Letters on Yoga – IV

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 […]
02/06/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Quarrels and Jealousy

I do not see why you make such a big difference between the quarrels and jealousy over other women and quarrels and jealousy over other attractions […]
02/03/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sensitiveness

One has not to cure oneself of one’s sensitiveness, but only acquire the power to rise to a higher consciousness taking such disenchantments as a sort […]
01/07/2025
Sri Aurobindo

A Good Instrument But a Bad Master

The human vital is almost always of that nature [full of desires and fancies], but that is no reason why one should accept it as an […]