impulse

11/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Vital’s Resistance to Surrender

For the vital wants to affirm its own ideas, impulses, desires, preferences and to do what it likes, it does not want to feel another force […]
09/17/2025

A Prayer

No longer can any impulse to action come from outside or from any particular world. It is Thou, Lord, who settest all things in motion from […]
08/30/2025
The Mother with Nolini Da

Don’t Abandon Hope

There is no reason why you should abandon hope of success in the yoga. The state of depression which you now feel is temporary and it […]
07/17/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Aspiration and Demand

What is the difference between aspiration and a demand? When you have experienced both, you can easily make the distinction. In aspiration there is what I […]
05/05/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Identification

Before undertaking any action one tries to know whether the impulse comes from the Mother or not, but generally one doesn’t have enough discernment to know […]
04/22/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Aspiration and Demand

What is the difference between aspiration and a demand? When you have experienced both, you can easily make the distinction. In aspiration there is what I […]
09/08/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Abandoning all Mental Conceptions

When you come to the Divine, you must abandon all mental conceptions; but, instead of doing that, you throw your conceptions upon the Divine and want […]
08/24/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to get back to your Faith?

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 […]
05/09/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Beginning of true Spiritual Life

Sweet Mother, where does our true spiritual life begin? The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the Divine in the psychic, when […]