perfection

05/09/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

When something seems completely unacceptable or ridiculous

When something in a person seems to you completely unacceptable or ridiculous – “What! He is like that, he behaves like that, he says things like […]
03/31/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Dissolving Difficulties

Virtue claims to seek perfection, but perfection is a totality. So the two movements contradict each other. A virtue that eliminates, reduces, fixes limits, and a […]
11/05/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Aspiration for an Entire Purification

The aspiration must be for entire purification, especially (1) purification from sex, so that no sex imaginations may enter and the sex impulse may cease, (2) […]
09/18/2019

Eliminate the subconscious contradiction

A person may have certain qualities but not to perfection, and there is in the subconscient the very contradiction of these qualities. If one does not […]
06/21/2019
Samadhi at Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Gratitude to our Guides every day

Each morning when you get up, before you begin your day, with love and admiration and gratefulness hail this great family, these saviours of mankind who, […]
09/09/2018

The true attitude

Look upon everything with a benevolent smile. Take all the things which irritate you as a lesson for yourself and your life will be more peaceful […]
12/29/2017
Sri Aurobindo during his early years

Perfection in man

Man, too, becomes perfect only when he has found within himself that absolute calm and passivity of the Brahman and supports by it with the same divine tolerance […]
12/26/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Divine Perfection

We thirst for perfection. Not this human perfection which is a perfection of the ego and bars the way to the divine perfection. But that one […]
03/30/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in New horizon sugar factory

Constant improvisation of work

If men had to stop work when they are not perfect, everybody would stop working. It is in the work that we must progress and purify ourselves. Continue […]