Aspiration

04/11/2023

To be safe from hostile attack

To be in contact with the Mother’s Light and Force is the one important thing (fundamental) to which you must aspire. For this the psychic feeling is […]
03/21/2023
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

How can we find the Divine within ourselves?

First of all, you must begin to seek Him, and then that must be the most important thing in life. The will must be constant, the […]
02/05/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Conditions for transformation

Q: Transformation demands a very high degree of aspiration, surrender and receptivity, doesn’t it? Transformation demands a total and integral consecration. But isn’t that the aspiration […]
01/31/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Making the body a Divine instrument

Q: My body is very weak and full of unconsciousness and tamas. How can this body become Your good instrument? At the centre of each cell […]
12/20/2022
Sri Aurobindo

The right spirit

Q: Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo says, “… the difficulty faced in the right spirit and conquered, one finds that an obstacle has disappeared.” What is […]
12/17/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to save yourself from Depression in Sadhana

The effort demanded of the Sadhak is that of aspiration, rejection and surrender. If these three are done the rest is to come of itself by […]
12/02/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Emotion and Emotional Desire

Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire […]
11/03/2022
Sri Aurobindo in his room

There is no unfitness …

The Mother’s help and mine are always there for you. You have only to turn fully towards it and it will act on you. What has […]
09/14/2022

True Aspiration

From the purely psychological point of view, aspiration is a self-giving, always, while desire is always something which one draws to oneself; aspiration is something which […]