A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies

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Dec. 17, 2021

How to Distinguish The Divine Force from the Habitual Action of the L…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/12/09/how-to-distinguish-the-divine-force-from-the-habitual-action-of-the-lower-as-well-as-from-the-hostile-forces/

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Dec. 16, 2021

How the Practitioner Can Identify the Action of Hostile Forces

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Dec. 15, 2021

The Secret of the Veda: Introduction and Overview Chapters 1-5 by Sri…

Sri Aurobindo's The Secret of the Veda holds that there is a secret spiritual and psychological sense to the Rig Veda which gave the language a dual sense, an outer sense for the uninitiated and an inner, psychological meanin...

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Dec. 15, 2021

Hostile Forces and Their Impact on Spiritual Development

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/hostile-forces-and-their-impact-on-spiritual-development/

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Dec. 14, 2021

Adopting and Holding the Proper Psychological Poise for Accomplishmen…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/12/06/adopting-and-holding-the-proper-psychological-poise-for-accomplishment-of-the-objective-of-the-integral-yoga/

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Dec. 13, 2021

The Benefit of Shifting the Focus Toward the Higher Consciousness Rat…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/the-benefit-of-shifting-the-focus-toward-the-higher-consciousness-rather-than-focusing-on-the-struggles-to-change-the-lower-n...

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Dec. 12, 2021

The Example of Great Souls Facing the Difficulties and Issues of Huma…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/12/04/the-example-of-great-souls-facing-the-difficulties-and-issues-of-human-spiritual-development/

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Dec. 11, 2021

The Secret of the Veda, Chapter VIII, Ashwins, Indra, the Vishwadevas…

Secret of the Veda describes the secret thought of the Veda. The recordings were made at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1973. Introductory comments from Sri Aurobindo's The Secret of the Veda, Chapter VIII. This chapter focuses o...

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Dec. 11, 2021

The Power of Detachment to Effect Transformational Change in the Natu…

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Dec. 10, 2021

The Separation of Purusha and Prakriti as a Powerful Tool for Shiftin…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/the-separation-of-purusha-and-prakriti-as-a-powerful-tool-for-shifting-the-standpoint-out-of-the-ego-personality-and-into-the...

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Dec. 9, 2021

How to Tread the Sunlit Path of Yoga

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Dec. 8, 2021

The Sunlit Path of Yogic Practice

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Dec. 7, 2021

Overcoming Tamasic Depression in the Practice of Yoga

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Dec. 6, 2021

The Role of the Inner Standpoint in Overcoming Depression and Ambitio…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/28/the-role-of-the-inner-standpoint-in-overcoming-depression-and-ambition-in-the-practice-of-yoga/

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Dec. 5, 2021

Depression and the Influence of the Gunas in Spiritual Development

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Dec. 4, 2021

The Three Gunas and Spiritual Practice

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Dec. 3, 2021

Two Ways to Meet the Resistance of the Nature to the Divine Force: th…

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/two-ways-to-meet-the-resistance-of-the-nature-to-the-divine-force-the-way-of-the-self-and-the-way-of-the-psychic/

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Dec. 2, 2021

The Secret of the Veda, Chapter VII Varuna-Mitra and the Truth

Varuna and Mitra are two of the Godheads that invoke psychological powers within the seeker to bring about the transformation of consciousness. Sri Aurobindo provides an extensive description of these powers, and thereby als...

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Dec. 2, 2021

The Nature of the Resistance of Universal Nature to the Pressure of t…

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Dec. 1, 2021

The Nature of the Resistance of the Mind-Life-Body to the Pressure of…

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Nov. 30, 2021

“Yoga Made Easy?”

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Nov. 29, 2021

The Bedrock of Resistance to Change in Human Nature

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Nov. 28, 2021

Rig Veda Samhita, Mandala VII, Sukta 49 Hymn to the Divine Waters

"The Veda speaks constantly of the waters or the rivers, especially of the divine waters ... and occasionally of the waters which carry in them the light of the luminous soloar world or the light of the Sun ... . The passage...

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Nov. 28, 2021

The Inconscient and the Need for Its Transformation

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