Sri Aurobindo

06/12/2021
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Intellectual Preparation

It is not enough to devote ourselves by the reading of Scriptures or by the stress of philosophic reasoning to an intellectual understanding of the Divine; […]
06/11/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Need of Compliments

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 […]
06/10/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Mother’s Help from distance

Is it possible to receive the Mother’s help at a great distance—say Bombay or Calcutta—almost in the same way as here in the Asram? One can […]
06/08/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Sadhaka of the Infinite

For the sadhaka of the integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however great its authority or however large its spirit, can […]
06/07/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Interval Periods in Sadhana

Naturally the more one-pointed the aspiration the swifter the progress. The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past […]
06/02/2021
Sri Aurobindo

The process of Rebirth

The soul takes birth each time, and each time a mind, life and body are formed out of the materials of universal nature according to the […]
05/31/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Difference between Ordinary and Intuitive Mind

The difference between the ordinary mind and the intuitive is that the former, seeking in the darkness or at most by its own unsteady torchlight, first, […]
05/29/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Three ways to shorten difficulty

As for the offering of the actions to the Divine and the vital difficulty it raises, it is not possible to avoid the difficulty,—you have to […]
05/28/2021

Open to the Force

It is good that you reject the sense of illness and allow no depression. Let there be no apprehension in the physical consciousness; with faith make […]