Questions and Answers 1954

03/25/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Fine passivity results in Receptivity

Now, if you want to get true inspiration, inner guidance, the guide, and if you want to have the force, to receive the force which will […]
03/19/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Faith

[We must have] faith that always what is for the best happens. We may for the moment not consider it as the best because we are […]
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, […]
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, […]