Questions and Answers 1929-1931

01/30/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The fault

It is not really by what is called blind faith that people are misled. They often say, “Oh, I have believed in this or that man […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]