Category Archives: Travelling the Path

On External Discipline — Mother

Q: But doesn’t some outer discipline help? If you impose a discipline upon yourself and if it isn’t too stupid, it may help you. A discipline, I tell you — disciplines, tapasyas, all ascetic disciplines are, as ordinarily practised, the … Continue reading →

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Making The Best Out of Sleep — Mother

S: Why does one wake up tired in the morning, and what should one do to have a better sleep? Mother: If you wake up tired in the morning, it is because of tamas, nothing else, a formidable mass of … Continue reading →

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Reminder: The Only Important Thing — Mother

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For Sadhaks Self-Control Protects from Difficulties in the Outer World — Mother

The difficulties that are within are also without. You can, to a certain extent, establish an inner equilibrium, but you live in surroundings full of imbalance. Unless you shut yourself up in an ivory tower (which is not only difficult … Continue reading →

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Delight of Existence — Sri Aurobindo

But even if we accept this pure Existence, this Brahman, this Sat as the absolute beginning, end and continent of things and in Brahman an inherent self-consciousness inseparable from its being and throwing itself out as a force of movement … Continue reading →

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The Privilege of Humanity — Sri Aurobindo

God is That which is the All and yet exceeds and transcends the All; there is nothing in existence which is not God, but God is neither the sum of existence nor anything in that sum, except symbolically, in image to … Continue reading →

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Thou Must Reach Thy Own Summit — Sri Aurobindo

Question: “Thou must reach thy own summit,” says Sri Aurobindo. Is the summit the same for everybody or does each one have his particular summit? Mother: In the last analysis, it is always the same summit—the divine oneness which is … Continue reading →

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Many Are Called, Few Chosen…

What occult secret? It is a fact always known to all Yogis and occultists since the beginning of time, in Europe and Africa as in India, that wherever Yoga or Yajna is done, there the hostile forces gather together to … Continue reading →

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The Divine Will — Mother

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Treat Difficulties as Opportunities — Sri Aurobindo

Why get excited over these small things or let them disturb you? If you remain quiet, things will go much better and, if there is any difficulty, you are more likely to find out a way in a quiet mind … Continue reading →

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