Questions and Answers 1957-1958

09/04/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The need for rest

Why does this body, as soon as some progress has been made, feel the need to sit down? It is tired. It says, “Oh! you must wait. I […]
08/20/2017
Questions and Answers

The greatest resistance

Where is the greatest resistance?… In your head… ..This is not a special case. Most often what refuses most to change is the physical mind – so obstinate, […]
08/07/2017
Questions and Answers

Give yourself generously

  When things go wrong, people blame the Force, but it is not the Force that is responsible: it is ambition, egoism, ignorance and the weakness of the vessel. […]
08/06/2017
Questions and Answers

Do not cling but go farther

  You have a guide for a part of the way but when you have travelled this part leave the road and the guide and go farther! […]
01/24/2017
The Mother with Champaklalji

Simplicity and Faith

It is quite obvious that one of the most powerful means for acting on the body is faith. People who have a simple heart, not a very complicated […]
01/15/2017
The Mother Mirra Alfassa of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Helping Others

If one sincerely wants to help others and the world, the best thing one can do is to be oneself what one wants others to be—not […]
09/28/2016
The Mother Mirra Alfassa of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Joy of effort – independent of the result

As with everything in yoga, the effort for progress must be made for the love of the effort for progress. The joy of effort, the aspiration […]