Initiation into Yoga

The spark in Sri Aurobindo's yoga comes from within in the form of a 'Call for the Yoga', when the person receives an inner conviction that this is what he is meant to do. Another sign is the recognition of the Mother's divinity.

The first thing needed is to open some window, however small, so that from time to time we can have a little glimpse and breathe a little air and let in a little sunshine without which one begins to experience stifled even possessing everything else in the world.

Love is sufficient by itself. It is the magic lever that opens the sanctum sanctorum, the alchemist energy of the intended transformation. ()

One cannot replicate what happens in one person's life into another. That is the mistake that cults and religions do, by standardising the spiritual seeking and fixing methods and techniques.