mastery

11/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Stepping Back

Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your […]
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. […]
05/30/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Mastery of oneself

How can I become master of myself and keep self-discipline? Observe yourself so that nothing passes without being conscious of it. Do not allow yourself to […]
12/27/2020

Freedom and Mastery

Mother. You have said that the student must be given full freedom. Now, some interpret this as meaning that there should be no fixed classes, for […]
05/14/2019

Mastering One’s nature

Detachment is the beginning of mastery, but for complete mastery there should be no reactions at all. When there is something within undisturbed by the reactions […]