Questions and Answers 1955

11/18/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Learning to live

Ordinary people enter life without even knowing what it is to live, and at each step they have to learn how to live. And before knowing […]
11/16/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Awakening the Yoga Shakti

I think it (Yoga-Shakti) awakens quite naturally the moment one takes the resolution to do the yoga. If the resolution is sincere and one has an […]
11/15/2022
श्रीअरविंद आश्रम की श्रीमाँ

The true way of learning

The true way (of learning) so that it remains is to understand, it is not to learn by heart. You learn something by heart, it is […]
11/05/2022

Handling difficulties

Sweet Mother, when one has a difficulty in the day and it is not possible to see you or tell you about it, what should one […]
05/20/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Two Principal Things

There are two principal things. This, the capacity for enthusiasm which makes one come out of his greater or lesser inertia in order to throw himself […]
05/05/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Put the force and quietude in the body

Many people say, “Oh, yes, here I am not afraid.” They don’t have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, […]
05/04/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Do not want to be ill…

First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want […]
05/03/2021

Stopping the onset of illness

Q: Sweet Mother, when one sees an illness coming, how can one stop it? A: Ah! First of all, you must not want it and nothing […]
02/25/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Being truly intelligent

..if you want to be truly intelligent, you must know how to do mental gymnastics; as, you see, if you want really to have a fairly […]