Letters on Yoga – IV

04/20/2021

Abolishing Ego

All human beings are full of ego. If you want to change, you must be very quiet and always aspire for a higher consciousness to come […]
04/19/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Shake off the tendency to depression

The depression again was the cause why everything went wrong and the arrangements made fell through or took a wrong turn. For depression prevents the Force […]
04/18/2021

Combating melancholy

There are three ways of combating it (melancholy). One is to take interest and busy yourself in something else not yourself and to think of your […]
04/17/2021

Happiness

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 […]
04/16/2021

Curiosity about lower vital forces

You cannot escape from these lower vital forces by being curious about them. This kind of curiosity only encourages and invites them and keeps them recurring. […]
04/14/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The right attitude

Not only in your inward concentration, but in your outward acts and movements you must take the right attitude. If you do that and put everything […]
04/13/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Mother’s force is there with you

Hold fast and aspire always for the love and the opening. The inner heart is there and that will receive an answer to the aspiration and […]
04/07/2021

Developing a quiet 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 […]
04/06/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Awaken the psychic being

It is no use trying to decide the things of the Spirit by the power and in the light of the intellect. The intellect can only […]