consciousness

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 […]
08/05/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Tragedies

Sweet Mother, Are there really any tragedies in life, since everything leads to the Divine? They are tragedies for those who take them tragically—the immense majority […]
07/16/2025
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Pushing Back? Changing State of Consciousness.. What’s the way?

There is a great difference between pushing back a thing simply because one doesn’t want it and changing the state of one’s consciousness which makes the […]
06/15/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptying Consciosuness of Mixed Contents

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. […]
06/10/2025
Sri Aurobindo

The true movement

What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true […]
06/03/2025
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Two Different Consciousness

There are always two different consciousnesses in the human being, one outward in which he ordinarily lives, the other inward and concealed of which he knows […]