Questions and Answers 1956

06/24/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Medical Knowledge

… about medical knowledge in the world: if you have studied enough or lived long enough, that is, a fairly good number of years, you will […]
11/13/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Handling Experiences

..when you have an experience, you must never, during the period of the experience, try to understand what it is, for you immediately cause it to […]
11/02/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Identifying activities which increase aspiration

…each one must find those activities which increase his aspiration, his consciousness, his deeper knowledge of things, and those which, on the contrary, mechanise him and […]
10/30/2019

The Universal Experience

Don’t try to understand with words and with your head, for these two words express altogether different experiences. And yet the result is the same, but […]
10/19/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 then that must be the […]
08/18/2019

What you desire in the Divine – you find

For, truly speaking, each one finds only what he wants to find of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo has said this by turning it the other way […]
07/30/2019
The Mother's Balcony Darhsna

The habit of copying

People have a lamentable habit of copying what has been done before and what is done by others. Long ago I told you this. That argument: […]
07/27/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Purpose of Life

..human beings come into a physical body without knowing why, most of them go through life without knowing why, they leave their body without knowing why, […]
07/24/2019

Asking the Divine

If you turn to the Divine and have full trust and ask Him, you will get what you need—not necessarily what you imagine you need; but […]