01/21/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Suffering

Suffering is not inflicted as a punishment for sin or for hostility—that is a wrong idea. Suffering comes like pleasure and good fortune as an inevitable […]
03/27/2022
Sri Aurobindo's Feet

Samadhi as a release from bodily pain and suffering

Q: Some Yogis go into Samadhi as a release from bodily pain and suffering. But there are others who don’t do that and bear the pain. […]
12/03/2021

Peace and Quietude inspite of pain

Q: The peace and quietude are normal and so are my aspirations in spite of the pain in the body. Probably it is because you put […]
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 […]
10/10/2020
Sri Aurobindo

Perfect immobility

Suppose you have a pain somewhere; the instinct (the instinct of the body, the instinct of the cells) is to shrink and to seek to reject—that […]
06/01/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Divine Example

Mother spoke to me of the right attitude as one without tension and strain, one which is full of sunshine and as spontaneous as a flower […]
03/23/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to face pain ?

You may have been told that certain bodily complaints will give you a great deal of pain. Things like that are often said. You may then […]