10/09/2018

On Suicide

Suicide solves nothing – it only brings one back to life with the same difficulties to be faced in worse conditions. If one wishes to escape […]
10/08/2018

Divine Grace

(An incident associated with Maa Mandir, Sri Arvindgram) Usually, men think that all the material objects of the world belong to him such that when he […]
10/08/2018

Servitude

In a country where subjection has long become a habit of the public mind, there will always be a tendency to shrink from the realities of […]
10/07/2018
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

The liberated man

The liberated man has no personal hopes; he does not seize on things as his personal possessions; he receives what the divine Will brings in, covets […]
10/06/2018

The Soulhood

The culmination of Karmayoga is a yet higher and deeper state that may perhaps be called “soulhood”,—for the soul is greater than the man; a free […]
10/05/2018
Words of Long Ago

Achieving Quietitude

If you can achieve quietude followed by an upward openness, it is better than the effort which sways between strong experiences and strong adverse reactions. Ref: Letters on Yoga […]
10/04/2018

Teaching children

Children have everything to learn. This should be their main preoccupation in order to prepare themselves for a useful and productive life. At the same time, […]
10/03/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

On expectation of miracles

There is no miraculous force and I do not deal in miracles. The word Divine here is out of place, if it is taken as an […]
10/02/2018

Purity of Thought

Inevitably a thought which expresses the truth is necessarily a thought which is pure, for otherwise it could not express the truth. Ref: Questions and Answers 1954