Letters on Yoga – II

06/05/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Practise an Inner Isolation

It is not absolutely necessary to abandon the ordinary life in order to seek after the Light or to practise Yoga. This is usually done by those who […]
05/31/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Be obedient and cheerful

It is not the right way to make the condition that if you get what you want you will be obedient and cheerful. But be always obedient and […]
05/27/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Fitness for Yoga

Fitness for Yoga is a very relative term—the real fitness comes by the soul’s call and the power to open oneself to the Divine. If you […]
05/26/2018

Gita’s yoga – Work as a sacrifice to the Divine

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 […]
05/06/2018

Seeking Krishna

If one wants Krishna, one gets Krishna—but he is a sufficiently trying Deity and does not come at once, though he may come suddenly at any […]
05/05/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Accepting the Divine will with resignation

To be free from all preference and receive joyfully whatever comes from the Divine Will is not possible at first for any human being. What one […]
04/29/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Why Difficulties ?

The difficulty must have come from distrust and disobedience. For distrust and disobedience are like falsehood (they are themselves a falsity, based on false ideas and impulses), they […]
04/13/2018

Inner Spiritual Progress

The inner spiritual progress does not depend on outer conditions so much as on the way we react to them from within – that has always been the […]
03/14/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Passivity to be thrown aside

Why do you write “If I get” [aspiration]—one can always aspire. It is your mistake to think that everything must come of itself and nothing is […]