Category Archives: Thoughts to ponder

Gratitude — Mother

A loving recognition of the Grace received from the Divine. A humble recognition of all that the Divine has done and is doing for you. The spontaneous feeling of obligation to the Divine, which makes you do your best to … Continue reading →

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When Does Reading Become Light Within — Mother

In a general and almost absolute way, if you truly wish to profit from these readings, as from all of Sri Aurobindo’s writings, the best method is this: having gathered your consciousness and focused your attention on what you are … Continue reading →

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I Wouldn’t Have Wasted My Time — Mother

I am even astonished that you don’t feel an intense need for it: “How can one know?” For you know—you have been told, told repeatedly, it has been dinned into your ears—you know that you have a divine consciousness within … Continue reading →

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It is Not This, It is Not That — Sri Aurobindo

An Unknowable which appears to us in many states and attributes of being, in many forms of consciousness, in many activities of energy, this is what Mind can ultimately say about the existence which we ourselves are and which we … Continue reading →

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New Year Messages from The Mother

Let the birth of the New Year be the new birth of our consciousness! Leaving the past far behind us let us run towards a luminous future. *** Let us hope also that this year will not pass without bringing us … Continue reading →

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Divine is All You Need — Mother

There are disciplines which make it a rule (we don’t like rules, for they are always arbitrary and artificial) that one should receive absolutely nothing from anybody except the Divine or the Guru who represents the Divine. Some people would … Continue reading →

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Love for the Divine — Mother

Each and every one, when he turns to the Divine, demands that He should do for him exactly what he asks. Whereas the Divine does for each one what is best for him from all points of view. But man, … Continue reading →

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Divine Consciousness — Mother

Think only of the DivineLive only for the DivineAspire only to the DivineLove only the DivineWork only for the Divine. Relationship with the Divine, Vol 20, CWM, The Mother.

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The Thinking Mind and the Vital Mind — Sri Aurobindo

The thinking mind does not lead men, does not influence them the most—it is the vital propensities and the vital mind that predominate. The thinking mind with most men is, in matters of life, only an instrument of the vital. … Continue reading →

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Is Soul Truly Subjected to Nature? — Sri Aurobindo

We speak of the soul being subject to Nature; but on the other hand the Gita in distinguishing the properties of the soul and Nature affirms that while Nature is the executrix, the soul is always the lord, īśvara. It … Continue reading →

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