action

01/09/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Rejection of Desire

The rejection of desire is essentially the rejection of the element of craving, putting that out from the consciousness itself as a foreign element not belonging […]
11/11/2024
Darshan Card 15 Aug 2019 Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Doing things by Mental Control

To do anything by mental control is always difficult, when what is attempted runs contrary to the trend of human nature or of the personal nature. […]
09/30/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

True Liberty

True liberty is to be in constant union with the Divine and to do only what the Divine wants us to do. But until then, it […]
09/20/2023

The perpetually changing Universe

When we look back upon our lives, we almost always feel that in some circumstance or other we could have done better, even though at each […]
07/31/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Finding the Mother in work and action

You must be able to find the Mother in work and action as well as in concentration and silence. It is quite possible even if there […]
12/25/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Restoring joy in Action

O Mother divine, I have started examining the details of the work with a critical eye and everything goes to prove that in reality I know […]
10/17/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in her room

Changing course of one’s dreams

Sweet Mother, you have said that one can exercise one’s conscious will and change the course of one’s dreams. Ah, yes, I have already told you […]
08/29/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Work, Personal action and Initiation

Q: In what way do I associate work with my personal action and initiation? As everybody does. I can’t enter into an exposition of how human […]
07/04/2022
Sri Aurobindo's Feet

Inaction in action

Q: This division of consciousness into two, one feeling fundamentally free and the other imperfect or impure is a very common experience. It is not only […]