Category Archives: Soul

Putting Confidently Your Trust In The Divine Power — Mother

What should one do who wants to change his bodily condition, effect a cure or correct some physical imperfection? Should he concentrate upon the end to be realised and exercise his will-power or should he only live in the confidence … Continue reading →

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You Must Always Step Back Into Yourself — Mother

Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external influences. You live almost projected, as it were, outside your own body, and when you meet some unpleasant being similarly projected you get upset. … Continue reading →

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All That Happens is Not, in Fact, Divine — Mother

In conclusion, I should like to draw your attention to one point, for it very frequently obstructs true union. It is a great error to suppose that the Divine Will is always acting openly in the world. All that happens … Continue reading →

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Sin Consists Not At All in The Outward Deed — Sri Aurobindo

The liberated man has no personal hopes; he does not seize on things as his personal possessions; he receives what the divine Will brings him, covets nothing, is jealous of none: what comes to him he takes without repulsion and … Continue reading →

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A Captive Of Her Love — Janina

The Mother on Janina: I remember, the very day Janina died (she died at about six in the morning, I think), around four in the morning, suddenly something made me take interest in this question: What will the new form … Continue reading →

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Knowledge By Unity With The Divine — Mother

Consciousness is the faculty of becoming aware of anything whatsoever through identification with it. But the divine consciousness is not only aware but knows and effects. For, mere awareness is not knowledge. To become aware of a vibration, for instance, … Continue reading →

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Let Us Shun That Negligence — The Mother

Let us shun the paths that are too easy and ask no effort, the paths which give us the illusion of having reached our goal; let us shun that negligence which opens the door to every downfall, that complacent self-admiration … Continue reading →

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Grumble, If Your Nature Compels You To It, But Persevere — Sri Aurobindo

This Yoga is certainly difficult, but is any Yoga really easy? You speak of the lure of liberation into the extracosmic Absolute, but how many who set out on the path of Nirvana attain to it in this life or … Continue reading →

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The Sunlit Way of Yoga — Sri Aurobindo

Peace was the very first thing that the Yogins and seekers of old asked for and it was a quiet and silent mind—and that always brings peace—that they declared to be the best condition for realising the Divine. A cheerful … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Small Beginnings — Sri Aurobindo

“I will try again” is not sufficient; what is needed is to try always—steadily, with a heart free from despondency, as the Gita says, anirviṇṇacetasā. You speak of five and a half years as if it were a tremendous time … Continue reading →

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