Questions and Answers 1953

05/01/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What is being sincere?

..If you are sincere in all the elements of your being, to the very cells of your body and if your whole being integrally wants the […]
04/27/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Prayer can change the destiny

Who says that a sufficiently sincere aspiration, a sufficiently intense prayer is not capable of changing the path of the unfolding? This means that all is […]
04/25/2020

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 […]
03/20/2020

How to Stop Illness

Sweet Mother, when one sees an illness coming, how can one stop it?   Ah! First of all, you must not want it and nothing in […]
03/08/2020
The Mother with Children

Growing up

A child who doesn’t live much with older people (it is bad for children to live much among older people), a child left to itself will sleep spontaneously whatever […]
07/26/2019

Becoming perfect instruments of the Divine

If you said to yourself, my children, “We want to be as perfect instruments as possible to express the divine Will in the world”, then for […]
06/18/2019
The Mother with Tara Jauhar

Dealing with fear

If you have faith and are consecrated to the Divine, there is a very simple way (of dealing with fear), it is to say: “Let Your […]
05/12/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

To help humanity give yourself to the Divine

…if you do understand that the Divine is there, in all things, with what are you meddling in serving humanity? To serve humanity you must know better than the […]
05/09/2019

Grow a little more like the Divine

The Divine is everywhere. Yes. Things don’t seem to be divine…. As for me, I see only one solution: if you want to help humanity, there […]