A Splendour that Lit up the Suns
The author reminds that “if there is a highest point of meeting between Literature and Yoga, it has to be in the works of Sri Aurobindo.”
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Religion and Spirituality – Do the Two Ever Meet?
What is the nature of religion? And how is it connected with spirituality or yoga? This issue explores these and many other related questions.
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Religion – Helper or an Obstacle to Spiritual Life?
The Mother explains that religion can actually be a helper to those with spiritual destiny and sincerity of inner effort to realise the Divine.
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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 Morality, Religion and Spirituality
We feature here a few selections from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother highlighting the important differences between a moral life, religious life and spiritual life.
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Attitude Toward Religion When You Come to Yoga
When one enters yoga, one must leave all the bondage and clingings of the past life. For a yogin, Divine alone is one’s religion, country, family, everything.
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Stilling the Mind and Tuning into Inner Silences
The author highlights the necessity of silencing the thoughts and vital movements as an essential foundation of the sadhana in the path of Integral Yoga.
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Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
Pointing out the nature of religion, the author highlights how religion while being a means of social cohesion can also become a source of conflict. He emphasises that because most religious oriented people tend to focus only on the external aspects, religion as such does not help in inner transformation. For that one must go on an inner search, the path of yoga.
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The Yogic Attitude Towards Money
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother say that an ideal sadhaka must neither turn with an ascetic shrinking from the money power nor hold a rajasic attachment to it.
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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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The Nature of Money and Wealth Creation
The author highlights the process of wealth creation in the light of a deeper insight into the nature of money.
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Pondicherry Yatra, an Inner Journey – I
This is a travelogue with a difference; it takes you to the inner dimension of what conscious travel can mean when we are not merely a tourist but are open to experiencing the spirit of a place, its history and culture.
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Money was the helper; Money is the bar
The author presents his evolving understanding of the nature of money and developing a yogic approach to engaging with money. Also read about the ideals set by the Mother regarding attitude toward personal possession, especially in the context of Auroville.
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Artha Sādhana as a Spiritual Pursuit
What is sādhana of wealth? How does a householder’s purusharthā of earning money take the form of a sādhana? What is the role of inner purification in this?
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The Stairway of Yoga
The view which separates ordinary life — and its related goal of pursuit of money — from spiritual life is inconsistent with the declaration of Isha Upanishad – Isha vasyam idam sarvam.
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The One Whom We Adore as The Mother
A special issue featuring a few precious memories recounted by some of the senior sadhaks who were blessed to have close interactions with the Mother.
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Mother’s Answers on Sadhana and Life
The Mother answers to Tara Jauhar’s questions on a range of subjects such as psychic growth, eliminating the ego, connecting with the Mother in the dreams and Overmind.
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On Life, Love and Relationships
After a break in December, we are back with our new issue, the first one in 2023. Continuing with our series – All Life is Yoga, this time we focus on the theme – Human Relations and Yoga.
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Relations between Men and Women in Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother give important guidance on the complexity of man-woman relationship in the path of Integral Yoga.
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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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