pleasure

04/17/2025
The Mother with Tara Didi

Transforming Pain in Pleasure

Sweet Mother, how can one transform pain into forms of pleasure? Ah! But that’s not something to be done, my children. I shall certainly not give […]
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 […]
05/27/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Pleasure, Joy, Happiness , Ecstasy and Ananda

Sweet Mother, What is the difference between pleasure, joy, happiness, ecstasy and Ananda? Can we find one in the other? Ananda belongs to the Supreme Lord. […]
10/25/2018

A detached delight

…Delight without detachment would be a very dangerous gift which could very easily be perverted. So, to seek Delight before having acquired detachment does not seem […]
10/22/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Work with Joy

Always do with pleasure the work you have to do. Work done with joy is work done well. Ref: Some Answers from The Mother