Criticism

10/25/2025
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Compliments ? A great error of Human Vital

That is a great error of the human vital—to want compliments for their own sake and to be depressed by their absence and imagine that it […]
02/27/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Becoming indifferent to Criticism

How can one become indifferent to criticism? By climbing somewhere up on the ladder—in one’s own consciousness—looking at things a little more vastly, a little more […]
09/11/2024
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Meaning of Psychic Self Control

The psychic self-control that is desirable in these surroundings and in the midst of discussion would mean among other things: (1) Not to allow the impulse […]
02/18/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Psychic Self-Control

The psychic self-control that is desirable in these surroundings and in the midst of discussion would mean among other things: (1) Not to allow the impulse […]
06/28/2022
Sri Aurobindo

On gossip and criticism

Q: Can you explain why these poisonous shafts of criticism are thrown at me, without any reason at all? Imagination + inference + joy of the […]
10/13/2020

The psychic self-control

The psychic self-control that is desirable in these surroundings and in the midst of discussion would mean among other things: (1) Not to allow the impulse […]
07/22/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Criticising Others

Whenever somebody is not just according to the usual pattern, if all the parts and activities in him have not the usual balance, if some faculties […]
05/31/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Gossip and Criticism

Among the most undesirable kinds of idle talk must also be included everything that is said about others. Unless you are responsible for certain people, as […]