Aspiration
Aspiration is like an arrow. So you aspire, want very earnestly to understand, know, enter into the Truth. Yes? And
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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.
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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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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