Aspiration

09/07/2021
Sri Aurobindo

On strengthening the nerves and quietening the mind

Q: My nerves are sensitive. Kindly tell me how to strengthen them, and also how to quieten my mind. Solid nerves means patience, vigilance, endurance, capacity […]
07/26/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The real safety

There is only one safety: to cling to the Divine, like this (gesture of clenched fists). Not clinging to what one thinks to be the Divine, […]
07/19/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to regain calm and peace…

IF AT any time a deep sorrow, a searing doubt or an intense pain overwhelms you and drives you to despair, there is an infallible way […]
07/15/2021

True way of getting out of difficulty

If you want my help, it is not by accepting one principle of action and rejecting another that you can have it, but by concentrating before […]
07/08/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Different types of love

The essential difference between love in aspiration and love in desire is that love in aspiration gives itself entirely and asks nothing in return—it does not […]
06/30/2021

Aspiration – not just in the body

..what you call “aspiration” is a movement of your psychic consciousness, mentally formulated and supported by the vital – but it ISN’T YOUR BODY. And it’s […]
06/07/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Interval Periods in Sadhana

Naturally the more one-pointed the aspiration the swifter the progress. The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past […]
02/14/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The true initiation

It is the opening of the consciousness to the Mother from within that is the true initiation and that can only come by aspiration and rejection […]
01/27/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Aspiration for the inner change

Q: How the darkness rises up! It has veiled my consciousness and I don’t know what to do. There must be an inner change, and until […]