despair

10/17/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The idea of Asuric Maya

You may be sure that we shall not desert you and that we would never dream of doing so. You say truly that what drives you […]
06/26/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Beware of hostile forces suggestions

These feelings of despair and exaggerated sense of self-depreciation and helplessness are suggestions of a hostile Force and should never be admitted. The defects of which […]
06/20/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Be Assured

Why do you indulge in these exaggerated feelings of remorse and despair when these things come up from the subconscient? They do not help and make […]
04/27/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Guard against Despair

Despair is never a necessity for progress, it is always a sign of weakness and tamas; it often indicates the presence of an adverse force, that […]
03/03/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sleeping in despair

Q: Can one go to sleep in despair? As an escape, yes. There are some people who go to sleep standing. There was, for example, Rajnarayan […]
10/18/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Will, Desire and Aspiration

Q: Is it not true that the will becomes or changes into desire when it comes down into the lower nature? It usually does so in […]
08/28/2021
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Reason for Despair and Gloom

I heard that some people here remain constantly in despair and gloom because they have become conscious of their minutest imperfections and defects which they are […]
12/28/2019
Sri Aurobindo in his own room

Depression and despair

Fits of despair and darkness are a tradition in the path of sadhana —in all Yogas oriental and occidental they seem to have been the rule. I know […]
10/21/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What helps in growth to the Divine?

You can at least know that anger, jealousy, envy, restlessness, despair, indolence etc. are not divine things and that purity, peace, harmony, zeal, unselfishness etc., are […]