Letters on Yoga – III

09/16/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Demand and Desire

Demand and desire are only two different aspects of the same thing—nor is it necessary that a feeling should be agitated or restless to be a […]
09/03/2024
Sri Aurobindo in his room

How to handle thoughts about past and future?

Take with you the peace and quietude and joy and keep it by remembering always the Divine. If the thoughts about the past and the future […]
08/20/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Trouble in Chest – The Reason

It is not sincerity to express only what the adverse forces suggest or what you feel when you are in a bad condition, full of obscurity […]
08/18/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Three Fundamental Obstacles

There are only three fundamental obstacles that can stand in the way: 1) Absence of faith or insufficient faith. 2) Egoism—the mind clinging to its own […]
08/17/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Dealing with Vital

Once the vital being has come forward and shown its difficulty—there is nobody who has not one crucial difficulty or another there—it must be dealt with […]
08/10/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Nature of Human Physical Consciousness

A certain inertia, tendency to sleep, indolence, unwillingness or inability to be strong to work or spiritual effort for long at a time, is in the […]
08/07/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Quietening 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 […]
08/01/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dependence on outward Things

You should not be so dependent on outward things; it is this attitude that makes you give so excessive an importance to circumstances. I do not […]
07/26/2024
Darshan Card 15 Aug 2019 Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Secret of going on

Why get excited over these small things? or let them disturb you? If you remain quiet, things will go much better and, if there is any […]