04/07/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Spiritual and Psychic Consciousness

Q: What is the difference between the spiritual and psychic consciousness? A: The Spirit is the consciousness above mind, the Atman or Self, which is always […]
04/06/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Mental Nightmare

What is a “mental nightmare”? When there is a chaos in the brain or a local fever, a particular turmoil in the brain, an overstrain, or […]
04/05/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Playing Tennis

Physical beauty for a woman

What is the ideal of physical beauty for a woman? Perfect harmony of proportions, suppleness and strength, grace and force, plasticity, endurance and, above all, an […]
04/04/2025
Sri Aurobindo

A Prayer

O Lord, my adoration rises ardently to Thee, all my being is an aspiration, a flame consecrated to Thee. Lord, Lord, my sweet Master, it is […]
04/03/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Cutting Knot of the Ego

Sweet Mother, how can we cut the knot of the ego? How to cut it? Take a sword and strike it (laughter), when one becomes conscious […]
04/02/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Conscious Mistakes are more serious

Mother, you said that when one consciously makes a mistake it is much more serious than if one makes it unconsciously. When you make a mistake […]
04/01/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

Thou hast shown to my mute and expectant soul all the splendour of fairy landscapes: trees at festival and lonely paths that seem to scale the […]
03/31/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Compassion

What does “compassion” mean? Compassion is the equivalent of miséricorde. It is a pity full of strength and kindness, a pity that pardons and makes amends, […]
03/30/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Normal Course of Human Love

The phenomenon of which you speak is normal to human nature. People are drawn together or one is drawn to another by a certain feeling of […]