desire

06/23/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

First Imperative Need in Meditation

In your meditation the first imperative need is a state of perfect and absolute sincerity in all the consciousness. It is indispensable that you should not […]
01/27/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The basis of Divine Life

To be entirely sincere means to desire the divine Truth only, to surrender yourself more and more to the Divine Mother, to reject all personal demand […]
01/07/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Forcing one’s physical body

Mother, I have seen that I am not able to force my physical body to do a little better than my actual capacity. I would like […]
12/10/2022
Sri Aurobindo

Why Altering Moods ?

The reason why you have these alternating moods is because there are two different elements in you. On one side, there is trying to develop in […]
10/26/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

First step on the way to be a True Man

Replace the ambition to be first by the will to do the best possible. Replace the desire for success by the yearning for progress. Replace the […]
09/14/2022

True Aspiration

From the purely psychological point of view, aspiration is a self-giving, always, while desire is always something which one draws to oneself; aspiration is something which […]
09/10/2022

Getting rid of Inertia, Ego and Desire

Q: Why don’t the inertia, ego and desire decrease in spite of our sustained effort to change them? It needs time, persistent will and effort and […]
11/02/2021

Rejection of the ego

Q: Can the ego be thoroughly rejected? If it is not ever indulged in thought, speech or action, it will not return. That is the full […]
10/28/2021

Ego, Error and Desire

Q: It is said that with the presence of ego one cannot have love, joy, happiness etc. in Yoga. But I had these experiences in the […]