purpose

03/16/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Willing and Desiring

Sweet Mother, what is the difference between willing and desiring? They are not at all the same thing. When you see that something ought to be […]
07/07/2024
Sri Aurobindo

The core difficulty

The difficulty is that you attach so much importance to things that are of quite a small value. You behave as if to have or have […]
04/03/2024

Living by Truth: The Path to Purpose

What you must know is exactly the thing you want to do in life. The time needed to learn it does not matter at all. For […]
01/04/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

When is one conscious?

Sweet Mother, when can one say that one is conscious? That is always a relative question. One is never altogether unconscious and one is never completely […]
09/12/2017
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

The True purpose of life

The true purpose of life — To live for the Divine, or to live for the Truth, or at least to live for one’s soul. And the true […]