01/22/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

To be modest

Generally people pass from an excessive appreciation of their personal value to an equally excessive discouragement. One day they say, “I am wonderful”, and the next […]
01/21/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Suffering

Suffering is not inflicted as a punishment for sin or for hostility—that is a wrong idea. Suffering comes like pleasure and good fortune as an inevitable […]
01/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Active and Passive Equanimity

Passive Equanimity: This refers to the aforementioned sense of faith in the divine will which enables one to carry on with a passive endurance and equal […]
01/19/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Working of the Vital

May I know how the vital works? I think it is still full of impurities. Thinking too much about one’s impurities does not help. It is […]
01/18/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Relying on the Divine

One must rely on the Divine and yet do some enabling sadhana—the Divine gives the fruits, not by the measure of the sadhana but by the […]
01/17/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

When the Lord draws nearest..

..when the Lord draws nearest to men to establish a conscious relationship with them, it is then that, in their folly, men do the most foolish […]
01/16/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Om Namo Bhagavate

The first word represents: the supreme invocation the invocation to the Supreme. The second word represents: total self-giving; perfect surrender. The third word represents: the aspiration, […]
01/15/2024

In the eyes of the parent

In the Ramayana the poet speaks of the father’s love for all his children: “The father has a number of children, each different in temperament and […]
01/14/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Bringing peace into the body

…don’t worry if you are preoccupied with your body: simply try to take advantage of this—advantage of this preoccupation—to bring the Peace, the Peace into your […]