On Thoughts and Aphorisms

11/10/2022

Meddling with other people’s affairs

You should not meddle with other people’s affairs, unless first of all you are infinitely wiser than they are—of course, one always thinks that one is […]
11/09/2022

To be is the power

..to know is all right, to speak is good, to do is all very well, but to be is the only thing which has any power. […]
11/08/2022

Doing things in His consciousness

Everything is difficult, laborious, hard, painful because everything is done outside the consciousness of the Lord. But when He takes possession of His domain once more—or […]
11/01/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Aspire intensely without impatience

Aspire intensely, but without impatience…. The difference between intensity and impatience is very subtle—it is all a difference in vibration. It is subtle, but it makes […]
10/31/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Freedom

Anything that suppresses, diminishes or lessens cannot bring freedom. Freedom has to be experienced in the whole of life and in all sensations. Ref: On Thoughts […]
05/14/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Escaping from Mental Prison

We cannot counteract the harm done by mental faith in the need for drugs by any external measures. Only by escaping from the mental prison and […]
12/22/2020

Planes of the Mind

There are many planes or zones of the mind, from the plane of the physical mind, the lower zone of ordinary thoughts, full of error and […]
10/31/2020
The Mother with Tara Jauhar

Real repentance

The truth is that when you ask forgiveness you hope that the dire consequences of what you have done will be wiped away. But that is […]
10/28/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Smile at everything

Look upon everything with a benevolent smile. Take all the things which irritate you as a lesson for yourself and your life will be more peaceful […]