Happiness

05/27/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Pleasure, Joy, Happiness , Ecstasy and Ananda

Sweet Mother, What is the difference between pleasure, joy, happiness, ecstasy and Ananda? Can we find one in the other? Ananda belongs to the Supreme Lord. […]
05/06/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A reminder

One must know how to give one’s life and also one’s death, give one’s happiness and also one’s suffering, to depend for everything and in all […]
03/04/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

One is never happy when…

My dear Mother, I don’t know why I have lost all my happiness and peace. I don’t know when it will come back to my heart. […]
12/27/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Unhappiness doesn’t help in progress

It is a mistake to think that by fearing or being unhappy you can progress. Fear is always a feeling to be rejected, because what you […]
01/04/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

On Justice

Q: Is there no justice? Surely such people will have to pay the penalty of their actions? But how is it they are the ones who […]
04/17/2021

Happiness

Happiness in the ordinary sense is a sunlit state of the vital with or without cause. Contentment is less than happiness—joy of  peace or being free […]
12/24/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Consecration

Consecration is the consummation, when the Light has illuminated all the parts of your being, with a central will acting on the feelings, impulses, thoughts, emotions, […]
05/28/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Love Work and Love to learn

My dear children, love work and you will be happy. Love to learn and you will progress. Ref: On Education
10/25/2018

A detached delight

…Delight without detachment would be a very dangerous gift which could very easily be perverted. So, to seek Delight before having acquired detachment does not seem […]