The Mother

07/14/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Controlling mental impulses by struggle

Sweet Mother, how can one obtain a mental control of these impulses by a struggle? All educated people do it. Only the barbarian doesn’t do it. […]
07/13/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Heaven and Hell

Do Heaven and Hell exist? Heaven and Hell are at once real and unreal. They both exist and do not exist. Human thought is creative; it […]
07/12/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Getting out of Ego

The surest means is to give oneself to the Divine; not to try to draw the Divine to oneself but try to give oneself to the […]
07/11/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to act truly?

There is only one way of acting truly, it is to try at each moment, each second, in each movement to express only the highest truth […]
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 […]