vital

12/08/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]
12/02/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]
11/25/2024
Sri Aurobindo

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 […]
10/27/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram with Dyuman

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 […]
09/20/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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 […]
08/04/2024
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 […]
07/02/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Emptiness

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 […]
06/21/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Vitality

Vitality means life-force—wherever there is life, in plant or animal or man, there is life-force—without the vital there can be no life in matter and no […]
05/21/2024
The Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Faith and Trust

If one has faith in the Divine and also trust, what is the difference between faith and trust? Faith is something much more integral—that is what […]