Questions and Answers 1954

11/19/2025
The Mother

Heavy Meal and nightmares

If one eats a heavy meal, why is the sleep disturbed by nightmares? Because there is a very close connection between dreams and the condition of […]
10/24/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Psychic Poise

Sweet Mother, what does “psychic poise” mean? Psychic poise means the poise of the being which comes from the fact that the psychic, which governs the […]
09/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptying the Consciousness

Sweet Mother, how can we empty the consciousness of its mixed contents? By aspiration, the rejection of the lower movements, a call to a higher force. […]
08/13/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Seeing Time Through Divine Eyes

We always measure time by our small human duration; but naturally the divine forces do not have the same measure as ours, and what may seem […]
08/04/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Self Love

What does “self-love” mean? I think self-love is a pleasant word for vanity. Self-love means that one loves oneself more than anything else; and what he […]
07/14/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Controlling mental impulses by struggle

Sweet Mother, how can one obtain a mental control of these impulses by a struggle? All educated people do it. Only the barbarian doesn’t do it. […]
07/12/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Getting out of Ego

The surest means is to give oneself to the Divine; not to try to draw the Divine to oneself but try to give oneself to the […]
06/28/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Receptivity

Mother, on what does receptivity depend? It depends first of all upon sincerity—on whether one really wants to receive—and then… yes, I believe the principal factors […]
06/18/2025
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Emptying the consciousness of Mixed Contents

Sweet Mother, how can we empty the consciousness of its mixed contents? By aspiration, the rejection of the lower movements, a call to a higher force. […]