Category Archives: Sadhana

On External Discipline — Mother

Q: But doesn’t some outer discipline help? If you impose a discipline upon yourself and if it isn’t too stupid, it may help you. A discipline, I tell you — disciplines, tapasyas, all ascetic disciplines are, as ordinarily practised, the … Continue reading →

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Making The Best Out of Sleep — Mother

S: Why does one wake up tired in the morning, and what should one do to have a better sleep? Mother: If you wake up tired in the morning, it is because of tamas, nothing else, a formidable mass of … Continue reading →

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Ups or Downs The Pilgrimage Must Go On — Sri Aurobindo

O mortal , bear this great world’s law of pain,In thy hard passage through a suffering worldLean for thy soul’s support on Heaven’s strength,Turn towards high Truth, aspire to love and peace.A little bliss is lent thee from above,A touch … Continue reading →

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There is Nothing Small in God’s Eyes — Sri Aurobindo

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Reminder: The Only Important Thing — Mother

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What Does it Take to be an Integral Stoic — Sri Aurobindo

It will appear from the description of the complete and perfect equality that this equality has two sides. It must therefore be arrived at by two successive movements. One will liberate us from the action of the lower nature and … Continue reading →

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For Sadhaks Self-Control Protects from Difficulties in the Outer World — Mother

The difficulties that are within are also without. You can, to a certain extent, establish an inner equilibrium, but you live in surroundings full of imbalance. Unless you shut yourself up in an ivory tower (which is not only difficult … Continue reading →

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The True Lasting Quietness — Mother

The quiet mind one gets through meditation is indeed of short duration, for as soon as you come out from meditation you come out at the same time from the quietness of mind. The true lasting quietness in the vital … Continue reading →

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Mental Being Not a Labourer in a Thought-Factory — Sri Aurobindo

To reject doubts means control of one’s thoughts—very certainly so. But the control of one’s thoughts is as necessary as the control of one’s vital desires and passions or the control of the movements of one’s body—for the Yoga, and … Continue reading →

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When Does Reading Become Light Within — Mother

In a general and almost absolute way, if you truly wish to profit from these readings, as from all of Sri Aurobindo’s writings, the best method is this: having gathered your consciousness and focused your attention on what you are … Continue reading →

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