concentration

03/03/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Total Concentration

Total concentration implies a concentration also of all the movements of the vital and physical. The method of gazing at a point is a very well-known […]
03/02/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Keeping Concentration in Outer Activities

When one is outwardly active, how to keep the concentration?… Oh, this should not be very difficult. Truly it should not be very difficult. For me […]
01/18/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Making Nights Conscious

May I try to make my nights conscious? I pray for guidance. 1) A short concentration before going to sleep, with an aspiration to remember the […]
10/02/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Getting rid of random thoughts

To get rid of the random thoughts of the surface physical mind is not easy. It is sometimes done by a sudden miracle, as in my […]
04/27/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Power of Concentration: A Path to Intellectual Intuition and Spiritual Growth

When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above […]
12/16/2023

Getting out of mental laziness and inertia

Q: Sweet Mother, How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia? By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every […]
11/13/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What is concentration?

Q: What is concentration? It is to bring back all the scattered threads of consciousness to a single point, a single idea. Those who can attain […]
09/30/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Dispersion and Sadhana

Dispersion and sadhana are two things that cannot go together. In sadhana one has to have a control over the mind and all its actions; in […]
07/06/2023

The primary method in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga

There is no method in this Yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up […]