Questions and Answers 1929-1931

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 […]
12/08/2023

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
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 […]
12/21/2022
Divine Feet of The Mother

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
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 […]