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Escape from other people’s influence — Mother

Sweet Mother, how can we escape from other people’s influence? By concentrating more and more totally and completely on the Divine. If you aspire with all your ardour, if you want to receive only the divine influence, if all the … Continue reading →

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The small decision – Mother

If you could have taken a small decision to feel your psychic, I wouldn’t have wasted my time. 25 August 1954 Mother Works of Sri Aurobindo, Other-Editions page 213

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Spiritual Growth is of supreme importance — Sri Aurobindo

If you look closely, you will see that all these things—the rudeness of one, the anger of another—are exceedingly slight things which should be received with indifference. Do not allow them to trouble you so much. The one thing of … Continue reading →

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The supreme purity within us — Mother

Whatever may be the past, whatever may be the faults committed, whatever the ignorance in which one might have lived, one carries deep within oneself the supreme purity which can translate itself into a wonderful realisation. The whole point is … Continue reading →

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The “subconscient” — Mother

What does “subconscient” mean, exactly? Subconscient? It is what is half conscious, you see. And we say “sub”, because that means “below” the consciousness. It is something more obscure than the consciousness, but which, at the same time, is like … Continue reading →

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Remembering Jyotipriya

Dear Seekers, Today is the 121st birth anniversary of Jyotipriya. It is a day that our aspiration can quicken and flame more intensely by remembering her life and offering our gratitude. In the intimate soul-relation with the Mother her life … Continue reading →

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The path to the psychic flame — Mother

Mother: Do you know where the aspiration comes from? Mona Sarkar: Yes, Mother, from the heart and from the psychic. Mother: Yes, my child, rather from the psychic; the true aspiration, it is from there; but first, one starts from … Continue reading →

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Relations with the Divine — Mother

“A spiritual Truth and Right have convicted the good and evil of this world of imperfection or of falsehood and unveiled a supreme good…. But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these … Continue reading →

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You can realize the Divine — Mother

I know by experience that there isn’t one being who, were it only once in his life, has had a great urge towards… it doesn’t matter how he calls it – let us say the Divine for facility of speech, … Continue reading →

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Teaching and Practice — Mother

It is always better not to listen to talks especially on so-called spiritual matters. Each one must follow his own way and the others have nothing to do with it.  9 January 1938 An atmosphere of spirituality sometimes helps much … Continue reading →

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