03/15/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Food and energy

Q: How is it possible to be active like this without food? One draws energy from the vital plane instead of depending on physical sustenance. Once […]
03/14/2022

Effect of fasting on Yoga

Q: What is the effect of fasting? The effect of fasting on Yoga? It gives a sort of excitement to the vital being, but the effect […]
03/12/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Surface consciousness of the inner vital

Q: All I can say is that I was having many incoherent dreams and visions—perhaps in the surface consciousness. . The surface consciousness of the inner […]
03/10/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Reasonableness in spirituality

Q: Wasn’t Dr. Becharlal’s fear of illness merely a mental notion? How can one fall ill by sitting a long time in meditation? Not just by […]
03/09/2022
The Mother

Suitable time for meditation

Q: Are day-hours better than night-hours for meditation? I seem to get more concentrated at night. That may be due to the calm and quiet atmosphere […]
03/08/2022

Achieving psychic control

Q: How is the psychic control to be got? By constant remembrance, consecration of oneself to the Divine, rejection of all that stands in the way […]
03/07/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Q: To attain the right attitude, what principles should we follow in our dealing and behaviour with others? It seems to me that one should go […]
03/06/2022
Sri Aurobindo

On conquering fear

Q: How is fear to be conquered? By mental strength, will and spiritual power. In my own case, whenever there was any fear, I used to […]
03/05/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Killing mosquitos

Q: Sir, it is a sin to kill them? What is sin? If you don’t kill them, they will go and bite some other people and […]