Letters on Yoga – II

08/31/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Best way to prepare for Spiritual Life

The best way to prepare oneself for the spiritual life when one has to live in the ordinary occupations and surroundings is to cultivate an entire […]
08/22/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Mixing with Others

It is true that mixing with others too closely tends to lower the condition, if they are not themselves in the right attitude and live very […]
08/09/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Human love and Divine Love

The Mother did not tell you that love is not an emotion, but that Divine Love is not an emotion,—a very different thing to say. Human […]
07/28/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Patience

It is certain that an ardent aspiration for the Divine helps to progress, but patience is also needed. For it is a very big change that […]
07/27/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emotions in Yoga

Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire […]
07/09/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Being firm towards goal

Whether by tapasya or surrender does not matter, the one thing is to be firm in setting one’s face to the goal. Once one has set […]
06/22/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emotion and Emotional Desire

Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire […]
06/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Difficulties in life

All the difficulties you describe are quite natural things common to most people. It is easy for one, comparatively, to remember and be conscious when one […]
06/19/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Self Dedication

Self-dedication does not depend on the particular work you do, but on the spirit in which all work, of whatever kind it may be, is done. […]