Letters on Yoga – II

08/23/2017
Letters on Yoga

Success in spiritual life

A mere restless dissatisfaction with the ordinary life is not a sufficient preparation for this Yoga. A positive inner call, a strong will and a great steadiness are […]
08/12/2017
Letters on Yoga

Thinking about work

Think of your work only when it is being done, not before and not after. Do not let your mind go back on a work that is […]
08/11/2017
Letters on Yoga

Quietitude – Proper basis for work

As for quietude and work, quietude is the proper basis for work — not restlessness. You speak as if quietude and being alive and working were not compatible! […]
08/08/2017
Letters on Yoga

Quietening the mind – Role of work

  …to quiet the mind and get the spiritual experience it is necessary first to purify and prepare the nature. This sometimes takes many years.Work done with the […]
07/09/2017
The Mother Miraa Alfassa of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Persevere to remain truthful

Truth in speech and truth in thought are very important. The more you can feel falsehood as being not part of yourself, as coming on you from […]
07/09/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Work for the Divine

Men usually work and carry on their affairs from the ordinary motives of the vital being, need, desire of wealth or success or position or power […]
06/30/2017

Acquiring the consciousness for true actions

If you want the consciousness for true actions very much and aspire for it, it may come in one of several ways: 1. You may get […]
06/23/2017

Contact with the Divine

Aspiration and devotion are the natural and easy means for getting the contact (with the Divine). The other way by effort is laborious, slow and not sure. The […]
06/21/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo

To be constantly governed by the Divine

(To be constantly governed by the Divine) A constant aspiration for that is the first thing – next a sort of stillness within and a drawing […]