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Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga Expert

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Main Areas: Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga
Best Sellers: Readings in Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine, Readings in sri Aurobindo's The Synthesis of Yoga, Readings in Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita
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 20 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.

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871

More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at http://www.aurobindo.net

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Recent Articles

The Universality of the Spiritual Presence in All Existence

The Soul As the True Central Being

The Quest to Establish the Connection to the Higher, Subtler, Causal Planes of Existence

The Reality of Subjective Visions and Objective Sight

The Power of Occult ‘Seeing’

Hypnosis and Individual Development of Its Action for Liberation from the Control of the Surface Waking Consciousness

Observing the Influences and Suggestions That Shape Our Responses in Life

The Potential for Emergence of the Subliminal Powers of Mind

The Direct Use of the Mind as a Sixth Sense

Occult Powers Awaiting Emergence from Our Subliminal Being

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 Method for the Seeker to Obtain Guidance Through Accessing a Random Passage in a Book

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 Shift of Consciousness Brings New Understanding of One’s Life and Existence in the World

A Shift of Standpoint from the Ego-Personality to the Soul or Self Is Needed to Unify, Organise and Harmonise the Entire Being

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 Technique to Shift to Another Domain of Consciousness

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 Inner Subliminal Consciousness

Accessing the True Source of Vital Energy

Accessing Universal Vital Forces Directly or Through Vital Interchange With Others

Achieving Silence in the Mind

Adaptation of the Body to Support the Manifestation of a New Power of Consciousness

Additional Forms of Disturbance Associated with the Physical Mind

Addressing Alternations in Spiritual Progress Over Time

Addressing and Overcoming Boredom

Addressing the Contradictions Between the Spiritual Consciousness and the External Body-Life-Mind Complex

Addressing the Difficulties of the Transformation of the Vital Nature

Addressing the Experience of the Dark Night of the Soul

Addressing the Fallacy of an Individual Perfection in the Absence of Collective Progress

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

Aligning Education With the Future

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

All Problems Can Be Solved Through the Power of Concentration

Alleviating the Greater Part of Human Suffering

An Accident Avoided

An Exercise to Become Conscious of One’s Consciousness

An Exercise to Experience the Nature of Consciousness

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

An Expanding Consciousness Recognises the Inherent Oneness and Mutuality of All Existence

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 Knowledge Criteria Appropriate to Each Domain According to Its Own Law of Nature

Applying the Power of Concentration to Develop Efficiency of Time of Accomplishment of Any Task

Applying the Scientific Method to the Understanding of the Yoga-Force

Applying the “Hundredth Monkey” Phenomenon

Approaching the Transition from Human Love to Divine Love

Are Our Thoughts Our Own?

Are There Really Vampires? — the Reality and Nature of Vampirism

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 and the Witness Consciousness

Aspiration, Faith and Realisation

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

Aspiration: the Desire of the Soul for the Divine

Astrology: Destiny, Possibility, or Irrelevancy?

Attaining Certainty About the Actuality of the Reversal of Consciousness

Attaining Free Will By Overcoming the Sense of Individual Separation in the Manifestation and Our Bondage to the Cause and Effect Trajectory That Creates Our Present Opportunities and Choices

Attaining Peace in the Being

Attitude and the Law of Attraction

Automatic Writing, Ouija Boards, the Planchette and Communication With People After Their Death

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

Avoiding Dangers of Opening to the Vital Planes

Awakening and Transformation of the Subconscious Must Precede Change at the Inconscient Levels of Existence

Awakening of the Chakras Opens Up Undreamed Potential in Our Being

Awakening the Kundalini Energy From Below or From Above

Becoming Aware of and Distinguishing the Source of Vibrations Impacting our Lives

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

Becoming Aware of Cosmic and Universal Forces That Impact Our Existence

Becoming Aware of the Central Will of the Being

Becoming Aware of the Existence of the Environmental Consciousness

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 Oneself

Becoming Conscious of the Multiple Sheaths or Planes of Our Being

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

Biological Energy Developed from Food and from Other Sources

Boredom and Its Cure

Bringing Harmony Between the Inner Psychic Being and the External Nature

Bringing the Light of Consciousness to the Subconscient Levels of the Being

Calming Agitation of the Nerves: An Exercise

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

Can Destiny Be Modified Through Conscious Intention?

Can Human Beings Change?

Can Reading Random Passages of Books Provide True Guidance and Direction?

Can the Mind Recognise the Action or Influence of the Soul in Another Individual?

Causes and Avoidance of Accidents

Causes and Solutions for Physical Fatigue

Causes of Accidents

Challenges of a Transitional Phase for Transformation of Earthly Life

Chance and Divine Order

Changing Outer Actions Is an Essential Aspect of Inner Development

Changing the Mental Focus From Negative to Positive Objects: the Power of Positive Affirmations

Characteristics of Human Love, Psychic Love and Spiritual Love

Characteristics of the Body Consciousness

Close Observation Can Identify the Influence of Vital Beings and Forces

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 Aids Speed and Accuracy in Action

Concentration and Remembrance of the Divine

Concentration and the Centres of Energy in the Subtle Body

Concentration Helps the Individual Successfully Accomplish More Tasks in Less Time

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

Concentration of the Consciousness

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

Confusion About the Real Inner Self and the ExternalSurface Personality Is the Root of Our Suffering

Confusion About the Reality of the Atman and the Ego

Confusion About the Reality of the Atman and the Ego

Conquering Difficulties With a Positive Mind-Set

Conscious Development of the Psychic Being and its Instruments from Life to Life

Conscious Evolution

Conscious Evolution

Conscious Powers of Light and Darkness Oppose One Another in the External World We Inhabit

