Sri Aurobindo Studies

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 54-55This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/the-different-processes-for-change-of-the-vital-nature-and-the-psychic-being/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More i...

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, California 8/25/24 We tend to get depressed about the world situation we find ourselves in.  The issues confronting humanity are seemingly threatening extinction of the human race and we see noeasy solutions; in fact, they appear to be getting worse.  We have numerous different directions that are suggested for a way forward.  T...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 54 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/liberating-the-consciousness-from-imprisonment-in-the-physical-body/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp.53-54 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/understanding-experience-of-a-shift-from-the-external-to-the-inward-consciousness/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 M...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg.53This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/awareness-and-true-discrimination-of-forces-are-essential-for-the-spiritual-seeker-to-avoid-distractions-and-deviations-from-the-path/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Chan...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg.52 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/the-right-attitude-turns-difficulties-into-opportunities-for-the-spiritual-aspirant/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 Mo...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 51-52This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/success-in-yoga-despite-negative-suggestions-of-unfitness-or-impossibility/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More inf...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 50-51This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/ego-was-the-helper-ego-is-the-bar/ 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...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 50This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/why-a-spiritual-seeker-should-not-just-go-with-the-flow/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Aur...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 49 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/vital-impatience-and-a-hurried-effort-are-obstacles-to-the-transformation-of-the-human-instrument/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santo...

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, 8/7/2022 The crisis humanity faces as we create uncontrolled climate change, pollute the planet, deplete the resources, and allocate them inefficiently is one that is causing the 6th planetary die off (the last one killed off all the dinosaurs and was caused by an asteroid strike) that is eliminating species at an unparalleled rate, destroying...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 49This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/dealing-with-periods-of-dissipation-and-distraction-in-the-spiritual-sadhana Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More infor...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 48-49 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/understanding-fluctuations-in-the-force-of-the-spiritual-sadhana/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 48 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/the-separation-of-states-of-conscious-awareness-between-the-waking-state-the-sleep-state-and-the-spiritual-realms/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.yo...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 47-48This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/addressing-obstacles-weaknesses-and-limitations-through-the-connection-with-the-divine-power/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshk...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 45-47 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/ascent-and-integration-define-spiritual-progress-for-the-seeker/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information a...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 45 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/the-practitioner-of-the-integral-yoga-will-face-difficulties-obstructions-and-challenges-with-the-support-of-the-divine-force-to-meet-them-and-overcome-them/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavai...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 44This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/the-value-of-the-witness-consciousness-in-the-yogic-endeavour/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about S...

A talk and satsang at Cultural Integration Fellowship, San Francisco, California 2/4/2024 Sri Aurobindo introduces us to the idea that human civilization is undergoing a transformation based on the coming of a subjective age of humanity.  When people hear about a “subjective age” they imagine many different things.  Some believe that this represents a time when there is no objective standard of fa...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 43-44This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/the-true-foundation-of-the-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 a...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 43This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/standing-back-from-the-reactions-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 Aur...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 42-43 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/distinguishing-and-addressing-undivine-and-antidivine-forces/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information abou...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pg. 42This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/the-needed-effort-to-resolve-the-deformations-of-the-lower-vital-nature/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More informati...

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 41-42This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/the-spiritual-seeker-should-focus-on-the-aspiration-and-recognize-weaknesses-without-obsessing-about-them/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube....

reference: Sri Aurobindo,  Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, In Difficulty, pp. 40-41This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/methods-for-achieving-a-silent-mind-during-meditation/ Video presentations, interviews and podcast episodes are allavailable on the YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@santoshkrinsky871 More information about Sri Au...