Questions and Answers 1956

10/25/2018

A detached delight

…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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in her room

Explanations

…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

Dynamic meditation

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
Sri Aurobindo

Sincerity

…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
Words of Long Ago

Calmness belongs to the strong

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

Seeking indications from Divine books

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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Calm yourself

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
The Mother with her dogs Goro and Poochi

Animal Sacrifice – Who stands to gain?

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 […]