Letters on Yoga – III

11/25/2019

Sleep – Assimilation of the descending forces

You need not worry about that [the body’s tendency to sleep]. When there is a strong inward tendency, the body not being yet conscious enough to share the […]
11/14/2019

The Spiritual Transformation

The power of concentration above the head is to bring peace, silence, liberation from the body sense, the identification with mind and life and open the […]
11/06/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The double foundation of Yoga

If you keep the wideness and calm as you are keeping it and also the love for the Mother in the heart, then all is safe—for it means […]
09/27/2019
Sri Aurobindo

The contribution of the psychic being

The contribution of the psychic being to the sadhana is: Love and bhakti, a love not vital, demanding and egoistic but unconditioned and without claims, self-existent; […]
09/16/2019

To stay merged in the Divine

To be always merged in the Divine is not so easy. It can be done only by an absorption in one’s own inner self or by […]
09/14/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Periods of Assimilation

If your faith is getting firmer day by day, you are certainly progressing in your sadhana and there can have been no fall. An interruption of […]
08/16/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The condition of progress

That is the condition of progress, – if, whenever there is an attempt to cloud the consciousness, you can stand back, remain quiet and prevent the […]
08/03/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Neither rajasic Nor tamasic

Calm, discrimination, detachment (but not indifference) are all very important, for their opposites impede very much the transforming action. Intensity of aspiration should be there, but it must go […]
07/16/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Emptiness

Emptiness is a state of quietude of the mental or vital or all the consciousness not visited by any mind or vital movements, but open to […]