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09/26/2024
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Character of Man

How do you know the character of a man by looking at his eyes? Not only by looking at his eyes. I know the character of […]
09/06/2024
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Outer Equality and Equality of the Soul

What is the difference between outer equality and the equality of the soul? The equality of the soul is a psychological thing. It is the power […]
08/28/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How is the instrument choosen?

How does the divine Force choose the instrument in which it wants to manifest itself? Through affinity. For the quality, the nature of the consciousness is […]
07/14/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Illness through Fever

Can one get ill through fear? Yes. I knew someone who was so full of fear that he got cholera! There was cholera in the next […]
04/15/2024

On Love

…what is better still is not to ask oneself whether one is loved or not, one should be absolutely indifferent to that. And that begins to […]
04/13/2024

Identifying with the Force to come out of one’s little ego

Q: Why do human beings always want to have something in exchange for what they give? Because they are shut up in themselves. They sense their […]
04/12/2024
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Knowing the Divine

Do you know, the only way of knowing the Divine is by identifying oneself with Him. There is no other, there is only one, one single […]
02/09/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Is it the divine acting in us?

What is the exact way of feeling that we belong to the Divine and that the Divine is acting in us? You must not feel with […]
02/02/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Experience

One can never have the same experience twice because one is never the same person twice. Between the first experience and the second, even if one […]