The Mother

03/23/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Stepping Back

Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your […]
03/21/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Debate

A debate is never anything but a conflict of opinions; and opinions are nothing but very fragmentary aspects of the truth. Even if you were able […]
03/19/2025

Doubting on The Mother

Sweet Mother, why do we doubt you? Is there anything better or anyone wiser than you? Why don’t we believe in you? Because the outer nature […]
03/19/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Achieving Silence in the Classroom

What can I do to achieve a silent atmosphere in the classroom? Be completely silent yourself. Bring a piece of cardboard with you, about one metre […]
03/18/2025
Sri Aurobindo Ashram's The Mother Charan

Surrender and Sacrifice

Is not surrender the same as sacrifice? In our Yoga there is no room for sacrifice. But everything depends on the meaning you put on the […]
03/16/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Willing and Desiring

Sweet Mother, what is the difference between willing and desiring? They are not at all the same thing. When you see that something ought to be […]
03/15/2025

A Practical Exercise

I suggest that every one of you should try—oh! not for long, just for one hour a day—to say nothing but the absolutely indispensable words. Not […]
03/12/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Resurrection

Resurrection means, for us, the falling off of the old consciousness; but it is not only a rebirth, a sudden change which completely breaks with the […]
03/11/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Divine Compassion

It is very difficult to keep up your gratitude; for a time it comes very strongly and again it goes back. The Divine can go on […]