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Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga Expert

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Main Areas: Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga
Career Focus: publisher
Affiliation: Lotus Press, Institute for Wholistic Education

Santosh has been studying Sri Aurobindo's writings since 1971 and has a daily blog at http://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com and podcast at https://anchor.fm/santosh-krinsky He is author of 16 books and is editor-in-chief at Lotus Press. He is president of Institute for Wholistic Education, a non-profit focused on integrating spirituality into daily life.

Recent Articles

The Inner Being (the Subliminal)

The Outer Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness of the External Being

Understanding the Relationship of Various Parts and Planes of the Being to Our Current External Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness

The Value of Attaining the Standpoint of the Witness Consciousness in Understanding the Complexity of Interaction of the Parts of the Being

The Experience of the Individual in the Ordinary Life of the External Surface Being

Transformation of Human Nature Requires a Shift of Standpoint Away From Absorption in the Actions and Reactions of the External Being

A Primary Difference Between Traditional Understanding of Yoga and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Self-Knowledge and Self-Mastery

Understanding the Difference Between Psychic and Spiritual

Discrimination to Recognise the Distinction of Different Forces and the Various Parts of the Being is Necessary for the Spiritual Seeker

Articles published on SelfGrowth.com

Concentration Is Not the Same As Meditation

Utilizing the Mental Power to Aid the Understanding of Our Complex Being

A Balanced Approach to Dealing with Illness and the Health of the Body for the Yogic Practitioner

A Change of Consciousness Is Necessary for Solving the Issues of Human Existence

A Change of the Outer Nature Requires First a Change in the Inner Being

A First Step in the Transformative Evolution on Earth

A New Birth Into a Spiritual Life

A Primary Difference Between Traditional Understanding of Yoga and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

A Recommended Method of Transition from Ego-Standpoint to Divine Standpoint

A Settled Peace in the Being and a Fixed Resolution in the Mind Aid in the Transformation of the Vital

A Simple Method to Achieve Peace and Silence in the Mind

A Sudden and Decisive Spiritual Opening Transforms the Individual’s Life When It Takes Place

A Supramental Race as the Next Evolutionary Phase

A Technique for Shifting the Focus of Consciousness Into a Status of Complete Identification

A Transitional Phase of Work in the Integral Yoga

A Transitional Phase of Work in the Integral Yoga

Absorption in Our Outer Life, Living in the ‘Now’, Mindfulness and Detachment

Accessing the True Source of Vital Energy

Achieving Silence in the Mind

Additional Forms of Disturbance Associated with the Physical Mind

Addressing Alternations in Spiritual Progress Over Time

Addressing and Overcoming Boredom

Addressing the Difficulties of the Transformation of the Vital Nature

Addressing the Experience of the Dark Night of the Soul

Addressing the Methods of Change of the Physical Consciousness

Addressing the Subconscient Fear of the Body Consciousness

Addressing Vital Interchange in the Context of Spiritual Practice

Adopting and Holding the Proper Psychological Poise for Accomplishment of the Objective of the Integral Yoga

Advanced Methods for Converting Work into Karma Yoga

Adwaita Vedanta (Mayavada) and Integral Non-Dualism: Contrasting Interpretations of the Nature of Reality

Aids in Attaining Spiritual Realisation: the Scripture and the Guru

All Knowledge Is Within, Awaiting the Time and Circumstance to Manifest in Our External Being

Alleviating the Greater Part of Human Suffering

An Exercise to Experience the Nature of Consciousness

An Exercise to Overcome the Mental Bias to Facilitate the Ability to “Know Thyself”

An Integral Repose — the Ideal State of Sleep

An Integral Yoga involves Knowledge, Devotion, Works and Self-Perfection

An Inward Concentration Is Necessary for the Seeker of Knowledge

An Overview of the Intermediate Zone and Ways the Seeker Can Safely Maneuver Through It

Anger and Depression

Anxiety and Fear

Applying the “Hundredth Monkey” Phenomenon

Approaching the Transition from Human Love to Divine Love

Art and Intellectual Development Are Not Essentially Spiritual Pursuits

Art and Literature in the Service of Spiritual Development

Art as a Dedicated Expression of the Divine

Ascent of Consciousness and the Descent of the Higher Consciousness Into Mind-Life-Body

Aspiration and Prayer

Aspiration, Faith and Realisation

Aspiration, Spiritual Experience, and the Response of the Divine Force

Aspiration: the Desire of the Soul for the Divine

Attaining Certainty About the Actuality of the Reversal of Consciousness

Attaining Peace in the Being

Avatars and Vibhutis Focus Their Attention and Action on the Work to Be Done

Avoiding Dangers of Opening to the Vital Planes

Becoming Aware of Consciousness Independent of the Body, Life and Mind

Becoming Aware of the Central Will of the Being

Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life

Becoming Aware of the Inner Being and Taking Up the Spiritual Life

Becoming Conscious and Effecting Change in the Nature

Becoming Conscious In Sleep

Becoming Conscious of the Psychic Being, the Soul in Man

Beginning the Process of Bringing Meditation into One’s Life

Beyond Human Love — Psychic Love, Universal Love and Love for the Divine

Bringing Harmony Between the Inner Psychic Being and the External Nature

Calming Agitation of the Nerves: An Exercise

Calmness Belongs to the Strong — Quietude Is the Basis of True Power

Can Human Beings Change?

Causes and Solutions for Physical Fatigue

Changing Outer Actions Is an Essential Aspect of Inner Development

Characteristics of Human Love, Psychic Love and Spiritual Love

Characteristics of the Body Consciousness

Cognitive Bias and Occult Experiences

Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 1 Unconsciousness Versus Increasing Consciousness

Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 2 Distractability Versus Concentratedness

Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 3 Dispersed Versus Gathered Consciousness

Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 4 Agitation Versus Peace in the Being

Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 5 Identification With the External Nature Versus Poise of Detachment

Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 6 Subjection to Suffering from the Dualities Versus Equanimity

Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 7 Separative Ego Versus Universal, Transpersonal Awareness

Comparing Thought and Intuition as Problem-Solving Methodologies

Comparison of a Life Guided by the Psychic Being and a Life Under Control of the External Personality of the Mind, Life and Body

Comparison of the Highest Ideal of the Ordinary Human Life and the Divine Life of the Spiritual Aspirant

Complex Interaction of the Gunas Can Bring About Opposite Responses from an Individual Under Various Circumstances

Concentration in the Heart Centre to Achieve the Realisation of the Divine Presence in the Integral Yoga

Concentration in the Mental Centre Is the Second Major Method to Achieve Liberation

