Letters on Yoga – II

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 […]
12/23/2019

Complete Samata

Complete samata 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 […]
12/20/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Equality

Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital; it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done […]
11/20/2019
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Service of the Divine

There should be no straining after power, no ambition, no egoism of power. The power or powers that come should be considered not as one’s own, […]
11/07/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Having Faith in the Divine Grace

I ask you to have faith in the Divine, in the Divine Grace, in the truth of the sadhana, in the eventual triumph of the spirit […]
11/05/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Aspiration for an Entire Purification

The aspiration must be for entire purification, especially (1) purification from sex, so that no sex imaginations may enter and the sex impulse may cease, (2) […]