Letters on Yoga – III

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 […]
07/15/2019

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 […]
07/03/2019
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Allow the consciousness to develop and widen

Most, even in doing Yoga, live in the mind, vital, physical, lit up occasionally or to some extent by the higher mind and by the illumined mind; but […]
05/14/2019

Mastering One’s nature

Detachment is the beginning of mastery, but for complete mastery there should be no reactions at all. When there is something within undisturbed by the reactions […]
05/04/2019
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Ascension of the psychic to the central being

Any part of the being can go upward and meet its source there. The central being is always above; the psychic is its counterpart below. If the psychic […]