Concentration in the Mental Centre to Achieve the Realisation of the Divine Presence in the Integral Yoga

Conclusions About the Ideal of Human Unity

Conditions for Emergence of the Psychic Being

Conditions for Preparation for the Supramental Change, Part 1

Conditions for Preparation for the Supramental Change, Part 2

Conditions for the Practice and Progress on the Path of the Integral Yoga

Conquering Difficulties With a Positive Mind-Set

Conscious Evolution

Conscious Evolution

Contacting and Connecting With the Universal Vital Force, Part I

Contacting and Connecting With the Universal Vital Force, Part II

Controlling One’s Thoughts

Controlling the Ego in Ordinary Life and in Yoga

Cosmic Consciousness and a Shift from the Ego-Standpoint to the Divine Standpoint

Cosmic Truth and Cosmic Ignorance: the Unity and the Multiplicity

Creating Balance for the Physical Body as an Instrument of the Sadhana

Cultivating Inner Peace as the Basis of Spiritual Sadhana

Dealing with Difficulties and Setbacks Along the Way

Dealing with Mental Resistance to Attempts to Silence the Mind

Dealing with Obtrusive, Repetitive Thoughts

Dealing with Periods of Dryness or Dullness in the Yogic Sadhana

Dealing With Physical Pain

Dealing with the Physical Mind in the Integral Yoga

Dealing with the Subconscient Elements of the Being

Death, the Conquest of Death, and the Supramental Transformation

Depression and the Influence of the Gunas in Spiritual Development

Desire and True Need for a Yogic Practitioner

Desire — and the Need to Control Desire

Desires, Yoga and the Process of Overcoming the Promptings of the Lower Nature

Detachment from and Mastery of the Surface Nature

Determining the Appropriate Posture for Beginning with Meditation

Developing and Expressing the Flame of Divine Love While Avoiding the Misappropriation of the Energy for Lower Vital Gratification

Developing and Integrating Calm and Peace in the Being

Developing Aspiration Without Admixture of Desire

Developing Harmonious Relationships with Close Family, Friends and Associates

Developing Receptivity to the Action of the Higher Force for Transformation of the Nature

Developing the Inner Poise of Equality in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Developing the Power of Supraphysical Sight

Developing the Proper Attitude of Yogic Equality in Relation to Present Reality and Future Development

Development of the Witness Consciousness Separate from the Analytical Mind Is Needed to Truly Understand the Springs of Action in Mind, Life and Body

Difficulties, Obstacles and the Spiritual Path

Discernment of Good and Bad Thoughts

Discovering One’s Role or Mission in Life

Discrimination to Recognise the Distinction of Different Forces and the Various Parts of the Being is Necessary for the Spiritual Seeker

Distinguishing Between Personal Growth and Inner Growth

Distinguishing Between the Mind, the Vital Mind and the Physical Mind in the Process of Yogic Sadhana

Distinguishing Between the Qualities of Quiet, Calm, Peace and Silence in the Integral Yoga

Distinguishing Concentration and Meditation

Distinguishing Concentration and Meditation from One Another

Distinguishing the Location of the Conscious Awareness from the Object of Meditation

Distinguishing the Ordinary Motives of the Vital Being from Spiritual Motivation

Distinguishing the Psychic Transformation from the Spiritual Transformation

Distinguishing the Realisation of the Atman and the Higher Planes of Consciousness

Distinguishing the Supracosmic Reality from the Supramental Consciousness

Distinguishing Various Types of Symbolic Visions

Disturbances Attributed to the Physical Mind

Disturbances of the Vital Caused by Life-Changes, Negative and Positive

Divine Grace and the Action of the Laws of Nature

Do We Know What We Seek in Our Lives?

Doubt, and Certitude About the Divine

Dual States of Consciousness in the Being

Dynamic Meditation

Effects of the Descent of the Higher Consciousness Into the Body

elations of the Yogic Practitioner With Non-Practitioners

Elements Common to the Paths of Inner Growth

Endurance and Persistence Is Essential for the Change of Consciousness Aimed for in the Yogic Practice

Energies Sources: Energies of the Physical Body and the Universal Vital Energies

Entering the Viewpoint of Another Person Widens the Understanding and Builds a Basis for Harmony

Epilepsy and Insanity Under Pressure of the Spiritual Quest for an Unprepared Seeker

Equality: the State of Inner Peace in the Face of Provocation

Escaping the Conflict and Battle of Thoughts in the Mind

Escaping the Little Ego-Consciousness Through Concentration on Infinite Space and Eternal Time

Establishing a Foundational Basis of Sattwic Qualities Is Important in Protecting the Seeker During the Yogic Development Process

Even a Brief Glimpse of the Spirit Is Sufficient to Direct the Seeker to the Spiritual Path

Every Yogic Practitioner Must Develop Along His Own Path and Face His Own Difficulties

Evolution of Consciousness

Evolution of Consciousness

Evolution of Consciousness and the Need for Rebirth as a Mechanism of that Evolution

Evolution of Consciousness, Rebirth and Overcoming Suffering

Evolution: East and West

Evolutionary Change and the Process of Time

Exercise of Will as Part of the Process of Yogic Transformation

Experience and Signs of Spiritual Development in the Consciousness

Experience of the Divine and the Forms of the Divine

Experiencing the Shift of Consciousness from the Outer Being to the Inner Being

Experiencing the Wideness of the Consciousness

Exploring Rebirth of the Soul into New Bodies and New Lives

Exploring the Nature of the Dream State

Exploring the Stages and Phases of Inner Growth of the Human Individual

External and Internal Conditions for the Practice of Meditation

External Forms of Worship and Spiritual Growth in the Integral Yoga

External Worship and the Practice of Bhakti Yoga

Facing and Overcoming Self-Doubt and Internal Criticism

Faith In and Receptivity to the Guru

Fasting and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Fear and Fearlessness in Life and in Yoga

Fear Is Based in the Limitations of Ignorance and Unconsciousness

Finding a Solution that Provides Peace Without Sacrificing Progress in the Universal Manifestation

Finding the Balance Between Individual Effort and Surrender in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

First Foundations for the Practitioner of the Integral Yoga

First Steps in the Practice of Yoga

Focusing on the Dedicated Action, Not the Immediately Visible Results

Focusing on the Signal While Eliminating the Noise: Concentration and Purification

Following the Right Path to Divine Realisation

Following the Unique Path of One’s Deepest Aspiration to Spiritual Realisation

Four Common Forms of Resistance by the Lower Vital to the Transformation Required

Four Instruments for Attaining the Perfection of the Practice of Yoga

Four Steps to Avoid Suffering

Friendship and Affection — Human and Divine

Friendship, Affection and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Gaining Mental Understanding Through Quieting and Widening the Mental Consciousness

