06/24/2017

Abolish the ego

The ego must be abolished, the rule of the ego must be abolished. But generally people believe that it is not possible to abolish the physical ego; not […]
06/23/2017

Contact with the Divine

Aspiration and devotion are the natural and easy means for getting the contact (with the Divine). The other way by effort is laborious, slow and not sure. The […]
06/22/2017

The Most Difficult Thing

To be at once a passive and perfectly pure mirror, turned simultaneously without and within, to the results of the manifestation and the sources of this […]
06/21/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo

To be constantly governed by the Divine

(To be constantly governed by the Divine) A constant aspiration for that is the first thing – next a sort of stillness within and a drawing […]
06/20/2017

Quietening the mind

…you must say, as to people who make a lot of noise, “Keep quiet, be quiet, be quiet!”; you must do this when the mind comes along with […]
06/19/2017
Words of Long Ago

The way to relax

You see, one has to know how to relax, then one does not get tired. After the day’s work one has to relax, without thinking, and […]
06/18/2017

Writing to The Mother

When the sadhaks write to the Mother, it is not to get answers from her about the small things of daily life – sometimes they do it when […]
06/17/2017
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother Samadhi at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Pondicherry

The most powerful protection

… when you receive a shock, is to answer at once by this thought —”Let the Peace of the Lord be with you.”— Not in spoken […]
06/16/2017

The vision is important

A mystic poem may explain itself or a general idea may emerge from it, but it is the vision that is important or what one can get from […]