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Good conditions for Sadhana
11/03/2021
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Writing to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother
11/05/2021
Published by Sri Aurobindo on 11/04/2021
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The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Q: To overcome the obstinacy of the physical mind I had better stop asking you so many questions about the sadhana, and only state what happens and what I fail to understand by myself.

Out of one thousand mental questions and answers there are only one or two here and there that are really of any dynamic assistance – while a single inner response or a little growth of consciousness will do what these thousand questions and answers could not do. The Yoga does not proceed by upadesh but by inner influence. To state your condition, experiences etc. and open to the help is far more important than question-asking – especially the questions about why and how which your physical mind so persistently puts.

– Sri Aurobindo

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