Gaining the Standpoint of the Observer of the Nature

Gaining the Support of the Vital Being for the Sadhana Through the Joy of Creative Activity

General Limitations and Options for Methods and Applications for Spiritual Development

Genetic Engineering

Glimpses and Experiences of the Inner Being, and the Shift of the Consciousness from the Outer to the Inner

God, Gods, Goddesses and Human Perceptions

God’s Grace or God’s Duty

Growing Within: the Psychology of Inner Development: Summary and Conclusions

Guarding One’s Faith

Habits, Cravings, Addictions and the Subconscient

Habits, Human Life and Achieving Individuality … and Beyond

he Three Gunas, Their Role in the Difficulties and Obstacles in the Yogic Development, and the Certainty of Success When the Divine Call is Present

Heightening the Force of Consciousness is the Trend of Evolution

Heightening the Force of Consciousness is the Trend of Evolution

Helpful Tips About the Practice of Meditation

Helping Others in the Spiritual Path

Hidden Powers in Life and Yoga

Hints for the Spiritual Practitioner Seeking to Eliminate the Sex Impulse

Hostile Forces and Their Impact on Spiritual Development

How Can I Understand True Spiritual Humility

How Can One Transform the Vital? Part 1: Observation, Understanding, Action & Resistance

How Do Spiritual Experiences Come About?

How the Practitioner Can Identify the Action of Hostile Forces

How to Change Human Nature

How To Change One’s Consciousness, Part 1: The Initial Experience

How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 2: Following the Clues to Spiritual Awakening Within

How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 3: Observing and Being Attentive

How to Change One’s Nature

How to Choose the Object or Idea for Meditation

How to Convert Mental Seeking into Living Spiritual Experience

How to Deal With Anger and Other Strong Vital Reactions

How to Distinguish The Divine Force from the Habitual Action of the Lower as well as from the Hostile Forces

How to Eliminate Desire Without Suppression

How to Gain an Understanding of the Meaning of Inner Perceptions

How to Make Progress in the Practice of Karma Yoga

How to Make Sleep Conscious

How to Overcome Fear

How to Overcome the Obstructions of the Vital Being

How to Quiet the Mind

How to Recognise and Respond to the Higher Guidance in Work

How to Recognise the Manifestation of the Divine Presence in the Human Individual

How to Sleep Well

How to Transform One’s Nature By Overcoming Mental and Vital Bias

How to Tread the Sunlit Path of Yoga

Human Love and Divine Love

Human Motives and Divine Motives in Action

Identifying and Overcoming the Resistance of the Tamasic and Rajasic Egos

Illness and Immunity

Immortality in this Body is Not the Transformation Sought by the Integral Yoga

Impact of the Supramental Manifestation on Earthly Existence, Part 1

Impact of the Supramental Manifestation on Earthly Existence, Part 2

Impatience and the Practice of Yoga

Indulgence of Vital Desire Is Not a Solution — Neither is Suppression of the Vital

Inner Growth Differs from Modern Concepts of Growth of Awareness

Integral Purification of All Parts of the Being Is a First Preparation for the Integral Yoga

Integral Yoga: Answering the Call

Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching and Method of Practice — Summary and Conclusions

Intellectual Understanding and Understanding in the Consciousness

Intensity of an Experience Does Not Guarantee Its Veracity

Introduction to Living Within: the Yoga Approach to Psychological Health and Growth by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, compiled by Dr. A.S. Dalal

Introduction to the Subconscient Level of Consciousness

Invisible Forces in Our Lives and in Our Evolutionary Growth

Is Inner Spiritual Growth Possible While Engaging with the External World?

Is It Realistic to Expect Instant Transformation of Human Nature?

Is There Any Certitude About the Supramental Manifestation Actually Taking Place?

Issues in the Establishment of Equanimity and Peace in the Being

Issues in Understanding the Mechanism of Sleep and Dreams

Kindling and Increasing the Psychic Fire

Liberation Should Precede the Attainment of the Cosmic Consciousness

Light and Shadow

Lights and Sounds Can Indicate Opening to Inner or Subtler Planes of Existence

Living in the Consciousness of the Eternal Provides an Answer to Our Hurried and Dissatisfied Existence

Living Within: Summary and Conclusions

Major Subdivisions of the Primary Parts of the Being

Making Best Use of Our Limited Time

Making the Vital Being an Instrument of the Divine Shakti

Man: the Being Who Worries

Marriage and Spiritual Life in the Integral Yoga

Medicine, and Beyond, in the Treatment of Bodily Illness

Medicine, Immune System Action, Faith Healing and Overcoming Illnesses

Mental and Vital Formations and Habits of Acceptance Which Create Obstacles for the Soul’s Victory

Methods for Quieting the Activity of the Mechanical Mind

Mind ... and Supermind

Motives for Seeking the Divine

Moving Beyond Arguments and Widening One’s Thought

Necessary Elements Required to Understand and Apply Techniques of Psychological Healing

Objective and Subjective Knowledge

Observing and Controlling One’s Speech

Observing the Inherited and Environmental Influences on One’s Character from the Standpoint of the Psychic Being

Observing, Understanding and Overcoming the Impact of Negativity and Hostility on the Sensitive Nature of the Refined Individual

Obtaining a Clear Perception and Understanding of Life Purpose and Significance

Occult Experience of Visualization Applied to Contacting the Soul

Occult Powers and the Secret Knowledge

Occult Powers and the Spiritual Sadhana

OM, the Mantra and the Use of Mantra in the Integral Yoga

One Should Be Greater Than One’s Experience

Opening the Being to the Divine Power and Presence

Opening to a New Consciousness Through the Revealed Word

Opening to the Divine Consciousness

Options and Risks in Widening the Consciousness Using Various Methods

Ordinary Consciousness and Spiritual Consciousness

Organising One’s Life Around the Ideal

Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology — Introduction

Our Subconscient Inheritance

Out of Body Experiences

Overcoming Desire Without Suppression or Indulgence

Overcoming Disturbance of the Nerves

Overcoming Doubt, Fear and Depression Which May Arise During the Practice of Yoga

Overcoming Hopelessness and Depression by Tuning the Consciousness Towards the Light

Overcoming Negative Suggestions Through Faith in One’s Spiritual Destiny

Overcoming Polarization and Argument

Overcoming Tamasic Depression in the Practice of Yoga

Overcoming the Darkness and Depression When the Psychic Being Recedes

Overcoming the Impulse of Anger

Overcoming the Impulse to Anger

Overcoming the Inherent Bias of the Ego-Personality

Overcoming the Reaction of Jealousy

Overcoming the Static, Self-Satisfied Rigidity of the Mental Consciousness Is a Precondition to Development of a New Mode of Being

