The Mother

07/09/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emotions and Emotional Desire

Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire […]
07/08/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Power of the Psychic

Has the psychic any power? Power? It is usually the psychic which guides the being. One knows nothing about it because one is not conscious of […]
07/07/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Are illness and accident results of bad thoughts?

Sweet Mother, Are illnesses and accidents the result of something bad one has thought or done, of a fall in one’s consciousness? If the cause is […]
07/04/2025

Abstaining from food will not help

It is not by abstaining from food that you can make a spiritual progress. It is by being free, not only from all attachment and all […]
06/30/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

Give joy, peace and happiness to them all… If they suffer, illumine their suffering and make it a means of transfiguration; grant them the beatitude of […]
06/28/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Receptivity

Mother, on what does receptivity depend? It depends first of all upon sincerity—on whether one really wants to receive—and then… yes, I believe the principal factors […]
06/22/2025
The Mother

A Prayer

What has to be will be, what has to be done will be done…. What a calm assurance Thou hast put into my being, O Lord. […]
06/21/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

To be at once a passive and perfectly pure mirror, turned simultaneously without and within, to the results of the manifestation and the sources of this […]
06/20/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Conception of the Divine

Sweet Mother, Is it possible to have a correct conception of the Divine? No conception of the Divine can be correct; for conceptions are mental activities, […]