Sri Aurobindo

11/12/2024
Sri Aurobindo

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
Sri Aurobindo

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
Sri Aurobindo

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
Sri Aurobindo

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 […]
10/20/2024
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Great Error of Human Vital

That is a great error of the human vital—to want compliments for their own sake and to be depressed by their absence and imagine that it […]
10/19/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Attacks of Illness

Attacks of illness are attacks of the lower nature or of adverse forces taking advantage of some weakness, opening or response in the nature,—like all other […]
10/17/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The idea of Asuric Maya

You may be sure that we shall not desert you and that we would never dream of doing so. You say truly that what drives you […]