…to quiet the mind and get the spiritual experience it is necessary first to purify and prepare the nature. This sometimes takes many years.Work done with the […]
There is no opposition between work and sadhana. Work itself done in the right spirit is sadhana. Meditation is not the only means of sadhana. Work is one […]
It is your vital attachment to family ties and the ordinary social ideas and feelings that has risen in you and creates the difficulty. If you want to […]
It is very silly and childish to have abhim¯ana; for it means that you expect everyone including the Mother and myself to act always according to your ideas […]
I agree that asceticism can be overdone. It has its place as one means—not the only one—of self-mastery; but asceticism that cuts away life is an exaggeration, […]