Overcoming Vital Reactions of Attraction and Repulsion in Action

Pain and Suffering: the Play of the Gunas and the Role of the Vital Nature

Pain Management

Parental State of Consciousness at Time of Conception Impacts the Child’s Development

Passivity and Weakness of Will-Power Can Be a Disturbance of the Physical Consciousness

Patience and Perseverance Are Need for the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Peace in the Body’s Cells Can Cure Illness

Perception of the Divine Force Through the Inner Being

Personal Effort and Surrender in the Sadhana of the Integral Yoga

Planes of Consciousness and Their Role in the Creation

Practical Tips Regarding Meditation

Preparation for the Definitive Shift of the Consciousness to a New Standpoint

Preparing the Being for the Spiritual Quest

Preparing the Body, Vital and Mind for Restful, Conscious Sleep

Primary Functions and Powers of the Major Chakras in the Integral Yoga

Programming the Subconscient to Modify Habits

Progressively Becoming Conscious

Psychic Love Surpasses Human Love

Psychic Self-Defense

Psychoanalysis and Yoga Do Not Mix

Psychoanalysis and Yoga Don’t Mix

Purification of the Being Is More Essential Than Extraordinary Spiritual Experiences

Purification of the Energies of the Second Chakra

Purification of the Nature: Negative and Positive Approaches

Purity from the Moral Standpoint or the Spiritual Standpoint

Reading and the Concentration and Dispersion of Conscious Awareness

Reading as a Spiritual Practice and Its Limitations

Reading, Mental Development and Spiritual Growth

Realisations in the Development of the Yogic Sadhana

Rebirth and the Individual

Recognizing and Understanding Spiritual Experiences

Reconciling the Opposites

Recuperating Energy Through Contact with Nature

Rejection of the Sex Impulse and Mastery of Its Force

Relationship Among Sadhaks in an Ashram Community

Relaxation: Dissipation or True Rest?

Religion, Fanaticism and Divine Truth

Religious, Mechanical and Psychological Methods of Inner Development

Remembering One’s Dreams Upon Waking

Responding to the Consciousness in Material Objects

Resting the Body with the Right Consciousness

Results of Spiritual Development in the Consciousness

Risks and Difficulties Attendant on the Practice of a Yoga of Transformation

Roadmap for Spiritual Growth and Transformation

Sadhana Is the Core Focus — Mental and Emotional Practices Are Secondary

Safely Transitioning Between the External Physical Consciousness and the Mental, Vital and Subtle Physical Realms of Inner Experience

Samadhi and the Integral Yoga

Samadhi, the Yogic Trance, and the Waking Realisation

Save the Oceans to Save the Planet, Part 2: Developing Solutions

Save the Oceans to Save the Planet, Part 3: A Framework for Implementation

Save the Oceans to Save the Planet, Part 4: Tough Choices to Achieve Real Solutions

Save the Oceans to Save the Planet: Part 1 Understanding the Issues

Secrets for the Successful Use of Japa or Mantra for Spiritual Realisation and Daily Life

Self-Consciousness of the Ego-Personality Is Not the Same as Observing from the Witness Consciousness

Self-Identification with Others — Loosening the Bonds of the Ego-Consciousness

Self-Knowledge and Self-Mastery

Self-Realization ... and Beyond

Separate Consciousness in the Mind, the Vital Being and the Body

Separating the Shadow from the Light in One’s Bein

Setbacks in Sadhana Due to Incomplete Purification of the Nature

Signs of Entering the Spiritual Path

Sincerity Is the Only Protection in the Development of the Spiritual Life

Six Recommendations for Speech and Social Relationships

Sleep and the Practice of Integral Yoga

Sleep, Rest and Consciousness

So-Called ‘Spiritual’ Experiences and True Spiritual Development

Solving the Existential Crisis of Humanity Through the Evolution of Consciousness with Practical Applications

Soul-Mates, Marriage and the Integral Yoga

Speak Truth, Not Falsehood

Speaking About One’s Spiritual Experiences

Specific Incarnations of Gods and Their Powers in the Hindu Tradition

Speech and the Practice of Yoga

Spiritual Experience and Psychoanalysis

Spiritual Experience Comes and Goes Until the Nature Becomes Ready for a Total Shift of Standpoint

Spiritual Experiences and Spiritual Realisations

Spiritual Experiences and Transformation of the Nature

Spiritual Experiences Are Real

Spiritual Experiences Are Real

Spiritual Experiences Manifest When They Are Ready and When the Seeker Can Perceive Them

Spiritual Humility

Spiritual Liberation and the Transformation of Life on Earth

Spiritual Practice Requires Strength of Body, Life and Mind

Spiritual Progress Requires Non-Attachment to Specific Spiritual Experiences

Spiritual Realisation Goes Beyond All Scriptures

Spiritual Realisation Is Not the Same as Supramental Transformation

Spiritual Realisation Through Concentration in the Heart Centre

Spiritual Realisations and Experiences

Spiritual Sadhana Varies by Individual Based on Temperament and Situation of the Sadhak

Spirituality and Family Life

Spirituality and Occultism

Spirituality Transcends All Religions

Spirituality: What It Is Not, and What It is

Sri Aurobindo’s View of the Supramental Transformation

Stages and Forms of Meditation and Contemplation (Dhyana)

Stages of the Development of Peace in the Being

Steps Toward Achieving a Calm Mind

Success: Its Meaning, Measure and Ultimate Significance in the Supramental Transformation of Consciousness

Suggestion and Illness, Spiritual Force for Healing and the Use of Medical Treatment

Suggestions Can Cause Illness, or Cure Illness: the Link Between Mind, Emotions and the Physical Body

Supraphysical Powers of Darkness and the Earthly Life

Supraphysical Sensory Experience: Latent Powers, Not Miracles or Delusions

Tapping Into the Universal Forces Rather than Interchange with Other People

The Action and Power of Suggestion

The Action of Divine Grace

The Action of Karma and the Nature of Suffering

The Action of the Divine Force As It Descends Into the Being

The Advent of Inner Experiences and the Unpurified Vital Nature; or Be Careful What You Wish For, Because You May Get It!

