Notes on the Way

12/31/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The feeling for the New Year

So it is going to be the new year…. Q: Do you feel anything for this new year? (After a silence) Things have taken an extreme […]
07/26/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The real safety

There is only one safety: to cling to the Divine, like this (gesture of clenched fists). Not clinging to what one thinks to be the Divine, […]
07/05/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Hold on

The whole thing is to hold on. And to hold on, I have found only one way; it is this Calm, the inner calm—a calm that […]
07/04/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Break free from the bonds

To cling to something one believes that one knows, to cling to something that one feels, to cling to something that one loves, to cling to […]
11/15/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The perpetually changing world

The world is perpetually changing, perpetually; not for a second is it like itself, and the general harmony expresses itself more and more perfectly; therefore nothing […]
10/15/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Towards a harmonious luminous being

The body had the habit of performing its functions automatically, as a natural thing; that is to say, for it there was no question of their […]
10/11/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Everything is a choice

Everything is a choice! Everything, everything. The Lord’s choice, but in us, not there (gesture upward): here. And we do not know it, it is quite […]
10/10/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Perfect immobility

Suppose you have a pain somewhere; the instinct (the instinct of the body, the instinct of the cells) is to shrink and to seek to reject—that […]
09/02/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Cure of Suffering

It may be said in an absolute way that an evil always carries its own remedy. One might say that the cure of any suffering coexists […]