The Mother

05/27/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Pleasure, Joy, Happiness , Ecstasy and Ananda

Sweet Mother, What is the difference between pleasure, joy, happiness, ecstasy and Ananda? Can we find one in the other? Ananda belongs to the Supreme Lord. […]
05/26/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A prayer

On the surface is the storm, the sea is in turmoil, waves clash and leap one on another and break with a mighty uproar. But all […]
05/25/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Mental Indifference and Lack of curiousity

Sweet Mother, Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a sort of mental inertia? Usually they are due to mental inertia, unless one has obtained this […]
05/24/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Imposing peace on vital

My dear child, Only spiritual force has the power to impose peace on the vital, for if peace is not imposed on it by a power […]
05/21/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How faith should be?

The faith in spiritual things that is asked of the sadhak is not an ignorant but a luminous faith, a faith in light and not in […]
05/20/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Self Deception

Sweet Mother, Self-deception has a thousand faces and a thousand ways of disguising itself in us. How can one discover it and get rid of it? […]
05/16/2023
Sri Aurobindo Ashram's The Mother Charan

Ownership of Material Things

How can I get rid of the habit of feeling that I own the material things that belong to me? If you belong entirely and totally […]
05/14/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Patient Concentration

For the time being, may I stop thinking about sadhana? I can’t find any other way of getting inner peace. I am continuing my aspiration for […]
05/13/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

An absolutely indispensable attitude

Sweet Mother, Each time I have encountered an obstacle in my life, each time I have been deprived of some happiness—some apparent happiness—a consolation has come […]