Letters on Yoga – II

11/30/2018
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Peace starts in the inner being

The peace starts in the inner being—it is spiritual and psychic but it overflows the outer being—when it is there in the activity, it means either […]
11/28/2018

A quiet mind

A quiet mind, receiving things and looking at them without effervescence or haste, not rushing about or throwing up random ideas, is what is necessary. Ref: Letters on […]
11/27/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Opening to The Mother

These [calling the Mother, praying to her] are acts of the mind, openness is a state of consciousness which keeps it turned to the Mother, free […]
10/23/2018

A deepened Quietude

Your attitude towards the change needed and new life is the right one. A quiet, vigilant but undistressed persistence is the best way to get it […]
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 […]