Letters on Yoga – IV
12/09/2024
Everybody has the ego and it is impossible to get rid of it altogether except by two things—the opening of the psychic within and the descent […]
12/08/2024
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 […]
11/26/2024
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 […]
11/25/2024
A vital reaction means a response of the vital to the touch or pressure of an idea, action, event, person or thing. E.g. if someone speaks […]
11/21/2024
The headache and the fatigue is always a sign that the consciousness no longer wants this outward-going thought and speech and is even physically strained by […]
11/12/2024
To be interested in outward things is not wrong in itself—it depends on the way in which one is interested. If it is done as part […]
11/11/2024
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. […]
10/24/2024
The exacerbation of certain vital movements is a perfectly well-known phenomenon in Yoga and does not mean that one has degenerated, but only that one has […]
10/07/2024
If you are anxious for them [material possessions], that means that you have desire and are bound. Ananda is one thing and vital enjoyment is another. […]