमृतं गमय ॥

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

तथास्तु¹

21 August 1933

¹ One of Sri Aurobindo's disciples wrote this quotation from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.3.28) in his notebook. Below it Sri Aurobindo wrote तथास्तु [tathāstu]: "So be it!" – Ed.

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