The Mother

03/30/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in New horizon sugar factory

Constant improvisation of work

If men had to stop work when they are not perfect, everybody would stop working. It is in the work that we must progress and purify ourselves. Continue […]
03/29/2017
Stairs to the room at playground of Sri Aurobindo Ashram where The Mother met Sri Aurobindo for the first time

Entrusting the weak to the Divine

Pondicherry, March 29, 1914  O THOU whom we must know, understand, realise, absolute Consciousness, eternal Law, Thou who guidest and illuminest us, who movest and inspirest us, grant […]
03/28/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Things done faster and better in silence

A constant babble of words seems to be the indispensable accompaniment to daily work. And yet as soon as one makes an effort to reduce the noise to […]
03/23/2017
The Mother taking march past

The Greatest difficulty – One’s mind

The greatest difficulty, as always, is the mind, because it wants to understand in its own way. That is the difficulty…. There are some who would go […]
03/20/2017
Sketch by The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Poverty of Mind

People who take pleasure in writing ugly things show a great poverty of mind—it is always a sign of a poverty of mind. It is infinitely more difficult […]
03/16/2017
Auroville Foundation Ceremony

Waking up a will to conquer

Wake up in yourself a will to conquer. Not a mere will in the mind but a will in the very cells of your body. Without that […]
03/15/2017
Painting by Priti Das Gupta of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

To get rid of an evil mind

To observe, to watch over, to control, to master. All that to get rid of an evil mind, for we are told that the man who acts or […]
02/26/2017
The Mother of Sr Aurobindo Ashram

To be completely free

One must truly be a saint—a great saint, a great sage—and completely free, not at all influenced by other people. Naturally, I am not speaking of those […]
02/14/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Let nothing disturb the faith

If you do not feel my presence it must be that you received some bad thought or that you have had some feeling of doubt or disbelief, it is […]