Freedom and Mastery
Mother. You have said that the student must be given full freedom. Now, some interpret this as meaning that there
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Conversations based on two works by Sri Aurobindo: The Synthesis of Yoga and Thoughts and Glimpses.
Increasing one’s understanding
Sweet Mother, how can one increase one’s understanding? One’s understanding? Well, by increasing one’s consciousness, by going beyond the
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Five Inner Qualities Necessary for Sadhana
Sri Aurobindo has said that surrender is the first and absolute condition for doing the yoga. So … this is
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Medical Knowledge
… about medical knowledge in the world: if you have studied enough or lived long enough, that is, a fairly
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Handling Experiences
..when you have an experience, you must never, during the period of the experience, try to understand what it is,
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Identifying activities which increase aspiration
…each one must find those activities which increase his aspiration, his consciousness, his deeper knowledge of things, and those which,
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The Universal Experience
Don’t try to understand with words and with your head, for these two words express altogether different experiences. And yet
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Finding the Divine within oneself
Q: How can we find the Divine within ourselves? A: .. First of all, you must begin to seek Him,
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What you desire in the Divine – you find
For, truly speaking, each one finds only what he wants to find of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo has said this
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