obstacles

07/25/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Will Mother Accept ?

Q: If a Sadhak even after a long time cannot fully open himself to the Mother owing to obstacles in his nature, does it mean that […]
05/15/2022

Obstacles as checkpoints to progress

Q: In The Life Divine there is a quotation where you have said, “May the restrainers tell us to go to other fields and conquer them.” […]
01/11/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Veil in the heart

Q: Is there a veil in the heart also? Yes, a veil or wall of the vital being with its surface consciousness and emotional disturbances. One […]
04/10/2021

Sincere aspirations – always fulfilled

Since you want the Divine Life so much, you need not be afraid of failure, for a sincere and sustained aspiration is always fulfilled. Make a […]
04/15/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Negative Side of Sadhana

It is a mistake to dwell too much on the lower nature and its obstacles, which is the negative side of the Sadhana. They have to […]
12/27/2018

Face obstacles with equanimity

In Yoga, as in every great or serious human effort, there is always bound to be an abundance of adverse interventions and unfavourable circumstances which have […]
07/12/2018

Concentrate only on what you want to be

Whatever may be the past, whatever may be the faults committed, whatever the ignorance in which one might have lived, one carries deep within oneself the […]
07/11/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The real sense of Life

Sri Aurobindo came upon the earth to announce the manifestation of the supramental world and not merely did he announce this manifestation but embodied also in […]
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 […]