Letters on Yoga – II

08/27/2026
Sri Aurobindo

Difficulties from relatives in Sadhana

The difficulty which you experience from relatives and others is always one that intervenes as an obstacle when one has to practise the sadhana in ordinary […]
08/20/2026

Keep firm hold on your faith and aspiration

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 […]
08/19/2026

Who should do Yoga?

The way to realise is through a quiet mind and a vital free from desires. To reject the desires and demands of the vital and to […]
08/08/2026
Sri Aurobindo

Conditions for practising Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga

The first conditions of this Yoga are: (1) A complete sincerity and surrender in the being. The divine life and the transformation of the lower human […]
07/23/2026
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emotions

Emotion is necessary in the yoga and it is only the excessive emotional sensitiveness which makes one enter into despondency over small things that has to […]
03/18/2026
Sri Aurobindo

Handling Emotional nature

Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire […]
03/15/2026
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dealing with the outer life with an inner isolation

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 those […]
03/12/2026
Sri Aurobindo

Mistakes in Work

Do not worry about mistakes in work. Often you imagine that things are badly done by you when really you have done them very well; but […]
02/27/2026
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dispersion

Dispersion and sadhana are two things that cannot go together. In sadhana one has to have a control over the mind and all its actions; in […]