meditation

09/13/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Contact with one’s Psychic Being

To sit in meditation before a closed door, as though it were a heavy door of bronze—and one sits in front of it with the will […]
08/31/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

To truly think – Empty the brain

..if we want to be able to truly think, that is, to receive, formulate and form valid and viable thoughts, we must first of all empty […]
05/20/2020
The Mother Mirra Alfassa of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Widening the mental consciousness

The lightness, the feeling of the disappearance of the head and that all is open is a sign of the wideness of the mental consciousness which […]
01/02/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in her room

Sleep during meditation

The sleep which you felt when meditating was not sleep but an inward condition of the consciousness. When this inward condition is not very deep one can be […]
10/01/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Concentration

It is not meditation (thinking with the mind) but a concentration or turning of the consciousness that is important,— and that can happen in work, in […]
09/01/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Purpose of meditation

…the best use one can make of these meditations—which are gradually becoming more frequent since now we are also going to replace the “distributions” by short meditations—is to go […]
09/07/2018

Balance meditation and work

It is not well to spend the whole time or the greater part of the time in meditation unless one is very strong in mind – […]
06/28/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Give all of yourself to Krishna

By meditation alone and trying to concentrate you will never succeed. There must be an aspiration from the heart and a giving up of all yourself […]
09/21/2017
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother Samadhi at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry

Freedom to choose your present state

There is no reason why your present condition should be more than a passing phase, unless you yourself choose that it should be otherwise. If it is the […]