quietness

11/01/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Overcoming the Restlessness of the Physical Mind

The reason why quietness is not yet fixed and anger returns is that you allow your physical mind to become active. In regard to the sadhana […]
10/23/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

An Important Reminder

You are with someone. This person tells you something, you tell him the contrary (as it usually happens, simply through a spirit of contradiction) and you […]
03/10/2025
The Mother

Preventing mind from Intervening

Mother, how can one prevent the mind from intervening? Ah! First you must will it, and then you must say, as to people who make a […]
04/02/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to achieve true lasting quietness ?

The quiet mind one gets through meditation is indeed of short duration, for as soon as you come out from meditation you come out at the […]
11/15/2021

Quietness of mind in Yoga

Q: Learning languages makes the mind active. Does not the Yoga mean to keep the mind quiet and turn it always to the Divine? Do you […]
10/03/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Making the Mind Quiet

There are innumerable small Buddhist sects of all kinds, in China, in Japan, in Burma, and each one follows its own methods; but the most widespread […]
07/19/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Isolating oneself

…There is always a way of isolating oneself by an atmosphere of protection, if one knows how to have an extremely quiet vibration, so quiet that it makes […]
05/09/2018
Sri Aurobindo

Quietness

Surely to be quiet is not tamas. In fact it is only in quietness that the proper thing can be done. What I call quietness is […]
09/15/2017
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Let the Force from above do its work

To keep quiet and to concentrate, leaving the Force from above to do its work, is the surest way to be cured of anything and everything. There is […]