Questions and Answers 1957-1958

10/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Living the Spiritual Life

To live the spiritual life, a reversal of consciousness is needed. This cannot be compared in any way with the different faculties or possibilities one has […]
10/01/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Moral Perfection

Sweet Mother, what is an ideal of moral perfection? There are thousands of moral perfections. Everyone has his own ideal of moral perfection. What is usually […]
09/29/2025
The Mother at Ayurvedic Section

Action of Spiritual Force

When the spiritual force is able to act, when it begins to have an influence, it jolts the mind’s self-satisfaction and, by continuous pressure, begins to […]
09/23/2025
The Mother

Two things to remember

First, we are incapable of judging what the result ought to be. If we put our trust in the Divine, if we say… if we say, […]
08/14/2025
Sri Aurobindo

An Important Meditation

I would like us to meditate on the remembrance of Sri Aurobindo, on the way to keep it alive in us and on the gratitude we […]
07/04/2025

Abstaining from food will not help

It is not by abstaining from food that you can make a spiritual progress. It is by being free, not only from all attachment and all […]
04/02/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Conscious Mistakes are more serious

Mother, you said that when one consciously makes a mistake it is much more serious than if one makes it unconsciously. When you make a mistake […]
09/28/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]