desire

12/01/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Conserving Experiences and Energies

What you have to be careful about is, when the feeling of power and strength comes into you or when you have experiences, not to allow […]
11/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Vital’s Resistance to Surrender

For the vital wants to affirm its own ideas, impulses, desires, preferences and to do what it likes, it does not want to feel another force […]
08/30/2025
The Mother with Nolini Da

Don’t Abandon Hope

There is no reason why you should abandon hope of success in the yoga. The state of depression which you now feel is temporary and it […]
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 […]
07/10/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Cause of Ego

The cause of ego is that while by Its double power of Vidya and Avidya the Spirit dwells at once in the consciousness of multiplicity and […]
05/24/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Seeking only the right Object

Into all our endeavour upward the lower element of desire will at first naturally enter. For what the enlightened will sees as the thing to be […]
03/16/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Willing and Desiring

Sweet Mother, what is the difference between willing and desiring? They are not at all the same thing. When you see that something ought to be […]
02/08/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Difference between Aspiration and Demand

What is the difference between aspiration and a demand? When you have experienced both, you can easily make the distinction. In aspiration there is what I […]
01/09/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Rejection of Desire

The rejection of desire is essentially the rejection of the element of craving, putting that out from the consciousness itself as a foreign element not belonging […]