Letters on Yoga – II

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 […]
01/06/2026
Sri Aurobindo

The First Necessity: Detachment and Inner Silence

To be able to detach oneself from the action of the mechanical mind is the first necessity; it is easier then for the quiet and peace […]
12/20/2025
The Mother with Surendranath Jauhar

Difficulties from Relatives

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 […]
12/14/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Complete Samata

Complete samatā takes long to establish and it is dependent on three things—the soul’s self-giving to the Divine by an inner surrender, the descent of the spiritual calm […]
12/06/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Interest in Outward Things

To be interested in outward things is not wrong in itself—it depends on the way in which one is interested. If it is done as part […]