10/30/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Absence of Thought

The absence of thought is quite the right thing—for the true inner consciousness is a silent consciousness which has not to think out things, but gets […]
10/29/2025
Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Meaning of psychic self control

The psychic self-control that is desirable in these surroundings and in the midst of discussion would mean among other things: (1) Not to allow the impulse […]
10/28/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptiness

Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very […]
10/27/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The faith which is needed…

It is this faith that you need to develop—a faith which is in accordance with reason and common sense—that if the Divine exists and has called […]
10/26/2025
The Mother

Difficulty due to Relatives and Others

The difficulty which you experience from relatives and others is always one that intervenes as an obstacle when one has to practise the sadhana in ordinary […]
10/25/2025
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Compliments ? A great error of Human Vital

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 […]
10/24/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Psychic Poise

Sweet Mother, what does “psychic poise” mean? Psychic poise means the poise of the being which comes from the fact that the psychic, which governs the […]
10/23/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

An Important Reminder

You are with someone. This person tells you something, you tell him the contrary (as it usually happens, simply through a spirit of contradiction) and you […]
10/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Living the Spiritual Life

To live the spiritual life, a reversal of consciousness is needed. This cannot be compared in any way with the different faculties or possibilities one has […]