Questions and Answers 1956

10/23/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Understanding the Divine

How can one understand the Divine? By being Him, my child. And that is the only way: by identity. As Sri Aurobindo says, “We know the […]
10/20/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Love Alone…

Sweet Mother, can one realise the Divine through love alone? Oh! yes, my child, certainly. It is even the most direct way. One can realise the […]
09/22/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Secret Power

Do not allow any discouragement to come upon you and have no distrust of the Divine Grace. Whatever difficulties are outside you, whatever weaknesses are inside […]
09/20/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Yoga and Religion

Sweet Mother, what is the difference between yoga and religion?   Ah! my child… it is as though you were asking me the difference between a […]
06/22/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The need of Diversity

If you arrive at the conception of the world as the expression of the Divine in all His complexity, then the necessity for complexity and diversity […]
12/27/2020

Freedom and Mastery

Mother. You have said that the student must be given full freedom. Now, some interpret this as meaning that there should be no fixed classes, for […]
08/28/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Gratitude

There is another movement which should constantly accompany devotion…. That kind of sense of gratitude that the Divine exists; that feeling of a marvelling thankfulness which […]
07/27/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Increasing one’s understanding

Sweet Mother, how can one increase one’s understanding?   One’s understanding? Well, by increasing one’s consciousness, by going beyond the mind, by widening one’s consciousness, deepening […]
06/27/2020
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Five Inner Qualities Necessary for Sadhana

Sri Aurobindo has said that surrender is the first and absolute condition for doing the yoga. So … this is not just one of the necessary […]