Letters on Yoga – III

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 […]
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 […]