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05/18/2021

Illness and inner imbalance

..all illnesses, all, whatever they may be (I would add even accidents) come from a break in equilibrium. That is, if all your organs, all the […]
05/17/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The true attitude when one is ill

I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of the Divine Grace to help them to progress. They told themselves: it […]
05/16/2021
The Mother with Tara Jauhar

Mental, Vital and Physical fear in illness

Q: What is the difference between mental, vital and physical fear? A: If you are conscious of the movement of your mind, the movement of your […]
05/15/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Regaining equilibrium in the body

Every doctor who is something of a philosopher will tell you: “It is like that; we doctors give only the occasion, but it is the body […]
05/13/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Re-establishing equilibrium to cure illness

There is no other way of curing people. It is simply when one sees the disequilibrium and is capable of re-establishing the equilibrium that one is […]
05/11/2021

Illness – a disequilibrium

In reality illness is only a disequilibrium; if then you are able to establish another equilibrium, this disequilibrium disappears. An illness is simply, always, in every […]
07/06/2020
The Mother with Children

Types of Prayers and Aspiration

There is the purely mechanical, material prayer, with words which have been learnt and are mechanically repeated. That does not signify anything much. And that has […]
06/09/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Superstitions and Accidents

Q: Are superstitions mental rules?   No, not rules but mental formations. Generally a superstition originates in an experience. For instance, there is a certain superstition […]
05/19/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Cause of All Difficulties

In human life the cause of all difficulties, all discords, all moral sufferings, is the presence in everyone of the ego with its desires, its likes […]