Letters on Yoga – IV

04/05/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Mind – The chief obstacle

The chief obstacle in you is the mind. If you can quiet your mind and give the psychic being a chance, that will be your spiritual […]
03/04/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Fasting

The idea of giving up food is a wrong inspiration. You can go on with a small quantity of food, but not without food altogether, except […]
01/31/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Perils of an active mind

Your mind is too active. If it were more quiet and less questioning and argumentative and restlessly wanting to find devices it seems to me that […]
12/18/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Integral surrender

Whatever the difficulties of the nature, however long and painful the process of dealing with them, they cannot stand to the end against the Truth, if […]
12/17/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Constant self-justification

A dangerous habit of constant self-justification: When this becomes strong in the sadhaka, it is impossible to turn him in this part of his being to […]
12/16/2020

Disobedience and indiscipline

This lower part of the being (Disobedience and indiscipline) is always random, wayward, self-assertive and unwilling to accept the imposition on it of any order and […]
12/15/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Dissimulation and falsity of speech

This (Dissimulation and falsity of speech) is an exceedingly injurious habit of the lower nature. Those who are not straightforward cannot profit by the Mother’s help, […]
12/14/2020

Keeping resolutions firm

Keep your resolution firm in your mind. It is the vital that is invaded by something foreign from the outside (universal) Nature; it is not your […]
12/10/2020

The true quietude

The feeling of loneliness, udaaseenataa, dryness and lack of rasa come very usually when the vital part is disappointed in its desires or tries to give […]