Letters on Yoga – II

10/06/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Do not worry

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 […]
10/04/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Only Experiences are not enough

Merely to have experiences of the higher consciousness will not change the nature. Either the higher consciousness has to make a dynamic descent into the whole […]
09/19/2022
Sri Aurobindo in his room

What to do when things go wrong

A quietude in all the parts and an intense aspiration is what came to you. In the inner meditation you felt the contact with the Mother […]
06/18/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Surrender

Talk of surrender or a mere idea or tepid wish for integral consecration will not do; there must be the push for a radical and total […]
06/11/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Need of Compliments

That is a great error of the human vital—to want compliments for their own sake and to be depressed by their absence and imagine that it […]
06/07/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Interval Periods in Sadhana

Naturally the more one-pointed the aspiration the swifter the progress. The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past […]
05/21/2021
Magnificent Sri Aurobindo

Inner Concentration

The sadhana of inner concentration consists in: (1) Fixing the consciousness in the heart and concentrating there on the idea, image or name of the Divine […]
11/05/2020

Meditation

Meditation by the way is a process leading towards knowledge and through knowledge, it is a thing of the head and not of the heart; so […]
08/29/2020
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Sadhana of Integral Yoga

The way of Yoga followed here has a different purpose from others,—for its aim is not only to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into […]