Questions and Answers 1957-1958

09/28/2024
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Individuality

Individuality is a conquest. And, as Sri Aurobindo says here, this first conquest is only a first stage, and once you have realised within you something […]
09/07/2024
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How does true repose comes?

The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. The moment one is satisfied and no longer aspires, one begins to die. Life is movement, it […]
08/14/2024
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Remembering Sri Aurobindo

This evening, instead of answering questions, I would like us to meditate on the remembrance of Sri Aurobindo, on the way to keep it alive in […]
04/27/2024
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Power of Concentration: A Path to Intellectual Intuition and Spiritual Growth

When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above […]
04/25/2024

Faith: The role of personal effort

Q: Sweet Mother, can faith be increased by personal effort? Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It is like a […]
04/20/2024
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The Integral realisation: Uniting Spirit and Matter

The psychic or spiritual consciousness gives you the deep inner realisation, contact with the Divine, liberation from external fetters; but for this liberation to be effective, […]
04/19/2024
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Mental honesty: Avoiding self-deception

Q: Sweet Mother, what does “mental honesty” mean exactly? It is a mind that does not attempt to deceive itself. And in fact it is not […]
04/18/2024
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From Mind to Matter: The Journey to Supramental Consciousness

As the beginnings of the supramental life, which must be the next realisation in the unfolding of the universe, develop, perhaps not in a very obvious […]
04/16/2024

Achieving true transformation

If you wish to progress, if you make an effort to control yourself for instance, to overcome certain defects, weaknesses, imperfections, and if you expect to […]