Letters on Yoga – III

02/01/2019

Renounce attachment to outward things

The idea that you must go more and more within and turn wholly to the Mother is quite right. It is when there is no attachment to outward […]
01/25/2019

Superstition

There is no unlucky number. Numbers all have their powers and why should 13 not have its chance? Ref: Letters on Yoga – III
01/03/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptiness

Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very […]
12/28/2018

Development of consciousness

It is not by thinking and reading that consciousness comes. There are many who read and think a great deal but are not conscious, have not the witness […]
12/20/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Peace in the mind

There can be peace in the mind even when the vital is not quite at rest or peace in the inner being even if the surface is […]
12/19/2018

Detaching oneself from the outer being

Detach yourself from the outer being; live in the inner; let the Force work from the inner being – it will change the outer being. Ref: Letters on Yoga […]
11/11/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Detach and Quieten the mind

The mind can become quiet only when you detach yourself from it and see the thoughts as things that pass. Then you don’t think yourself but see thoughts […]
11/10/2018

All is in the self

All is in the self; when identified with the universal self, all is in you. Also, the microcosm reproduces the macrocosm—so all is present in each, though all […]
11/02/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Descent of The Mother’s Force

It is the Mother’s force that descended to work in the system. There are two things that have to be established in order to make a foundation […]