Sri Aurobindo

07/07/2022
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Pranayama and Higher Consciousness

Q: How is it that Pranayama develops mental capacities? What part does it play in bringing about the higher consciousness? It is the Pranic vital-currents which […]
07/06/2022
Sri Aurobindo

On Pranayama and Higher Consciousness

Q: What part does breathing exercise — Pranayama — play in bringing about the higher consciousness? It sets the Pranic vital-currents free and removes dullness of […]
07/05/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Nirvana

Q: Nirvana is a fundamental spiritual experience, is it not? Nirvana, as I know it, is a necessary experience in order to get rid of the […]
07/03/2022

Yoga and the lower sexual impulses

Q by a Sadhika: — who said in her letter that “her husband was trying to justify the lower sexual impulse by quoting Shastra and also […]
07/02/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Doing work that is expected

Q: There are times when one cannot do work that is expected of one. Of course, one can’t do what others demand of one. The question […]
07/01/2022

Outer Action in Yoga

Q: Can one not take up the outer action — say. political — in the yoga? Sri Aurobindo: External action can also be taken up in […]
06/30/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How does marriage affect a person seeking spirituality

Q: Suppose a person aspiring for spiritual life marries, what would happen to him? If such a man marries three things might happen: 1. If it […]
06/29/2022

Sushupti condition

Q: What is the Sushupti condition? It is a state of consciousness with reference to which your mind is not awake, your mind is Sushupta — […]
06/28/2022
Sri Aurobindo

On gossip and criticism

Q: Can you explain why these poisonous shafts of criticism are thrown at me, without any reason at all? Imagination + inference + joy of the […]