Questions and Answers 1956
12/22/2018
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 […]
10/25/2018
…Delight without detachment would be a very dangerous gift which could very easily be perverted. So, to seek Delight before having acquired detachment does not seem […]
06/14/2018
…it is said that the mind can know nothing: it can know nothing because it needs explanations. An explanation is valuable only to the extent it […]
01/26/2018
Q: Sweet Mother, what does Sri Aurobindo mean by “a self-dynamising meditation”? A: It is a meditation that has the power of transforming your being. It […]
10/09/2017
…sincerity is an infinitely more powerful force than all the wills in the world. It can change anything whatever in the twinkling of an eye; it […]
07/25/2017
Quietude is a very positive state; there is a positive peace which is not the opposite of conflict—an active peace, contagious, powerful, which controls and calms, which puts […]
07/03/2017
If you have an inner problem and want the solution, you concentrate on this problem; if you want to know the condition you are in, which you are not […]
04/18/2017
So, if I tell someone “Be calm”, I may be telling him all kinds of things, it depends upon each person. But obviously, most often it is, “Make […]
01/19/2017
Imagine a man who wants to win the Divine’s favour, or that of some god or other, some deity, in order to obtain something very selfishly personal, something he […]