struggle

04/20/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Progressive Opening

Openness is not always complete from the first―a part of the being opens, other parts of the consciousness remain still closed or half open only―one has […]
04/06/2025
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Mental Nightmare

What is a “mental nightmare”? When there is a chaos in the brain or a local fever, a particular turmoil in the brain, an overstrain, or […]
12/06/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

The Method of Divine Manifestation

The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval. The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of […]
08/02/2023

Know Thy Master – Sri Aurobindo on the battle of His life

But what strange ideas again – that I was born with a supramental temperament and had never any brain or mind or any acquaintance with human […]
05/26/2023
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

A prayer

On the surface is the storm, the sea is in turmoil, waves clash and leap one on another and break with a mighty uproar. But all […]
07/05/2021
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Hold on

The whole thing is to hold on. And to hold on, I have found only one way; it is this Calm, the inner calm—a calm that […]
11/07/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Truth

Truth is a difficult and strenuous conquest. One must be a true warrior to make this conquest, a warrior who fears nothing, neither enemies nor death, […]
07/23/2018
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Be ready for effort

And if you are not ready for the effort and struggle, then it is better to accept the fact that life will be dull and unsatisfactory […]