A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies

Episodes

Dec. 10, 2021

The Separation of Purusha and Prakriti as a Powerful Tool for Shifting the Standpoint Out of the Ego-Personality and into the Divine Standpoint

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-divine-standpoint/
Dec. 9, 2021

How to Tread the Sunlit Path of Yoga

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/12/01/how-to-tread-the-sunlit-path-of-yoga/
Dec. 8, 2021

The Sunlit Path of Yogic Practice

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/30/the-sunlit-path-of-yogic-practice/
Dec. 7, 2021

Overcoming Tamasic Depression in the Practice of Yoga

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/29/overcoming-tamasic-depression-in-the-practice-of-yoga/
Dec. 6, 2021

The Role of the Inner Standpoint in Overcoming Depression and Ambition in the Practice of Yoga

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/
Dec. 5, 2021

Depression and the Influence of the Gunas in Spiritual Development

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/27/depression-and-the-influence-of-the-gunas-in-spiritual-development/
Dec. 4, 2021

The Three Gunas and Spiritual Practice

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/26/the-three-gunas-and-spiritual-practice/
Dec. 3, 2021

Two Ways to Meet the Resistance of the Nature to the Divine Force: the Way of the Self and the Way of the Psychic

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/
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 also shows us the obvious psychological sense of the Rig Veda. The recordings were made at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1973. Introductory comments from Sri Aurobindo's The Secret of the Veda, Chapter VII. Sanskrit Mandala I, Sukta 2 recited by Sri Vinayak. English translation by Sr...
Dec. 2, 2021

The Nature of the Resistance of Universal Nature to the Pressure of the Divine Force

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/24/the-nature-of-the-resistance-of-universal-nature-to-the-pressure-of-the-divine-force/
Dec. 1, 2021

The Nature of the Resistance of the Mind-Life-Body to the Pressure of the Divine Force

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/the-nature-of-the-resistance-of-the-mind-life-body-to-the-pressure-of-the-divine-force/
Nov. 30, 2021

“Yoga Made Easy?”

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/22/yoga-made-easy/
Nov. 29, 2021

The Bedrock of Resistance to Change in Human Nature

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/21/the-bedrock-of-resistance-to-change-in-human-nature/
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 of the waters effected by the gods or by man with the aid of the gods is a constant symbol. ... What can these rivers be whose wave is full of Soma-wine, full of the ghrta, full of urj, the energy? What are these waters that flow to the goal of the god's movement, that estab...
Nov. 28, 2021

The Inconscient and the Need for Its Transformation

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/20/the-inconscient-and-the-need-for-its-transformation/
Nov. 27, 2021

The Process of Bringing About Change at the Subconscious Level of Our Being

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/19/the-process-of-bringing-about-change-at-the-subconscious-level-of-our-being/
Nov. 26, 2021

The Risks and Difficulties of Eliminating Lower Drives Through Purposeful Indulgence, Part 2

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/18/the-risks-and-difficulties-of-eliminating-lower-drives-through-purposeful-indulgence-part-2/
Nov. 25, 2021

The Risks and Difficulties of Eliminating Lower Drives Through Purposeful Indulgence, Part 1

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/the-risks-and-difficulties-of-eliminating-lower-drives-through-purposeful-indulgence-part-1/
Nov. 24, 2021

Rig Veda Samhita, Mandala VII, Sukta 47 Hymn to the Divine Waters

The recordings were made at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1973. Sanskrit recited by Sri Vinayak. English translation by Sri Aurobindo (Riks 1-4) recited by Santosh Krinsky. (Secret of the Veda, pp. 104-117)
Nov. 24, 2021

Understanding the Larger Being of Man and the Process of Transformation of the Subconscious

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/17/understanding-the-larger-being-of-man-and-the-process-of-transformation-of-the-subconscious/
Nov. 24, 2021

Solving the Existential Crisis of Humanity Through the Evolution of Consciousness

an interview by David Riklan of Self-Growth.com of Santosh Krinsky about the current existential crisis facing humanity and the planet and the solution to this crisis of the evolution of the next stage of consciousness, as described by Sri Aurobindo.
Nov. 23, 2021

Psychoanalysis and Yoga Do Not Mix

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/15/psychoanalysis-and-yoga-do-not-mix/
Nov. 22, 2021

Spiritual Experience and Psychoanalysis

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/14/spiritual-experience-and-psychoanalysis/
Nov. 21, 2021

The Need and Process of Transforming the Subconscient

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2021/11/13/the-need-and-process-of-transforming-the-subconscient/