The Mother

11/23/2025

Getting out of mental laziness and inertia

Q: Sweet Mother, How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia? By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every […]
11/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Vital’s Resistance to Surrender

For the vital wants to affirm its own ideas, impulses, desires, preferences and to do what it likes, it does not want to feel another force […]
11/20/2025
The Mother

Attitude towards this new Consciousness

Sweet Mother, what should our attitude be towards this new Consciousness? That depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to look […]
11/19/2025
The Mother

Heavy Meal and nightmares

If one eats a heavy meal, why is the sleep disturbed by nightmares? Because there is a very close connection between dreams and the condition of […]
11/16/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Correcting Jealousy and Laziness

Sweet Mother, How can one get rid of, or rather correct, jealousy and laziness? It is selfishness that makes one jealous; it is weakness that makes […]
11/15/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Silence of Physical Consciousness

Sweet Mother, What is meant by the “silence of the physical consciousness”1 and how can one remain in this silence? The physical consciousness is not only […]
11/14/2025
The Mother

The Vital’s Hunger for Praise

One of the commonest demands of the vital is for praise. It hates to be criticised and treated as if it were of little importance. But […]
11/13/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Only Love can Save

Don’t look exteriorly. Always look within yourself and there you will find Love, Peace, Light and Strength. Even the Truth cannot manifest without Love. It is […]
11/12/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Prayer

It was their sorrow and suffering which the physical being was feeling, Lord. When will ignorance dissolve? When will pain cease? O Lord, grant that each […]