Letters on Yoga – I

06/21/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Vitality

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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Empowered Consciousness: Uniting Awareness and Will for a Transformative Change

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

Ahimsa ? Destruction ?

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 Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How faith should be?

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 […]
12/14/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Spiritual Force

Leave aside the question of Divine or undivine, no spiritual man who acts dynamically is limited to physical contact—the idea that physical contact through writing, speech, […]
09/22/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Secret Power

Do not allow any discouragement to come upon you and have no distrust of the Divine Grace. Whatever difficulties are outside you, whatever weaknesses are inside […]
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 […]
03/14/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Permanence of spiritual experiences

As to permanence, you cannot expect permanence of the initial spiritual experiences from the beginning—only a few have that and even for them the high intensity […]
01/30/2021
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Mental Convention

Men’s way of doing things is a mental convention; they see things and do things with the mind and what they want is a mental and […]