ignorance

02/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What is true courage?

True courage, in its deepest sense, is to be able to face everything, everything in life, from the smallest to the greatest things, from material things […]
01/28/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Why Sufferings and Difficulties?

Certain essential qualities can only develop through suffering and difficulties. Men run away from them in their ignorance, but the Supreme Lord imposes them on those […]
07/23/2023

The secret behind how the Divine can take on all pains and blows..

Q: …does this suffering have the same effect upon Him as upon us? That is, does He feel pain and sorrow as we feel them? No! […]
03/25/2023
Sri Aurobindo

How to have true Intuition?

To have the true intuition one must get rid of the mind’s self-will, and the vital’s also, their preferences, fancies, fantasies, strong insistences and eliminate the […]
12/16/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to get faith back?

If you want to get back your faith and keep it, you must first quiet your mind and make it open and obedient to the Mother’s […]
12/29/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Knowledge and Ignorance

Q: What is the use of knowledge when we can’t act according to its light and truth? Knowledge is always better than ignorance. It makes things […]
09/24/2021

On the ideal conditions for Sadhana

Q: What makes good conditions for sadhana? Aspiration, untiring will, steady calm and detachment, make the best conditions. Q: Today I could control for a while […]
10/31/2020
The Mother with Tara Jauhar

Real repentance

The truth is that when you ask forgiveness you hope that the dire consequences of what you have done will be wiped away. But that is […]
06/16/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Difficulties and sufferings: a creation of human ignorance

First of all, one should know that the intellect, the mind, can understand nothing of the Divine, neither what He does nor how He does it […]