The Mother

07/30/2020

How to study Sri Aurobindo?

What is the true method for studying Sri Aurobindo’s works? The true method is to read a little at a time, with concentration, keeping the mind […]
07/29/2020
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Handling Insults

It is much more difficult to remain calm, immobile, unshakable before something very unpleasant—whether it be words or acts levelled against you—infinitely more difficult than to […]
07/27/2020
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Increasing one’s understanding

Sweet Mother, how can one increase one’s understanding?   One’s understanding? Well, by increasing one’s consciousness, by going beyond the mind, by widening one’s consciousness, deepening […]
07/26/2020
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Past Lives

How is it that in newspapers one quite often reads stories of small children who remember their past lives and that the details have been verified? […]
07/25/2020
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Opinion of Others

To feel hurt by what others do or think or say is always a sign of weakness and proof that the whole being is not exclusively […]
07/23/2020
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Concentrate on What You Want to Be

There are some very wise recommendations here, for example, not to concern oneself with what others do nor with the mistakes they make, but to attend […]
07/22/2020
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Criticising Others

Whenever somebody is not just according to the usual pattern, if all the parts and activities in him have not the usual balance, if some faculties […]
07/20/2020
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Judging Others

Unless your vision is constantly the vision of the Divine in all things, you have not only no right but no capacity to judge the state which others […]
07/19/2020
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Arousing healthy curiosity in children

What most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to […]