emotions

02/11/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to Master One’s Thoughts – 5 Conditions

How can one become master of one’s thought? First condition. To understand the full importance of this mastery by becoming aware, through observation, that our actions […]
10/12/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Handling Emotional nature

Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire […]
12/20/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Absentmindedness and emotions

Q: If one shuts out emotions, doesn’t one become absent-minded? Absentmindedness has nothing to do with emotions, it has to do with mind, memory and thoughts. […]
12/03/2017
Sri Aurobindo

The world exists for ananda

It is for ananda that the world exists; for joy that the Self puts Himself into the great and serious game of life; and the joy which He […]
11/16/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Being the Master of oneself always

To indulge in the emotions, love, grief, sorrow, despair, emotional joy etc. for their own sake with a sort of mental-vital over-emphasis on them is what […]