Letters on Yoga – II

11/06/2023

Keep firm hold on your faith and aspiration

Do not allow any discouragement to come upon you and have no distrust of the Divine Grace. Whatever difficulties are outside you, whatever weaknesses are inside […]
11/04/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

To be all for the Mother

You have seized the right principle again, to be all for the Mother and to have full confidence that one has only to go on quietly […]
10/12/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Handling Emotional nature

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 […]
09/30/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Dispersion and Sadhana

Dispersion and sadhana are two things that cannot go together. In sadhana one has to have a control over the mind and all its actions; in […]
09/14/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Getting rid of thoughts

All thoughts really come from outside, but one is not conscious of their coming. You have become conscious of this movement. There are different ways of […]
09/13/2023

Worry and Restlessness in work

It is always the restlessness that makes you lose touch. If you are not sure about the work, remain quiet and you will get in time […]
09/09/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dealing with the outer life with 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 […]
09/06/2023

Overcoming difficulties in Meditation

If the difficulty in meditation is that thoughts of all kinds come in, that is not due to hostile forces but to the ordinary nature of […]
08/28/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Difficulties from relatives in Sadhana

The difficulty which you experience from relatives and others is always one that intervenes as an obstacle when one has to practise the sadhana in ordinary […]