Questions and Answers 1953

01/18/2018
Sri Aurobindo

Yoga and personal satisfaction

You may open millions of hospitals, that will not prevent people getting ill. On the contrary, they will have every facility and encouragement to fall ill. […]
11/14/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Total refusal to deceive the Divine

And you find that there is not a day, not an hour, not a minute when you do not need to intensify, rectify your sincerity — […]
10/28/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

True surrender

You might have, for example, worked very hard to do a certain thing, so that something might happen, you might have given much time, much of your energy, […]
09/28/2017

Identifying oneself with The Divine

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 way. Hence, once […]
06/25/2017

Practise what you wish to do for others

You can do nothing for others unless you are able to do it for yourself. You can never give a good advice to anyone unless you are able […]
02/08/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Not knowing one’s fault

Not to know one’s fault is always the sign of an insincerity somewhere. And generally, it is hidden in the vital. When the vital consents to collaborate (which is […]
01/25/2017
The Mother taking classes

Finding the Divine when at work

It matters little what one does. There are numerous examples of people who were doing gardening, or cultivating, and who found the Divine even while they were working physically; […]