Questions and Answers 1955

02/07/2019

Power of Concentration

There is a way of reducing the time necessary for doing things by increasing the concentration considerably. Some people can’t do this for long, it tires […]
01/26/2019
Sri Aurobindo

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 is free inside, no longer attached […]
01/19/2019

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 I conceive as the solution of […]
01/09/2019

Aspiration

Aspiration is like an arrow,… So you aspire, want very earnestly to understand, know, enter into the truth. Yes? And then with that aspiration you do […]
12/17/2018

Depression

Not to be depressed – it is extremely important. Depression is a sign of weakness, of a bad will somewhere, and bad will in the sense […]
06/17/2018
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Self Giving

One must have a great purity and a great intensity in one’s self-giving, and that absolute trust in the supreme wisdom of the divine Grace, that […]
05/14/2018

Living on the surface

Almost totally, everybody lives on the surface, all the time, all the time on the surface. And for them it’s even the only thing which exists—the surface. And […]
02/26/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Communing with the universal forces

When one is in the countryside, when one walks under the trees and feels so close to Nature, to the trees, the sky, all the leaves, all the […]
02/18/2018

The sleeping possibilities within us

…we have a number of possibilities which we let sleep within us, because we don’t take the trouble to develop them very much.We can do infinitely […]