Doing Away with Desire
0It is neither by moral precepts and observances, nor by a wide knowledge, nor by practising meditation, nor by a […]
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The Importance of Finding the Strength Within
0Life is often a struggle, outside and within. We are confronted with forces and circumstances which try to depress and […]
Progress on the Path
0Sweet Mother, when we make an effort to do better but don’t see any progress, we feel discouraged. What is […]
Rising above the Subhuman
0The course of evolution proceeding from the vegetable to the animal, from the animal to the man, starts in the […]
The Importance of Sincerity
0It is indeed possible even while fasting for very long periods to maintain the full energies and activities of the […]
The Divine Power behind Personal Effort
0Always indeed it is the higher Power that acts. Our sense of personal effort and aspiration comes from the attempt […]
Getting the Full Benefit of an Experience
0… the experience precedes and transcends by far the formulation you give it in your mind. The experience comes before, […]
The Hour of Heroism
0For centuries and centuries humanity has waited for this time. It is come. But it is difficult. I don’t simply […]
Is it always for the Best?
0We often hear it being said that whatever happens is always for the best. We use it sometimes to console […]
Spiritual Life in Mother’s Light
2In the spiritual life, even more than in other fields since the possibilities and the pitfalls are greater here, a […]
Kneading Perfection
0A friend mentioned how she had enjoyed the process of kneading dough and then watching it rise, becoming this wonderful […]
Delight of Being
0There comes a time when one begins to be almost ready, when one can feel in everything, every object, in […]
Leaving the Path
0When one draws back from the path, one draws back for the present life or… In this, you see, there […]
How to Have the Experience
0We read, we try to understand, we explain, we try to know. But a single minute of true experience teaches […]
The Journey so Far
0Man is a strange creature, to say the least. A mix of demon and god, he is yet to find […]
Preserving Faith
0Can faith be increased by personal effort? Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It […]
Pressure of the Spirit
0The mental intelligence and its main power of reason cannot change the principle and persistent character of human life, it […]
Feeling and Experience
0Sri Aurobindo clarifies the meaning of the words ‘feeling’ and ‘experience’ when used in a spiritual context. There is no […]
Experience and Realisation
0There is a tendency to interchange words like experience and realisation but Sri Aurobindo draws an emphatic difference between them. […]
Throw out the Garbage
3Have you noticed how instinctive some of our reactions are? No one has to tell us to behave in such […]
The Outside World
0Some of us are not fortunate enough to leave everything and move to the Ashram in sole pursuit of the […]
When Rules become Indispensible
0When we leave the old world and commit to a life in the search for Truth, discipline is extremely helpful […]
Rules and Yoga
1When we leave the old world and commit to a life in the search for Truth, discipline is extremely helpful […]
Propaganda and Yoga
1In all organisations, including those which may be spiritual in their objective, propaganda does invariably play a part in order […]
The Purpose of Politics
0In India the objective behind entering the world of Politics is greatly misunderstood but Sri Aurobindo tells a sadhak what […]
Work and Yoga
0Many of us come to the Ashram with our own notions of what one must do when one comes – […]
Spiritual Aim
0What exactly does the Ashram itself mean to those who seek it and at what point should one come? Sri […]
Conversion and Consecration
0When we start our climb towards the gates of the Divine, there come many stages of which one is conversion. […]
Cultural Differences
0Many times we come across or participate ourselves in a debate as to whether the western mind can just as […]
Eliminate Egoism
0Get the psychic being in front and keep it there, putting its power on the mind, vital and physical, so […]
