01/27/2017
Sri Aurobindo Painting by Priti Das Gupta

Purpose of darkness

He has need of darkness to perceive some light And need of grief to feel a little bliss; He has need of death to find a […]
01/26/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The way to deal with depressing thoughts

The only thing to do with such depressing thoughts is not to indulge them, to send them away at once. Vital difficulties are the common lot of every […]
01/25/2017

Work as an offering to The Divine

Whatever is our work and whatever we do, we must do it sincerely, honestly, scrupulously, not in view of any personal profit, but as an offering to the […]
01/25/2017
The Mother taking classes

Finding the Divine when at work

It matters little what one does. There are numerous examples of people who were doing gardening, or cultivating, and who found the Divine even while they were working physically; […]
01/24/2017
The Mother with Champaklalji

Simplicity and Faith

It is quite obvious that one of the most powerful means for acting on the body is faith. People who have a simple heart, not a very complicated […]
01/23/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Individualisation

Individualisation, the capacity to take up all experiences and organise them around the divine centre. The aim of the psychic being is to form an individual being, individualised, “personalised” […]
01/22/2017

Remaining in the higher consciousness

The safest way is precisely not to go down, it is to remain above and from there to put a pressure on what is below. But if you […]
01/21/2017

Heroism

Heroism is to be able to stand for the Truth in all circumstances, to declare it amidst opposition and to fight for it whenever necessary. And to act […]
01/21/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Faith is certitude without proof

Confidence—one can have confidence in life, trust in the Divine, trust in others, trust in one’s own destiny, that is, one has the feeling that everything […]