The Advent of the Supramental Consciousness and Its Impact on Mind, Life and Body

The Adventure of Consciousness: The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo

The Age-Old Testimony of Spiritual Experience

The Aim of the Integral Yoga

The Aspects of the Mind and Their Modes of Action

The Aspiration Must Be Kept Alive and Constant

The Attempt to Change Human Nature at All Levels of the Being

The Attempt to Develop Tolerance and Understanding to Avoid Quarrelling

The Attitude Towards Food and the Practice of Yoga

The Awakened Psychic Being Attracts What It Needs for Its Growth and Development

The Basis for Developing the Silence of the Mind

The Bedrock of Resistance to Change in Human Nature

The Beginning of Liberation from the Limitations of the Mental Consciousness

The Benefit of Obstacles and Difficulties for the Development of Conscious Awareness

The Benefit of Shifting the Focus Toward the Higher Consciousness Rather than Focusing on the Struggles to Change the Lower Nature

The Bhagavad Gita and the Path of Karma Yoga

The Bhagavad Gita Provides a Suitable Initial Foundation for the Spiritual Development of the Integral Yoga

The Body Heals Best When We Do Not Fixate Upon It With Anxiety and Worry

The Body’s Will to Health Is the True Cure of Illness

The Breakthrough to the Reversal of Consciousness

The Call to the Spiritual Path

The Case for the Rare Instance of an Ongoing Physical, Vital or Mental Formation Surviving the Death of the Individual

The Case for the Rare Instance of an Ongoing Physical, Vital or Mental Formation Surviving the Death of the Individual

The Characteristics of the Physical Nature and the Way Toward Transformation

The Choice Before the Practitioner of the Integral Yoga

The Circumstances and Need of a Temporary Withdrawal and Quiet of the Being

The Complementary Aspects of Aspiration and Prayer

The Complex Make-Up of the Human Personalities

The Complexity and Difficulty of Achieving Complete Sincerity in the Spiritual Path

The Concept of Spiritual Purity in the Integral Yoga

The Connection to the Psychic Being Minimizes the Dangers of the Intermediate Zone

The Consent of the Entire Being Is Necessary for the Divine Change

The Creation of the Worlds and the Cycles of Evolution

The Creative Power of the Silent Mind

The Cure for Inner Loneliness

The Darkness and the Light Within Each Individual

The Day and Night of the Vedic Mystics

The Development and Use of Occult Powers and the Spiritual Quest

The Development of the Human Being and the Transcendence of the Human Being: Personal Growth and Inner Growth Defined

The Development of the Psychic Being

The Development of the Spiritual Focus Over Time

The Devotee and the Yoga of Devotion, Part 1

The Difference Between Indulgence, Suppression and Rejection of the Movement of Desire

The Difference Between Static and Dynamic Meditation

The Difference Between Suppression and Rejection of Desire

The Differences Between Spiritual Realisation and Supramental Transformation

The Difficulty in the Process Required to “Know Thyself”

The Divine Consciousness

The Divine Force Active in the Practice of Yoga

The Divine Grace and Spiritual Realisation

The Divine Grace By Any Other Name…

The Divine Mother — the Consciousness-Force of the Divine

The Divine Nature of Beauty: an Expression of Ananda in Manifestation

The Elements of the Psychic Transformation

The Embodiment of the Conscious Divine Exceeds the Ability of the Habitual Mind to Understand and Judge the Event

The Emergence of the Psychic Being, the True Soul

The Emergence of the True Soul and Its Influence on Our Lives

The Emergence of the Witness Purusha

The Essence of Karma Yoga — the Yoga of Works

The Essential Process of Ascent and Integration of Spiritual Progress

The Essential Role of Supermind in the Transformation of Mind-Life-Body

The Essential Role of the Psychic Being in the Process of Vital Transformation

The Evolutionary Cycle and the Speeding Up of the Evolutionary Cycle

The Evolutionary Progress of Nature and the Impact of the Conscious Participation of the Soul

The Example of Great Souls Facing the Difficulties and Issues of Human Spiritual Development

The Existence of Mental, Vital and Physical Planes of Existence Independent of the Material World

The Experience and Difficulty of Drawing Inwards in the Consciousness

The Experience of Samadhi

The Experience of the Descent of the Higher Consciousness Into the Mind, Life and Body

The Experience of the Individual in the Ordinary Life of the External Surface Being

The Experience of the New Higher and Wider Consciousness

The External Being and the Inner Being

The External Being’s Need For Sleep

The External Personality and the Psychic Being

The Faults We Observe In Others Are a Reflection of the Faults We Carry In Ourselves

The First Movement of Aspiration for the Divine

The First Necessary Step in Preparation for the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The First Signs of the Advent of a Mind of Light

The First Step In Organising One’s Life Around a Central Will or Aspiration

The Focus on Spiritual Development or Attachment to Family Life: the Choice for the Spiritual Aspirant

The Force of Habit and the Physical Consciousness

The Formation of Human Nature and the Character of the Individual and the Basis of the Resistance to Change

The Forms of Divine Love

The Four Parts of the Vital Being: Their Functions and Their Seats

The Four Steps of the Supramental Transformation

The Fundamental Nature of Existence is Consciousness

The Future Evolution of Man: the Need and the Response

The Gods and the Demons in Our Inner Psychology

The Greatest Difficulties Signal the Greatest Strength for the Yogic Practitioner

The Greek Temperament and the Roman Temperament in the Practice of Yoga

The Growth and Evolution of the Soul

The Growth of the Soul

The Growth of the Soul

The Gunas and the Seeker’s Relation to Material Objects in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Guru and the Disciple in the Integral Yoga

The Guru: the Guide for the Spiritual Practice and Realisation

The Healing of the Body With the Divine Force

The Human Dilemma: the Underlying Cause of Anxiety

The Human Need for an Intermediary to the Divine Brings About the Presence of the Avatar, the World-Teacher, or the Human Guru

The Human Need for an Object to Venerate and to Be Guided By in the Spiritual Path

The Illusion of Constant Action

The Impersonal and the Personal Divine

The Impersonal and the Personal Divine

The Impersonal Divine and the Personal Divine

The Importance of Order and Harmony in Work

The Importance of the Attitude of Trust for the Yogic Practitioner

The Importance of the Psychic Transformation

The Inconscient and the Need for Its Transformation

The Individual and the Collectivity

The Individual Seeker and the Best Path Forward in the Practice of the Yoga

The Influence of Inner Planes of Consciousness on the Outer Life of the Individual

The Influence of the Circumconscient Environmental Consciousness

The Influence of the Psychic Being on the Body, Life and Mind

The Influence of the Psychic Being’s Peace and Calm Can Overcome the Disturbances of Mind, Life and Body

The Inner Being (the Subliminal)

The Inner Ideals of Ordinary Human Life and the Divine Life

The Integral Path Combines the Vedantic and the Tantric Approaches to Divine Realisation

