Questions and Answers 1929-1931

03/25/2025
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Chance

What do we understand by the term “chance”? Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that […]
03/23/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Stepping Back

Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your […]
03/18/2025
Sri Aurobindo Ashram's The Mother Charan

Surrender and Sacrifice

Is not surrender the same as sacrifice? In our Yoga there is no room for sacrifice. But everything depends on the meaning you put on the […]
03/15/2025

A Practical Exercise

I suggest that every one of you should try—oh! not for long, just for one hour a day—to say nothing but the absolutely indispensable words. Not […]
03/12/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Resurrection

Resurrection means, for us, the falling off of the old consciousness; but it is not only a rebirth, a sudden change which completely breaks with the […]
02/28/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Chance

What do we understand by the term “chance”? Chance can only be the opposite of order and harmony. There is only one true harmony and that […]
02/12/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

True Attitude on Discovering one’s Faults

Instead of growing sad and telling yourself, “Oh, there is still another defect”, you should, on the contrary, rejoice as if you had made a wonderful […]
01/30/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The fault

It is not really by what is called blind faith that people are misled. They often say, “Oh, I have believed in this or that man […]
11/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Stepping Back

Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your […]