A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies

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The Need to Employ the Searchlight on Every Aspect of One's Being
May 21, 2025

The Need to Employ the Searchlight on Every Aspect of One's Being

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.81-83 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/the-need-to-em...

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Developing a Strong Power of Knowledge and Will to Manage and Control the Vital Nature
May 20, 2025

Developing a Strong Power of Knowledge and Will to Manage and Control…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.80-81 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/developing-a-s...

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Restraining the Response to the Impulses Attractive to the Vital Nature Is the First Step Towards Mastery
May 19, 2025

Restraining the Response to the Impulses Attractive to the Vital Natu…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.78-80This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/restraining-the...

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The Excuses We Make to Justify Indulgence
May 18, 2025

The Excuses We Make to Justify Indulgence

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg.78This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/the-excuses-we-mak...

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Dealing With the Reactive Impulses of the Vital Nature of the External Personality
May 17, 2025

Dealing With the Reactive Impulses of the Vital Nature of the Externa…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg. 77This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/dealing-with-the-...

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Difficulties Provide the Possibility of Progress
May 16, 2025

Difficulties Provide the Possibility of Progress

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 76-77This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/difficulties-p...

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The Spiritual Aspirant Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer Than Those Who Focus on the External Life
May 15, 2025

The Spiritual Aspirant Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer Tha…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg. 76 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/the-spiritual-as...

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Difficulties Are Blessings If We Know How to Face Them
May 14, 2025

Difficulties Are Blessings If We Know How to Face Them

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 75-76This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/difficulties-a...

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Receiving Spiritual Shocks and Trials With Humility Through a Shift of Standpoint Away from the Ego-Consciousness
May 13, 2025

Receiving Spiritual Shocks and Trials With Humility Through a Shift o…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg. 75This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/receiving-spiritu...

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Facing Difficulties and Transforming Them at Their Source Is the Path of Integral Yoga
May 12, 2025

Facing Difficulties and Transforming Them at Their Source Is the Path…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 74-75This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/facing-difficu...

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Understanding and Persevering Through the Darkness and the Delays in the Process of Spiritual Realisation
May 11, 2025

Understanding and Persevering Through the Darkness and the Delays in …

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 73-74This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/understanding-...

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Addressing Obstacles, Difficulties and Resistances That Arise for the Spiritual Seeker
May 10, 2025

Addressing Obstacles, Difficulties and Resistances That Arise for the…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg. 73This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/addres...

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The Spiritual Seeker and the Material World
May 9, 2025

The Spiritual Seeker and the Material World

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pp. 68-69This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/the-spiritual-seeker-an...

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Consciousness Exists in Matter and Responds to Caring Good Will
May 8, 2025

Consciousness Exists in Matter and Responds to Caring Good Will

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pg. 68This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/consciousness-exists-in-ma...

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Overcoming Fatigue and Lack of Energy Through Receptivity to the Higher Planes of Consciousness
May 7, 2025

Overcoming Fatigue and Lack of Energy Through Receptivity to the High…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pp. 67-68This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/overcoming-fatigue-and-...

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Overcoming the Tendency to Rehash Past Work or Worry About Future Work
May 6, 2025

Overcoming the Tendency to Rehash Past Work or Worry About Future Work

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pg. 67This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/overcoming-the-tendency-to...

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Finding the Balance Between Activity and Rest
May 5, 2025

Finding the Balance Between Activity and Rest

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pp. 66-67This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/finding-the-balance-bet...

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The Spirit of the Yoga of Works
May 4, 2025

The Spirit of the Yoga of Works

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pg. 66This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/the-spirit-of-the-yoga-of-...

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Shifting the Motive Power of Action from the External Being to the Psychic Being
May 3, 2025

Shifting the Motive Power of Action from the External Being to the Ps…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pg. 65This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/shifting-the-motive-power-...

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Spiritually Effective Work Depends on the Inner Attitude
May 2, 2025

Spiritually Effective Work Depends on the Inner Attitude

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pp. 64-65This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/spiritually-effective-w...

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Concentration of Conscious Force Through Work Can Bring Deeper Realisations
May 1, 2025

Concentration of Conscious Force Through Work Can Bring Deeper Realis…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pg. 64This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/concentration-of-conscious...

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Treating All Work as Karma Yoga
April 30, 2025

Treating All Work as Karma Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pp. 63-64 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/treating-all-work-as-k...

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Spiritual Development Can Occur Regardless of One's Activities in the World
April 29, 2025

Spiritual Development Can Occur Regardless of One's Activities in the…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pg. 63This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/spiritual-development-can-...

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Self-Dedication to the Divine Through Work
April 28, 2025

Self-Dedication to the Divine Through Work

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 3, Action and Work, pg. 63This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/self-dedication-to-the-div...

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