The Integral Way to the Truth of Existence

The Integral Yoga: Development Beyond the Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita

The Integral Yoga’s View of Mental Health

The Intellect Does Not Have Direct Knowledge

The Intense Opposition of Basic Human Nature to Any Attempt to Change or Grow into a New Status and the Need to Persevere

The Intermediate Zone and Its Dangers

The Intermediate Zone in the Development of Consciousness

The Jivatman and the Psychic Being: the Central Being of Man

The Knowledge of the Mystics

The Kundalini, the Tantra and the Integral Yoga

The Ladder of Consciousness Above the Mind

The Light and the Shadow in Each Individual Being

The Limitations of Religious Worship for Spiritual Growth and Development

The Limitations of the Intellect in Grasping the Supreme Truth of Existence

The Limitations of the Thinking Mind

The Limits of Mental, Vital and Physical Efforts to Change Human Nature and the Need for a Shift of Consciousness to a New Evolutionary Principle

The Link Between Inner Defects and External Attacks of Adverse Forces

The Maturation of the Soul Across Lifetimes in Fulfillment of Its Evolutionary Role

The Meaning of Faith

The Meaning of True and Complete Sincerity in the Spiritual Path

The Mechanism of the Soul’s Evolutionary Development Through Death and Rebirth

The Mental and Vital Formation May Transfer Into a Next Lifetime Under Certain Conditions

The Mind as a Helper, the Mind as an Obstacle for Spiritual Development

The Mind of Light in the Context of the Current Existential Crisis

The Most Effective Method for Achieving Detachment

The Mother: Supreme Nature That Manifests All Existence

The Mother’s Force to Effectuate the Change of Consciousness

The Nature and Action of Faith in the Spiritual Path

The Nature and Experience of Cosmic Consciousness

The Nature and Forms of Spiritual Experience

The Nature and Power of Equality in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Nature and Power of Sincerity in the Practice of Integral Yoga

The Nature and Power of Sincerity in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Nature and Practice of Karmayoga in the Integral Yoga

The Nature and Role of the Ego

The Nature of Bhakti

The Nature of Bhakti — the Yoga of Devotion

The Nature of Divine Love

The Nature of Equality in Yogic Psychology

The Nature of Faith

The Nature of Inner Peace

The Nature of Karma Yoga

The Nature of the Mind Creates and Enhances Much Human Psychological Suffering

The Nature of the Resistance of the Mind-Life-Body to the Pressure of the Divine Force

The Nature of the Resistance of Universal Nature to the Pressure of the Divine Force

The Nature of the Reversal of Consciousness Cannot Be Fully Grasped by the Ordinary Human Externalized Consciousness

The Nature of the Sexual Impulse

The Nature of the Subconscient

The Nature, Character and Evolutionary Role of the Psychic Entity, the Soul

The Necessary Shift from Ego-Centric to God-Centric Consciousness in the Practice of Yoga

The Necessity and Methods of Overcoming Inertia in the Physical Nature

The Necessity for Quietude of the Vital Nature

The Necessity of a Luminous Faith in Following the Spiritual Path

The Necessity of a Reversal of Consciousness for Living the Spiritual Life

The Necessity of the Psychic Transformation

The Necessity of Transformation of Human Nature

The Necessity of Transformation of the Lower Vital Nature

The Necessity, Process and Benefit of Stepping Back from Involvement in the External Surface Consciousness

The Need and Method for Observing One’s Thoughts

The Need and Method to Become Conscious and Change the Nature

The Need and Process of Transforming the Subconscient

The Need for a Direct Experience of the Reality of Existence

The Need for Constant, Steady and Flexible Progress on the Yogic Path

The Need for Intense Aspiration for the Divine Realisation

The Need for Persistent Energy and Focus to Live the Spiritual Life

The Need for Silence of the Thinking Mind for the Spiritual Transformation

The Need for Spiritual Discrimination, the Ability to Distinguish the Pure from the Impure

The Need for the Descent of Peace Into the Being

The Need for the Guidance of the Guru

The Need for Time to Assimilate the Descent of the Divine Force

The Need for Transformation of the Vital in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Need to Balance Meditation and Work in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Need to Maintain Balance Between Waking, Dream and Sleep Consciousness

The Need to Master the Sex Impulse for the Sadhak of the Integral Yoga

The Need to Open and Bring Forward the Inner Psychic Being

The Need to Overcome Fear in the Realisation of the Atman

The Need to Overcome the Subconscious State of Sleep

The Need to Remain Undisturbed by Outer Circumstances

The Need to Shift the Consciousness Beyond the Ego

The Need to Transcend the Intellect in the Search for the Truth of Existence

The Needed Balance of Spiritual Development and Mental Development

The Needed Engagement That Enlivens the Outer Forms of Worship

The Object of the Integral Yoga

The Objective of Spiritual Effort Is a Change of Consciousness, Not a Large Following

The One Indispensable Thing

The One Thing That Should Never Be Done

The Origin of Joy

The Outer Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness of the External Being

The Parable of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Path of the Integral Yoga

The Play of the Gunas and the Difficulty of Effecting True Change in Human Nature

The Play of the Gunas in the Spiritual Path

The Potential Impact of Positive or Negative Thoughts on Another Individual

The Power of a Calm Mind

The Power of Affirmations in Healing the Body and Achieving Positive Results in Life

The Power of Concentration is the Key to Realization in All Fields of Life

The Power of Detachment to Effect Transformational Change in the Nature

The Power of Imagination in Shaping Life

The Power of Peace

The Power of Visualisation Can Aid in Overcoming the Limits of the Logic-Bound Mental Consciousness in Achieving Realisation in the Spiritual Endeavour and the External World

The Power of Wideness in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Practice of Yoga Through Surrender, Self-Giving and Consecration

The Predominant Characteristic of Physical Consciousness: Tamas or Inertia

The Price of the Transformation of the Earth-Consciousness

The Principle Behind Mantra and Japa

The Principle of Integral Yoga

The Process and Steps of Ridding the Nature of Habitual Movements

The Process of Attaining Peace, Silence, Knowledge and Other Powers of the Realisation

The Process of Bringing About Change at the Subconscious Level of Our Being

The Process of Changing Human Nature

The Process of Concentration in Yoga, Part 1

The Process of Concentration in Yoga, Part 2

The Process of Effecting Change in Character

The Process of Effectuating Real Change in Human Nature

The Process of Establishing Equality in the Being

The Process of Opening of the Chakras in Yoga

The Process of Sleep and its Transformation in the Practice of Yoga

The Process of the Supramental Manifestation and Its Integration into Life on Earth

