This brochure contains a collection of articles, essays and statements by the outstanding Indian philosopher and poet, founder of integral yoga Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950), revealing the topic of the emergence and eradication of desires.

This question has a deep history – let us remember Buddhism with its position that the cause of suffering is attachment based on desire. What is the nature of desire? What should those who have desires but cannot satisfy them do? Should we fight them, ignore them, try to satisfy them, or turn them into something more?

The reader will find answers to these questions in this publication.