doubt

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 […]
04/02/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

All life is Yoga

But are not illnesses sometimes the result of microbes and not a part of the movement of the Yoga ?   Where does Yoga begin and […]
12/19/2019

The Divine establishment of knowledge

The doubt is justified by the past, not by the future. Until it is removed by knowledge, it must persist. There is a perfect knowledge at […]
12/12/2018

Confidence in The Mother

It is true that a great patience and steadfastness is needed. Be then firm and patient and fixed on the aims of the sadhana, but not over-eager to […]