Letters on Yoga – IV

02/18/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The 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 […]
09/08/2023

Dealing with the internal voice of doubt

There is always this critical hostile voice in everybody’s nature, questioning, reasoning, denying the experience itself, suggesting doubt of oneself and doubt of the Divine. One […]
08/23/2023

Psychic and Spiritual friendships

..each sadhak must have the direct inner contact with the Mother and rely on her for the spiritual help and progress. But there may be psychic […]
08/22/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Recognising the voice of the Adversary

There is always this critical hostile voice in everybody’s nature, questioning, reasoning, denying the experience itself, suggesting doubt of oneself and doubt of the Divine. One […]
08/21/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Overcoming the forces of illness

They [the forces of illness] first weaken or break through the nervous envelope, the aura. If that is strong and whole, a thousand million germs will […]
06/21/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Secret to Rejecting Thoughts and Influences

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 […]
06/17/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Handling bad thoughts and influences

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 […]
04/21/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Vital Reaction

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 […]
02/16/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Outward Things

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 […]