Sri Aurobindo

08/18/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Three Fundamental Obstacles

There are only three fundamental obstacles that can stand in the way: 1) Absence of faith or insufficient faith. 2) Egoism—the mind clinging to its own […]
08/17/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Dealing with Vital

Once the vital being has come forward and shown its difficulty—there is nobody who has not one crucial difficulty or another there—it must be dealt with […]
08/11/2024
Sri Aurobindo

How to make mind free?

What you perceive as suggestions or voices, are accepted and felt by people to be thoughts of their own mind. When one practises Yoga and observes […]
08/10/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Nature of Human Physical Consciousness

A certain inertia, tendency to sleep, indolence, unwillingness or inability to be strong to work or spiritual effort for long at a time, is in the […]
08/09/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Human love and Divine Love

The Mother did not tell you that love is not an emotion, but that Divine Love is not an emotion,—a very different thing to say. Human […]
08/07/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Quietening the Mind

The mind can become quiet only when you detach yourself from it and see the thoughts as things that pass. Then you don’t think yourself but […]
08/06/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Three things to shorten Difficulty

There are three things you can do to alleviate and shorten the difficulty: 1) Detach yourself from this vital-physical—observe it as something not yourself; reject it, […]
08/03/2024
Sri Aurobindo

The greatest help for others

To concentrate most on one’s own spiritual growth and experience is the first necessity of the sadhak—to be eager to help others draws away from the […]
08/02/2024
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Abandoning the Ordinary Life

It is not absolutely necessary to abandon the ordinary life in order to seek after the Light or to practise yoga. This is usually done by […]