Consciousness in the Unconscious

Consciousness Pervades All Forms, Beings and Entities in the Universal Creation

Consciousness, Its Powers and the Drive to Discover Our True Self

Conservative Bias and Progressive Action

Contacting and Connecting With the Universal Vital Force, Part I

Contacting and Connecting With the Universal Vital Force, Part II

Contagion: Physical Contagion, Vital Contagion, Mental Contagion

Contending With the Multitude of Beings That Exist Within Each Individual

Contradictions and Inconsistencies in Our Mental Process

Controlling One’s Imagination

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 a Balance Between the Spiritual Quest and the Development of the Body, Life and Mind

Creating a Balance Between the Spiritual Quest and the Development of the Body, Life and Mind

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

Creating Beneficial Thought Forms and Their Positive Action

Cultivating Inner Peace as the Basis of Spiritual Sadhana

Cultivating Mental Honesty to Address the Habit of Self-Deception

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 Pain

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

Delving into the Complexity of Determining an Individual’s Destiny in Life

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

Determinism in the Exercise of Free Will — Free Will in the Carrying Out of Determinism

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 Gnostic Living Amidst a World of Opposition

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

Developing Will-Power

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

Differences Between the Practice of Magic and Spiritual Action

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 Magic from Occultism

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 Subconscient from the Subliminal Aspects of Consciousness

Distinguishing the Supracosmic Reality from the Supramental Consciousness

Distinguishing the Vital Mind from the Mental Power of Reason, Thought and Will

Distinguishing Various Types of Symbolic Visions

Distinguishing Vital Movements from the Expression of the Psychic Being

Distinguishing Will From Willings

Disturbances Attributed to the Physical Mind

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

Divine Grace and Cosmic Law

Divine Grace and the Action of the Laws of Nature

Divine Will and Divine Grace

Do the Stars Control Our Destiny?

Do We Create Our Own Thoughts and Feelings?

Do We Have Subtle Sense Organs, Beyond the 5 Physical Senses We Recognise?

Do We Know What We Seek in Our Lives?

Do We Really Exercise Free Will in Our Lives?

Doubt and Faith: Resolving the Debate Between Science and Religion

Doubt, and Certitude About the Divine

Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force

Drawing on the Universal Energy for Life-Force

Dual States of Consciousness in the Being

Dynamic Meditation

Economic Systems Cannot Solve the Evolutionary Crisis

Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 1 Understanding the Issues

Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 2 Concepts and Principles of Action

Educating and Uplifting the Vital Nature: Part 3 Methods and Techniques

Effects of the Descent of the Higher Consciousness Into the Body

Effectuating the Formations of Imagination Over Time and Circumstance

elations of the Yogic Practitioner With Non-Practitioners

Elements Common to the Paths of Inner Growth

Embedded Subconscious Complexes and the Ability to Overcome Their Influence or Control

Employing the ‘Psychic Mirror’ as a Tool For Transforming the Nature

Empowering Thought Forms Through Linking of Will and Emotion

Encouraging the Dreams of Children

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

Endurance Is Required for Progress, Growth and Success

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

Environmental Consciousness — the Circumconscient

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

Everybody Practices Occultism, Whether They Realize It or Not

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 and Understanding Infinite Worlds of Experience

Experiencing the Higher and Subtler Levels of Consciousness

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

Extending a Measure of Validity to Reports of Supra-Physical Perceptions and Experiences

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 and Confidence

Faith and Personal Effort

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

Fear: Its Effect on the Vital Sheath and As a Cause of Illness

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

Focusing the Will on the Physical Body and its Development

Following the Right Path to Divine Realisation

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

Forces at Work In Human Affairs Behind the External Causes

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

Free Will, Determinism and Random Chance as Factors in Life Outcomes

Freeing the Mind from Subjection to the Life-Force and the Body

Friendship and Affection — Human and Divine

Friendship, Affection and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

From the Oneness of Unconsciousness to the Oneness of Consciousness: the Impulsion of the Divine Consciousness

Gaining Access to the Subliminal Consciousness

Gaining an Understanding of the Nature of the Subliminal Consciousness

Gaining Mastery Over the Action of the Mechanical Mind

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

Getting in Touch with the Inner, Subliminal Mind, Life and Physical Consciousness

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

Gnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental Consciousness

Gnostic Consciousness Resolves the Contradictions of Mental Consciousness

Gnostic Consciousness Transcends Rigid Mental Rules for Living

God, Gods, Goddesses and Human Perceptions

God’s Grace or God’s Duty

Growing Spiritually Beyond the Forms of Religion

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

Habitual Responses and the Process of Auto-Suggestion Arising from the Action of the Subconscious Level

Harnessing the Body’s Innate Powers for the Transformation of Consciousness

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

Healing Modalities, Faith and Our Societal Biases

Healing Sickness With Spiritual Force

Healing the Body Through Spiritual Force or Through Faith

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

Higher Mind Is the First Gradation of Consciousness Beyond the Normal Human Mental Level

Higher Powers of Consciousness Can Aid and Support the Evolution of Consciousness in the Human Being

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 Do We Know that a Spiritual Force Is Working in Our Lives?

How Does an Individual Acquire the Higher Form of Spontaneity?

How Does Experience in One Lifetime Become Useful in Future Lifetimes?

How Many People Have Psychic Powers Misdiagnosed as Psychotic Disorders?

