Questions and Answers 1929-1931

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 […]
11/19/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Imagination is like a Knife

The imagination is like a knife which may be used for good or evil purposes. If you always dwell in the idea and feeling that you […]
09/08/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Abandoning all Mental Conceptions

When you come to the Divine, you must abandon all mental conceptions; but, instead of doing that, you throw your conceptions upon the Divine and want […]
08/08/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Imagination is a knife ?

The imagination is like a knife which may be used for good or evil purposes. If you always dwell in the idea and feeling that you […]
07/12/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

An Important Lesson

To run away from difficulties in order to conquer them is not a solution. It is very attractive. In those who seek the spiritual life, there […]
12/28/2023

The Middle Path in spiritual life

It is interesting to note the insistence of the Dhammapada on self-control, for according to the Buddhist teaching, excess in all things is bad. The Buddha […]
12/15/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Live constantly in the presence of the Divine

Live constantly in the presence of the Divine; live in the feeling that it is this presence which moves you and is doing everything you do. […]
12/08/2023

Gathering all movements towards an integral transformation

Live constantly in the presence of the Divine; live in the feeling that it is this presence which moves you and is doing everything you do. […]
11/19/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Just Man

It is neither by moral precepts and observances, nor by a wide knowledge, nor by practising meditation, nor by a solitary life, nor by thinking”, that […]