10/25/2025
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Compliments ? A great error of Human Vital

That is a great error of the human vital—to want compliments for their own sake and to be depressed by their absence and imagine that it […]
10/24/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Psychic Poise

Sweet Mother, what does “psychic poise” mean? Psychic poise means the poise of the being which comes from the fact that the psychic, which governs the […]
10/23/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

An Important Reminder

You are with someone. This person tells you something, you tell him the contrary (as it usually happens, simply through a spirit of contradiction) and you […]
10/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Living the Spiritual Life

To live the spiritual life, a reversal of consciousness is needed. This cannot be compared in any way with the different faculties or possibilities one has […]
10/21/2025
The Mother

Trouble comes from Fear

You must not fear. Most of your troubles come from fear. In fact, ninety per cent of illnesses are the result of the subconscient fear of […]
10/20/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Struggle with Self-Control

Sweet Mother, We know that we should not do certain things and we do not really want to do them, but still we do them. Why […]
10/17/2025
Painting by Priti Das Gupta

Drawing out of vital forces

Q: How can the vital forces be drawn out when one is in contact with the Divine Consciousness? The forces that support the work around one […]
10/16/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Buddhi or Intellect

Q: According to Indian philosophy sadasad viveka shakti (the power of discriminating the true from the false) is called Buddhi. That is not Understanding. Can one […]
10/15/2025
Sri Aurobindo's Feet

Inaction in action

Q: This division of consciousness into two, one feeling fundamentally free and the other imperfect or impure is a very common experience. It is not only […]