Words of Long Ago

09/12/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Suffering and Detachment

No action should be deemed good, no action should be undertaken until we know its immediate and, if possible, its distant consequences, and until it appears […]
08/23/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Synthesis

When you are able by methodical and repeated effort to objectivise and keep at a distance all this flood of incoherent thoughts which assail us, you […]
02/11/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to Master One’s Thoughts – 5 Conditions

How can one become master of one’s thought? First condition. To understand the full importance of this mastery by becoming aware, through observation, that our actions […]
01/15/2024

In the eyes of the parent

In the Ramayana the poet speaks of the father’s love for all his children: “The father has a number of children, each different in temperament and […]
09/05/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Why Sufferings?

Any suffering is therefore a precious indication to us of our weak point, of the point which demands a greater spiritual effort from us. Thus, to […]
07/02/2023
Sri Aurobindo Ashram's The Mother Charan

Making Every Moment Count

For one who lives constantly in the spiritual consciousness, everything that happens to him takes on a special value and all is conducive to his progressive […]
09/21/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Most Useful Work

What is the most useful work to be done at the present moment? The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal […]
07/20/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Helpful suffering

Suffering is not something inevitable or even desirable, but when it comes to us, how helpful it can be! Each time we feel that our heart […]
07/19/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to regain calm and peace…

IF AT any time a deep sorrow, a searing doubt or an intense pain overwhelms you and drives you to despair, there is an infallible way […]