Questions and Answers 1929-1931

11/14/2025
The Mother

The Vital’s Hunger for Praise

One of the commonest demands of the vital is for praise. It hates to be criticised and treated as if it were of little importance. But […]
08/31/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Selfless Admiration

People are so unwilling to recognise anything that expresses the Divine that they are ever on the alert to find fault, discover apparent defects and so […]
07/24/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Difficulties in Yoga

The nature of your difficulty indicates the nature of the victory you will gain, the victory you will exemplify in Yoga. Thus, if there is persistent […]
06/06/2025
The Mother

An 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 […]
03/25/2025
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 […]