A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies

Episodes

Dec. 11, 2025

Hostile Forces, the Law of Attraction and Progress in Spiritual Development

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 55-56This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/hostile-forces-the-law-of-attraction-and-progress-in-spiritual-development/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book e...
Dec. 10, 2025

The Different Processes for Change of the Vital Nature and the Psychic Being

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 54-55This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/the-different-processes-for-change-of-the-vital-nature-and-the-psychic-being/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book...
Dec. 9, 2025

What Can We Each Do to Support the Evolution of Consciousness?

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, California 8/25/24 We tend to get depressed about the world situation we find ourselves in. The issues confronting humanity are seemingly threatening extinction of the human race and we see noeasy solutions; in fact, they appear to be getting worse. We have numerous different directions that are suggested for a way forward. There are political solutions, economic solutions, technological solutions, environmental solutions, an...
Dec. 9, 2025

Liberating the Consciousness from Imprisonment in the Physical Body

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 54 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/liberating-the-consciousness-from-imprisonment-in-the-physical-body/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions ...
Dec. 8, 2025

Understanding Experience of a Shift from the External to the Inward Consciousness

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp.53-54 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/understanding-experience-of-a-shift-from-the-external-to-the-inward-consciousness/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to ...
Dec. 7, 2025

Awareness and True Discrimination of Forces Are Essential for the Spiritual Seeker to Avoid Distractions and Deviations from the Path

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg.53This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/awareness-and-true-discrimination-of-forces-are-essential-for-the-spiritual-seeker-to-avoid-distractions-and-deviations-from-the-path/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at w...
Dec. 6, 2025

The Right Attitude Turns Difficulties Into Opportunities for the Spiritual Aspirant

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg.52 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/the-right-attitude-turns-difficulties-into-opportunities-for-the-spiritual-aspirant/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e...
Dec. 5, 2025

Success in Yoga Despite Negative Suggestions of Unfitness or Impossibility

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 51-52This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/success-in-yoga-despite-negative-suggestions-of-unfitness-or-impossibility/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book e...
Dec. 4, 2025

"Ego Was the Helper, Ego Is the Bar"

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 50-51This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/ego-was-the-helper-ego-is-the-bar/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions of SriAurobindo’s writings can be...
Dec. 3, 2025

Why a Spiritual Seeker Should Not Just 'Go With the Flow'

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 50This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/why-a-spiritual-seeker-should-not-just-go-with-the-flow/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions of SriAurobind...
Dec. 2, 2025

Vital Impatience and a Hurried Effort Are Obstacles to the Transformation of the Human Instrument

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 49 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/vital-impatience-and-a-hurried-effort-are-obstacles-to-the-transformation-of-the-human-instrument/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions...
Dec. 1, 2025

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

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, 8/7/2022 The crisis humanity faces as we create uncontrolled climate change, pollute the planet, deplete the resources, and allocate them inefficiently is one that is causing the 6th planetary die off (the last one killed off all the dinosaurs and was caused by an asteroid strike) that is eliminating species at an unparalleled rate, destroying the integrity of the food chain and harming the life-sustaining natural cycles and systems of the ...
Dec. 1, 2025

Dealing With Periods of Dissipation and Distraction in the Spiritual Sadhana

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 49This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/dealing-with-periods-of-dissipation-and-distraction-in-the-spiritual-sadhana Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book edi...
Nov. 30, 2025

Understanding Fluctuations in the Force of the Spiritual Sadhana

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 48-49 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/understanding-fluctuations-in-the-force-of-the-spiritual-sadhana/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions ...
Nov. 29, 2025

The Separation of States of Awareness Between the Waking State, the Sleep State and the Spiritual Realms

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 48 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/the-separation-of-states-of-conscious-awareness-between-the-waking-state-the-sleep-state-and-the-spiritual-realms/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net ...
Nov. 28, 2025

Addressing Obstacles, Weaknesses and Limitations Through the Connection with the Divine Power

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 47-48This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/addressing-obstacles-weaknesses-and-limitations-through-the-connection-with-the-divine-power/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and...
Nov. 27, 2025

Ascent and Integration Define Spiritual Progress for the Seeker

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 45-47 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/ascent-and-integration-define-spiritual-progress-for-the-seeker/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions o...
Nov. 26, 2025

The Practitioner of the Integral Yoga Will Face Difficulties, Obstructions and Challenges With the Support of the Divine Force to Meet Them and Overcome Them

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 45 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/the-practitioner-of-the-integral-yoga-will-face-difficulties-obstructions-and-challenges-with-the-support-of-the-divine-force-to-meet-them-and-overcome-them/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri A...
Nov. 25, 2025

The Value of the Witness Consciousness in the Yogic Endeavour

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 44This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/the-value-of-the-witness-consciousness-in-the-yogic-endeavour/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions of SriAu...
Nov. 24, 2025

What Does the Coming of the Subjective Age Mean to Us?

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, California 2/4/2024 Sri Aurobindo introduces us to the idea that human civilization is undergoing a transformation based on the coming of a subjective age of humanity. When people hear about a “subjective age” they imagine many different things. Some believe that this represents a time when there is no objective standard of facts or truth, where each individual can create their own ‘alternative facts’ through their own subject...
Nov. 24, 2025

The True Foundation of the Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 43-44This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/the-true-foundation-of-the-yoga/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions of SriAurobindo’s writings can be f...
Nov. 23, 2025

Standing Back from the Reactions of the External Nature

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 43This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/standing-back-from-the-reactions-of-the-external-nature/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions of SriAurobind...
Nov. 22, 2025

Distinguishing and Addressing Undivine and Antidivine Forces

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 42-43 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/distinguishing-and-addressing-undivine-and-antidivine-forces/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book editions of S...
Nov. 21, 2025

The Needed Effort to Resolve the Deformations of the Lower Vital Nature

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 42This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/the-needed-effort-to-resolve-the-deformations-of-the-lower-vital-nature/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aurobindo can be found at www.aurobindo.net The US editions and links to e-book edition...