The Mother

09/03/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

It is not the Divine who upsets you…

Some people always imagine that catastrophes are the result of the divine Will. There are others—as soon as they receive a force, they are terribly upset; […]
08/31/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Selfless Admiration

People are so unwilling to recognise anything that expresses the Divine that they are ever on the alert to find fault, discover apparent defects and so […]
08/29/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Secret Oneness

What is this secret Oneness? It is precisely the divine Presence. Because the Divine is essentially one, and yet He has subdivided Himself apparently in all […]
08/28/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

O Lord, O eternal Master, my thought lies mute and powerless before Thee but my heart calls to Thee; awaken all my being that it may […]
08/26/2025

Overcoming Desires and Attachments

Sweet Mother, What is the most effective way of overcoming desires and attachments: to cut them off all at one stroke, even at the risk of […]
08/21/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Meaning of “Meditating”

Do not fall into the very common error of believing that you must sit in an absolutely quiet corner where nobody passes by, where you are […]
08/20/2025
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Handling bad thoughts

If you know how to rise to a higher level, simply into a region of the speculative mind which is not quite the ordinary physical mind, […]
08/19/2025
The Mother

Abandoning things is not the Solution

Sweet Mother, There are times when I feel like abandoning all my activities—the Playground, band, studies, etc.—and devoting all my time to work. But my logic […]
08/17/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

All errors, all prejudices, all misunderstandings must vanish in this whirlwind of destruction that is carrying away the past…. The light must become perfectly pure, free […]