doubt

09/14/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Firm and Constant Will is Needed

It is quite sufficient if there is the firm and constant will towards faith and self-offering. It is understood that it is not possible for the […]
08/12/2025
The Mother

What is Faith?

Faith in the spiritual sense is not a mental belief which can waver and change. It can wear that form in the mind, but that belief […]
03/19/2025

Doubting on The Mother

Sweet Mother, why do we doubt you? Is there anything better or anyone wiser than you? Why don’t we believe in you? Because the outer nature […]
04/25/2024

Faith: The role of personal effort

Q: Sweet Mother, can faith be increased by personal effort? Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It is like a […]
09/08/2023

Dealing with the internal voice of doubt

There is always this critical hostile voice in everybody’s nature, questioning, reasoning, denying the experience itself, suggesting doubt of oneself and doubt of the Divine. One […]
05/21/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How faith should be?

The faith in spiritual things that is asked of the sadhak is not an ignorant but a luminous faith, a faith in light and not in […]
12/11/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Confusion, Self Doubt – How to Handle?

When you do not answer my questions about sadhana, my mind falls into confusion and doubt. It argues with itself. All this disputing disturbs my sadhana. […]
12/19/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Atmosphere of work

It is never work that makes me tired; it is when I am compelled to work in an atmosphere of dissatisfaction, despondency, doubt, misunderstanding and bad […]
08/25/2020
Sri Aurobindo in his room

Fundamentals of Sadhana

Cast away from you these movements of doubt, depression and the rest which are no part of your true and higher nature. Reject these suggestions of […]