realisation

07/29/2022

Realising the Divine Consciousness

Q: What will happen if one realizes the divine consciousness? First thing, you will become calm, quiet; secondly, there will be the feeling of strength, I […]
10/15/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Durga Puja – Victory Day, 1953

Today was truly a day of victory, victory over all that yet remained human in the physical consciousness. O Nature, I bring to thee force and […]
10/14/2020

Purification of the Vital

Purification of the vital is usually considered to be a condition for successful sadhana. One may have some experiences without it, but at least a complete […]
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 […]
02/26/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Developing virtues

If you look at yourself carefully, you will see that one always carries in oneself the opposite of the virtue one has to realise (I use “virtue” in […]
02/15/2020
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Peace

It will not do to indulge this restless vital movement. It is not by that that you can have the union with the Mother. You should […]
12/18/2019
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Grace and the realisation

The Grace is something that pushes you towards the goal to be attained. Do not try to judge it by your mind, you will not get […]
08/03/2019
Sri Aurobindo

Neither rajasic Nor tamasic

Calm, discrimination, detachment (but not indifference) are all very important, for their opposites impede very much the transforming action. Intensity of aspiration should be there, but it must go […]
12/22/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

What one thinks, one becomes

Sri Aurobindo says that all that one thinks one is, one can, by the very fact of that thinking, become. This knowledge of the fact that […]