Purpose of Money
…the first thing to do when one has money is to give it. But as it is said that it
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Questions and Answers 1955
Conversations based on three works by Sri Aurobindo: Bases of Yoga, Lights on Yoga and The Synthesis of Yoga.
The inwardly courageous people
There are people who… I have known people who were physically very courageous, and were very, very cowardly morally, because
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Overcoming cowardice
Q: Mother, if one is cowardly and avoids a difficulty, if next time the difficulty is still greater, then how
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An absolute unquestioning surrender
“To question, to resist in some part of the being increases trouble and difficulties.” For instance, when the guru tells
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Isolating oneself
…There is always a way of isolating oneself by an atmosphere of protection, if one knows how to have an extremely quiet
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Being chosen by God
…it is God who has chosen you, the Divine who has chosen you. And that is why you run after
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Respect for an object
There is a kind of respect for the object one has, which must make one treat it with much consideration
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Power of Concentration
There is a way of reducing the time necessary for doing things by increasing the concentration considerably. Some people can’t
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The dry coconut – an image of the being
It is said that when one has realised, one becomes like the dry coconut which moves in the shell, which
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Genders – the Divide is the problem
Instead of there being two lines, one masculine and one feminine, there should be one single being, and that’s what
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