Letters on Yoga

Sri Aurobindo

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A persistent will for the work to be done in us and in the world is what is most needed; there is a sure spiritual result, the growth of the consciousness and the soul's readiness for the touch of the Divine's Light and Power.

SRI AUROBINDO
9-9-1945

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There are two conditions, one of Ananda, another of great calm and equality in which there is no joy or grief. If one attains the latter, afterwards a greater more permanent Ananda becomes possible.

Sri Aurobindo

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… it was like a path of light opening up

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Be simple

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Some of the vital beings are very intelligent but they do not make friends with the Light—they only try to avoid destruction and wait their time.

Sri Aurobindo

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Ego is a very curious thing and in nothing more than in its way of hiding itself and pretending it is not the ego. It can always hide even behind an aspiration to serve the Divine. The only way is to chase it out of all its veils and corners.

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You have only to look about you to see that experiences and even realisations cannot bring one to the goal if this is not done—at any moment they can fall owing to the vital still being impure and full of ego.

Sri Aurobindo

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I certainly did not mean a moral but a spiritual change—a moral man may be chock-full of ego, an ego increased by his own goodness and rectitude.

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You are right also in thinking that this is really the most important part of yoga. The Rajayogis are right in putting purification in front of everything—as I was also right in putting it in front along with concentration in The Synthesis of Yoga.

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It is better to use the latter than the former. No weakness, no arrogance or violence, this should be the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

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It is a lesson of life that always in this world everything fails a man—only the Divine does not fail him, if he turns entirely to the Divine. It is not because there is something bad in you that blows fall on you—

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In dealing with others there is a way of speaking and doing which gives most offence and opens one most to misunderstanding and there is also a way which is quiet and firm but conciliatory to those who can be conciliated—all who are not absolutely of bad will.