detachment

03/10/2025
The Mother

Preventing mind from Intervening

Mother, how can one prevent the mind from intervening? Ah! First you must will it, and then you must say, as to people who make a […]
02/03/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Sensitiveness

One has not to cure oneself of one’s sensitiveness, but only acquire the power to rise to a higher consciousness taking such disenchantments as a sort […]
09/12/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Suffering and Detachment

No action should be deemed good, no action should be undertaken until we know its immediate and, if possible, its distant consequences, and until it appears […]
08/06/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Three things to shorten Difficulty

There are three things you can do to alleviate and shorten the difficulty: 1) Detach yourself from this vital-physical—observe it as something not yourself; reject it, […]
09/14/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Getting rid of thoughts

All thoughts really come from outside, but one is not conscious of their coming. You have become conscious of this movement. There are different ways of […]
02/03/2022
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Action to be taken during dark periods

Q: During these dark periods what do you suggest that I do? There are always two alternatives, either to remain calm and detached and aspire or […]
01/03/2022
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Detachment

Q: Rejection and detachment when there is a rush of difficulties are good. But I feel they are hardly enough. Something more seems to be needed; […]
12/02/2021
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

On Pain and Illness

Q: Some sadhaks hold the belief that an illness is a cherishable thing, that it comes from the Divine to test our faith: it makes us […]
05/29/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Three ways to shorten difficulty

As for the offering of the actions to the Divine and the vital difficulty it raises, it is not possible to avoid the difficulty,—you have to […]