How the Practitioner Can Identify the Action of Hostile Forces

How to Acquire Knowledge of the Action of Vital and Mental Beings and Forces Upon our Lives

How to Change Human Nature

How to Change One’s Character

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 Cultivate and Utilize the Faculty of Intuition: Part 1

How to Cultivate and Utilize the Faculty of Intuition: Part 2

How to Deal With Anger and Other Strong Vital Reactions

How To Deal With Vampirism When Confronted With It

How to Develop New Powers of Action

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

How To Effect Permanent Change in the Subconscient Nature

How to Eliminate Desire Without Suppression

How to Establish Unity in the Being

How to Experience the Influx of Universal Forces Directly Through the Experience of a Wider Consciousness

How to Find the Soul

How to Gain a True Understanding of Another Person’s Viewpoint

How to Gain an Understanding of the Meaning of Inner Perceptions

How to Gain Control Over the Subconscient Impact on the External Being

How to Know God

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 Prepare Oneself for the Practice of the Integral Yoga

How to Quiet the Mind

How to Recognise and Respond to the Higher Guidance in Work

How to Recognise the Awakened Soul

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

How to Utilize Will-Power Effectively

How We Reflect on the Forces That Impact the Direction and Development of Our Lives

Human Love and Divine Love

Human Motives and Divine Motives in Action

Hypnosis and Individual Development of Its Action for Liberation from the Control of the Surface Waking Consciousness

Identifying and Overcoming the Resistance of the Tamasic and Rajasic Egos

Illness and Immunity

Illness and the Power of Suggestion

Illness and the Vital Sheath

Imagination and Science

Imagination Can Help or Harm Depending on the Intention Behind Its Use

Imagination is a Power of Formation

Immersion in the External Nature: the Roots of Atheism and Agnosticism

Immersion of the Individual in the Experience of Theatrical Performances

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

Impersonal and Personal Aspects of Consciousness in the Universal Manifestation

Increasing Lifespan and Wellness Is the Trajectory of Human Development

Increasing Lifespan and Wellness Is the Trajectory of Human Development

Individual Spiritual Change and the Collectivity

Individual Spiritual Change and the Collectivity

Individuality Is a Stage Along the Path of the Evolution of Consciousness

Individuation Is Not Isolation from External Influences

Individuation Is Not Isolation from External Influences

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

Infinite Grace: Overcoming the Law of Inertia to Effectuate Change

Influence of the Supramental Principle on Earth

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

Interaction Between the Individual and His Social Relationships

Interaction of the Mind, the Vital Envelope and the Physical Body in the Development of Acute Illness

Interaction of the Powers of Consciousness in the Material World

Interpreting Actions in the World Based on Our Preconceived Ideas and Notions

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

Involution and Evolution of Consciousness in the Material World of Forms

Involution, Evolution and the Pressure from Domains of Life and Mind

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

Is It Realistic to Expect Instant Transformation of Human Nature?

Is It the Soul or the Vital Being We Perceive?

Is Spiritual Force Real?

Is the Mental Consciousness an Aid or an Obstacle for the Spiritual Seeker?

is there a solution to the Israel/Palestine Problem?

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

Just Because We Cannot Observe It Directly, Does Not Mean Spiritual Force Does Not Exist

Kindling and Increasing the Psychic Fire

Knowledge … and Wisdom

Latent Occult Powers Are Being Recognized and Acknowledged

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

Listening and Heeding the Voice of the Soul

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 Progress Unconsciously

Making the Vital Being an Instrument of the Divine Shakti

Making the Vital Into a Willing Collaborator in the Transformation of Life

Man: the Being Who Worries

Marriage and Spiritual Life in the Integral Yoga

Mastering the Power of Concentration

Matter, Subtle Matter, the Causative Level and the Ability of Mind-Power or Vital Power to Create, Modify, Influence and Dissolve Material Forms

Medicine, and Beyond, in the Treatment of Bodily Illness

Medicine, Faith and the Healing Process

Medicine, Immune System Action, Faith Healing and Overcoming Illnesses

Memory of Past Life Experiences

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

Mental Consciousness Cannot Directly Comprehend Spiritual Forces at Work

Mental Formations and Their Application

Mental Formations Are Created All the Time Even Without Our Conscious Recognition of Them and Their Action

Mental Formations Can Be Enhanced and Empowered by Vital Force of Desire

Mental Formations Can Create Experiential Domains

Mental Formations Mixing With Vital Forces

Methods for Quieting the Activity of the Mechanical Mind

Mind ... and Supermind

Mindfulness, Conscious Attention and the Harmonious Development of the Body

Miracles, Belief, Powers and the Evolution of Consciousness

Morality and Spirituality

Motives for Seeking the Divine

Moving Beyond Arguments and Widening One’s Thought

Necessary Elements Required to Understand and Apply Techniques of Psychological Healing

Necessity of the Spiritual Transformation of Life

No Man Is An Island

Objective and Subjective Knowledge

Objective Versus Subjective Knowledge in the Realms of Psychic Experience

Observing and Applying the Hidden Forces of Life

Observing and Controlling One’s Speech

Observing the Dance of Vibrations

Observing the Influences and Suggestions That Shape Our Responses in Life

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 Beings and Entities In This and Other Worlds or Planes Can Impact Human Life

Occult Experience of Visualization Applied to Contacting the Soul

Occult Forces Surround Us and Can Act Upon Us

Occult Forces: Their Development and Proper Use

Occult Powers and the Secret Knowledge

Occult Powers and the Spiritual Sadhana

Occult Powers Awaiting Emergence from Our Subliminal Being

Occultism and Hypnotism

Occultism and Our Daily Lives

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

One of the Signs of the Coming of the New Subjective Age of Humanity

One Should Be Greater Than One’s Experience

Opening the Being to the Divine Power and Presence

Opening the Door to Our Latent Capacities

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

Organizing One’s Life Around a Central Aspiration

Other Domains and Worlds Exist Beyond the Limits of Our Waking Awareness

Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology — Introduction

Our Physical, Vital and Mental Sheathes Are Impacted by Energetic Forces in a Constant State of Interchange

Our Subconscient Inheritance

Our Surface Personality Is Only a Small Representation of Our Complete and True Being

Out of Body Experiences

Overcoming Desire Without Suppression or Indulgence

Overcoming Difficulties With Cheerfulness

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 Discomfort of Cold Temperatures

