Some Answers from The Mother

12/19/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sure test to check the absence of desire?

Q: Sweet Mother, How can we know that our acts, our thoughts and our aspirations are not tainted by vital desire, though they may seem right […]
12/16/2023

Getting out of mental laziness and inertia

Q: Sweet Mother, How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia? By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every […]
12/09/2023

Why does anger exist?

Q: Sweet Mother, Why does anger exist? I suppose you are asking where anger comes from. Anger is a violent reaction of the vital to some […]
12/07/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Concentrate on the Divine before sleeping

Q: Sweet Mother, There was a time when I used to see You often in my dreams and sometimes I even saw Sri Aurobindo too. But […]
12/06/2023

Serving the Truth

Q: Sweet Mother, What must we do to serve the Truth? Must it first of all be lived? To serve It, you must live it. To […]
12/04/2023

Fear

Fear is an invention of the hostile forces who have created it as the best means of dominating living beings, animals and men. Those who are pure—that […]
11/30/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The cause of illnesses and accidents

Q: Sweet Mother, Are illnesses and accidents the result of something bad one has thought or done, of a fall in one’s consciousness? If the cause […]
11/20/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Serving Truth

Sweet Mother, What must we do to serve the Truth? Must it first of all be lived? To serve It, you must live it. To live […]
11/16/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Jealousy and Laziness – What’s the Solution?

Sweet Mother, How can one get rid of, or rather correct, jealousy and laziness? It is selfishness that makes one jealous; it is weakness that makes […]