Imagine staying in a closed room, like a prison. After some time the mind will get tired of sameness and enter into a tamasic dullness

Much water has flown since the book came out. I have almost written a book on my criticism of the book. Several other acclaimed scholars

This is an interesting question that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have addressed at different levels.

Certainly if the yoga is done only for

Grace is Grace and it acts unconditionally or rather has its own logic that is not based on human sense of worthy and unworthiness. However

There is no such routine, as you rightly said. Some general notes on the practice can be found here:

I am not sure if Ras Behari Bose asked or adviced Subhas Bose to shake hands with Hitler (he literally did so) and was calling

According to the Vedic tradition, Existence can be divided into two hemispheres, the lower half and the upper half. The upper half is the original

First one should read Works of the Mother, especially Volumes 1, 2 and 3. One may like to read all the other volumes in which

I am attaching this letter to an AIM issue on the twelve qualities mentioned in the symbol of Sri Ma.
God is the name

Here it refers to a collective level.

As the story goes that one of the Mother’s Vibhuti was Joan of arc who fought at a young age for ideals that would inspire

Yoga transcends Science. A scientist can be a yogi and vice versa. Ramanujam is one example. In the Sri Aurobindo Ashram itself there have been

Surrender does not mean lack of effort. That would be tamasic surrender and will not bring any result. It means now my life is meant

The ‘He’ who is being refered to in the poem ‘Who’ is Krishna, the immanent Divine who drives creation towards its eventual divine consummation, the

It means that what we presently are acts as a spur towards better and yet greater and higher things. To evolve …

The body needs to be taken care of but always the soul comes first. Pushing beyond limits does take a toll upon the bodily life