Questions and Answers 1929-1931

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 […]
09/16/2023
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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 […]
06/23/2023
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First Imperative Need in Meditation

In your meditation the first imperative need is a state of perfect and absolute sincerity in all the consciousness. It is indispensable that you should not […]
05/30/2023
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An inexpressible Joy

It is an inexpressible joy not to have any responsibility for oneself, no longer to think of oneself. It is so dull and monotonous and insipid […]
12/21/2022
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An unshaken confidence – dispels all discomfort and disease

Whatever the character of the experience you have, you must give no room to fear; you must keep an unshaken confidence and feel that whatever happens […]
11/23/2022

Endurance

The very essence of endurance is that the vital should learn to give up its capricious likes and dislikes and preserve an equanimity in the midst of the most trying conditions. When you are treated roughly by somebody […]
11/22/2022
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To Glimpse the Truth

To have a glimpse of the Truth, one must take at least one step back in one’s consciousness, enter a little more deeply into one’s being […]
11/13/2022

Obeying the Divine command

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 […]