Letters on Yoga – III

07/05/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Way towards liberation

To recognise one’s weaknesses and false movements and draw back from them is the way towards liberation. Not to judge anyone but oneself until one can […]
07/02/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptiness

Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very […]
06/30/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Trust in Mother

The progress does not always come in the way that people expect. There is first a preparation within even for many years before such experiences come […]
06/29/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Past Lessons

So long as you have not learned the lesson the past had to teach you, it comes back on you. Notice carefully what kind of remembrances […]
06/26/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Beware of hostile forces suggestions

These feelings of despair and exaggerated sense of self-depreciation and helplessness are suggestions of a hostile Force and should never be admitted. The defects of which […]
06/25/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Mother’s Help

The Mother’s help is always there but you are not conscious of it except when the psychic is active and the consciousness not clouded. The coming […]
06/24/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Difficulties of Character

The difficulties of the character persist so long as one yields to them in action when they rise. One has to make a strict rule not […]
06/18/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Method of Divine Manifestation

The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval. The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of […]
06/09/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The only sensible thing

Sadhana has to be done in the body, it cannot be done by the soul without the body. When the body drops, the soul goes wandering […]