Questions and Answers 1956

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 […]
07/02/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Physical needs of the body

People always have the impression that what they call the needs of the body, what the body demands, is an absolute law; that if it is […]
04/08/2019

Give to receive

…the best way of receiving anything whatever is not to pull, but to give. If they want to give themselves to the new life, well, the new life […]
03/14/2019

The Divine knows what is truly needed

…you simply have an aspiration within you, an urge, an intense ardent need to find That, which you conceive more or less clearly to be the Truth of […]
02/12/2019
Sri Aurobindo

The method to detach

When one wants to detach oneself from something, from a certain movement or activity or state of consciousness, this is the most effective method; one steps […]
01/04/2019

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 most […]
12/22/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What one thinks, one becomes

Sri Aurobindo says that all that one thinks one is, one can, by the very fact of that thinking, become. This knowledge of the fact that […]