Letters on Yoga – I
02/16/2025
The tamas is part of the general physical Nature and so long as that is not fully changed and illumined, something of it remains; but one […]
11/09/2024
Vice and virtue have nothing to do with darkness or light, truth and falsehood. The spiritual man rises above vice and virtue, he does not rise […]
09/27/2024
There are always two different consciousnesses in the human being, one outward in which he ordinarily lives, the other inward and concealed of which he knows […]
08/03/2024
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
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 […]
06/21/2024
Vitality means life-force—wherever there is life, in plant or animal or man, there is life-force—without the vital there can be no life in matter and no […]
02/26/2024
Consciousness is made up of two elements, awareness of self and things and forces and conscious power. Awareness is the first thing necessary, you have to […]
10/04/2023
There is a truth in Ahimsa, there is a truth in destruction also. I do not teach that you should go on killing everybody every day […]
05/21/2023
The faith in spiritual things that is asked of the sadhak is not an ignorant but a luminous faith, a faith in light and not in […]