Category Archives: Life

Peril of Teaching Others – Mother

You know just a little and you begin to teach others, and you are immediately compelled to say more than you know, because people put questions to you which you cannot answer, unless you are a hero of silence. In … Continue reading →

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Working for the Divine

“If anybody in the Ashram tries to establish a supremacy or dominating influence over others, he is in the wrong. For it is bound to be a wrong vital influence and come in the way of the Mother’s work. “All … Continue reading →

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The Great Secret. The Mother

If you keep your faith unshaken and your heart always open to me, then all difficulties, however great, will contribute to the greater perfection of your being. The Mother (Words of the Mother, Vol. 14 Page: 244)

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Having Needs

There is a sovereign royalty in taking no thought for oneself. To have needs is to assert a weakness; to claim something proves that we lack what we claim. To desire is to be impotent; it is to recognize our … Continue reading →

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Criticising Others

It is also better to be more strict about not talking of others and criticising them with the ordinary mind. It is necessary in order to develop a deeper consciousness and outlook on things that understands in silence the movements … Continue reading →

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The Power of the Word – Words of the Mother

Here is OM in speech from the Mother: I would say this: if you want your speech to express the truth and thus acquire the power of the Word, never think out beforehand what you want to say, do not … Continue reading →

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Judging Others

Before deciding that something is wrong in others or in circumstances, you must be quite sure of the correctness of your judgment − and what judgment is correct so long as one lives in the ordinary consciousness that is based … Continue reading →

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Change of Nature

All faults and errors are redeemed by repentance. Confidence in the Mother, self-giving to the Mother, these if you increase them will bring the change in the nature. Sri Aurobindo (SABCL Vol. 25 p. 326)

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On Self-Deception and Anger – Mother.

There are really two quite different forms of self-deception. One can be very shocked by certain things, not for personal reasons but precisely because of one’s goodwill and ardor to serve the Divine, when one sees people misconducting themselves, being … Continue reading →

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What is Prana?

The English word life does duty for many very different shades of meaning; but the word Prana familiar in the Upanishad and in the language of Yoga is restricted to the life-force whether viewed in itself or in its functionings. … Continue reading →

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