A few short texts by Sri Aurobindo

Matthijs Cornelissen
last revision: 02 November 2025

The Record of Yoga

• Siddhis, their justification, dangers and use


Essays in Philosophy and Yoga

• Fate and free-will
• The three purushas
• Karma, will and consequence
• The role of awakening the cakras in the supramental transformation  


The Secret of the Veda

• The colloquy of Indra and Agastya


Essays on the Gita

• Swabhava and swadharma  


The Life Divine

• The true soul, the psychic entity and the psychic being  
• What is this ego?
• Multiplicity as a power of the infinite One
• The tree of good and evil
• The triple transformation  
• The supramental stage of the evolution
• Individuality, cosmicity and transcendence as seen from the Infinite  


The Synthesis -of Yoga

• The teacher
• Human nature: a roughly constituted chaos
• Nature as the conscious force of the Divine
• Purusha-Prakriti and Ishwara-Shakti
• Equality and the annihilation of ego
• The stages of equality
• The Master of works meets us on the path...
• Desire as motive force
• A crucial step in the traditional way of knowledge
• The ideal faculty
• The limitations of the mind and the need for integration
• Witness, sanctioner and master
• Purification of the mind
• Intuition, inspiration and revelation


Letters on Yoga

• The concentric and vertical systems
• Overmind and supermind in The Synthesis of Yoga
• The difference between mind and vital
• The riddle of this world
• Transformation
• The practice of Integral Yoga


Savitri

• He and She
• The wonder and beauty of His Love and Force
• The finding of the soul
• Awakening the kundalini — I
• An adventure of consciousness and joy
• From mind to supermind
• Awakening the kundalini — II


On Himself

• The fifteenth of August 1947 and Sri Aurobindo's five-dreams for India and the world