Questions and Answers 1956

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 […]
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 […]