thoughts

09/08/2026

Overcoming difficulties in Meditation

If the difficulty in meditation is that thoughts of all kinds come in, that is not due to hostile forces but to the ordinary nature of […]
09/07/2026
Sri Aurobindo

Getting rid of thoughts

All thoughts really come from outside, but one is not conscious of their coming. You have become conscious of this movement. There are different ways of […]
03/25/2026
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Secret to Rejecting Thoughts and Influences

All these thoughts and influences come really from outside, from universal Nature—they create formations in us or get habitual responses from the individual being. When they […]
09/27/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Thoughts come from Outside

All these thoughts and influences come really from outside, from universal Nature—they create formations in us or get habitual responses from the individual being. When they […]
03/13/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Quietening the Mind

The mind can become quiet only when you detach yourself from it and see the thoughts as things that pass. Then you don’t think yourself but […]
10/02/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Getting rid of random thoughts

To get rid of the random thoughts of the surface physical mind is not easy. It is sometimes done by a sudden miracle, as in my […]
09/25/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Quietening the Mind

The mind can become quiet only when you detach yourself from it and see the thoughts as things that pass. Then you don’t think yourself but […]
08/23/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Synthesis

When you are able by methodical and repeated effort to objectivise and keep at a distance all this flood of incoherent thoughts which assail us, you […]
08/11/2024
Sri Aurobindo

How to make mind free?

What you perceive as suggestions or voices, are accepted and felt by people to be thoughts of their own mind. When one practises Yoga and observes […]