The Mother and The Integral Yoga (Letters of Sri Aurobindo)
Book Specification
Item Code: | NAM866 |
Publisher: | Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2014 |
ISBN: | 9788170586951 |
Pages: | 140 |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 7.5 inch X 5.0 inch |
Weight | 130 gm |
Book Description
This compilation of Sri Aurobindo’s letters deals primarily with the role of the Divine Mother in the practice of the Integral Yoga. In these letters Sri Aurobindo explains who the Mothers is and how one can open oneself to her help Surrender to the Mother; true relation with her help in difficulties; her Presence, Light and force; her as part of one’s sadhana; receiving her help in difficulties; her Presence, light and Force; her human embodiment- these are some of the subjects Sri Aurobindo discusses in these letters. He wrote most of them in the 1930s to discusses in these letters. He wrote most of them in the 1930s to disciples living in his Ashram in Pondicherry.
Contents
Introduction Who Is The Mother | 1 | |
Three Ways of Being of the Mother | 2 | |
The Transcendent Mother | 3 | |
The Universal Mother | 4 | |
The Individual Mother | 4 | |
1 | The Embodied Mother | 6 |
"Our Mother" | 7 | |
Recognising the Mother as Divine | 10 | |
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo | 12 | |
2 | The Mother's Light | 17 |
The Mother's Light | 18 | |
3 | The Mother's Presence | 20 |
The Mother's Presence | 21 | |
The Constant Presence | 23 | |
The Veiling of the Presence | 24 | |
"She Is, Indeed, Always Present" | 26 | |
4 | The Mother's Force | 27 |
What Is the Mother's Force? | 28 | |
The Working of the Force | 29 | |
Feeling the Force | 31 | |
Assimilation of the force | 32 | |
Pilling the Force | 33 | |
Rely on the Mother's Force | 33 | |
5 | Opening to the Mother | 35 |
The Central Secret | 36 | |
What is Opening? | 38 | |
Open to the Influence | 40 | |
6 | Surrender To The Mother | 42 |
What Is Surrender? | 43 | |
Surrender and Ego | 45 | |
Surrender and Personal Effort | 48 | |
7 | True Relation with the Mother | 51 |
The Psychic Relation | 52 | |
Love and Devotion for the Mother | 55 | |
The Mother's Love | 61 | |
8 | Work for the Mother | 64 |
Sadhana through Work | 65 | |
Offering and Aspiration in Work | 69 | |
The Right Attitude in work | 71 | |
Strength and Capacity in Work | 74 | |
Work and Meditation | 78 | |
9 | The Mother's Help | 81 |
Personal Capacity and Progress | 82 | |
Discouragement, Despondency, Depression | 84 | |
Obstacles, Errors, Falls | 86 | |
Consent to Change | 87 | |
Open and Call the Mother | 89 | |
10 | Turn Only to the Mother | 93 |
Learn to Live Within | 94 | |
Leave All to the Mother | 96 | |
11 | The Mother, The Self and The Soul | 98 |
The Divine Mother | 99 | |
The Mother and the Self | 101 | |
The Mother and the Soul | 104 | |
12 | Translations of Letters in Bengali | 105 |
Sadhana | 106 | |
the Mother's Consciousness | 107 | |
The Mother's Light | 108 | |
Defects and Difficulties | 110 | |
Relationship with the Mother | 113 | |
Other Subjects: | ||
Life-Sketch of Sri Aurobindo | 117 | |
Life-Sketch of The Mother | 119 | |
References To The Texts | 121 | |
Glossary of Terms | 127 |