Don’t Fear, Don’t Hesitate, Don’t Worry
“The release [from sin and evil] does not come by a sudden miracle, it comes by a process of purification and these things are a part of the process. They are like the dust that rises in the clouds when a room long uncleaned is at last swept. Though the dust seems to choke you, yet persevere, mā śucah.” — Sri Aurobindo
Why We Fail To Detach
“Put yourself with all your heart and strength in God’s hands… To those who demand from him, God gives what they demand, but to those who give themselves and demand nothing, he gives everything that they might otherwise have asked or needed and in addition he gives himself and the spontaneous boons of his love.” — Sri Aurobindo
When Your Intellect Becomes A Curse
“It is not only through the intellect that man rises. If the clarified intellect is not supported by purified emotions, the intellect tends to be dominated by the body and put itself at the service and the lordship of the body over the whole man becomes more dangerous than in the natural state because the innocence of the natural state is lost.” — Sri Aurobindo
The 7 Traits of The Ideal Yogi
“The ideal Yogin is no withdrawn and pent-up force, but ever engaged in doing good to all creatures, either by the flood of the divine energy that he pours on the world or by himself standing in the front of humanity, its leader in the march and the battle, but unbound by his work and […]
How To Turn Adversity Into Opportunity?
“It is sufficient at first to have full force of the faith, for we cannot from the beginning of the Yoga have full illumination. Then, however, we err & stumble, our force of faith will sustain us. When we cannot see, we shall know that God withholds the light, imposing on us error as a […]
Without Sthairya, There Is No Growth
“The man who is sthira is able to hold the light and power than enters into him without stumbling or being dazzled and blinded by the shock and to receive & express the divine gunas in himself without being carried away by them & subjected to the blind, rushing stream of Prakriti.” — Sri Aurobindo
Why You Must Discover Your Individuality
“Nationalist thinkers have always urged the necessity of realizing our separateness from other nations and living to ourselves for the present, not in order to shut out humanity, but that we may get that individual strength, unity and wholeness which will help us to live as a nation for humanity. A man must be strong […]
You Are A Citizen, Not A Subject
“We have told the young men of our country, ‘Build up your own industries, build up your own schools and colleges, settle your own disputes. You are always told that you are not fit for self-government. Show by example that you are. Show it by developing self-government through self-help and not by depending on others.’” […]
The Biggest Sins in Life
“To place before himself a great object and then shrink in the name of expediency from the expenditure and sacrifice called for its pursuit is not prudence but ineptitude.” — Sri Aurobindo We all have dreams. Learning to code, creating content on our passions, exploring the world, becoming entrepreneurs… but most of us will spend […]
The Antidote to Self-Destructive Behavior
“We deny that the individual life is as sacred as national life; the smaller cannot be so sacred as the greater, self cannot be so sacred as others, and to say that it sacred quite for its own purposes is to deify selfishness. Our lives are useful only in proportion as they help others by […]