08/14/2017
Letters on Yoga

Living in the Divine

One can live in contact with the Divine even amidst the universal forces – but to live in the Divine one must be able to rise […]
08/13/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Developing concentration

Fix a time when you can be quiet every day. Take one of Sri Aurobindo’s books. Read a sentence or two. Then remain silent and concentrated […]
08/12/2017
Letters on Yoga

Thinking about work

Think of your work only when it is being done, not before and not after. Do not let your mind go back on a work that is […]
08/11/2017
Letters on Yoga

Quietitude – Proper basis for work

As for quietude and work, quietude is the proper basis for work — not restlessness. You speak as if quietude and being alive and working were not compatible! […]
08/10/2017
Questions and Answers

Connect with the universal vibrations – Through effort

  It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected […]
08/09/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in her room with Pranab Kumar

How to Develop interest in everything one does ?

In work too there is an austerity. It consists in not having any preferences and in doing everything one does with interest. For one who wants to grow […]
08/08/2017
Letters on Yoga

Quietening the mind – Role of work

  …to quiet the mind and get the spiritual experience it is necessary first to purify and prepare the nature. This sometimes takes many years.Work done with the […]
08/07/2017
Questions and Answers

Give yourself generously

  When things go wrong, people blame the Force, but it is not the Force that is responsible: it is ambition, egoism, ignorance and the weakness of the vessel. […]
08/06/2017
Questions and Answers

Do not cling but go farther

  You have a guide for a part of the way but when you have travelled this part leave the road and the guide and go farther! […]