09/09/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dealing with the outer life with an inner isolation

It is not absolutely necessary to abandon the ordinary life in order to seek after the Light or to practise Yoga. This is usually done by those […]
08/19/2023

Who should do Yoga?

The way to realise is through a quiet mind and a vital free from desires. To reject the desires and demands of the vital and to […]
07/06/2023

The primary method in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga

There is no method in this Yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up […]
05/07/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emotions

Emotion is necessary in the yoga and it is only the excessive emotional sensitiveness which makes one enter into despondency over small things that has to […]
04/28/2023

The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo

…there are different paths and each has a different aim and end before it. It is common to all the paths to conquer the desires, to […]
04/20/2023
Sri Aurobindo

True renunciation

You must understand that my mission is not to create maths, ascetics and Sannyasis; but to call back the souls of the strong to the Lila […]
03/30/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The action of the higher Force on the consciousness

Q: When a sadhak works with the right attitude and the higher Force acts in him directly, how does the Force work to purify or remove […]
01/30/2023

Yoga of the body-cells

Unless one practises yoga in the physical being (outer being), it remains ignorant—even its aspiration is ignorant and so is its goodwill; all its movements are […]
11/16/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Awakening the Yoga Shakti

I think it (Yoga-Shakti) awakens quite naturally the moment one takes the resolution to do the yoga. If the resolution is sincere and one has an […]