attachment

11/01/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Overcoming the Restlessness of the Physical Mind

The reason why quietness is not yet fixed and anger returns is that you allow your physical mind to become active. In regard to the sadhana […]
08/26/2025

Overcoming Desires and Attachments

Sweet Mother, What is the most effective way of overcoming desires and attachments: to cut them off all at one stroke, even at the risk of […]
07/01/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Awakening of Inner Being

There is a stage in the sadhana in which the inner being begins to awake. Often the first result is the condition made up of the […]
01/23/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Attachment

I want to understand what You mean by a sentimental attachment, a vital attachment, and “no expression of any kind to such an attachment”. A sentimental […]
10/07/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Signs of freedom from Vital Attachment

If you are anxious for them [material possessions], that means that you have desire and are bound. Ananda is one thing and vital enjoyment is another. […]
05/23/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Affinity to Sufferings

When we no longer have any affinity with suffering and are cured of all perverse attachment to it, the Divine will help us to discover that […]
04/23/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Necessities of a sadhak

The necessities of a sadhak should be as few as possible; for there are only a very few things that are real necessities in life. The […]
04/22/2021

The aim of Sadhana

All attachment and ego must disappear.No temptation of power, for power is given only to do the Divine’s work and the power itself is the Divine’s. […]
06/25/2020

Impact of Sound and Word

When a thought is expressed in speech, the vibration of the sound has a considerable power to bring the most material substance into contact with the […]