knowledge

05/18/2023

The importance of quieting the mind

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 […]
09/21/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Most Useful Work

What is the most useful work to be done at the present moment? The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal […]
08/18/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Knowledge and Mental activity

Q: The knowledge seems to be obstructed by the mental activity. Whenever a little of it descends the mechanical mind catches it and goes on chewing […]
08/17/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Receiving Knowledge

Q: Often during a good receptivity, my consciousness feels clearly a free flow of what the Mother gives me. And yet I am so ignorant of […]
08/16/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Purpose of Knowledge

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 […]
12/30/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Descent of knowledge

Q: How is it that the higher knowledge descends only when I begin to write it down? That is because that movement (of the knowledge descending […]
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 […]
09/22/2021

Dealing with an obstinate inertia

Q: How is one to deal with such an obstinate inertia? The first means is not to get upset when it comes or when it stays. […]
01/31/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Perils of an active mind

Your mind is too active. If it were more quiet and less questioning and argumentative and restlessly wanting to find devices it seems to me that […]