06/01/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sympathy

By the sympathy you get into contact and receive what is in the other—or also you may give or let go or have drawn from you […]
05/31/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Mental Laziness and Inertia

Sweet Mother, How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia? By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day […]
05/30/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The personal effort needed …

The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender,— an aspiration vigilant, constant, unceasing—the mind’s will, the heart’s seeking, the assent of […]
05/29/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Three Rules for Remaining Open to the Mother

Nothing is more dangerous than the influences of the physical mind trying to build up conclusions upon outward appearances―they have nine chances out of ten of […]
05/28/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Prayer

Thou settest in motion, Thou stirrest and churnest the innumerable elements of this world, so that, from their primal darkness, their primeval chaos, they may awaken […]
05/27/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Mistakes in Work

Do not worry about mistakes in work. Often you imagine that things are badly done by you when really you have done them very well; but […]
05/26/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What constitutes an individuality?

Sweet Mother, Being far from the Truth-Consciousness, must one always remain silent, even though as an individual one is obliged to make decisions and give opinions? […]
05/25/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Mental Inertia

Sweet Mother, Are mental indifference and lack of curiosity a sort of mental inertia? Usually they are due to mental inertia, unless one has obtained this […]
05/24/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Peace in Vital

My dear child, Only spiritual force has the power to impose peace on the vital, for if peace is not imposed on it by a power […]