Overcoming the Impulse of Anger

Overcoming the Impulse to Anger

Overcoming the Influence of the Subconscient on the Physical Body

Overcoming the Inherent Bias of the Ego-Personality

Overcoming the Limits of Perception of the Physical Sense-Organs

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

Patience and Perseverance Are Required in the Path of Spiritual Realisation

Peace in the Body’s Cells Can Cure Illness

Perceiving the Universal Forces at Work Through Attenuation of the Hold of the Ego-Centric Viewpoint

Perceiving the Vibrations That Create Conditions of Illness and Counteracting Them

Perception of the Divine Force Through the Inner Being

Personal Effort and Surrender in the Sadhana of the Integral Yoga

Personal Effort, the Ego and the Nature of Selfishness

Perspective on Dealing with Recurrence of Undesirable Reactions Occurring During the Attempt to Change Human Nature Through the Yogic Practice

Physical Senses Beyond the Five We Ordinarily Recognise

Planes of Consciousness and Their Role in the Creation

Power Is to be Transformed, Not Rejected, in Spiritual Development

Powers Within — Introduction

Practical Applications of the Power of Immobility

Practical Tips Regarding Meditation

Prayer and Aspiration, Part 1

Prayer and Aspiration, Part 2

Prayer and Aspiration, Part 3

Precondition for Offering the Ego into the Divine Consciousness

Prenatal Influences on the Development of the Child in the Womb

Preparation and Training Needed to Consciously Draw on the Universal Vital Force

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 and Reprogramming of the Being Through Application of Will

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 Method of Entering into a Wider and Deeper Consciousness

Reading as a Spiritual Practice and Its Limitations

Reading, Mental Development and Spiritual Growth

Readings in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Realisations in the Development of the Yogic Sadhana

Rebirth and the Individual

Receiving and Utilizing the Universal Vital Forces

Receptivity and Awareness of Occult Powers and Forces Does Not Come Through the Mental Faculty of the Intellect

Receptivity to the Universal Vital Forces

Recognising and Addressing the Law of Dualities and Action-Reaction in the Physical, Vital and Mental Levels of Our Existence

Recognising the Emergence of the Soul in Our Being

Recognizing and Understanding Spiritual Experiences

Reconciling Fate and Free Will

Reconciling the Opposites

Recuperating Energy Through Contact with Nature

Regimented and Mechanised Social Life Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis

Rejection of the Sex Impulse and Mastery of Its Force

Relationship Among Sadhaks in an Ashram Community

Relaxation: Dissipation or True Rest?

Relieving Pain Through the Power of Immobility

Religion Does Not Solve the Evolutionary Crisis

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

Reviewing the Operation of the Law of Karma

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

Roadmap for Spiritual Growth and Transformation

Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss)

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 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 4: Tough Choices to Achieve Real Solutions

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

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

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

Science and Occultism

Seances, Automatic Writing and Attempting Contact With the Departed

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

Seeing Oneself and Others With Open Eyes

Seeking and Attaining Mastery Over the Touches of Nature

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

Self-Deception Manifested Through Judgment of Others

Self-Deception Manifested Through One’s Own External Actions and Internal Justifications

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

Shifting from Focus on the Desire-Soul to the True Soul

Signs for Identifying the World Personality

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

Small Vital Entities and Their Action in Human Life

So-Called ‘Spiritual’ Experiences and True Spiritual Development

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

Solving the Existential Crisis of Our Lives Through the Evolution of Consciousness: My Personal Journey in the Adventure of Consciousness

Soul-Mates, Marriage and the Integral Yoga

Sources of the Higher Forms of Imagination

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 Experience Transcends the Mind’s Understanding

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 Growth and the Development and Use of New Powers of Consciousness

Spiritual Humility

Spiritual Insight, Not Psychotherapy, Leads to Deeper Truths of the Being

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

Stages of the Non-Reactive State of Being

Static Power and Dynamic Power

Steps Needed to ‘Become Conscious’

Steps Toward Achieving a Calm Mind

Subtle Energetic Interchange, Sexual Relations and the Inner Consciousness

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

Suggestions Coming from the Vital World Also Impact Our Responses

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 Imagination in the Manifestation of Thought into External Circumstances

The Action of Karma and the Nature of Suffering

The Action of Spiritual Force Is Generally Conditioned by the Field Within Which It Works

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

The Action of the Higher Planes Is Needed to Bring Forth the Manifestation of Life, Mind and Spirit in the Material World

The Action of the Psychic Being Independent of and in Relation to the External Being

The Action of the Superconscient in Our External Lives

The Action of Vital Entities in Human Life for Their Own Sense of Enjoyment

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 and Surrender of the Body Consciousness in Its Seeking for Health and Balance

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 Attraction of the Spiritual Life to Beings of the Vital World

The Aura — the Vital Envelope that Surrounds the Physical Body

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

The Awakening of the Soul to a Greater Life and Purpose

The Awakening of the Yoga Force in the Individual

The Awakening of the Yoga-Shakti and Its Unification With the Divine Consciousness

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 Benefits of a Prepared Mental Instrument for Action in the World

The Best Way of Widening One’s Thought

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 Bifurcation of the External Parts of the Being and the Central Consciousness

The Body Consciousness

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

The Body’s Formation Does Not Directly Correspond to the Person’s Character and Development

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

The Breakthrough to the Reversal of Consciousness

The Call of the Divine Flute

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 Challenge of Duality and the Conquest of Light Over Darkness

The Challenges of Merging the Ego into the Divine

The Characteristics and the Power of an Integral Faith

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 Collective Soul of Human Groupings and the Expression of Collective Karma

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 Complexity and Time to Harmonise and Unify the Being

The Complexity of Predicting the Destiny of Any Individual

The Concept of Spiritual Purity in the Integral Yoga

The Concrete Reality of Spiritual Force and Its Action

The Conditions of an Effective Faith

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 Constant Effort Needed in the Yogic Practice

