Questions and Answers 1955

09/11/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Overcoming cowardice

Q: Mother, if one is cowardly and avoids a difficulty, if next time the difficulty is still greater, then how long does this continue? A: It […]
09/10/2019

An absolute unquestioning surrender

“To question, to resist in some part of the being increases trouble and difficulties.” For instance, when the guru tells you to do something, if you […]
07/19/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Isolating oneself

…There is always a way of isolating oneself by an atmosphere of protection, if one knows how to have an extremely quiet vibration, so quiet that it makes […]
03/30/2019

Being chosen by God

…it is God who has chosen you, the Divine who has chosen you. And that is why you run after Him! And this is what gives […]
03/17/2019

Respect for an object

There is a kind of respect for the object one has, which must make one treat it with much consideration and try to preserve it as […]
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 […]