Getting Rid of Desire and Greed for Food
Featured here are some selections from Sri Aurobindo’s letters regarding how to overcome desire and greed for food.
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Quick Read: The What and Why of Sattwic Food
We feature here a few letters of Sri Aurobindo which he wrote in response to some food related queries from the disciples at the Ashram. Some of the queries were about the kinds of food that a spiritual aspirant should avoid.
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Quick Read: The Need for Sleep and Rest
Sri Aurobindo emphasizes that sufficient sleep is important for a normal healthy life as well as for one’s sadhana until one is advanced in his sadhana.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Translations from Tamil
We feature the English translations written by Sri Aurobindo for two familiar Tamil literature, ThiruKural and Andal’s poem.
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Sri Aurobindo on Religion as the Law of Life
This selection from Sri Aurobindo’s book ‘The Human Cycle’ explores why in human history religion has not been a sufficient guide for conducting individual and collective life. He also tells us that this need not be so if we understand the true nature of religion, which is its spiritual core.
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Religion, Yoga of Bhakti and the Conception of the Divine
Sri Aurobindo explains the commonalities and differences between popular religion and Yoga of Devotion. Fear of God, he says, has no place in true Bhakti.
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On Economic Barbarism, Business and Dharma
Indian spiritual tradition reminds that business like all other work when done as per dharma does not interfere with pursuit of a spiritual life.
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Rhythm of Money Power and the Vaishya Soul-Force
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother explain that to control money one must follow a certain rhythm of the money-power, which includes not hoarding it.
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Sri Aurobindo on Family Relations in Yoga
Sri Aurobindo elucidates that one of the aims in Integral Yoga is to purify and transform the usual egoistic human love into a purer love towards the Divine at all levels of the being. He also explains that after one enters the spiritual life, the relationship with the Divine take precedence over the ordinary social relations. Either the family relations naturally fall off or become the ground for karmayoga based on the soul’s need.
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Friendship and Affection in the Path of Sadhana
Sri Aurobindo guides us on the right place of friendship and affection Integral Yoga. His words about the nature of human love are a must-read.
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