Category Archives: Sri Aurobindo

You Must Always Step Back Into Yourself — Mother

Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your own body, and when you meet some unpleasant being similarly projected you get upset. … Continue reading →

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Sin Consists Not At All in The Outward Deed — Sri Aurobindo

The liberated man has no personal hopes; he does not seize on things as his personal possessions; he receives what the divine Will brings him, covets nothing, is jealous of none: what comes to him he takes without repulsion and … Continue reading →

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In Silence Seek God’s Meaning in Thy Depths — Sri Aurobindo

The Parable of the Search for the Soul A Power within her answered the still Voice:“I am thy portion here charged with thy work,As thou myself seated for ever above,Speak to my depths, O great and deathless Voice,Command, for I … Continue reading →

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Knowledge By Unity With The Divine — Mother

Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything whatsoever through identification with it. But the divine consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects. For, mere awareness is not knowledge. To become aware of a vibration, for instance, … Continue reading →

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Grumble, If Your Nature Compels You To It, But Persevere — Sri Aurobindo

This Yoga is certainly difficult, but is any Yoga really easy? You speak of the lure of liberation into the extracosmic Absolute, but how many who set out on the path of Nirvana attain to it in this life or … Continue reading →

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The Sunlit Way of Yoga — Sri Aurobindo

Peace was the very first thing that the Yogins and seekers of old asked for and it was a quiet and silent mind—and that always brings peace—that they declared to be the best condition for realising the Divine. A cheerful … Continue reading →

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Calm And Sure Are His Steps in The Growing Night — Sri Aurobindo

“Hard is the world-redeemer’s heavy task;The world itself becomes his adversary,Those he would save are his antagonists:This world is in love with its own ignorance,Its darkness turns away from the saviour light,It gives the cross in payment for the crown. … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Small Beginnings — Sri Aurobindo

“I will try again” is not sufficient; what is needed is to try always—steadily, with a heart free from despondency, as the Gita says, anirviṇṇacetasā. You speak of five and a half years as if it were a tremendous time … Continue reading →

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Desire Is The Badge of Subjection — Sri Aurobindo

The cause of ego is that while by Its double power of Vidya and Avidya the Spirit dwells at once in the consciousness of multiplicity and relativity and in the consciousness of unity and identity and is therefore not bound … Continue reading →

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Praying to The Mother — Sri Aurobindo

You say, “When one is a sadhak the prayer should be for the inner things belonging to the sadhana and for outer things only so far as they are necessary for that and for the Divine work.” This latter portion about … Continue reading →

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