06/14/2021

Religious and Spiritual Teaching

You must not confuse a religious teaching with a spiritual one. Religious teaching belongs to the past and halts progress. Spiritual teaching is the teaching of […]
06/13/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A child’s confidence

You must remember one thing: the dark periods are inevitable. When your psychic is active, you feel a delight without any apparent reason. It continues for […]
06/12/2021
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Intellectual Preparation

It is not enough to devote ourselves by the reading of Scriptures or by the stress of philosophic reasoning to an intellectual understanding of the Divine; […]
06/11/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Need of Compliments

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 […]
06/10/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Mother’s Help from distance

Is it possible to receive the Mother’s help at a great distance—say Bombay or Calcutta—almost in the same way as here in the Asram? One can […]
06/09/2021

How to be free …

Freedom and fatality, liberty and determinism are truths that obtain on different levels of consciousness. It is ignorance that makes the mind put the two on […]
06/08/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Sadhaka of the Infinite

For the sadhaka of the integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however great its authority or however large its spirit, can […]
06/07/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Interval Periods in Sadhana

Naturally the more one-pointed the aspiration the swifter the progress. The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past […]
06/06/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Pure flame of gratefulness

To be grateful, never to forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads each one to his divine goal by the shortest ways, in spite […]