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Sri Aurobindo Studies
systematic study of Sri Aurobindo's major works and their relevance to our lives and our modern society.
Episodes
Sri Aurobindo StudiesOrganizing One’s Life Around a Central Aspiration
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pp. 7-8 This episode is also available as…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesUnderstanding Conflicting Powers in the Being
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pp. 6-7 This episode is also available as…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesUnifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pg. 6 This episode is also available as a…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesUntying the Knot of the Ego-Consciousness
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pg. 5 This episode is also available as a…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesUnderstanding the Mechanism of the External Nature and the Way to Overcome Its Limitations
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pp. 4-5 This episode is also available as…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesContending With the Multitude of Beings That Exist Within Each Individual
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pp. 2-4 This episode is also available as…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesUnderstanding the Separate Aspects of Being That Make Up the Human Individual’s Personality
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pp. 1-2 This episode is also available as…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings from Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII, Canto IV The Triple Soul Forces
reference: Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, Book VII The Book of Yoga, Canto 4 The Triple Soul Forces excerpts from pages 507-508, 513-514, and…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesConfusion About the Real Inner Self and the External Surface Personality Is the Root of Our Suffering
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pp. 1-2 This episode is also available as…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Psychic Being and Transformation
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Path to the Attainment of Integral Self-Knowledge
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesSachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss)
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesSupermind
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesOvermind
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesIntuition
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book VII, Canto 4, The Triple Soul-Forces
https://www.lotuspress.com/products/savitri-a-legend-and-a-symbol-new-us-edition-990325?_pos=1&_sid=69e1b9f38&_ss=r readings in Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesIllumined Mind
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesHigher Mind
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Superconscient
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Subconscient and the Inconscient
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Inmost Being — the Psychic Being
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesEnvironmental Consciousness — the Circumconscient
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Inner Being (the Subliminal)
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings in Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII, Canto 4 The Triple Soul-Forces
Book VII, Canto 4, The Triple Soul-Forces, pp. 509-510
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Outer Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness of the External Being
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesUnderstanding the Relationship of Various Parts and Planes of the Being to Our Current External Mental, Vital and Physical Consciousness
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Value of Attaining the Standpoint of the Witness Consciousness in Understanding the Complexity of Interaction of the Parts of the Being
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Experience of the Individual in the Ordinary Life of the External Surface Being
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesTransformation of Human Nature Requires a Shift of Standpoint Away From Absorption in the Actions and Reactions of the External Being
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesA Primary Difference Between Traditional Understanding of Yoga and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Preface, pg. xv This episode is also available as a blog post at…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesSelf-Knowledge and Self-Mastery
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Preface, pp. xiv-xv This episode is also available as a blog post…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings in Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo, Book VII, Canto IV, The Triple Soul-Forces
reference: Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, by Sri Aurobindo, https://www.lotuspress.com/products/savitri-a-legend-and-a-symbol-new-us-edition-990325?_pos=1&_sid…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesUnderstanding the Difference Between Psychic and Spiritual
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Preface, pp. xiii-xiv This episode also available as a blog post…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesDiscrimination to Recognise the Distinction of Different Forces and the Various Parts of the Being is Necessary for the Spiritual Seeker
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Preface, pp. xii-xiii This episode also available as a blog post…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesUtilizing the Mental Power to Aid the Understanding of Our Complex Being
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Preface, pp. x-xii This episode also available as a blog post…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesYoga: The Science of Consciousness
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Preface, pp. ix-x This episode also available as a blog post…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesOur Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology — Introduction
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, pp. vii-viii This episode is also available as a blog post…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesGrowing Within: the Psychology of Inner Development: Summary and Conclusions
This episode also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/28/growing-within-the-psychology-of-inner-development-summary-and-…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Shift or Reversal of Consciousness Happens All At Once, Not Gradually
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pg. 176 This…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book XI, Canto 1
reference: https://www.lotuspress.com/products/savitri-a-legend-and-a-symbol-new-us-edition-990325?_pos=1&_sid=6f6a5e4d8&_ss=r pages 698-702
Sri Aurobindo StudiesBecoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 175-176…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesAttaining Certainty About the Actuality of the Reversal of Consciousness
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 174-175…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesPreparation for the Definitive Shift of the Consciousness to a New Standpoint
This episode also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/24/preparation-for-the-definitive-shift-of-the-consciousness-to-a-…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Breakthrough to the Reversal of Consciousness
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 172-173…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesA New Birth Into a Spiritual Life
Also available as a blog post: A New Birth Into a Spiritual Life | Sri Aurobindo Studies (wordpress.com) Reference…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesSpiritual Experiences Manifest When They Are Ready and When the Seeker Can Perceive Them
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 170-171…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Shift from Ego-Personality to Divine Standpoint
This episode also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/20/the-shift-from-ego-personality-to-divine-standpoint/…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Book III, Canto 1
reference: https://www.lotuspress.com/products/savitri-a-legend-and-a-symbol-new-us-edition-990325?_pos=1&_sid=6f6a5e4d8&_ss=r pages 305-309
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Nature of the Reversal of Consciousness Cannot Be Fully Grasped by the Ordinary Human Externalized Consciousness
referemce: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pg. 169 Also…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesSpiritual Experience Comes and Goes Until the Nature Becomes Ready for a Total Shift of Standpoint
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/18/spiritual-experience-comes-and-goes-until-the-nature-becomes…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Limits of Mental, Vital and Physical Efforts to Change Human Nature and the Need for a Shift of Consciousness to a New Evolutionary Principle
Also available as a blog post at Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Necessity of a Reversal of Consciousness for Living the Spiritual Life
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 165-166…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Yogic Practitioner Experiences a Reversal of Consciousness Compared to Most of Humanity
This podcast is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/15/the-yogic-practitioner-experiences-a-reversal-of-consciousne…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Way to Make Steady and Lasting Progress in Spiritual Growth
This podcast is also available as a blog post https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/13/the-way-to-make-steady-and-lasting-progress-in-spiritual-grow…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Awakened Psychic Being Attracts What It Needs for Its Growth and Development
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter VIII The Psychic Being and Inner Growth, pp. 161-162 This podcast is…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, Book VI, The Book of Fate, Canto 2, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, pages 448-451
reference: Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol Book VI, The Book of Fate Canto 2, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain Pages 448-451
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Growth of the Soul
reference: Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter VIII The Psychic Being and Inner Growth, pp. 160-161 This…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol from Book VI, Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain
Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol by Sri Aurobindo Book VI The Book of Fate Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain reading from pages 446-448
Sri Aurobindo StudiesThe Evolutionary Progress of Nature and the Impact of the Conscious Participation of the Soul
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/11/the-evolutionary-progress-of-nature-and-the-impact-of-the-co…
Sri Aurobindo StudiesReadings in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol from book VI, Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain
Reading from pages 442-446 in Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, The Book of Fate, Book VI, Canto II: The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain