Letters on Yoga – III

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 […]
07/20/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Importance of long unbroken Sleep

A long unbroken sleep is necessary because there are just ten minutes of the whole into which one enters into a true rest—a sort of Sachchidananda […]
07/15/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Insanity

Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due to a pressure […]
07/07/2024
Sri Aurobindo

The core difficulty

The difficulty is that you attach so much importance to things that are of quite a small value. You behave as if to have or have […]