Letters on Yoga – III

03/06/2018

Descent of the Divine Consciousness

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 […]
01/16/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Opening of the Self

The emptiness and wideness in the brain is a very good sign. It is a condition for the opening horizontally into the cosmic consciousness and upward […]
11/18/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Absence of thought

The absence of thought is quite the right thing—for the true inner consciousness is a silent consciousness which has not to think out things, but gets the right […]
11/07/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Detachment

Detachment means standing back with part of the consciousness and observing what is being done without being involved in it. There is no “how” to that; […]
11/02/2017

The three stages of Sadhana

There are three stages of the sadhana, psychic change, transition to the higher levels of consciousness—with a descent of their conscious forces—the supramental. In the last […]
10/30/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Quieten the mind

To quiet the mind in such a way that no thoughts will come is not easy and usually takes time. The most necessary thing is to […]
09/30/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Put your trust in the Divine Grace

What you have now to do is to allow the realisation to grow and develop. The necessary movements will probably come of themselves as these have […]
09/21/2017
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Keep the vital full of life

To keep the vital full of life and energy and to trust mainly to the inner growth and the descent of a higher consciousness for a change, using […]
08/14/2017
Letters on Yoga

Living in the Divine

One can live in contact with the Divine even amidst the universal forces – but to live in the Divine one must be able to rise […]