Questions and Answers 1956

05/09/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Beginning of true Spiritual Life

Sweet Mother, where does our true spiritual life begin? The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the Divine in the psychic, when […]
04/15/2023
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

No general rule

One can’t make a general rule for the order of importance of the paths, it is an exclusively personal affair. And there is a time when […]
03/28/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Opposition : the starting-point of spiritual experience ?

What is ordinarily called a spiritual experience is the intense need for something other than the life one lives, and most often this awakens after difficulties […]
03/21/2023
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

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 in life. The will must be constant, the […]
02/22/2023
The Mother

Morality

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 […]
01/04/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

When is one conscious?

Sweet Mother, when can one say that one is conscious? That is always a relative question. One is never altogether unconscious and one is never completely […]
12/19/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Self Dynamising Meditation

Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo mean by “a self-dynamising meditation”? It is a meditation that has the power of transforming your being. It is a […]
11/20/2022
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

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 […]
11/06/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Escaping from other people’s influence

Sweet Mother, how can we escape from other people’s influence? By concentrating more and more totally and completely on the Divine. If you aspire with all […]