Sri Aurobindo
12/09/2024
Everybody has the ego and it is impossible to get rid of it altogether except by two things—the opening of the psychic within and the descent […]
12/08/2024
The human vital is almost always of that nature [full of desires and fancies], but that is no reason why one should accept it as an […]
12/06/2024
The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval. The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of […]
12/03/2024
It is mainly an inner guard that you must keep. At the same time, if you feel unease in crowds it is better to avoid them—except […]
12/02/2024
Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due to a pressure […]
11/26/2024
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
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
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
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 […]