Questions and Answers 1954

04/21/2020
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Love of Parents

Sweet Mother, what kind of love do parents have for their children?   What kind? A human love, don’t they? Like all human loves: frightfully mixed, […]
04/12/2020

What happen if one eats meat?

What happen if one eats meat?   Do you want me to tell you a story? I knew a lady, a young Swedish woman, who was […]
12/10/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Aspiration explained by The Mother

…aspiration is aspiration: if you have aspiration, in itself it has a power. Only, this aspiration calls down an answer, and this answer, the effect, which […]
11/09/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Vanity

There is nothing that closes you up more than vanity. When you are self-satisfied, you have that kind of vanity of not wanting to admit that […]
11/04/2019

How to strengthen one’s will

Q: Mother, how can one strengthen one’s will? Ans: Oh, as one strengthen muscles, by a methodical exercise. You take one little thing, something you want […]
09/30/2019
The Mother

Total Purity

One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This […]
06/26/2019

How to Conquer Fear ?

One of the great remedies for conquering fear is to face boldly what one fears. You are put face to face with the danger you fear and you […]
06/15/2019
Wallpaper of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Mother

Happiness and sincerity

The moment you feel unhappy, you may write beneath it: “I am not sincere!” These two sentences go together: “I FEEL UNHAPPY.” “I AM NOT SINCERE.” […]
10/31/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

“Call me, call me”

“My children, if you are doing something difficult, call me, call me.” No, not in order to come first or gain a victory, but so that nothing unpleasant […]