Sri Aurobindo

11/26/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Happiness and Contentment

Happiness in the ordinary sense is a sunlit state of the vital with or without cause. Contentment is less than happiness—joy of peace or being free […]
11/25/2024
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Vital Reactions

A vital reaction means a response of the vital to the touch or pressure of an idea, action, event, person or thing. E.g. if someone speaks […]
11/21/2024
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Headache and Fatigue

The headache and the fatigue is always a sign that the consciousness no longer wants this outward-going thought and speech and is even physically strained by […]
11/12/2024
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Interest in outward things

To be interested in outward things is not wrong in itself—it depends on the way in which one is interested. If it is done as part […]
11/11/2024
Darshan Card 15 Aug 2019 Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Doing things by Mental Control

To do anything by mental control is always difficult, when what is attempted runs contrary to the trend of human nature or of the personal nature. […]
10/26/2024
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Simple Aspiration

What you say is quite true. A simple, straight and sincere call and aspiration from the heart is the one important thing and more essential and […]
10/24/2024
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Vital Disturbances

The exacerbation of certain vital movements is a perfectly well-known phenomenon in Yoga and does not mean that one has degenerated, but only that one has […]
10/22/2024
Sri Aurobindo in his room

How to handle effect of Adverse Forces?

You ask whether the adverse Force is stronger than the Divine Force. The implication is that man has no responsibility for his action and whatever he […]
10/21/2024
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The Double Consciousness

The condition you describe in your work shows that the inner being is awake and that there is now the double consciousness. It is the inner […]