07/10/2022
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Beauty is the Divine

Q: What is it in beauty that gives us delight? Beauty is the Divine himself in his Anandapower seeking to express himself in perfect form. That […]
07/09/2022

Spirituality and Art

Q: What is the connection between spirituality and art? One can say that spirituality is the basis of art. Art expresses, or tries to express, the […]
07/08/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

On Dreams

Q: When one sleeps one gets dreams also. Have these dreams anything to do with the brain? Dreams have nothing to do with the brain. A […]
07/07/2022
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Pranayama and Higher Consciousness

Q: How is it that Pranayama develops mental capacities? What part does it play in bringing about the higher consciousness? It is the Pranic vital-currents which […]
07/06/2022
Sri Aurobindo

On Pranayama and Higher Consciousness

Q: What part does breathing exercise — Pranayama — play in bringing about the higher consciousness? It sets the Pranic vital-currents free and removes dullness of […]
07/05/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Nirvana

Q: Nirvana is a fundamental spiritual experience, is it not? Nirvana, as I know it, is a necessary experience in order to get rid of the […]
07/03/2022

Yoga and the lower sexual impulses

Q by a Sadhika: — who said in her letter that “her husband was trying to justify the lower sexual impulse by quoting Shastra and also […]
07/02/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Doing work that is expected

Q: There are times when one cannot do work that is expected of one. Of course, one can’t do what others demand of one. The question […]
07/01/2022

Outer Action in Yoga

Q: Can one not take up the outer action — say. political — in the yoga? Sri Aurobindo: External action can also be taken up in […]