At every moment we must shake off the past like falling dust, that it may not soil the virgin path which, at every moment also, is opening before us.
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Purna Yoga classes often begin with the Gayatri Mantra from the Rigveda and end with Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri. We start our classes by asking for illumination, but we end our classes asking for transformation, an evolution of consciousness....
Today is the birthday of Sri Aurobindo, political leader and revolutionary, poet, philosopher, and yogi whose spiritual work forms the basis of Purna Yoga. As the first Indian to demand publicly independence for India from Britain, the founder of the Indian Independence movement and later...