Questions and Answers 1956

07/17/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]
09/11/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Beginning of 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 […]
09/04/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Forgetting Oneself

“What is the easiest way of forgetting oneself?” Naturally that depends on each one; everyone has his special way of forgetting himself, which is the best […]
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 […]