WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Sweet Mother,

How can one draw energy into oneself from outside?

That depends on the kind of energy one wants to absorb, for each region of the being has a corresponding kind of energy. If it is physical energy, we absorb it principally through respiration, and all that facilitates and improves respiration increases at the same time the absorption of physical energy.

But there are many other kinds of energies, or rather many other forms of Energy, which is one and universal.

And it is through the various yogic exercises of breathing, meditation, japa and concentration that one puts oneself in contact with these various forms of Energy.

10 September 1959

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Sweet Mother,

What are these other forms of Energy and how do they help us in our sadhana?

Each region of the being and each activity has its energies. We [new p. 223]may classify them generally into vital energies, mental energies, [old p. 225]spiritual energies. Modern science tells us that Matter is ultimately nothing but energy condensed.

Our yoga being integral, all these various forms or kinds of energy are indispensable to our realisation.

12 September 1959

Collected Works of The Mother, First Edition, Volume 16, pp. 224-225