Sri Aurobindo wrote this essay around 1915 or 1916. The context was the justification given by the British that we are required to govern and
It means that a yogi is not someone cut off from life and work and people. He engages with everything but in a new and
There are two paths of yoga as has always been known. The first is an excessive reliance upon oneself, one’s own efforts etc. This leads
It is about establishing the principle of the Overmind fully in the cells as part of the cellular yoga.
As to giving instructions about the
It is a very good pragmatic question faced by almost everyone who tries to walk the path with some sincerity.
As to the complete mastery
My experiences? They are too many. Some of them are shared in different interviews on auromaa. The real key and the central experience of this
The simplest of ways to develop the spiritual outlook is Swadhyaya and Satsang, reading of books that carry the authentic spiritual vibration and the company
I know that and there is no question of doubting any of it. I know your love for Them is genuine and so is your
Social interactions are best avoided as they lead often to vital interchange during which one often loses much that is gained as a result of
Our vision is blocked due to the veil of ignorance. Hence we see wrongly, think wrongly, misunderstand things and, as a consequence suffer needlessly.
Yes that is true. However the so-called learned people are among the most difficult to change. They are imprisoned in scriptural knowledge and the prison
Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga is a vast and complex synthesis that takes up almost everything into the purview of Yoga. There are the various books of
It is not something fixed but generally one can say that the call for yoga comes when the soul has reached a point of development
Rajayoga is, in its essence control of the mind and its energies just as hathayoga is a control of the bod and the life energies.
The method one chooses will depend upon one’s innate temperament and of course most importantly the soul’s aspiration. These things cannot be decided by mental
The Integral Yoga is a way to complete God realisation, not in one or other but all aspects. Its eventual goal is a complete transformation
Naad doesn’t have as such a role in this Yoga. But hearing the Naad indicates an opening of the inner being to the subtle inner…
Those who have undertaken the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo are supposed to set an example to the world that material life are not incompatible with