thoughts

10/02/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Getting rid of random thoughts

To get rid of the random thoughts of the surface physical mind is not easy. It is sometimes done by a sudden miracle, as in my […]
09/25/2024
Sri Aurobindo

Quietening the Mind

The mind can become quiet only when you detach yourself from it and see the thoughts as things that pass. Then you don’t think yourself but […]
08/23/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Synthesis

When you are able by methodical and repeated effort to objectivise and keep at a distance all this flood of incoherent thoughts which assail us, you […]
08/11/2024
Sri Aurobindo

How to make mind free?

What you perceive as suggestions or voices, are accepted and felt by people to be thoughts of their own mind. When one practises Yoga and observes […]
02/11/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

How to Master One’s Thoughts – 5 Conditions

How can one become master of one’s thought? First condition. To understand the full importance of this mastery by becoming aware, through observation, that our actions […]
01/25/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

True Intelligence

There is one thing very difficult for the mind to do but very important, according to me: you must never allow your mind to judge things […]
01/06/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Psychological and Physical diseases

Dear Mother, What is all this about psychological and physical diseases? I understand nothing of it. Psychological diseases are diseases of the thoughts and feelings, such […]
09/14/2023
Sri Aurobindo

Getting rid of thoughts

All thoughts really come from outside, but one is not conscious of their coming. You have become conscious of this movement. There are different ways of […]
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 […]