Letters on Yoga – II

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 […]
08/20/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Different ways to the same goal – Sadhana

You forget that men differ in nature and therefore each will approach the sadhana in his own way—one through work, one through bhakti, one through meditation […]
08/19/2023

Who should do Yoga?

The way to realise is through a quiet mind and a vital free from desires. To reject the desires and demands of the vital and to […]
08/18/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Conditions for practising Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga

The first conditions of this Yoga are: (1) A complete sincerity and surrender in the being. The divine life and the transformation of the lower human […]
05/22/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Mistakes in Work

Do not worry about mistakes in work. Often you imagine that things are badly done by you when really you have done them very well; but […]
05/07/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emotions

Emotion is necessary in the yoga and it is only the excessive emotional sensitiveness which makes one enter into despondency over small things that has to […]