Yoga

Why Would I Keep the Temple Clean?
By Monica Gulati — Apr 24, 2023
“Kabir ka ghar shikhar pe, aur silhali si gail,Wahan paanv tike naa papeel ka, tahan manva laade bail.”

The Need of Quietude
By Sri Aurobindo — Apr 24, 2023
There is no possibility of doing this Yoga, if one cannot give himself to the Divine Power and trust to its workings. If one lives only in the mind and its questioning and ideas, it is not possible. The test of capacity is to be able to quiet the mind, to feel a greater Divine Power at work in one, the Power of the Mother, and to be able to trust to it and aid its workings by the rejection of all that contradicts them in the nature.

Knowledge and Wisdom
By The Mother — Apr 24, 2023
1--There are two allied powers in man: knowledge and Wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth, seen in a distorted medium, as the mind arrives at by groping; Wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.

The Object of Our Yoga
By Sri Aurobindo — Oct 15, 2022
The object of our Yoga is self-perfection, not self-annulment.

Tapasya of Love — from human love to divine Love
By Monica Gulati — Apr 24, 2022
For those of us who have loved, or even tried to, know the obstacles that come on the way from within the being or expecting, demanding, controlling, in the name of love. And yet, we all start from there, but have also the potential to refine and purify our love to a more self-forgetful, self-offering kind of love, full of warmth, humility, wisdom and compassion. This article explores our starting-point of human love, a mixture of expectations and demands as a step towards getting closer to our true nature of love, the divine Love.