Sadhana

08/03/2024
Sri Aurobindo

The greatest help for others

To concentrate most on one’s own spiritual growth and experience is the first necessity of the sadhak—to be eager to help others draws away from the […]
07/02/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptiness

Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very […]
06/12/2024
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

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 […]
06/09/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The only sensible thing

Sadhana has to be done in the body, it cannot be done by the soul without the body. When the body drops, the soul goes wandering […]
06/02/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Worst thing for Sadhana

The worst thing for sadhana is to get into a morbid condition, always thinking of “lower forces, attacks.” If the sadhana has stopped for a time, […]
01/18/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Relying on the Divine

One must rely on the Divine and yet do some enabling sadhana—the Divine gives the fruits, not by the measure of the sadhana but by the […]
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 […]
08/20/2023
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 […]
02/07/2023

The true attitude of Sadhana

There will always be doubts, upsettings and confusion of the physical mind and vital, so long as the vital approaches the Mother from the wrong standpoint,— […]