Questions and Answers 1956

06/02/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashrm with Tara Didi

Difficulties

Difficulties always arise from the ego, that is, from your more or less egoistic personal reaction to circumstances, events and people around you, to the conditions […]
04/05/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Playing Tennis

Physical beauty for a woman

What is the ideal of physical beauty for a woman? Perfect harmony of proportions, suppleness and strength, grace and force, plasticity, endurance and, above all, an […]
03/08/2025
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Morality and Consciousness

Sweet Mother, hasn’t morality helped us to increase our consciousness? That depends on people. There are people who are helped by it, there are people who […]
12/19/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Being perfectly Sincere

To be perfectly sincere it is indispensable not to have any preference, any desire, any attraction, any dislike, any sympathy or antipathy, any attachment, any repulsion. […]
08/21/2024
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Finding divine within ourselves

How can we find the Divine within ourselves? First of all, you must begin to seek Him, and then that must be the most important thing […]
07/17/2024
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Sweetness and Joy in Difficulty

How can one feel sweetness and joy when one is in difficulty? Exactly, when the difficulty is egoistic or personal, if one makes an offering of […]
02/19/2024
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Divine and Religion

Can one realise the Divine by this method [of religion]? Those who carry within themselves a spiritual destiny and are born to realise the Divine, to […]
02/03/2024
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Materially you are nothing, spiritually you are everything

Sweet Mother, I would like to have the explanation of a sentence. Sri Aurobindo has said somewhere, “Materially you are nothing, spiritually you are everything.” That […]
10/14/2023
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United by Divine Presence

Whether you know it or not, whether you want it or not, you are all united by the divine Presence which, though it appears fragmented, is […]