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Finding the Divine within oneself

Q: How can we find the Divine within ourselves? A: ..First of all, you must begin to seek Him, and

Sri Aurobindo says that all that one thinks one is, one can, by the very fact of that thinking, become.

…Delight without detachment would be a very dangerous gift which could very easily be perverted. So, to seek Delight before

…it is said that the mind can know nothing: it can know nothing because it needs explanations. An explanation is

Q: Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo mean by “a self-dynamising meditation”? A: It is a meditation that has the

…sincerity is an infinitely more powerful force than all the wills in the world. It can change anything whatever in

Quietude is a very positive state; there is a positive peace which is not the opposite of conflict—an active peace, contagious, powerful,

If you have an inner problem and want the solution, you concentrate on this problem; if you want to know the condition

So, if I tell someone “Be calm”, I may be telling him all kinds of things, it depends upon each person.

Imagine a man who wants to win the Divine’s favour, or that of some god or other, some deity, in order to