The Mother

08/08/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to light the Psychic Fire?

By aspiration. By the will for progress, by the urge towards perfection. Above all, it is the will for progress and self-purification which lights the fire. […]
08/07/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Spiritual Ego

There is a spiritual ego even as there is a physical, vital and mental ego. There is a spiritual ego. There are people who have made […]
08/05/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Tragedies

Sweet Mother, Are there really any tragedies in life, since everything leads to the Divine? They are tragedies for those who take them tragically—the immense majority […]
08/04/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Self Love

What does “self-love” mean? I think self-love is a pleasant word for vanity. Self-love means that one loves oneself more than anything else; and what he […]
08/03/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Everything can be changed

There is no law of Nature that cannot be overcome and changed, if we have the faith that all is ruled by the Lord and that […]
07/31/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

It seems to me that Thou wouldst make me taste successively all the experiences which are ordinarily put at the summit of a Yoga as its […]
07/29/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to be conscious of Divine Love?

How can one become conscious of Divine Love and an instrument of its expression? First, to become conscious of anything whatever, you must will it. And […]
07/28/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Conditions for Rapid Growth

Sweet Mother, The soul individualises itself and progressively transforms itself into a psychic being. What are the best conditions for its rapid growth? It would be […]
07/27/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

To dry up the Heart

Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of “to dry up the heart”? To dry up the heart! People say that your heart is dried up when […]