Letters on Yoga – II

10/09/2018

On Suicide

Suicide solves nothing – it only brings one back to life with the same difficulties to be faced in worse conditions. If one wishes to escape […]
10/05/2018
Words of Long Ago

Achieving Quietitude

If you can achieve quietude followed by an upward openness, it is better than the effort which sways between strong experiences and strong adverse reactions. Ref: Letters on Yoga […]
09/28/2018

Turn to the Force

Do not attach so much importance to mistakes or insist on your non-receptiveness and unconsciousness. You have only to turn always to the Force that gives you calmness […]
09/25/2018

An equanimity within

You must establish a basis of equanimity within – the peace of the inner being which these surface movements cannot touch, – then if they come on the […]
09/18/2018
Sri Aurobindo

Yoga is about the present and the future

Too much importance must not be given to past lives. For the purpose of this Yoga one is what one is and, still more, what one […]
07/28/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What is Bhakti?

Bhakti is not an experience, it is a state of the heart and soul. It is a state which comes when the psychic being is awake […]
07/17/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Desire for the Divine

Anything else one may doubt but that he who desires only the Divine shall reach the Divine is a certitude and more certain than two and […]
07/07/2018

Receiving the Divine Power

To be able to receive the Divine Power and let it act through you in the things of the outward life, there are three necessary conditions: […]
07/04/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Yoga – Inner spiritual experience

Yoga is not a thing of ideas but of inner spiritual experience. Merely to be attracted to any set of religious or spiritual ideas does not bring with […]