Questions and Answers 1953

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 […]
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 […]