Letters on Yoga – II

10/03/2019

Aspiration

A simple, straight and sincere call and aspiration from the heart is the one important thing and more essential and effective than capacities. Also to get […]
10/01/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Concentration

It is not meditation (thinking with the mind) but a concentration or turning of the consciousness that is important,— and that can happen in work, in […]
08/05/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Thoroughness

Thoroughness means to do whatever you do completely, thoroughly, so that it may be entire and perfect, not carelessly or partially done. It refers to internal […]
08/01/2019
Sri Aurobindo in his room

The greatest realities of spiritual life

Strength is all right for the strong—but aspiration and the Grace answering to it are not altogether myths; they are great realities of the spiritual life. Ref: Letters […]
07/31/2019
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Opening to the new consciousness by Yoga

The consciousness of the mind, life, body in each person is ordinarily shut up in itself; it is narrow, not wide, sees itself as the centre […]
07/23/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Sanyasa and attachment

Sannyasa does not take away attachment—it amounts only to running away from the object of attachment which may help but cannot by itself alone be the […]
07/20/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Silence and Speech

“In Silence is wisdom”— it is in the inner silence of the mind that true knowledge can come; for the ordinary activity of the mind only […]
07/18/2019
Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Attachment to parents

The attachment to parents belongs to the ordinary physical nature – it has nothing to do with Divine Love. Ref: Letters on Yoga Vol. II
07/01/2019

The sincere call for the Divine

For those who have within them a sincere call for the Divine, however the mind or vital may present difficulties or attacks come or the progress […]