depression

10/23/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Will as an element of higher action

Q: This morning also the habitual depression tried to enter. But the Mother saved the situation by pulling my consciousness above and using my will-force on […]
08/14/2021

On the Vital force

Q: What is the vital force? It is the life-force in man; there is a certain energy you feel within you which meets the shocks of […]
06/16/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Quietude for Callousness

There was nothing wrong in helping with the cooking. But if there were a wrong movement in that, it is not to be met by getting […]
06/11/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Need of Compliments

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 […]
05/28/2021

Open to the Force

It is good that you reject the sense of illness and allow no depression. Let there be no apprehension in the physical consciousness; with faith make […]
05/09/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The real cause of illness

The possibilities of illness are always there in your body and around you; you carry within you or there swarm about you the microbes and germs […]
04/19/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Shake off the tendency to depression

The depression again was the cause why everything went wrong and the arrangements made fell through or took a wrong turn. For depression prevents the Force […]
09/03/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The real cause of illness

Where does Yoga begin and where does it end? Is not the whole of your life Yoga? The possibilities of illness are always there in your […]
08/25/2020
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Fundamentals of Sadhana

Cast away from you these movements of doubt, depression and the rest which are no part of your true and higher nature. Reject these suggestions of […]