02/06/2017
Painting by Priti Das Gupta

All could be done no mortal will can dare

All could be seen that shuns the mortal eye, All could be known the mind has never grasped; All could be done no mortal will can […]
02/05/2017
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Yoga: The three principles of practice

All Yoga proceeds in its method by three principles of practice; first, purification, that is to say, the removal of all aberrations, disorders, obstructions brought about by the […]
02/04/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Work is a great discipline

Take a very amusing instance: you want to fill a bottle from another bottle; you concentrate (you may try it as a discipline, as a gymnastic); […]
02/03/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Offer all wrong movements to the Divine

The first condition of inner progress is to recognise whatever is or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature,— wrong idea, wrong feeling, wrong […]
02/02/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Being Perfectly Quiet

You must particularly not be violent, for if you are violent, you will come out of it tired, exhausted, without any result. You must concentrate all the forces […]
02/01/2017

Enjoying the oneness of God within oneself

In its relations with its supreme Self, with God, the divine soul will have this sense of the oneness of the transcendent and universal Divine with its own […]
01/31/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Forgetting one’s anger

…it would be better not to lose one’s temper, and if it does happen, it is better to forget one’s anger quickly; and if that is […]
01/30/2017
Finding the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Finding The Mother within oneself

Well, if people withdraw into themselves, they might find the Mother there! Ref: The Mother with Letters on The Mother 
01/29/2017
Sri Aurobindo photographed in his room

Attaining faith – easier for the Sattwic

It is possible for anyone to attain to a complete and living faith in the Divine if he has the sincere will to do so, even though […]