Questions and Answers 1954

01/13/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Accepting the Grace

What is the way to accept the Grace with gratitude? Ah! First of all you must feel the need for it. This is the most important […]
12/10/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]
12/06/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Descent of Faith

What are the conditions in which there is a descent of faith? The most important condition is an almost childlike trust, the candid trust of a […]
11/22/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What is Spiritual Experience

You speak of spiritual experience. What is an experience and how can one have it? It is something which puts you in contact with a consciousness […]
11/13/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to get out of the Ego?

What attitude should one take to get out of the ego? Attitude? It is rather a will, isn’t it? You must will it… What should one […]
10/14/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Ascetic Methods for Self mastery

Mother, for self-mastery are not the ascetic methods useful sometimes? No! You cure nothing. You only give yourself the illusion that you have progressed, but you […]
09/15/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Accepting Grace with Gratitude

What is the way to accept the Grace with gratitude? Ah! First of all you must feel the need for it. This is the most important […]
07/30/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Giving oneself to Divine

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 […]
07/29/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

To Aspire

To aspire is indispensable. But some people aspire with such a conflict inside them between faith and absence of faith, trust and distrust, between the optimism […]