A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies

Episodes

Nov. 20, 2025

The Spiritual Seeker Should Focus on the Aspiration and Recognize Weaknesses Without Obsessing About Them

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 41-42This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/the-spiritual-seeker-should-focus-on-the-aspiration-and-recognize-weaknesses-without-obsessing-about-them/ 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...
Nov. 19, 2025

Methods for Achieving a Silent Mind During Meditation

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 40-41This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/methods-for-achieving-a-silent-mind-during-meditation/ 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 SriAurobin...
Nov. 18, 2025

The Difficulty and Time Required for the Transformation of the Nature

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 39-40This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/the-difficulty-and-time-required-for-the-transformation-of-the-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 editio...
Nov. 17, 2025

Identifying and Addressing Obstacles Through Inner Development for Spiritual Progress

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 39This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/identifying-and-addressing-obstacles-through-inner-development-for-spiritual-progress/ 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 ...
Nov. 16, 2025

Sri Aurobindo and the Integral Yoga

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, California on 8/6/2023 An overview of Sri Aurobindo's yogic practice and the path of the integral 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 found at Lotus Press www.lotuspress.c...
Nov. 16, 2025

Patience, Perseverance and Firm Faith Are Needed Qualities on the Long Road of Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 39This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/patience-perseverance-and-firm-faith-are-needed-qualities-on-the-long-road-of-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-b...
Nov. 15, 2025

The Main Conditions of Preparation for the Supramental Change

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pp. 36-38This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/the-main-conditions-of-preparation-for-the-supramental-change/ 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-bo...
Nov. 14, 2025

Self-Surrender in Principle and Self-Surrender in Detail

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 36This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/self-surrender-in-principle-and-self-surrender-in-detail/ 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 editi...
Nov. 13, 2025

"Are We There Yet?"

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pp. 35-36 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/are-we-there-yet/ 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 ...
Nov. 12, 2025

Finding the Poise of the Consciousness Needed for the Practice of the Integral Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 35 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/finding-the-poise-of-the-consciousness-needed-for-the-practice-of-the-integral-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 editi...
Nov. 11, 2025

Weaknesses of the Vital Nature That Impede the Practice of the Integral Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pp. 34-35This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/weaknesses-of-the-vital-nature-that-impede-the-practice-of-the-integral-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 an...
Nov. 10, 2025

The Mother: the Divine Shakti and the Personal Incarnation

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, California on 2/5/2023. In his book The Mother, Sri Aurobindo describesthe Divine Shakti and its action. The executive power of the universalmanifestation resides in the Divine Shakti, the feminine aspect of ourreality. The Divine Mother takes a number of different forms as Shemanifests all of creation. This shakti moves through everything andeveryone as it acts. Some individuals are more closely identified withthis universal...
Nov. 10, 2025

The Effort of the Spiritual Seeker in Distinguishing the Action of the Divine Force from the Promptings of the Ego

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 34 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/the-effort-of-the-spiritual-seeker-in-distinguishing-the-action-of-the-divine-force-from-the-promptings-of-the-ego/ 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 ...
Nov. 9, 2025

Overcoming Self-Doubt and Fear of Incapacity in the Spiritual Endeavour

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pp. 33-34This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/overcoming-self-doubt-and-fear-of-incapacity-in-the-spiritual-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 lin...
Nov. 8, 2025

The Psychic Being Senses the Divine Presence and Guidance

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 33This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/the-psychic-being-senses-the-divine-presence-and-guidance/ 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 edit...
Nov. 7, 2025

The Focus Needed for Success in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 33This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/the-focus-needed-for-success-in-the-practice-of-the-integral-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-b...
Nov. 6, 2025

The Spiritual Aspirant's Opening to the Action of the Spiritual Force

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 32This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/the-spiritual-aspirants-opening-to-the-action-of-the-spiritual-force/ 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 ...
Nov. 5, 2025

The Principal Thing in the Practice of Integral Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 32This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/the-principal-thing-in-the-practice-of-integral-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 ...
Nov. 4, 2025

Challenges We Face Individually, Collective and in the World at Large in Light of the Mother's Work

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, California on February 23, 2025 discussing resistance to the newconsciousness, the pressures exerted by adverse forces attempting to disrupt ordelay the supramental evolutionary process, and the role even they play inbreaking down resistance, old habits and ways of thinking and acting that arecontrary to the new consciousness that is manifesting. Signs of the manifestation ofthe new consciousness and the Mother’s explicit ch...
Nov. 4, 2025

The Flame of Aspiration, the Mystic Fire

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 31This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/the-flame-of-aspiration-the-mystic-fire/ 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 SriAurobin...
Nov. 3, 2025

The Secret of Success in Spiritual Sadhana Is to Maintain the Aspiration and Focus and Never Give Up

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pg. 31 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/the-secret-of-success-in-spiritual-sadhana-is-to-maintain-the-aspiration-and-focus-and-never-give-up/ 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....
Nov. 2, 2025

Personal Effort and Divine Action in the Integral Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pp. 30-31This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/personal-effort-and-divine-action-in-the-integral-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 edit...
Nov. 1, 2025

Personal Effort in Service of the Divine Is an Initial Step Towards Complete Shift to the Divine Standpoint

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pp. 29-30This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/personal-effort-in-service-of-the-divine-is-an-initial-step-towards-complete-shift-to-the-divine-standpoint/ 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.au...
Oct. 31, 2025

Personal Effort Needed in Spiritual Practice and the Action of the Divine Force

reference: Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pp. 28-29This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/personal-effort-needed-in-spiritual-practice-and-the-action-of-the-divine-force/ 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...