Letters on Yoga – II

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
The Mother with Surendranath Jauhar

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 […]
07/01/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Trust in the Divine Help and persevere

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 […]
06/28/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Give all of yourself to Krishna

By meditation alone and trying to concentrate you will never succeed. There must be an aspiration from the heart and a giving up of all yourself […]
06/27/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Cease to Dislike

It is not that you have to do what you dislike, but that you have to cease to dislike. To do only what you like is […]
06/13/2018

The Love of the Soul

Why do you need something remarkable? The love of the soul is the true thing, simple and absolute – the rest is good only if it […]
06/06/2018
Wallpaper of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Mother

The Sadhana of inner concentration

…work also is sadhana, if done in the right attitude and spirit. The sadhana of inner concentration consists in: (1) Fixing the consciousness in the heart […]