Episodes
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
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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?”
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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 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
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Nov. 27, 2021
The Process of Bringing About Change at the Subconscious Level of Our Being
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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
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Nov. 22, 2021
Spiritual Experience and Psychoanalysis
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Nov. 21, 2021
The Need and Process of Transforming the Subconscient
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Nov. 20, 2021
Rig Veda Samhita, Mandala V, Sukta 79, Hymn to the Dawn
The Dawn of the Rig Veda is clearly a symbolic representation of the opening of the consciousness to the higher Light of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo writes in The Secret of the Veda: "The Rishi prays for the full epiphany of the Dawn of the light of Truth in all its lavish splendour, with all the bountiful companies of its gods and seers, the shining herds of its thought, the rushing steeds of its force, the luminous impulsions with which it comes -- companioned, as they are, by the burning rays o...