desires

04/09/2025
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Cravings and Desires

These cravings and desires are old habits of the physical which came to it from the universal Nature and which it accepted and took as part […]
10/18/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Higher Consciousness

The higher Consciousness is a state of pure love but it is also a state of pure openness to divine knowledge. There is no opposition there […]
09/07/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How does true repose comes?

The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. The moment one is satisfied and no longer aspires, one begins to die. Life is movement, it […]
06/13/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Central Knot of Desires

Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo speaks of a “central knot of desires” which must be cut. How can one do it, where should one start? The central […]
11/19/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Just Man

It is neither by moral precepts and observances, nor by a wide knowledge, nor by practising meditation, nor by a solitary life, nor by thinking”, that […]
08/26/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Overcoming Desires and Attachments – Most Effective Way

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 […]
12/26/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to be cured?

In order to be cured, my child, not only is it necessary to stop all these unseemly practices completely, but it is necessary to get rid […]
12/09/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Getting rid of indulgences

Q: After stopping tea my mind seems to become dull. I cannot take interest in anything. It has become difficult to attend my classes. All that […]
08/03/2021

On Thoughts and how to handle them

Q: Is it true that no one has his own thoughts? Either they come from the lower nature — from people — or from the higher […]