The Contagious Nature of Desire in the Vital Being

The Continuum of Consciousness and the Interactions of the Various Wave-Forms

The Creation of Karma — the Interaction of Forces and Consequences

The Creation of the Worlds and the Cycles of Evolution

The Creative Power of the Silent Mind

The Cure for Inner Loneliness

The Cycle of Development in Nature and the Focus of Attention

The Darkness and the Light Within Each Individual

The Day and Night of the Vedic Mystics

The Deeper Meaning of Will-Power

The Desire-Soul and the Life and Death of the Body

The Development and Progression of the Supramental Force in Human Activity

The Development and Use of Occult Powers and the Spiritual Quest

The Development of Individuality Within the Human Race

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

The Development of the Powers of the Body

The Development of the Psychic Being

The Development of the Spiritual Focus Over Time

The Development, Powers and Limits of the Mental Consciousness

The Devotee and the Yoga of Devotion, Part 1

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

The Difference Between Intuition and Intellect

The Difference Between Living According to the Inner Truth of One’s Being or the External Ego Personality

The Difference Between Scientific Focus and Artistic Focus

The Difference Between Static and Dynamic Meditation

The Difference Between Suppression and Rejection of Desire

The Differences Between Spiritual Realisation and Supramental Transformation

The Difficulties of Changing Human Nature and the Need for Patience and Perseverance

The Difficulty in the Process Required to “Know Thyself”

The Direct Use of the Mind as a Sixth Sense

The Direction of the Psychic in Our Lives: Determinism Joined With Free Will

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 Divine Shakti in Its Various Forms

The Divine Spark Resides Even in the Demonic Beings

The Dreams of Childhood Are the Realities of Mature Age

The Education and Uplifting of the Vital Nature

The Effective Power of the Yogic Process in the Life-Experience of the Practitioner

The Ego Experience and the Experience of the Jivatman

The Ego Was the Helper, the Ego is the Bar

The Ego-Standpoint Bias — the Basis of Self-Deception

The Ego-Viewpoint Provides Limited and Inaccurate Assessments of Events

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 End of War and the Transformation of All Fields of Life

The End of War and the Transformation of All Fields of Life

The End of War and the Transformation of All Fields of Life

The Environmental Consciousness and the Individual

The Essence of Karma Yoga — the Yoga of Works

The Essential Difference Between Prayer and Aspiration

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 Evolution and Manifestation of New Powers of Consciousness

The Evolution of Consciousness Across Multiple Lifetimes Organised Around the Development of the Psychic Being

The Evolution of Occult Powers

The Evolutionary Cycle and the Speeding Up of the Evolutionary Cycle

The Evolutionary Process of the Manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness

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

The Evolutions of Forms in the Machinery of Nature

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

The Exercise of Will-Power and the Role of Sincerity in Implementation

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

The Existential Crisis of Humanity and the Evolution of Consciousness

The Expanded Field of Consciousness Beyond the External Awareness

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 Exploration of Inner Space

The Exploration of Powers Within

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 First Step in Unifying the Consciousness

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

The Food of the Vital Being

The Force of Habit and the Physical Consciousness

The Forces and Beings Active in Places of Worship

The Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness Grapple for Supremacy in the World

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 Forms of Knowledge: the Mind’s Knowledge and the Soul’s Knowledge

The Forms That Prayers Take Match the Source of the Prayer in the Being

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

The Four Steps of the Supramental Transformation

The Free Will of the Individual in Relation to the Action of the Modes of Nature

The Fundamental Nature of Existence is Consciousness

The Future Evolution of Man: the Need and the Response

The General Action of Thoughts and Our Need to Observe and Manage Them

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 and Maturation of the Psychic Being Brings Increasing Power and Influence on the External Being

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 Habit of Self-Deception

The Healing of the Body With the Divine Force

The Hidden Forces of Life — Introduction

The Hidden Forces of Life: Summary and Conclusions

The Human Consciousness Cannot Comprehend Fully the Vastness of the Universal Creation

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 Imagination: a Tool for Development

The Impact of the Mind and the Vital Nature on the Body Consciousness

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 Inconstancy of the External Nature Under the Influence of the Action of the Three Gunas

The Individual and the Collectivity

The Individual Experience of Free Will in the Context of the Play of Forces Behind the Scenes

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

The Individual Soul and the Divine

The Inevitability of the Emergence of the Supramental Consciousness and Its Transformative Action On Body, Life and Mind

The Inevitable Emergence of New Powers of Consciousness Is Difficult for the Mind of Man to Envision

The Infectious Nature of Vibrations in Our Social Environment

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

The Influence of the Awakened Consciousness on the Circumstances of the External Being and Life

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 Influence of the Soul on the External Nature or the Direct Relationship with the Soul in the Deepest Inner Being

The Influence of Unseen, Unperceived Beings and Forces in Our World

The Influences That Direct the Development of the Vital Nature

The Initial Psychic Realisation Helps You Go Beyond the Barriers of Your Egoism

The Inmost Being — the Psychic Being

The Inner Being (the Subliminal)

The Inner Ideals of Ordinary Human Life and the Divine Life

The Inner Spiritual Light Exists in the Entire Creation and Maintains the Balance of Existence

The Inner Subliminal Self

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 Interaction of the Individual and Universal Subconscient With the Individual

The Interaction of the Mind and the Body

The Intermediate Zone and Its Dangers

The Intermediate Zone in the Development of Consciousness

The Investigation of Extra-Sensory Powers of Perception

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

The Jivatman, the Soul and the Evolutionary Process Through Birth and Death

The Justification and Benefit of Unifying the Being Around the Psychic Being and the Spiritual Purpose of the Life

