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SECTION FOURTEEN
DIFFICULTIES OF THE PATH AND
THEIR REMOVAL
I. THE RIGHT WAY OF OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES
II. THE MOTHER'S HELP IN REMOVING DIFFICULTIES
I. THE RIGHT WAY OF OVERCOMING
DIFFICULTIES
Difficulty of Yoga
I HAVE not said that to reach the overmind
is impossible; I have only said that it is difficult.
Difficulty is not a reason why the things should
not be done.
It is not easy for a physical being to reach t
SECTION SEVENTEEN
LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS IN YOGA
Bhakti and Love in Yoga
THE nature of Bhakti is adoration, worship,
self-offering to what is greater than oneself; the nature of love is a
feeling or a seeking for closeness and union. Self-giving is the character of both; both are necessary in the Yoga and each gets its
full force when supported by the other.
Spiritual and Psychic Love
THE love that belongs to the spiritual planes is of a
different kind—the psychic has its own more personal love, bhakti, surrender.
Love in the higher or spiritual mind is more universal and impersonal.
The two must go together to make the highest
divine love.
SECTION SEVEN
THE PROCESS OF INTEGRAL
TRANSFORMATION
I. PSYCHIC CONVERSION
II. ASCENT TO HIGHER PLANES
III. DESCENT OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
IV. THE SUPRAMENTAL DESCENT
I. PSYCHIC CONVERSION
Meaning of "Psychic"
"PSYCHIC" in the sense in which it is used
commonly by people has no definite meaning,
it is applied to anything non-ph
SECTION FIFTEEN
TRANSFORMATION OF THE VITAL
NATURE
I. LIBERATION FROM EGO
II. REJECTION OF DESIRE
III. REMOVAL OF WRONG VITAL MOVEMENTS
I. LIBERATION FROM EGO
Need of Transforming the Ego
OBVIOUSLY, unless the object is Nirvana, the
small ego has to be attended to—not indulged
but transformed out of existence.
21-4-1936
Ego and True Being
THE form of ego has
SECTION TWELVE
LIGHTS AND COLOURS—SYMBOLS
AND IMAGES
I. FORMS AND ACTION OF LIGHTS AND COLOURS
II. SYMBOLS AND IMAGES OF VISION
I. FORMS AND ACTION OF LIGHTS AND
COLOURS
Action of Light
(1)
IT depends upon the colour of the Light. In
any case it is the Light of Force from above.
All lights are indications of a Force or Power. It is
the work of the Lights and the Forces they represent
to act in their descent on the lower nature and
change it.
30-7-1934
(2)
IT is
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SECTION NINE
CONCENTRATION AND MEDITATION
Two Main Centres For Concentration
MOST people associate consciousness with the brain or mind because that is the centre
for intellectual thought and mental vision, but consciousness is not limited to that kind of thought or
vision. It is everywhere in the system and there are several centres of it,
e.g., the centre for inner concentration is not in the brain but in the heart,—the
originating centre of vital desire is still lower
down.
The two main places where one can centre the
consciousness for Yoga are in the head and in the
heart—the mind-centre and the soul-centre.
11-8-1934
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SECTION FIVE
BASIC REQUISITES OF YOGA
I. SINCERITY
II. ASPIRATION
III. FAITH
IV. SURRENDER
V. PATIENCE AND PERSEVERANCE
I. SINCERITY
The One Indispensable Conditio
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SECTION TWO
SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND YOGA
The Gulf between the Methods of Physical
Science and Yoga
WHEN the scientist says that "scientifically speaking, God is a hypothesis which is no longer necessary" he is talking arrant nonsense—for the existence
of God is not and cannot be and never was a scientific
hypothesis or problem at all, it is and always has
been a spiritual or a metaphysical problem. You
cannot speak scientifically about it at all either pro
or con. The metaphysician or the spiritual seeker
has a right to point out that it is nonsense; but if you
lay down the law to the scientist in the field of
science you run the risk of having the same objection
t
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FOREWORD
THIS new volume in the series of "Letters of Sri
Aurobindo"
contains letters on spiritual philosophy and the practice of Yoga
compiled after the publication of the first two volumes which also
include letters dealing with the same subjects. The classification of
letters under different headings and their arrangement in separate
sections in this volume is made on the same plan as that of the
earlier volumes. Those who have made a careful study of the
earlier volumes will find in these letters further clarification of
several issues connected with Sri Aurobindo's spiritual philosophy
and psychology, fuller understanding of the aim, the conditions
and the process
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SECTION NINETEEN
GREAT MEN AND AVATARS
Greatness
BY greatness is meant an exceptional capacity
of one kind or another.
24-4-1936
Mistake of Depreciating Great Men
PEOPLE have begun to try to prove that great men
were not great, which is a very big mistake. If
greatness is not appreciated by men, the world will
become mean, small, dull, narrow and tamasic.
Greatness in Yoga and in the
Universal Order
OBVIOUSLY, outer greatness is not the aim of Yoga.
But that is no reason why one should not recognise
the part played by greatness in the order of the
universe or the place of great men of action, great
poets and artists, etc.