Episodes

Aug. 19, 2025

Overcoming the Force of Desire

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 152-153This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/overcoming-the-force-of-desire-2/ 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 ...
Aug. 18, 2025

Changing Human Nature Rather Than Abandoning the External Life

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 152 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/changing-human-nature-rather-than-abandoning-the-external-life/ 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 ...
Aug. 17, 2025

Divine Realisation and the Uplifting and Perfection of Life in the World

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 152This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/divine-realisation-and-the-uplifting-and-perfection-of-life-in-the-world/ 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...
Aug. 16, 2025

Detachment, Liberation and Mastery

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 151 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/detachment-liberation-and-mastery/ 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...
Aug. 15, 2025

Liberation From and Mastery of the External Nature of Man

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 150-151 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/liberation-from-and-mastery-of-the-external-nature-of-man/ 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 l...
Aug. 14, 2025

Developing a Power to Perceive and Understand Ourselves and Our World by Minimizing the Distortions and Biases That Are Inherent in Our Human INstrumentation and Process

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 149-150This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/developing-a-power-to-perceive-and-understand-ourselves-and-our-world-by-minimizing-the-distortions-and-biases-that-are-inherent-in-our-human-instrumentation-and-process/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@s...
Aug. 13, 2025

The Experience of the Witness Consciousness

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 148-149 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/the-experience-of-the-witness-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 e-book...
Aug. 12, 2025

The Shift to the Standpoint of the Observer of the External Nature

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 148This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/10/the-shift-to-the-standpoint-of-the-observer-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 an...
Aug. 11, 2025

Development from Witness of the Nature to Master of the Nature

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 147-148 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/09/development-from-witness-of-the-nature-to-master-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 ...
Aug. 10, 2025

Isolation, Introspection, Introversion and the Witness Consciousness

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 147 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/isolation-introspection-introversion-and-the-witness-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 ...
Aug. 9, 2025

The Vigilance Needed to Ensure That Sattwic Calm, Peaceful Focus Does Not Get Distracted Through the Rise of Rajasic or Tamasic Reactions in the Being

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 147 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/the-vigilance-needed-to-ensure-that-sattwic-calm-peaceful-focus-does-not-get-distracted-through-the-rise-of-rajasic-or-tamasic-reactions-in-the-being/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More ...
Aug. 8, 2025

The Need for a Sleepless Vigilance in the Yogic Sadhana

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 146This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/the-need-for-a-sleepless-vigilance-in-the-yogic-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 ...
Aug. 7, 2025

Vigilance

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 145-146This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/vigilance/ 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...
Aug. 6, 2025

Consciousness and Self-Mastery

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 144-145This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/consciousness-and-self-mastery/ 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 Sr...
Aug. 5, 2025

To Be Conscious

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 143-144This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/to-be-conscious/ 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 wr...
Aug. 4, 2025

We Tend to Take Ourselves Too Seriously

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 142-143 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/we-tend-to-take-ourselves-too-seriously/ 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...
Aug. 3, 2025

Evolution of Consciousness and the Course of Time -- Individual Yoga or Yoga of Divine Manifestation

We look at yoga as an individual endeavor. We practice yoga, and we look for specific outcomes or results. It may be health, or it may be increased awareness, energy, power, and knowledge. It may be liberation from a world of illusion, it may be spiritual freedom, or it may be a realization of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have radically redefined the objective of the yoga and the role and destiny of the individualA talk sponsored by the Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco,...
Aug. 3, 2025

The Psychic Being Brings Cheerful Focus to the Spiritual Sadhana

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 141-142This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/the-psychic-being-brings-cheerful-focus-to-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 ...
Aug. 2, 2025

Spiritual Awakening: Moving Away from Disillusionment to Finding Meaning in Life

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 141 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/spiritual-awakening-moving-away-from-disillusionment-to-finding-meaning-in-life/ 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...
Aug. 1, 2025

The Sunlit Path in the Yogic Endeavour

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 140 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/07/30/the-sunlit-path-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...
July 31, 2025

Let Endurance Be Your Watchword in the Yogic Endeavour

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 140 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/let-endurance-be-your-watchword-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...
July 30, 2025

Unflagging Perseverance and Persistence Is Required for the Practice of the Integral Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pp. 138-139 This episode is also available as a blog post at Unflagging Perseverance and Persistence Is Required for the Practice of the Integral Yoga. | Sri Aurobindo Studies 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...
July 29, 2025

Overcoming Doubt and Fear of Failure in the Yogic Sadhana Through the Shift from the Ego-Standpoint to the Divine Standpoint

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 138This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/07/27/overcoming-doubt-and-fear-of-failure-in-the-yogic-sadhana-through-the-shift-from-the-ego-standpoint-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 Aurob...
July 28, 2025

Sustaining the Yogic Endeavour in the Unique Challenges Posed by the Integral Yoga

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 5, Attitudes on the Path, pg. 137This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/sustaining-the-yogic-endeavour-in-the-unique-challenges-posed-by-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 Th...