Sadhana

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 […]
10/10/2023
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Yoga, Sadhana, Dhyana

Yoga is union with the Divine, sadhana is what you do in order to unite with the Divine. You have to get away from the ordinary […]
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 […]
09/27/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

An Important Reminder

From the spiritual point of view it is not good always to be wanting to know whether what one is doing is good, whether one has […]
09/15/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Only Mantra

As a rule the only mantra used in this Sadhana is that of the Mother or of my name and the Mother’s. The concentration in the […]
08/28/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Difficulties from relatives in Sadhana

The difficulty which you experience from relatives and others is always one that intervenes as an obstacle when one has to practise the sadhana in ordinary […]
08/20/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Different ways to the same goal – Sadhana

You forget that men differ in nature and therefore each will approach the sadhana in his own way—one through work, one through bhakti, one through meditation […]
07/27/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How does work become a sadhana?

It is only when work and action are done in that way, without insistence on one’s personal ideas and personal feelings but only for the Divine’s […]
07/13/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Full surrender in Sadhana

It is certain that one’s own effort is necessary, though one cannot do the sadhana by one’s own effort alone. The Mother’s Force is needed, but […]