The Mother

06/23/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Moral and the Spiritual view of things

Let us take an illustration of the difference between the moral and the spiritual view of things. The ordinary social notions distinguish between two classes of […]
06/22/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The need of Diversity

If you arrive at the conception of the world as the expression of the Divine in all His complexity, then the necessity for complexity and diversity […]
06/21/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dealing with Time

In the most physical things you have to fix a programme in order to deal with time, otherwise all becomes a sea of confusion and haphazard. […]
06/20/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Subduing children’s naughtiness

Sweet Mother, How can I subdue the children’s naughtiness when I tremble before it? How can I call down an atmosphere in which these wrong movements […]
06/19/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Handling an Argument

You are with someone. This person tells you something, you tell him the contrary (as it usually happens, simply through a spirit of contradiction) and you […]
06/17/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A new puissance is needed …

All that has been conceived and realised so far is mediocre, banal, insufficient beside what ought to be. The perfections of the past no longer have […]
06/15/2021

Hand over all to The Divine

Turn your mind completely away from your difficulty, concentrate exclusively on the Light and the Force coming from above; let the Lord do for your body […]
06/14/2021

Religious and Spiritual Teaching

You must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual one. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching of […]
06/13/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A child’s confidence

You must remember one thing: the dark periods are inevitable. When your psychic is active, you feel a delight without any apparent reason. It continues for […]