illness

04/16/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Superior Cause

Q: Some Sufis and Bhaktas take illness and other such things as coming from the Divine. They are right. They take everything as coming from the […]
03/10/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Reasonableness in spirituality

Q: Wasn’t Dr. Becharlal’s fear of illness merely a mental notion? How can one fall ill by sitting a long time in meditation? Not just by […]
12/06/2021

Duration of sleep

Q: Is six hours of sleep at night enough? …Six is the minimum, at any time except in old age. The ordinary period of sleep most […]
12/02/2021
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

On Pain and Illness

Q: Some sadhaks hold the belief that an illness is a cherishable thing, that it comes from the Divine to test our faith: it makes us […]
11/18/2021
Sri Aurobindo

Is illness cherishable?

Some sadhaks hold the belief that an illness is a cherishable thing, that it comes from the Divine to test our faith: it makes us remember […]
09/27/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

On pain and illness

Q: Some sadhaks hold the belief that an illness is a cherishable thing, that it comes from the Divine to test our faith: it makes us […]
07/16/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The power of confidence

One thing that is now beginning to be recognised by everyone, even by the medical corps, is that hygienic measures, for example, are effective only to […]
06/04/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

You must change

Your illness was not a mere accident. You did not give sufficient attention to the inner change, a psychological change with a broadening of your consciousness. […]
05/28/2021

Open to the Force

It is good that you reject the sense of illness and allow no depression. Let there be no apprehension in the physical consciousness; with faith make […]