Inspirations from Sri Aurobindo
Bande Mataram
Essays Divine and Human
Essays on the Gita
Karmayogin
Letters on Yoga – I
Letters on Yoga – II
Letters on Yoga – III
Letters on Yoga – IV
Savitri
The Mother with Letters on The Mother
Inspirations from The Mother
Prayers and Meditations
A record of the Mother’s early spiritual life, from her diaries. Most entries are from 1912 to 1917
Questions and Answers 1929-1931
Early conversations on various aspects of spiritual life; and commentaries on the Dhammapada
Questions and Answers 1953
Conversations based on the Mother’s conversations of 1929.
Questions and Answers 1950-1951
Conversations based on Sri Aurobindo’s book The Mother, the Mother’s essays on education and her conversations
Questions and Answers 1954
Conversations based on the Mother’s essays on education and three small books by Sri Aurobindo: Elements of Yoga, Bases of Yoga and The Mother.
Questions and Answers 1955
Conversations based on three works by Sri Aurobindo: Bases of Yoga, Lights on Yoga and The Synthesis of Yoga.
Questions and Answers 1957-1958
Conversations based on three works by Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and Glimpses, The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth and The Life Divine.
Some Answers from The Mother
Correspondence with fourteen sadhaks and students
Words of The Mother Vol. I
Short written statements on Sri Aurobindo, herself, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville, India and nations other than India; and a few conversations.
Words of The Mother Vol. III
Short written statements on various aspects of spiritual life; and thirty conversations.
White Roses
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11/22/2025
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Vital’s Resistance to Surrender
For the vital wants to affirm its own ideas, impulses, desires, preferences and to do what it likes, it does not want to feel another force
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11/14/2025
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11/14/2025
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Questions and Answers 1929-1931
The Vital’s Hunger for Praise
One of the commonest demands of the vital is for praise. It hates to be criticised and treated as if it were of little importance. But
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10/25/2025
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10/25/2025
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Letters on Yoga - II
Compliments ? A great error of Human Vital
That is a great error of the human vital—to want compliments for their own sake and to be depressed by their absence and imagine that it
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12/08/2024
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12/08/2024
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Letters on Yoga - IV
A Good Instrument But a Bad Master
The human vital is almost always of that nature [full of desires and fancies], but that is no reason why one should accept it as an
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12/02/2024
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12/02/2024
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Letters on Yoga - III
Insanity
Insanity is always due to a vital attack, or rather possession although there is often a physical reason as well. Hysteria is due to a pressure
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11/25/2024
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11/25/2024
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Letters on Yoga - IV
Vital Reactions
A vital reaction means a response of the vital to the touch or pressure of an idea, action, event, person or thing. E.g. if someone speaks
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10/27/2024
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10/27/2024
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More Answers from The Mother
Bodily Fatigue in Sleep
Please tell me what kind of tiring things I have been doing in my sleep. Bodily fatigue is a physical rendering of certain activities and contacts
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09/20/2024
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09/20/2024
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Letters on Yoga - III
Emptiness is not bad
Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very
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08/04/2024
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08/04/2024
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Some Answers from The Mother
Unhappiness Inside : The Cure
My sweet Mother, I feel very tired; some part in me is not happy. I don’t know whether it is inside me or outside; something feels
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