silence

09/06/2023

Overcoming difficulties in Meditation

If the difficulty in meditation is that thoughts of all kinds come in, that is not due to hostile forces but to the ordinary nature of […]
06/21/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Secret to Rejecting Thoughts and Influences

All these thoughts and influences come really from outside, from universal Nature—they create formations in us or get habitual responses from the individual being. When they […]
06/17/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Handling bad thoughts and influences

All these thoughts and influences come really from outside, from universal Nature—they create formations in us or get habitual responses from the individual being. When they […]
11/07/2022
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Establishing a settled peace and silence

How can we establish a settled peace and silence in the mind? First of all, you must want it. And then you must try and must […]
08/21/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Crossing the higher planes

Q: Could one cross the higher planes without establishing peace and silence? If so, would one feel the vibrations? I do not see how it can […]
05/13/2022

Silencing thoughts

Q: But you must have been making effort before (on realisation) Not for this result. Lele asked me to silence the mind and throw away the […]
04/17/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Silence and emptiness

Q: Isn’t the silence associated with some sort of emptiness? It depends on what you mean by emptiness. There is an emptiness which is full of […]
03/22/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Peace and Silence

Q: What is the difference between peace and silence?  Is peace included in silence, or vice versa? If you have the silence, then there is naturally […]
03/04/2022
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Training the mind

Q: How is one to get intuition? By calmness of mind? Calmness is not enough. The mind must become silent. Q: Then it will take a […]