experience

02/02/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Experience

One can never have the same experience twice because one is never the same person twice. Between the first experience and the second, even if one […]
10/30/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Origin of superstitions

Generally a superstition originates in an experience. For instance, there is a certain superstition in Europe, and you are told: “Never walk under a ladder, it […]
03/28/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Opposition : the starting-point of spiritual experience ?

What is ordinarily called a spiritual experience is the intense need for something other than the life one lives, and most often this awakens after difficulties […]
03/24/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dream or Experience ?

Sweet Mother, How can one distinguish a dream from an experience? In a general way, a dream leaves a confused and fleeting impression, whereas an experience […]
12/11/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Think …

Nature has much more imagination than you, you know! She imagines new things all the time. It must be so for it is changing all the […]
10/07/2022

The Two first Agents

Experience in the sadhana is bound to begin with the mental plane,—all that is necessary is that the experience should be sound and genuine. The pressure […]
08/17/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Role of experience and intellect in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga

Q: Is not all action incompatible with Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga? His idea that all action is incompatible with this Yoga is not correct. Generally, it is […]
11/27/2020

Why Difficult Path ?

Sweet Mother, Why has the Divine made His path so difficult? He can make it easier if He wants, can’t He? First of all, one should […]
11/20/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Difficulties in Path

Sweet Mother, Why has the Divine made His path so difficult? He can make it easier if He wants, can’t He?   First of all, one […]