The Process of Turning Work into Yogic Practice

The Process of Turning Work into Yogic Practice

The Psychic Being — the Nature of the Soul

The Psychic Entity Knows the Purpose and Significance of Our Existence

The Qualities of Food and Spiritual Practice

The Realisations of the Self and the Psychic Being

The Respective Roles of the Jivatman and the Psychic Being

The Risks and Difficulties of Eliminating Lower Drives Through Purposeful Indulgence, Part 1

The Risks and Difficulties of Eliminating Lower Drives Through Purposeful Indulgence, Part 2

The Road to Silence of the Mind

The Role and Destiny of the Body

The Role and Destiny of the Vital Force

The Role and Function of the Guru, the Teacher

The Role and Nature of Avatars and Vibhutis

The Role and Rationale for the Existence of Hostile Forces

The Role of Aspiration in the Spiritual Development of the Integral Yoga

The Role of Devotion and Love in the Integral Yoga

The Role of Free Will in the Surrender of the Ego

The Role of Medicine in Treating Illness for the Practitioner of Yoga

The Role of Sex in the Integral Yoga

The Role of Spiritual Experiences in the Change of Human Nature

The Role of the Ego in the Evolution of Consciousness

The Role of the Emotions in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Role of the Inner Standpoint in Overcoming Depression and Ambition in the Practice of Yoga

The Role of the Mental Will in the Spiritual Development of the Integral Yoga

The Role of the Psychic Being in the Integral Yoga

The Role of Work in the Sadhana of the Integral Yoga

The Role, Nature and Action of the Physical Mind

The Secret Significance and Process of Evolution

The Seeds of Thought, Emotion, Feeling, Action and Reaction Reside in the Subconscient Level of Consciousness

The Self — the Atman and Individual Liberation

The Semi-Conscious Life We Lead

The Separation of Purusha and Prakriti as a Powerful Tool for Shifting the Standpoint Out of the Ego-Personality and into the Divine Standpoint

The Seven Forms of Knowledge

The Seven Rays of the Infinite

The Shift from Ego-Personality to Divine Standpoint

The Shift or Reversal of Consciousness Happens All At Once, Not Gradually

The Silence of the Mind

The Silent Mind Prepares the Receptivity for the Advent of the Higher Consciousness in the Being

The Soul, its Evolutionary Development on Earth and the Universal Manifestation

The Soul’s Faith Is a Precursor to Attainment of the Truth of Existence

The Soul’s Journey Through Life, Death and Rebirth

The Source and Cause of Illness

The Source and Nature of the Thoughts an Individual Receives

The Source and Origin of Desire and the Mechanism of Its Action in the Being

The Source and Significance of Visions

The Sources of Disturbance and the Process of Detachment

The Spirit, the Soul and the Psychic Being

The Spiritual Call Comes… Then What Needs to Happen Next

The Spiritual Experience Gets Watered-Down or Lost As It is Transcribed into the Mental Framework

The Spiritual Life, the Religious Life and the Ordinary Human Life

The Spiritual Need of the Modern Age

The Spiritual Revolution

The Static and Dynamic Aspects of the Higher Spiritual Self

The Strength in Stillness

The Subconscient Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 3

The Subconscient Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 4

The Subconscious Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 1

The Subconscious Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 2

The Sublimation and Transformation of the Sexual Energy

The Subtle Higher Forces of Existence Create Our External Being and Action

The Subtle Power of Atmosphere and Example in Spiritual Development

The Sunlit Path of Yoga

The Sunlit Path of Yogic Practice

The Superman: an Evolutionary Leap Is Not Limited to the Mind’s Extrapolation from Its Present Status

The Supermind and the Transformation of the Physical Body

The Supramental Evolution Represents the Fulfillment of Life, Not the Abandonment of Life

The Supramental Evolutionary Development Engages With, Rather Than Renounces, Life in the World

The Supramental Force and the Quest for the Conquest of Disease, Decay and Death

The Supramental Society Is Based in a New Consciousness of Realisation of the Divine Reality of Oneness with Diversity

The Supreme Consciousness and the Creative Force of Manifestation

The Surface Being and the Inner Being

The Surface Personality Is Not the Real Self of Our Existence

The Surrender of the Ego-Personality to the Divine

The Tantra and the Integral Yoga

The Test of Yogic Equality

The Third Step in the Mental Discipline: Control of Thoughts

The Three Gunas and Spiritual Practice

The Three Transformations of Consciousness in the Integral Yoga

The Transcendental, the Cosmic and the Individual Divine

The Transformation of the Mind

The Transformation of the Sex Centre and Its Energy

The Transition from Supermind through Overmind to the Consciousness of Body-Life-Mind

The Transition to the Soul’s Guidance of Mind, Life and Body

The Transitional Stage of Shifting from the Outer Surface Consciousness to the Inner Consciousness

The Trouble Based on the Nature of the Vital That Needs to be Overcome

The True Condition of Progress in the Spiritual Path

The True Nature of Rest

The True Soul: the Psychic Being

The Two Most Important Actions for Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Two Most Powerful Levers to Enter Into Contact with the Divine in One’s Psychic Being

The Usefulness of Suffering

The Value and Rationale for the Yoga of Works — Karma Yoga

The Value of Attaining the Standpoint of the Witness Consciousness in Understanding the Complexity of Interaction of the Parts of the Being

The Value of Enthusiasm

The Value of Mental Preparation for the Practice of the Integral Yoga

The Value of Mental, Vital and Physical Progress for Future Births

The Vital Envelope, the Aura, and Its Protection of the Physical Body

The Vital Is Attached to Suffering

The Vital Nature and Its Role in Ordinary Life and Spiritual Life

The Vital Nature and Its Transformation

The Vital Nature: a Great Assistant, but an Impossible Master

The Vital Reaction of Jealousy

The Way of the Integral Yoga

The Way to Make Steady and Lasting Progress in Spiritual Growth

The Western Mind and the Relationship to the Guru

The World is a Manifestation of the Divine

The Worlds and Planes of Consciousness

The Yoga of the Supermind To Transform Earthly Life

The Yoga-Shakti Active in the Integral Yoga

The Yogic Practitioner and the External World

The Yogic Practitioner Experiences a Reversal of Consciousness Compared to Most of Humanity

The Yogic Practitioner Should Not Obsess About Hostile Attacks

Three Differences Between Integral Yoga and Traditional Spiritual Paths

Three Main Causes of Madness, Psychological Collapse and Failure of the Spiritual Quest

Three Necessary Conditions to Receive and Act Under the Impulsion of the Divine Force

Three Parts of the Outer Being: Mental, Vital and Physical

Three Primary Paths of Inner Growth and Spiritual Development

Three Rules for the Spiritual Practitioner with Respect to Experiences

Three Steps (and Beyond) to Eliminate the Ego-Consciousness

Time and Patient Persistence

To Read, or Not to Read, That is the Question for the Spiritual Seeker

Transformation of Human Nature Requires a Shift of Standpoint Away From Absorption in the Actions and Reactions of the External Being

Transformation of the Vital Nature of Man: Background and Introduction

Transformation of the Vital Requires the Action of a New Power of Consciousness

Transformative Spiritual Experiences

Transforming the Vital Nature, Part 2: Overcoming Difficulties and Obstacles on the Path

Transition to a New Higher Standpoint of Consciousness Is the Basis of Achievement of the Cosmic Consciousness

Transitioning to the Silent Mind

Trapped by the Social and Moral Code, or Beyond Good and Evil?

