01/05/2017
Mahayogi Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Self-love

I think self-love is a pleasant word for vanity. Self-love means that one loves oneself more than anything else; and what he implies by this, you see, are […]
01/04/2017

Absolute trust in the Divine Grace

One must have a great purity and a great intensity in one’s self-giving, and that absolute trust in the supreme wisdom of the divine Grace, that It knows […]
01/01/2017

Leading an interesting and worthy life

To learn constantly, not just intellectually but psychologically, to progress in regard to character, to cultivate our qualities and correct our defects, so that everything may […]
12/16/2016

Calm and Peace

Avoid as much as possible to be restless or impatient because it is in calm and peace that the forces of the Divine Grace work at […]
12/11/2016
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Superstition

Something I give you with my own hands—there I put in something; but if it is of your own choice that you have taken a ring or a […]
09/28/2016
The Mother Mirra Alfassa of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Joy of effort – independent of the result

As with everything in yoga, the effort for progress must be made for the love of the effort for progress. The joy of effort, the aspiration […]
06/18/2016
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Being Vigilant

There is a difference between preventing yourself from falling and advancing more quickly. And both are absolutely necessary. He who is not vigilant is already dead. He has lost […]
03/03/2016
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Face your weakness

Every time you are afraid to face yourself and hide carefully from yourself what prevents you from advancing, well, it is as though you were building […]
11/28/2015
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

On India

Divine Power alone can help India. If you can build faith and cohesion in the country it is much more powerful than any man-made power.                                                 […]