The Knowledge of the Mystics

The Kundalini, the Tantra and the Integral Yoga

The Ladder of Consciousness Above the Mind

The Law of the Rebound in the Practice of Occultism

The Light and the Shadow in Each Individual Being

The Limitations in the Concept of Free Will

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 Mind and the Senses in Knowing the Hidden Forces of Life

The Limitations of the Reasoning Intelligence and the Need to Maintain It During the Spiritual Practice

The Limitations of the Thinking Mind

The Limiting and Diluting Effect of the External Instruments on the Intimations of the Soul

The Limits and the Effectivity of Prayer

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 Lines of Karma Vary According to the Type of Energy Involved

The Link Between Inner Defects and External Attacks of Adverse Forces

The Lower and Higher Forms of Psychological Innocence and Purity

The Manifestation of the Supermind Level of Consciousness As the Next Evolutionary Phase

The Material Universe, the Causative Plane and the Forces of Manifestation

The Material World Is the Effect, Not the Cause, of Vital, Mental, or Spiritual Manifestation

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

The Meaning and Importance of Sincerity in the Practice of Yoga

The Meaning of Faith

The Meaning of True and Complete Sincerity in the Spiritual Path

The Mechanical Mind

The Mechanism of Action Of the Subconscient in Relation to the External Being

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 Mental Process and Developing Independence of Thought

The Mental Will and Its Influence on the Health and Well-Being of the Body

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 Mind, the Spirit and the Deeper Knowledge and Power That Can Know and Master the Universal Creation

The Miracles and Mysteries in Our Everyday Lives and the Conclusions We Can Draw From Them

The Misdirected Mind and the Harm It Can Create

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 Action of the Intuitive Mind

The Nature and Action of the Overmind Gradation of Consciousness

The Nature and Action of the Physical Mind

The Nature and Action of the Power of Suggestion

The Nature and Action of the Psychic Being and the Inner Mental, Inner Vital and Inner Physical Beings

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 and Role of the Soul

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 Illumined Mind

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 of the Subconscient Level of Consciousness in Man

The Nature of the Subconscious

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 Benefit of the Power of Concentration

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 and Significance of Psychic Education

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 Patience, Persistence and Continuity in the Attempt to Change or Transform Human Nature

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

The Need for Preparation of the Being Before Exploring Occult Worlds and Domains

The Need for Serious Review of Other-Worldly or Supernormal Experience

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 for Understanding the Power of Thought Formation

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

The Need to Develop New Powers of Knowing

The Need to Gain Control Over the Action of the Vital Mind and Its Function

The Need to Integrate the Realisations of the Yoga of Knowledge With the External Life of the Seeker

The Need to Keep the Temple Clean

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 Organize and Arrange the Actions of the External Being Around the Aspiration of the 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 Overcome the Tendencies to Self-Deception and Self-Justification in the Nature

The Need to Prepare the Being to Receive, Hold and Utilize the Influx of the Higher Forces

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 Obstacles to Exercising the Will

The Occult Action and Power of Vital Beings and Forces in Human Activities and Institutions

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 Path to the Attainment of Integral Self-Knowledge

The Perpetual Effort Required for Transformation of Life in the World

The Phenomenon of the ‘Evil Persona’

The Physical Consciousness: Abandon or Transform?

The Physical Mind and the Power of Doubt

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 Position and Role of the Soul in Human Life

The Potential for Emergence of the Subliminal Powers of Mind

The Potential for Transformation of the Human Body

The Potential Impact of Positive or Negative Thoughts on Another Individual

The Potential Occult Influence on Consciousness of Relics, Photographs and Reading of Books

The Power of a Calm Mind

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

The Power of an Integral Immobility

The Power of Auto-Suggestion for Health and Wellness

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 Enthusiasm Represents the Action of the Mystic Flame of Aspiration Working in the External Being

The Power of Imagination and Visualisation Can Aid in Coming into Direct Contact with One’s Psychic Being

The Power of Imagination in Shaping Life

The Power of Immobility in Action

The Power of Mastery

The Power of Occult ‘Seeing’

The Power of Peace

The Power of Silence of the Mind

The Power of Suggestion Working Through Personal Connections

The Power of the Evolved Soul to Tread the Spiritual Path

The Power of the Inconscient and Subconscient Levels in Our Lives

The Power of the Psychic Being

The Power of the Quiet Mind and Vital to Resolve Problems We Face

The Power of the Subconscious

The Power of Thought to Shape Our External Existence and Its Significance

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 and the Development and Use of Psychic Powers

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 Behind Communicating Thoughts from One Person to Another

The Process for Reviewing the Origin and Impact of One’s Thoughts, Feelings and Actions

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 Bringing Harmony and Unification to the Being Centred Around the Spiritual Purpose

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 Illness Invading the Body and the Means to Reject It

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 Integral Yoga to Achieve Liberation from and Transformation of the External Surface Nature

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 Progressive Nature of Increasing Consciousness

The Progressive Nature of Increasing Consciousness

The Protective Power of the Mantra

The Psychic Being and the Evolutionary Principle in Earthly Life

The Psychic Being and Transformation

The Psychic Being Provides Instant Protection When It is Active and Guiding the Being

The Psychic Being — the Nature of the Soul

The Psychic Entity Knows the Purpose and Significance of Our Existence

The Purpose and Significance of Life Becomes Clear as the Individual Contacts the Psychic Being

The Qualities of Food and Spiritual Practice

The Quest to Establish the Connection to the Higher, Subtler, Causal Planes of Existence

The Question of Possession by Vital Entities

The Question of Possession of an Individual by Vital Beings

The Realisation of the Self and the Realisation of the Psychic Being and the Individual Ego-Consciousness

The Realisations of the Self and the Psychic Being

The Reality of Psychic Powers

The Reality of Subjective Visions and Objective Sight

The Reality of Worlds of Existence Other than the Physical World

The Relationship Between the Development of External Power and Inner Power

The Resolution of the Opposition of Free Will and Determinism

The Respective Roles of the Jivatman and the Psychic Being

The Richness of the Evolution in the Knowledge

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 Benefit of the Physical Body

