Letters on Yoga – III

05/08/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

First Thing Necessary in Sadhana

For your sadhana it is necessary first to establish the entire openness of the physical being and stabilise in it the descent of calm, strength, purity […]
04/30/2025
Darshan Card Sri Aurobindo Front

How to face Difficulties?

All these difficulties should be faced in a more quiet and less egoistic spirit. This yoga is a spiritual battle; its very attempt raises all sorts […]
04/09/2025
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Cravings and Desires

These cravings and desires are old habits of the physical which came to it from the universal Nature and which it accepted and took as part […]
04/09/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Psychic Self-Control

The psychic self-control that is desirable in these surroundings and in the midst of discussion would mean among other things: 1) Not to allow the impulse […]
03/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

If you want to change …

If you want to change, you must first resolutely get rid of the defects of your vital being, persevering steadily, however difficult it may be or […]
03/20/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Important Reminder

All the difficulties are bound to vanish in time under the action of the Force. They rise, because if they did not rise the action would […]
03/17/2025
The Mother

Food and Spiritual Progress

It is not by abstaining from food that you can make a spiritual progress. It is by being free, not only from all attachment and all […]
03/14/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Witness Attitude

There is a stage in the sadhana in which the inner being begins to awake. Often the first result is the condition made up of the […]
03/13/2025
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 […]