Questions and Answers 1950-1951

09/17/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Divine alone is responsible

Every hour of my life I have learnt that one can learn something; but I have never felt bound by the opinion of others, for I consider that […]
09/11/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Know how to keep silent

..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 true, sincere […]
09/10/2017
Painting by Priiti Das Gupta

Changing unwanted character

If you have a serious difficulty in your character, for example, the habit of losing your temper, and you decide: “I must not get angry again”, it is […]
08/27/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Gossiping

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 you do […]
08/18/2017
Questions and Answers

Making a choice

He says you must choose, and the choice is constantly put before you and constantly you must choose, and if you do not choose, well, you […]
08/10/2017
Questions and Answers

Connect with the universal vibrations – Through effort

  It is only effort, in whatever domain it be—material effort, moral effort, intellectual effort—which creates in the being certain vibrations which enable you to get connected […]
07/02/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Purifying one’s weakness

If precisely you have the necessary sincerity to look straight in the face, within you, at the cause of the fit—the wrong you have done, the wrong you […]
03/31/2017
Priti Das Painting

Looking at a problem

There are a hundred ways of looking at a problem. If you want to find the solution, you must take up all the elements one after another, rise […]
03/20/2017
Sketch by The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Poverty of Mind

People who take pleasure in writing ugly things show a great poverty of mind—it is always a sign of a poverty of mind. It is infinitely more difficult […]