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 Importance of the Ego

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 Mind in the Search for Ultimate Truth

The Role of the Psychic Being in the Integral Yoga

The Role of the Vital-Physical Aspect of Our Being

The Role of the Witness Consciousness in Overcoming the Force of Desire

The Role of Work in the Sadhana of the Integral Yoga

The Role, Nature and Action of the Physical Mind

The Science of Living

The Secret Significance and Process of Evolution

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

The Seeker and the Influence of Vital Forces in Social Interchange

The Self of the Physical, the Vital, the Mental and the Jivatman

The Self — the Atman and Individual Liberation

The Self, the Spirit, the Soul, the Terrestrial Evolution and the Supreme Divine Being

The Self: Transcendent, Universal and Individual

The Semi-Conscious Life We Lead

The Separate Ego-Consciousness and the Universal Divine Consciousness

The Separation of Consciousness From the Physical Body

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 Separation of the Witness Consciousness from the External Nature

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 Significance and Action of the Supramental Manifestation

The Silence of the Mind

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

The Soul and the Jivatman

The Soul and the Psychic Being

The Soul As the True Central Being

The Soul Provides the Continuity of Consciousness from Life to Life

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

The Soul, the Evolution of Consciousness Through Time and the Soul’s Development from Life to Life

The Soul, the Psychic Being and the Evolution of Consciousness

The Soul, the Psychic Being and the External Nature

The Soul’s Connection to the Divine and Its Role in the Divine 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 Soul’s Progress Relies on an Earthly Incarnation

The Source and Cause of Illness

The Source and Nature of the Mental Substance

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 Spectrum of Consciousness: From Superconscient to Inconscient

The Spirit, the Soul and the Psychic Being

The Spiritual Aspirant Has the Potential to Overcome the Limits of His Birth and Social Circumstances

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 Experience, Not the Mental Idea, Is the Focus of the Spiritual Practitioner

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

The Spiritual Need of the Modern Age

The Spiritual Path and Ascetic Practices

The Spiritual Revolution

The Standpoint of the Individual Rooted in the Vital Nature

The State of Conscious Sleep

The Static and Dynamic Aspects of the Higher Spiritual Self

The Status of the Purusha in the Individual and in the Universal Manifestation

The Strength in Stillness

The Subconscient and the Inconscient

The Subconscient Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 3

The Subconscient Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 4

The Subconscient Is the Repository of Habits and Atavistic Behaviour That Must Be Cleared During the Yogic Process

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 Subliminal Consciousness Provides the Gateway to Knowledge and Creativity

The Subliminal Level of Consciousness and Our Waking State

The Subliminal, the Subconscient, the Superconscient and the Circumconscient Forces That Impact Our Responses to Life

The Subtle Energetic Interchange That Accompanies All Interaction in the World

The Subtle Energetic Interchange That Takes Place at a Subliminal Level

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

The Subtle Planes Are Causative to the External Physical Reality

The Subtle Power of Atmosphere and Example in Spiritual Development

The Subtle Vital Interchange and Vampirism

The Sunlit Path of Yoga

The Sunlit Path of Yogic Practice

The Superconscient

The Superior Man: Beyond Good and Evil…

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

The Supermind and Its Evolutionary Action

The Supermind and the Transformation of the Physical Body

The Supramental Consciousness Is Key To Transcending the Limitations of Mind, Life and Matter

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

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 Consciousness and the Subliminal

The Surface Consciousness and the Subliminal Consciousness

The Surface Personality Is Not the Real Self of Our Existence

The Surface Vital, Mental and Physical Being and the True Vital, Mental and Physical Being

The Surrender of the Ego-Personality to the Divine

The Tantra and the Integral Yoga

The Tension of the Current State of Human Existence

The Test of Yogic Equality

The Third Step in the Mental Discipline: Control of Thoughts

The Three General Forms of Response to the Touches of Nature

The Three Gunas and Spiritual Practice

The Three Gunas, the Operation of Prakriti in the External Nature, and the Exercise of Will

The Three Transformations of Consciousness in the Integral Yoga

The Time Needed for the Transition of the Ego-Consciousness to Become a Conscious Instrument of the Divine

The Transcendent Divine, the Cosmic or Universal Plane of Consciousness and Material Existence

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 and the Desire Soul

The True Soul: the Psychic Being

The Two Beings of Man: the External Self and the Inner Self

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

The Two Uses of the Mind and Its True Role in the Manifestation

The Ultimate Focus of Concentration

The Ultimate Importance and Value of a Human Birth

The Unified Field of All Consciousness and Existence

The Unique Truth of Each Being in Relation to the Divine Manifestation

The Universal Tendency Moves Toward the Expression of Free Will

The Universality of the Spiritual Presence in All Existence

The Unseen Societal Conditions That Frame Our Response to Events in Our Lives

The Usefulness of Suffering

The Utilization of Powers That Arise Through the Development of the Yogic Practice

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 Being: Its Nature, Its Role and Its Mode of Action

The Vital Desire Soul and the True Soul of the Psychic Being

The Vital Embodies Power of Realisation

The Vital Envelope Surrounding the Body and the Ability to Ward Off Illness

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

The Vital Is Attached to Suffering

The Vital Nature and Its Ability to Withhold Cooperation and Obstruct Progress in Spiritual Pursuits

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

The Vital Nature and Its Transformation

The Vital Nature Can Go On Strike When It Does Not Get What It Wants

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

The Vital Nature: Desire and the Reaction to Failure in Obtaining the Object of Desire

The Vital Nature: Transformation Not Suppression

The Vital Reaction of Jealousy

The Vital-Physical, the Physical-Vital and the Material Vital: the Linkages Between Matter and the Vital

