The Mother

04/26/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Basis of Equanimity

What is it that you call “the basis of equanimity in the external being”? It is good health, a solid body, well poised; when one does […]
04/25/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to get True Strength?

The Divine Presence is in you. It is in you. You look for it outside; look inside. It is in you. The Presence is there. You […]
04/23/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Supreme Faculties

Sweet Mother, What are the “supreme faculties”? It is difficult to reply without having the context. Which “supreme faculties” are being referred to here? Those of […]
04/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Aspiration and Demand

What is the difference between aspiration and a demand? When you have experienced both, you can easily make the distinction. In aspiration there is what I […]
04/21/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Loyalty and Fidelity

If an adverse Force comes, one has not to accept and welcome its suggestions, but to turn to the Mother and refuse to turn away from […]
04/20/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Progressive Opening

Openness is not always complete from the first―a part of the being opens, other parts of the consciousness remain still closed or half open only―one has […]
04/19/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

There is a great difference between being in the midst of active work, of external action, while keeping one’s thought constantly fixed on Thee, and entering […]
04/18/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Super Ego

Sweet Mother, what is a “super-ego”? A super-ego means an ego that’s enlarged, swollen, made more important, even, than it can be… Super-ego means an ego […]
04/17/2025
The Mother with Tara Didi

Transforming Pain in Pleasure

Sweet Mother, how can one transform pain into forms of pleasure? Ah! But that’s not something to be done, my children. I shall certainly not give […]