tamas

02/14/2022

Tamas and concentration

Q: When there is much tamas it fatigues the mind and this affects my concentration. I ought to disregard all such reactions and go forward. If […]
02/09/2022

Fighting tamas in the being

Q: The tamas is still occupying some space in my being. Something ought to be done. I could have easily fought it out as before. But […]
11/10/2021

On the different gunas

Q: Are Prakriti, Nature and the gunas quite different things? If so, why do we see them always mixed? Prakriti and Nature are the same thing […]
08/19/2021

Energy during Sadhana

Q: Are there times in Sadhana when one finds the energy flagging?  That is due to Tamas. The question is not of Tamas coming up. Even […]
04/26/2020

Transformation of Tamas to Sama

The tamas is part of the general physical Nature and so long as that is not fully changed and illumined, something of it remains; but one […]
08/02/2018

Transforming Tamas into Sama

It [tamas] has to be transformed into ´sama, the peace and rest of the higher Prakriti, and then filled with tapas and jyotih.. But this can […]
10/10/2017
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo

The true obstacle to being confident

Above all, to be confident. The big difficulty in Matter is that the material consciousness (that is to say, the mind in Matter) has been formed under […]