experience

12/04/2025
Sri Aurobindo

Don’t be eager for experience

Do not be over-eager for experience,—for experiences you can always get, having once broken the barrier between the physical mind and the subtle planes. What you […]
10/28/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptiness

Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very […]
07/31/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A Prayer

It seems to me that Thou wouldst make me taste successively all the experiences which are ordinarily put at the summit of a Yoga as its […]
07/25/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

When you have an experience – Important tip from The Mother

When you have an experience, you must never, during the period of the experience, try to understand what it is, for you immediately cause it to […]
05/06/2025
Sri Aurobindo

To live for the Divine

Sweet Mother, “Not to live for oneself” is understandable and one can try to put it into practice; but what does “to live exclusively for the […]
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 […]
11/22/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What is Spiritual Experience

You speak of spiritual experience. What is an experience and how can one have it? It is something which puts you in contact with a consciousness […]
11/04/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Reducing Range of Subconscient

What should one do to reduce the range of the subconscient? To grow in consciousness is the very aim of life on earth. It is through […]
10/29/2024
The Mother

Experience

One can only smile and say, “Never doubt your experience, for your experience is the truth of your being, but do not imagine that it is […]