The Mother

On Concentration, Interest and Attention

Concentration, Sadhana / By The Mother / September 21, 2023

In these passages by the Mother, we learn not only what is concentration but also how to cultivate it. She also emphasises the need to become conscious of the way we receive and spend our energies as well as the role of perseverance.

Concentration and Intellectual Development

Art, Article, Concentration, Education, Poetry, Sadhana / By The Mother / September 21, 2023

The Mother explains that whether it is finding solutions to mathematical problems, doing scientific work or artistic work, it all depends on the degree of concentration and the orientation of concentration.

Of Supermind, Vedic Rishis and Sri Aurobindo

Divine Mother, Guru, Sadhana, Spiritual Philosophy, Sri Aurobindo, the Rishi / By The Mother / August 15, 2023

These conversations of the Mother speak of the hint of Supermind in the Veda and Sri Aurobindo’s yogic work with regard to the descent of the Supermind.

Education of the Body and Food Habits

All Life is Yoga, Article, Education, Food, Sleep and Yoga, Health and Healing / By The Mother / June 21, 2023

While discussing physical education the Mother highlighted the need for developing healthy habits related to food. Children must be taught to eat according to hunger, neither more nor less, and not to make meals an occasion to satisfy their greed or gluttony.

Refining the Sense of Taste with No Attachment to Food

All Life is Yoga, Article, Education, Food, Sleep and Yoga / By The Mother / June 21, 2023

How and why did the taste for food develop? How can one refine and develop one’s sense of taste? Read excerpts from the Mother’s conversation on these subjects.

On Nightmares, Dreams and Guru’s Protection

All Life is Yoga, Article, Equality, Food, Sleep and Yoga, Guru, Sadhana, Yoga / By The Mother / June 21, 2023

Holding a perfect quietude and faith within oneself and also calling for the Guru’s help protects one from nightmares and other attacks during sleep.

Literature and Progress on the Path

All Life is Yoga, Article, Education, Life, Literature and Yoga, Sadhana, Sunlit Path / By The Mother / May 21, 2023

The Mother answers some questions about how one should approach literature, especially if one is an aspirant on the path of integral yoga. She explains that the significance of literature is not on what is said but on how it is being said and the feeling it evokes in the reader.

How to Choose Which Books to Read?

All Life is Yoga, Article, Education, Life, Literature and Yoga / By The Mother / May 21, 2023

The Mother shares that today’s world is filled with worthless literature. There are many books that lower or degrade one’s consciousness. One needs to consciously choose books that are filled with light.

The Mother on the Origin and Social Crystallization of Religion

All Life is Yoga, Article, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Society, Spiritual Philosophy / By The Mother / April 21, 2023

The Mother explains that religion may be divine in its ultimate origin; in its actual nature it is not divine but human.

Religion – Helper or an Obstacle to Spiritual Life?

All Life is Yoga, Article, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Spiritual Philosophy / By The Mother / April 21, 2023

The Mother explains that religion can actually be a helper to those with spiritual destiny and sincerity of inner effort to realise the Divine.

Attitude Toward Religion When You Come to Yoga

All Life is Yoga, Article, Human Evolution, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Sadhana, Society, Yoga / By The Mother / April 21, 2023

When one enters yoga, one must leave all the bondage and clingings of the past life. For a yogin, Divine alone is one’s religion, country, family, everything.

Heaven and Hell Created by Religions

All Life is Yoga, Article, Culture, Religion, Religion and Yoga, Spiritual Philosophy, Yoga / By The Mother / April 21, 2023

The Mother explains that heaven and hell were invented by religions to control people and also to make them wise. She adds that the creative power of human thought gives an illusory existence of heaven and hell to people who believe in them but only the psychic world can be a true paradise.

Nature’s Abundance and Conquering the Money Power

All Life is Yoga, Divine Mother, Money and Yoga, Mother Nature, Spiritual Philosophy, Yoga / By The Mother / March 21, 2023

The Mother narrates her trance experience when she concretely ‘saw’ how the money-power which is under the control of Asuric forces can be conquered.