Questions and Answers 1950-1951

07/19/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Man – the highest being in creation ?

Q:  ..how is it that man is regarded as the highest being in creation? It is the egoistic ignorance of man that makes him think so. […]
04/22/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Offering and Surrender

Does not offering imply surrender? Not at all. You can give for the joy of giving, without any idea of surrender. In a movement of enthusiasm, […]
09/17/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Maintaining a high level of consciousness

Naturally, the effort to keep the consciousness at a high level is tiring in the beginning, like the exercises you do to develop your muscles. But […]
09/15/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Function of the senses

The senses should be capable of enduring everything without disgust or displeasure, but at the same time they must acquire and develop more and more the […]
09/14/2022

True Aspiration

From the purely psychological point of view, aspiration is a self-giving, always, while desire is always something which one draws to oneself; aspiration is something which […]
07/18/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Silence

…know how to keep silent. And not only keep your tongue quiet, but silence your mind, keep the head silent. If you wish to have a […]
07/17/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sensing the Divine Presence

..the movement of fear which is expressed by the eyes fluttering is not a mental or a vital fear: it is a fear in the cells […]
07/16/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The power of confidence

One thing that is now beginning to be recognised by everyone, even by the medical corps, is that hygienic measures, for example, are effective only to […]
07/14/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Tackling the recalcitrant parts of our nature

Q: How to persuade the recalcitrant parts of our nature to surrender? A: Try to make them understand, as one does with a child who does […]