Questions and Answers 1954

03/05/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Self-perception and the Divine perception of oneself

There is a tremendous difference between what you know about yourself and what I know about you. What I know about you is obviously what you […]
03/04/2024

Perfect Sincerity

Fundamentally, whatever be the path one follows—whether the path of surrender, consecration, knowledge—if one wants it to be perfect, it is always equally difficult, and there […]
03/03/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How can faith be increased?

Q: How can faith be increased? Through aspiration, I suppose. Some have it spontaneously… You see, it is difficult to pray if one doesn’t have faith, […]
08/30/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Handling Difficulties

Sweet Mother, when we are faced with a difficulty, does this mean that the Divine is trying to make us conscious of the defects of our […]
07/23/2023

The secret behind how the Divine can take on all pains and blows..

Q: …does this suffering have the same effect upon Him as upon us? That is, does He feel pain and sorrow as we feel them? No! […]
11/07/2022
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Establishing a settled peace and silence

How can we establish a settled peace and silence in the mind? First of all, you must want it. And then you must try and must […]
10/19/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]
08/17/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Why Accidents?

Accidents are due to many things; in fact they are the result of a conflict of the forces in Nature, a conflict between the forces of […]
04/30/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Physical Suffering

Physical sufferings? One thing is certain, you know; I think this was in the system, in the nature, that it was invented as an indicator; because, […]