Letters on Yoga – IV

11/09/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How 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 […]
11/08/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Mental Control

To do anything by mental control is always difficult, when what is attempted runs contrary to the trend of human nature or of the personal nature. […]
10/29/2025
Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Meaning of 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 […]
09/27/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts come from Outside

All these thoughts and influences come really from outside, from universal Nature—they create formations in us or get habitual responses from the individual being. When they […]
09/08/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Getting rid of Surface Physical Mind

To get rid of the random thoughts of the surface physical mind is not easy. It is sometimes done by a sudden miracle, as in my […]
08/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Rules of Psychic Self Control

(1) Not to allow the impulse of speech to assert itself too much or say anything without reflection, but to speak always with a conscious control […]
06/14/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Happiness and Contentment

Happiness in the ordinary sense is a sunlit state of the vital with or without cause. Contentment is less than happiness—joy of peace or being free […]
03/30/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Normal Course of Human Love

The phenomenon of which you speak is normal to human nature. People are drawn together or one is drawn to another by a certain feeling of […]
02/22/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Fatigue in the Course of Sadhana

(1) It may come from receiving more than the physical is ready to assimilate. The cure is then a quiet rest in conscious immobility receiving the […]