Questions and Answers 1955

09/07/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

True Way of Learning

Sweet Mother, when we learn something by heart to recite it, what is the true way of learning, so that it remains? The true way so […]
09/03/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

It is not the Divine who upsets you…

Some people always imagine that catastrophes are the result of the divine Will. There are others—as soon as they receive a force, they are terribly upset; […]
07/27/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

To dry up the Heart

Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of “to dry up the heart”? To dry up the heart! People say that your heart is dried up when […]
07/20/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Escaping other people’s influence

Sweet Mother, how can we escape from other people’s influence? By concentrating more and more totally and completely on the Divine. If you aspire with all […]
07/16/2025
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Pushing Back? Changing State of Consciousness.. What’s the way?

There is a great difference between pushing back a thing simply because one doesn’t want it and changing the state of one’s consciousness which makes the […]
07/11/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to act truly?

There is only one way of acting truly, it is to try at each moment, each second, in each movement to express only the highest truth […]
05/23/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Is the reason always right?

Is the reason always right in its own domain? Reason? Yes. If it is really reason, it is right. It is not absolutely right if one […]
04/18/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Super Ego

Sweet Mother, what is a “super-ego”? A super-ego means an ego that’s enlarged, swollen, made more important, even, than it can be… Super-ego means an ego […]
04/17/2025
The Mother with Tara Didi

Transforming Pain in Pleasure

Sweet Mother, how can one transform pain into forms of pleasure? Ah! But that’s not something to be done, my children. I shall certainly not give […]