consciousness

11/30/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Spiritual Experience

What is ordinarily called a spiritual experience is the intense need for something other than the life one lives, and most often this awakens after difficulties […]
11/28/2025

Being conscious of the help received

Q: Sweet Mother, I have the impression that Your Force responds according to the intensity of our prayer. But my case seems to be different. Or […]
11/02/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Working of Divine Consciousness

The divine Consciousness works always, everywhere and in the same way. The divine Grace is active everywhere, and in all circumstances in the same way. And […]
10/30/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Absence of Thought

The absence of thought is quite the right thing—for the true inner consciousness is a silent consciousness which has not to think out things, but gets […]
10/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Living the Spiritual Life

To live the spiritual life, a reversal of consciousness is needed. This cannot be compared in any way with the different faculties or possibilities one has […]
10/20/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Struggle with Self-Control

Sweet Mother, We know that we should not do certain things and we do not really want to do them, but still we do them. Why […]
10/17/2025
Painting by Priti Das Gupta

Drawing out of vital forces

Q: How can the vital forces be drawn out when one is in contact with the Divine Consciousness? The forces that support the work around one […]
10/13/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Yoga, Sadhana and Dhyana

Yoga is union with the Divine, sadhana is what you do in order to unite with the Divine. You have to get away from the ordinary […]
09/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptying the Consciousness

Sweet Mother, how can we empty the consciousness of its mixed contents? By aspiration, the rejection of the lower movements, a call to a higher force. […]