Day by day
Although worldly desires are all right in their place and may be legitimately satisfied, they must remain subordinate to the spiritual aspiration for self-realization …
3.2.3.139, ExcerptListen 1 Sep 2025No one but a man’s own Being gives him grace. From the moment when he lays his head prostrate before It, and returns again and again to that posture, mentally always and physically if urged, grace is invoked.
12.18.5.44Listen 2 Sep 2025In the seeming self’s activity, personal willpower is used and personal effort is made. In the Overself’s activity, both these signs are absent. Instead there is a passive receptivity to its voice—intuitions—and obedience to its guidance.
14.22.1.152Listen 3 Sep 2025There is no limit to the ego’s pretensions. It will pose as the humble pupil today but as the pontifical master tomorrow.
6.8.3.51Listen 4 Sep 2025Even if human karma were rigidly implacable and against it human will sadly impotent, divine Grace is still available and divine Mercy is yet accessible.
6.9.3.576Listen 5 Sep 2025Enlightenment seldom comes all at once. But in the case of rare geniuses or of those with rare good karma, the possibility is certainly there.
16.25.2.61Listen 6 Sep 2025With every day that passes, a man makes his silent declaration of faith in the way he spends it. It is a poor declaration that modern man makes when he brushes aside all thought of prayer and meditation as something he has no time for.
2.1.1.112Listen 7 Sep 2025The first fruit of philosophy is to bring the calm repose of the soul into the activity of the body.
15.24.2.196Listen 8 Sep 2025Two points should be clearly understood. First, the world of external Nature, being eternal, is not brought into existence by an act of sudden creation out of nothing. Second, this world is rooted in the divine substance and is consequently not an empty illusion but an indirect manifestation of divine reality.
16.26.1.180Listen 9 Sep 2025The misuse of any occult power will effectively seal him in the ego and prevent union with the Overself.
11.16.13.9Listen 10 Sep 2025To increase his personal capacities for undertaking tasks demanded by his environment may be a worthy ambition but is not the primary aim of this work. To move away from such identification with the ego is now to be his purpose.
3.2.4.63Listen 11 Sep 2025The ego is not in itself evil, but what seems to make it so is its refusal to recognize and then take its subordinate place to the Overself, which it ought to serve.
6.8.1.175Listen 12 Sep 2025The teaching which is suited to those who are well on the way to the final stage of spiritual development is not much help to those who are only at the first stage.
12.17.6.73Listen 13 Sep 2025All knowledge is beneficial to man in varying degrees. The knowledge of his own soul, being the highest degree of human knowledge, offers the greatest degree of benefit to man.
5.7.2.4Listen 14 Sep 2025The point in the heart is a focus for meditation and also an experience during meditation. When, however, one rises to the ultimate path he disregards the heart because the Overself has nothing to do with localities or geography of any kind; it cannot be measured.
14.22.3.266Listen 15 Sep 2025In all spiritual situations where some help, light, or protection is sought, allow for the X-factor—grace. Try to invoke it by entering the silence, keeping the entire self bodily and inwardly still.
12.18.5.211Listen 16 Sep 2025The changeover from a meat diet to a vegetarian one creates in some cases a feeling of bodily weakness. This will be limited to the transition period only, which may be a matter of days or months, depending on the individual. Such persons should make the changeover gradually. Many others have made the change quite abruptly without any fatigue or any harm.
4.5.3.73Listen 17 Sep 2025It is his duty to watch that no negative thought slips past his guard and enters his consciousness, no false belief infiltrates into his outlook. Such thought control pays the highest profits, for its effects on his outer life will unfailingly appear.
3.2.4.88Listen 18 Sep 2025The discipline of the self, the following of ethical conduct, the practice of mystical meditation—all these are needed if the higher experience resulting in insight is being sought.
1.2.0.21Listen 19 Sep 2025One’s adventures in self-discovery will only fulfil themselves when he discovers that which is beyond the ego.
6.8.1.51Listen 20 Sep 2025We have the authority of Lao Tzu that there is such a thing as pardon. He says: “For what did the ancients so much prize this Tao? Was it not because by it those who had sinned might escape?”
12.18.5.75Listen 21 Sep 2025Insight may apparently be born suddenly, but it is really the culminating stage of a long previous development.
13.20.4.156Listen 22 Sep 2025The names of God traditionally used in the Orient, such as the Compassionate, the Guide, the Answerer of Prayer, the Pardoner, the Patient, are helpful as objects of prayer or subjects of meditation.
4.4.4.75Listen 23 Sep 2025He who possesses insight does not have to use arguments and reach conclusions. The truth is there, self-evident, inside himself as himself, for his inner being has become one with it.
13.20.4.170Listen 24 Sep 2025The importance of a teacher is somewhat overrated. If one continues his program of study, prayer, and meditation, and if he appeals to his own higher self for guidance, he will certainly continue to progress. Earthly responsibilities will not interfere, for the time spent away from prayer and meditation is also part of the spiritual life.
2.1.3.284Listen 25 Sep 2025In religious language he is in God, and in mystical language God is in him.
14.22.4.23Listen 26 Sep 2025He must learn to face the startling fact that the human ego carries itself even into his loftiest aspirations for the Divine. Even there, in that rarefied atmosphere, it is seeking for itself, for what it wants, and always for its own preservation. This is merely to enlarge the area of the ego’s operations and not, to use Aurobindo’s word, to divinize it.
1.8.0.61Listen 27 Sep 2025He must be equally steadfast in adhering to this attitude whether other people utter complaints against him or make compliments to him.
5.6.1.437Listen 28 Sep 2025As his conception of the truth becomes clearer, his aspiration to realize it in his life becomes stronger. This is so and must be so.
5.7.2.11Listen 29 Sep 2025We need not step outside the house, the rooms, or the tent wherein we live to look for God. They, too, can become a holy place and a sanctuary provided we turn our mind inwards every day for a while and seek that which is beyond all buildings made by human hands.
3.2.4.68Listen 30 Sep 2025
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