Letters on Yoga – I

05/11/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in her room

Amalgamation of personalities

Everybody is an amalgamation not of two but of many personalities. It is a part of the Yogic perfection in this Yoga to accord and transmute […]
04/27/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Constant self-depreciation does not help

It is only this habit of the nature – self-worrying and harping on the sense of deficiency – that prevents you from being quiet. If you threw that […]
03/09/2018

The Chakras

The centres or Chakras are seven in number— (1) The thousand-petalled lotus on the top of the head. (2) In the middle of the forehead—the Ajna […]
12/20/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Changing humanity

The whole of humanity cannot be changed at once. What has to be done is to bring the Higher Consciousness down into the earth-consciousness and establish […]
10/24/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in her room

Difficulties and ordeals

All who enter the spiritual path have to face the difficulties and ordeals of the path, those which rise from their own nature and those which […]
07/18/2017
TheMother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Overdoing ascetism

I agree that asceticism can be overdone. It has its place as one means—not the only one—of self-mastery; but asceticism that cuts away life is an exaggeration, […]
04/26/2017
Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The mysterious ways of The Divine

Obviously, neither Nature nor Destiny nor the Divine work in the mental way or by the law of the mind or according to its standards—that is why even […]
01/12/2017

Serve for the sake of service

As for surrender, you already have it initially in your will to serve for the sake of service without claiming reward or success and without attachment to wealth […]