Questions and Answers 1957-1958

03/20/2024

Watching over one’s faith

Certainly a personal effort is needed to preserve one’s faith, to let it grow within. Later—much later—one day, looking back, we may see that everything that […]
01/31/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Facing yourself

Every time you are afraid to face yourself and hide carefully from yourself what prevents you from advancing, well, it is as though you were building […]
01/29/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Universe has a Plan

It must necessarily be admitted that there is a plan in the universe, that it is not something that comes about by chance, and that there […]
11/29/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

First Indispensable Step

..to realise the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo the control of one’s body is a first indispensable step. Those who despise physical activities are people who […]
11/22/2023
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Remaining Silent

From the point of view of individual development and for those who are still at the beginning of the path, to know how to remain silent […]
10/09/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Truth Consciousness

Everyone has his own idea which is more or less clear, more or less organised, more or less precise, and this idea he calls the world. […]
06/19/2023
The Mother

Reminder

Give yourself generously and with a perfect disinterestedness and from the deeper point of view nothing bad will ever happen to you. Try to take and […]
01/14/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Most Dangerous Thing

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 […]
11/02/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Censors

Each person carries with himself in his atmosphere what Sri Aurobindo calls the “Censors”; they are in a way permanent delegates of the adverse forces. Their […]