experience

09/21/2024
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 should […]
09/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptiness is not bad

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 […]
08/03/2024
Sri Aurobindo

The greatest help for others

To concentrate most on one’s own spiritual growth and experience is the first necessity of the sadhak—to be eager to help others draws away from the […]
06/16/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Two Stages of Union with the Mother’s Force

The feeling that all one does is from the Divine, that all action is the Mother’s is a necessary step in experience, but one cannot remain […]
05/21/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Faith and Trust

If one has faith in the Divine and also trust, what is the difference between faith and trust? Faith is something much more integral—that is what […]
02/09/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Is it the divine acting in us?

What is the exact way of feeling that we belong to the Divine and that the Divine is acting in us? You must not feel with […]
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 […]