Sri Aurobindo

01/17/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Resistance and Insufficient Receptivity

The resistance you speak of and the insufficient receptivity and the inability to continue in communion while doing work must all be due to some part […]
01/09/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Rejection of Desire

The rejection of desire is essentially the rejection of the element of craving, putting that out from the consciousness itself as a foreign element not belonging […]
01/07/2025
Sri Aurobindo

A Good Instrument But a Bad Master

The human vital is almost always of that nature [full of desires and fancies], but that is no reason why one should accept it as an […]
01/03/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Self Respect and Superiority

Self-respect and a sense of superiority are two very different things. Self-respect is not necessarily a sign of egoism any more than its absence is a […]
01/02/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Why Gloom and Difficulties

The gloom and other difficulties come from a resistance of inertia in the lower vital and physical consciousness. What you have to do is to prepare […]
12/30/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Visions and Experiences

Visions and experiences (especially experiences) are all right; but you cannot expect every vision to translate itself in a corresponding physical fact. Some do, the majority […]
12/29/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Real reason of Difficulty

The real reason of the difficulty and the constant alternation is the struggle between the veiled true being within and the outer nature, especially the lower […]
12/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dealing with Adverse Forces

You ask whether the adverse Force is stronger than the Divine Force. The implication is that man has no responsibility for his action and whatever he […]
12/17/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Stay Hopeful

There is no reason why you should abandon hope of success in the yoga. The state of depression which you now feel is temporary and it […]