05/20/2024
The Mother

Impurities

Isn’t it true that one should know all one’s impurities? Knowing them is indeed necessary, but it is not good to fix one’s attention too constantly […]
05/19/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Self Deception

Sweet Mother, Self-deception has a thousand faces and a thousand ways of disguising itself in us. How can one discover it and get rid of it? […]
05/18/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

An Important Rule

To anticipate difficulties is to help them happen. Always to foresee the best with a total trust in the Divine Grace is to collaborate effectively in […]
05/17/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

Darkness

I don’t understand why the darkness comes so often and stays so long. Have I become worse than before? No, you have become more conscious. Before […]
05/16/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Renunciation

If discipline of all the members of our being by purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation […]
05/15/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Prevention from Wild and Hostile Ideas

How can I avoid being attacked by these wild and hostile ideas? You must learn to reject them when they come. Not to come into contact […]
05/14/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Openness

Openness is not always complete from the first―a part of the being opens, other parts of the consciousness remain still closed or half open only―one has […]
05/13/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

An absolutely indispensable attitude

Sweet Mother, Each time I have encountered an obstacle in my life, each time I have been deprived of some happiness—some apparent happiness—a consolation has come […]
05/12/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Thinking about work

Mother, do You know that I am thinking all the time about the work—which perhaps is not very good. On the contrary, it is very good; […]