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What The Mother and Sri Aurobindo point out as drawbacks are all there in me, I feel. Not knowing how to put in effort, thinking everything is for the ego, attracting the attention of others, lack of higher perceptions, gap between soul and body, which the Nature is filled with adverse forces, intervention of vital adversities and half-truths, coming under the influence of alien forces of mind, not knowing things of the world, etc.🙏✨ […]

Here is a letter of Sri Aurobindo that gives us the secret of the change.

‘All can be done by the Divine, the heart and

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“Sri Aurobindo, on the other hand affirms that while suffering and evil are there no doubt, the real purpose of life is a divine fulfilment by progressively embodying Truth and Harmony and Delight. That is our ultimate divine destiny for which the soul plunged into the great adventure of creation.” In true sense, how do we embody Truth, Harmony and Delight in this earthly life? My question is transformation into what kind of Divine destiny?

The Vedas as well as the Gita reveals to us that there is a double nature in man. One is the present human nature that

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I am wondering if you have anything to say on the order of practice. And in the relation to quite detailed descriptions of processes, with a certain order and division, we may see this in Sri Aurobindo’s writing on the Sapta Chatusthaya, and in the Mother’s sometimes very simple quotes on simply remaining open to her. 📖🙏🏻[…]

The Saptachatustya described in the Records of Yoga is the program given to Sri Aurobindo as part of his personal sadhana.

Its general version

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In one of the videos, you mentioned that Sri Aurobindo’s basic Sadhana was completed by 1918. In another, there was a talk about His higher Sadhana. If I remember correctly it was like when He experienced Parbrahm, He went in solitude, started higher Sadhana for bringing that consciousness into matter. Mother said there are three ways to serve: 📖🙏🏻 […]

Sri Aurobindo’s personal sadhana is documented to some extent in Records of Yoga, especially the section on Yoga chatusthya. Its practical side is given in

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