Two Aids in Overcoming the Impulse of Anger

Two Forms of Protection from Attacks of Hostile Forces

Two Introductory Methods to Develop Remembrance in Work

Two Methods for Achieving Equality of Feelings with Others

Two Methods for Practicing the Yoga of Works

Two Options for the Seeker to Eliminate Desire

Two Processes of Traditional Yogic Paths That Can Aid the Sadhana of the Integral Yoga

Two Steps to Spiritual Experience

Two Ways to Meet the Resistance of the Nature to the Divine Force: the Way of the Self and the Way of the Psychic

Understanding and Addressing Resistance in the Lower Being to the Descent of the Divine Force

Understanding and Addressing the Difficulties of Gaining Control of the Ordinary Human Nature and Life, Part 1

Understanding and Addressing the Difficulties of Gaining Control of the Ordinary Human Nature and Life, Part 2

Understanding and Addressing the Mechanism of Anger and its External Cause

Understanding and Attaining the Right Attitude Toward Food for the Yogic Practitioner

Understanding and Avoiding the Lures and Dangers of the Vital Worlds

Understanding and Bridging the Gap Between the Outer Surface Existence and the Inner Being

Understanding and Dealing with Nervous Imbalances Caused by Hostile Forces

Understanding and Dealing with the Physical Mind

Understanding and Distinguishing the Complex Makeup of Human Nature

Understanding and Overcoming Depression

Understanding and Overcoming Obstacles That Obstruct the Psychic Opening

Understanding and Respecting the Body’s Need for Rest

Understanding Difficulties and Obstacles That Arise During the Yogic Process

Understanding Human Nature

Understanding the Concept of Divine Grace

Understanding the Concept of Wideness in the Integral Yoga

Understanding the Concept of Wideness in the Integral Yoga

Understanding the Cycles and Phases of Spiritual Development

Understanding the Defense Mechanism of Projection

Understanding the Defense Mechanism of Rationalization

Understanding the Difference Between Psychic and Spiritual

Understanding the Inner Being

Understanding the Larger Being of Man and the Process of Transformation of the Subconscious

Understanding the Limitations of the Mechanical Mind

Understanding the Limitations of the Physical Mind

Understanding the Moods of the Vital Consciousness

Understanding the Nature and Role of Spiritual Experiences in the Yogic Process

Understanding the Nature of Fear and Its Effects on the Being

Understanding the Need and Limitations for Rules and Guidelines in Social Interactions and Activity in the World

Understanding the Path of Devotion, Bhakti Yoga

Understanding the Quality of Sincerity in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Understanding the Relationship of Various Parts and Planes of the Being to Our Current External Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness

Understanding the Role and Nature of the Gods in the Universal Creation

Understanding the Role, Nature and Action of the Vital Mind

Understanding the Various Causes of Visions of Deities, Saints and Sages

Understanding the Witness Consciousness — the Separation of Purusha and Prakriti

Understanding Vital Dissatisfaction and Withdrawal of Energy

Understanding, Utilizing and Balancing One’s Vital Energy Reserves

Various Forms of Meditation and Their Potential Benefits

Vedic Seers Describe the Sevenfold Ignorance and the Sevenfold Knowledge

Violence and Non-Violence — in Life and in Yoga

Violence and Spiritual Change

Visiting the Symbolic Transcription of One’s Inner Being As Displayed to the Conscious Awareness

Visualization as an Aid for Entering into Contact with One’s Psychic Being

Vital Disturbances Arise from Universal Nature and Bring Forth Habitual Responses

Vital Movements Rising Up During the Practice of the Yoga

Waking and Sleep, Day and Night

Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 1: Is It Possible For Westerns to Practice Yoga?

Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 2: A Hindu Temperament in a Westerner’s Body?

Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 3: Are There Advantages to an Indian Birth for the Practice of Yoga?

Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 4: Obstacles Faced by Westerners and the Soul’s Aspiration to Overcome Them in the Integral Yoga

Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 5: the Yogic Path Is Not Limited by Race, Origin or Religious or Cultural Background

What Are Spiritual Experiences?

What Does It Mean to ‘Be Calm’ in the Mind

What Does Sri Aurobindo Mean by Transformation of the Nature?

What Is Cosmic Consciousness?

What Is Meant By the Concept of Mental Health?

What is Meant by the Term ‘Meditation’?

What Is Spirituality?

What is the Atman? How Do We Experience the Self?

What Is the Divine?

What Is the Purpose? Why Am I Alive? Is There a Meaning to Life?

What Is Transformation of the Nature?

What Technique or Practice Is Prescribed in the Integral Yoga?

What’s the Use of Seeking to Have Spiritual Experiences?

When the Fire Has Consumed All Its Fuel

Where Does Desire Come From?

Which Comes First — Devotion or Spiritual Experience?

Why Do Some People Believe the Practice of Yoga Causes Illness or Death?

Why Speaking About One’s Spiritual Experiences Can Be Counter-Productive to the Sadhana

Widening the Consciousness Through Identification with Galactic Space

Widening the Consciousness: Practical Exercises and Benefits

Withstanding Attacks by Hostile Forces in the Practice of Yoga

Work and Spiritual Development

Work That Aids the Aspiration and Work That Dulls the Aspiration of the Seeker

Work, Devotion, Meditation and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

Work, Meditation and Devotion are Three Pillars of Yogic Development

World Project Overview: Next Steps in Solving the Existential Crisis of Humanity

Yoga: The Science of Consciousness

Yogic Concentration

Yogic Equality Does Not Imply Fatalistic Acceptance

Yogic Sadhana and Depression

Yogic View of Beauty

Your Greatest Weakness Identifies Your Greatest Strength

“Yoga Made Easy?”

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