Hindi

This talk takes up Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s life until Their meeting with each other.

This talk deals with practical aspects of sadhana of the Integral Yoga in daily life.

This talk is based on certain questions related to the Sri Aurobindo ashram, especially as some people erroneously believe it to be yet another cult.

The Integral Yoga is not a yoga of world-shunning asceticism. It is important therefore to understand the nature of the world, the forces that constitute it, their effects and actions upon the individual and ways to navigate through them.

This talk deals with the many sides and shades of human nature, its inherent complexity that one confronts when one takes to the yogic life.

‘The Supramental Manifestation’ which took place upon earth on the 29th Feb 1956 is of crucial importance and marks one of the penultimate result of the tapasya of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

Some of terms specific to the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother are discussed, not from a linguistic but from an experiential point of view. There is also a detailed description of the meaning of Sri Aurobindo’s symbol in response to a question.

Yoga has little to do with techniques and methods which are largely subordinate and secondary. The one important thing is the central and conscious aspiration. It is this that opens the doors of the Spirit rather than any fixed technique.

So also spiritual life has little to do with conventional religiosity. A very religious man may be far from the true spiritual life, often even closed to it. The stages of our evolution towards the spiritual consciousness are discussed in this talk.