Questions and Answers 1954

10/23/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The way to get true inspiration

…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 guide you and […]
10/03/2017
Sri Aurobindo

Thy will be done

Naturally, if one’s surrender is truly sincere and there is this constant attitude in the being, this total self giving to the Divine, “Thy Will be […]
09/19/2017
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Being successful without being affected

One must be very great, very pure, have a very high and very disinterested spiritual consciousness in order to be successful without being affected by it. […]
06/20/2017

Quietening the mind

…you must say, as to people who make a lot of noise, “Keep quiet, be quiet, be quiet!”; you must do this when the mind comes along with […]
06/14/2017

What is passivity?

Passivity is not laziness. An active movement is one in which you throw your force out, that is, when something comes out from you—in a movement, a thought, a […]
05/27/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Need to be wide awake to lead a spiritual life

If one wants to lead the spiritual life, one must not be three-fourths asleep. It is necessary to be wide awake and very attentive, otherwise you are like […]
01/21/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Faith is certitude without proof

Confidence—one can have confidence in life, trust in the Divine, trust in others, trust in one’s own destiny, that is, one has the feeling that everything […]
01/16/2017
Words of Long Ago

Teaching children to live right

To live in the right way is a very difficult art, and unless one begins to learn it when quite young and to make an effort, one never […]
01/11/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Superstitious wearing of rings or portraits

Something I give you with my own hands—there I put in something; but if it is of your own choice that you have taken a ring or a […]