Category Archives: Soul

Our Difficulties Show The Way To The Divine

The nature of your difficulty indicates the nature of the victory you will gain, the victory you will exemplify in Yoga. Thus, if there is persistent selfishness, it points to a realisation of universality as your most prominent achievement in … Continue reading →

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Tethered By The Inconscient, Will The Human Race Evolve?

He seeks through words and images the Truth,And, poring on surfaces and brute outsidesOr dipping cautious feet in shallow seas,Even his Knowledge is an Ignorance. He is barred out from his own inner depths;He cannot look on the face of … Continue reading →

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Transforming The Human Harp of God To Perfection

The first thing the will has to do with the body is to impose on it progressively a new habit of all its being, consciousness, force and outward and inward action. It must be taught an entire passivity in the … Continue reading →

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Sri Aurobindo with Vishnu Bhaskar Lele

I think you have made too much play with my phrase “an accident” [in the preceding letter], ignoring the important qualification, “it seemed to come by an accident”. After four years of prāṇāyāma and other practices on my own, with … Continue reading →

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Significance of Birthdays — Mother

Below is a spoken comment of the Mother which was noted down from memory by the sadhak and later read to the Mother Mother: It is your birthday tomorrow? Sadhak: Yes, Mother. Mother: How old will you be? Sadhak: Twenty-six, … Continue reading →

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The Role of Human Body in the Physical Manifestation of The Divine — Mother

“The body has a remarkable capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is fit to do so many more things than one can usually imagine. If instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that govern it, it is ruled by the … Continue reading →

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The Vital : An Obstacle and An Aid

“The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depression, of passions and revolt. It can set in motion everything, build up and realise, it can also destroy … Continue reading →

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The Discipline To Be Followed: Part 2

There is no harm in concentrating sometimes in the heart and sometimes above the head. But concentration in either place does not mean keeping the attention fixed on a particular spot; you have to take your station of consciousness in … Continue reading →

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Two Things To Do With Your Thoughts — Sri Aurobindo

The mind is always in activity, but we do not observe fully what it is doing, but allow ourselves to be carried away in the stream of continual thinking. When we try to concentrate, this stream of self-moved mechanical thinking … Continue reading →

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Soul’s Aspiration and The Divine Descent in Savitri: The Call and A Helping Hand

But all is screened, subliminal, mystical;It needs the intuitive heart, the inward turn,It needs the power of a spiritual gaze. Else to our waking mind’s small moment lookA goalless voyage seems our dubious courseSome Chance has settled or hazarded some … Continue reading →

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