The Mother

09/23/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Trust

What you seek is always there ready for you. Let the psychic turn grow complete and it will of itself bring you to that for which […]
09/21/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Most Useful Work

What is the most useful work to be done at the present moment? The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal […]
09/20/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Yoga and Religion

Sweet Mother, what is the difference between yoga and religion?   Ah! my child… it is as though you were asking me the difference between a […]
09/18/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Quietening the Mind

Dear Mother, I don’t want tamas. Today I worked all day. But my mind does not have tamas; it is always active and runs here and […]
09/17/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Maintaining a high level of consciousness

Naturally, the effort to keep the consciousness at a high level is tiring in the beginning, like the exercises you do to develop your muscles. But […]
09/16/2022

Outward Appearances

In fact, Mother, what is the yogi’s attitude towards the outward appearance? The usefulness of seeing clearly instead of being blind. The usefulness of no longer […]
09/15/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Function of the senses

The senses should be capable of enduring everything without disgust or displeasure, but at the same time they must acquire and develop more and more the […]
09/14/2022

True Aspiration

From the purely psychological point of view, aspiration is a self-giving, always, while desire is always something which one draws to oneself; aspiration is something which […]
08/17/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Why Accidents?

Accidents are due to many things; in fact they are the result of a conflict of the forces in Nature, a conflict between the forces of […]