consciousness

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. […]
09/20/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Unifying one’s being

Sweet Mother, How can one unify one’s being? The first step is to find, deep within oneself, behind the desires and impulses, a luminous consciousness which […]
09/17/2025

A Prayer

No longer can any impulse to action come from outside or from any particular world. It is Thou, Lord, who settest all things in motion from […]
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 […]
08/07/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Spiritual Ego

There is a spiritual ego even as there is a physical, vital and mental ego. There is a spiritual ego. There are people who have made […]