Questions and Answers 1957-1958

04/27/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]
04/11/2024

Cure

In most cases the use of medicines—within reasonable limits, that is, when one doesn’t poison oneself by taking medicines—is simply to help the body to have […]
04/10/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Not to be discouraged..

Q: Sweet Mother, when we make an effort to do better but don’t see any progress, we feel discouraged. What is the best thing to do? […]
04/09/2024
Questions and Answers

Illness and the cause

No two illnesses are alike, though labels are put on diseases and attempts made to group them; but in fact every person is ill in his […]