The Way of Repulsion and the Way of Attraction in the Path of Inner Growth

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 Will to Endure and the Body’s Ability to Withstand Hardship and Suffering

The Witness Consciousness

The Witness Consciousness and the Role and Action of the Three Gunas

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 Confronts the Issues of Changing Human Nature

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

The Yogic Practitioner Should Not Obsess About Hostile Attacks

Those Who Observe and Reflect Can Recognise the Higher Planes and Worlds of Existence

Thought Forms Originate and Are Based in the Mental Plane Creating the Noosphere Which Acts Upon the Biosphere and Geosphere of the External World

Thought-Forms and Their Results

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

Time Perspective on Achieving Spiritual Realisations and Change of Human Nature

To Be In a State of Attentive Observation

To Become A Conscious Instrument of the Divine Force

To Become Conscious of the Source of Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions

To Learn How To Will

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

To Think Without Words

Total Dedication to Participate in the Birth of a New World

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

Transformation of Human Nature Requires the Action of the Psychic Being Connected to the Higher Consciousness

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 from the View of a Body With a Soul, to a Soul With a Body

Transitioning the Human Consciousness from Ego-Centric to Soul-Centric Basis

Transitioning to the Silent Mind

Transmission of Vibrational Patterns in the Physical World

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

True Freedom and Free Will Resides in the Divine, Not in the Individual Ego-Personality

True Strength Resides in Quietude

Trust and Faith

Two Aids in Overcoming the Impulse of Anger

Two Conditions for Preventing Illness

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

Unconscious and Automatic Action of Thought Forms and Formations in Daily Life

Underdeveloped and Unevolved Powers of Consciousness

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 Dealing with the Subtle Vital Interchange in Human Relationships

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 and Utilizing the Power of Sincerity in Action

Understanding Conflicting Powers in the Being

Understanding Difficulties and Obstacles That Arise During the Yogic Process

Understanding Human Nature

Understanding Planes of Existence or Planes of Consciousness

Understanding Societal Expectations and Their Impact on the Individual and His Development

Understanding the Action of the Subconscient

Understanding the Causes and Prevention of Illness

Understanding the Complexity and Risks of Dealing with the Power of Thought Forms

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 Consciousness of the Body

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 Existence of and Interaction With the Higher Ranges of Consciousness Above the Mind

Understanding the External Medium of Communication and the Inner Force Within the Communication

Understanding the Inner Being

Understanding the Issues of Mastery Over Vibrations Inwardly and in the External World

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 Limiting Frames of Our Existence and the Process for Breaking Free of the Bonds of those Frames

Understanding the Meaning of Vital Formations and Beings That Arise During Meditation

Understanding the Mechanism of the External Nature and the Way to Overcome Its Limitations

Understanding the Moods of the Vital Consciousness

Understanding the Multiple Personalities Within the Being

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 Physical Body in its Gross and Subtle Aspects

Understanding the Physical Mind and the Process of Change

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 Separate Aspects of Being That Make Up the Human Individual’s Personality

Understanding the Stage of Development of the Vital Man

Understanding the Transmission of Our Vital Inheritance

Understanding the Various Aspects of Mental Activity

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

Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine

Universal Forces and the Subconscient

Universal Forces, the Aura and the Individual Consciousness

Universal Forces, the Chakra Energy Centers, and the Utilization of the Forces

Untying the Knot of the Ego-Consciousness

Useful Tips For the Seeker on the Path to Realization

Utilizing the Mind-Body Connection

Various Forms of Meditation and Their Potential Benefits

Vedic Astrology, Karma and the Power to Change the Predicted Destiny

Vedic Seers Describe the Sevenfold Ignorance and the Sevenfold Knowledge

Vibrational Patterns of Existence and the Advent of Harmony Through Intervention from Higher Planes

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 and Mental Life Forms Interact With Us in the Material World

Vital Beings and Their Interaction in the Evolutionary World on the Material Plane

Vital Beings Utilize Vital Drives to Control Human Action for Their Own Benefit and Enjoyment

Vital Disturbances Arise from Universal Nature and Bring Forth Habitual Responses

Vital Energy in Ordinary Life and in the Spiritual Life

Vital Motivations in Action May Disguise Their True Nature from the Spiritual Seeker

Vital Movements Rising Up During the Practice of the Yoga

Vital Vibrations and the Response to Them

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 Causes the Wind?

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

What Does Sri Aurobindo Mean by Transformation of the Nature?

What Is a ‘Natural” Response to Circumstances for the Human Individual?

What Is a ‘Natural” Response to Circumstances for the Human Individual?

What Is Cosmic Consciousness?

What Is Immortality?

What Is Meant by Spontaneity and How to Apply It

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 Difference Between Spiritual and Psychic?

What Is the Divine?

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

What Is the Role and Importance of the Physical Body for the Evolution of Consciousness?

What Is to Be Done With Our Multiple Personalities in the Spiritual Path

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

When the Psychic Being Comes Forward to Direct the External Nature

Where Does Desire Come From?

Which Comes First — Devotion or Spiritual Experience?

Who or What Experiences the Growth of Consciousness Through the Process of Rebirth and the Evolution of Forms and of Consciousness?

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

Why Is Joy Inconstant, and How Does One Extend it?

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

Will-Power Can Aid the Development of the Physical Body

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

Worlds and Beings Exist Beyond What We Can Perceive With Our Physical Senses

Yoga as Applied Psychology to Understand and Address the Complexity Inherent in the Evolution of Consciousness

Yoga: The Science of Consciousness

Yoga: Then and Now

Yogic Concentration

Yogic Equality Does Not Imply Fatalistic Acceptance

Yogic Sadhana and Depression

Yogic View of Beauty

Your Greatest Weakness Identifies Your Greatest Strength

“Simply Watch the Fish”

“Yoga Made Easy?”

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