Questions and Answers 1929-1931

11/22/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]
11/12/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Self-discipline and Self-mastery

Self-discipline and self-mastery are the secret; the secret is to find in oneself the source of the Truth and that constant government of the Divine Will […]
11/11/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Power of Money

The power of money is at present under the influence or in the hands of the forces and beings of the vital world. It is because […]
06/23/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Moral and the Spiritual view of things

Let us take an illustration of the difference between the moral and the spiritual view of things. The ordinary social notions distinguish between two classes of […]
06/09/2021

How to be free …

Freedom and fatality, liberty and determinism are truths that obtain on different levels of consciousness. It is ignorance that makes the mind put the two on […]
05/10/2021
Sri Aurobindo's Feet

Re-establishing harmony in the body to cure illness

Each spot of the body is symbolical of an inner movement; there is there a world of subtle correspondences. …The particular place in the body affected […]
05/09/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The real cause of illness

The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you carry within you or there swarm about you the microbes and germs […]
05/08/2021

Physical ailments and the inner state of the being

Q: What are physical ailments? Are they attacks by the hostile forces from outside? A: There are two factors that have to be considered in the […]