Letters on Yoga – II

08/18/2020

Types of Faith

Mental faith combats doubt and helps to open to the true knowledge; vital faith prevents the attacks of the hostile forces or defeats them and helps […]
07/24/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Two kinds of Work

There is no stage of the Sadhana in which works are impossible, no passage in the path where there is no foothold and action has to […]
07/03/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Peace

Peace and purity of the consciousness are the very foundation of the necessary change in the nature. Peace is necessary for all; without peace and an […]
06/20/2020

Faith

The fact that you don’t feel a force does not prove that it is not there. The steam-engine does not feel a force moving it, but the force […]
06/03/2020
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Compliments and Depression

That is a great error of the human vital—to want compliments for their own sake and to be depressed by their absence and imagine that it […]
03/19/2020
Wallpaper of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Mother

A Calm Rejection

For the buzz of the physical mind, reject it quietly, without getting disturbed, till it feels discouraged and retires shaking its head and saying, “This fellow […]
03/06/2020

The Gita’s Yoga

The ordinary life consists in work for personal aim and satisfaction of desire under some mental or moral control, touched sometimes by a mental ideal. The […]
03/03/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Applying ‘Equality’ in life

Equality is a very important part of this yoga; it is necessary to keep equality under pain and suffering — and that means to endure firmly […]
03/02/2020

Quieten the mind

It is not possible to make a foundation in Yoga if the mind is restless. The first thing needed is quiet in the mind. Also, to […]