Questions and Answers 1953

04/09/2019

Unselfish Work – cures personal maladies

If it is a work that you are doing for the collectivity and not for yourself personally, then you must do it, whatever happens. It is […]
04/07/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry

True Inspiration

What does “inspired” mean? It means receiving something which is beyond you, which was not within you; to open yourself to an influence which is outside your individual […]
03/09/2019

Understanding the ways of the Divine

The problem is extremely complicated and subtle, and that at times the direction of the movement can be altered a little; at other times, the movement […]
01/21/2019

The paradox of life

This is life. One stumbles and falls at the first occasion. One tells oneself: “Oh! One can’t always be so serious”, and when the other part returns, once […]
11/15/2018

Sincerity

I tell you: if you look at yourself with sharp eyes, you will catch in yourself insincerities by the hundred, even though you are trying to […]
11/05/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Awareness of the Divine Grace

People are not aware of the workings of Grace except when there has been some danger, that is, when there has been the beginning of an […]
10/24/2018

The will to be cured

It is usually when the body is convinced that it has been given the conditions under which it must be all right; it takes the resolution […]
09/10/2018

Rise up during misfortune

When people get a big blow in their life, some misfortune (what men call “misfortune”, there are people who do have misfortunes), the first thing they try to […]
09/01/2018

The intellect

It is intellect that puts ideas in the form of thoughts, gathering and organising the thoughts at the same time. There are great ideas which lie […]