Category Archives: Thoughts to ponder

To Give And Not to Demand is The Rule — Sri Aurobindo

Posted on May 15, 2024 by sriaurobindocenterla

Obviously to seek the Divine only for what one can get out of Him is not the proper attitude; but if it were absolutely forbidden to seek Him for these things, most people in the world would not turn towards … Continue reading →

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Consecrate Your Life to The Realization of Something Higher — Mother

Posted on May 5, 2024 by sriaurobindocenterla

February 21 1958 Only those years that are passed uselessly make you grow old.A year spent uselessly is a year during which no progress has been accomplished, no growth in consciousness has been achieved, no further step has been taken … Continue reading →

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Experience Comes Through Many Errors — Sri Aurobindo

Posted on April 28, 2024 by sriaurobindocenterla

The spiritual aim will recognise that man as he grows in his being must have as much free space as possible for all its members to grow in their own strength, to find out themselves and their potentialities. In their … Continue reading →

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It is No Longer Necessary to Clutter One’s Brain — Mother

Posted on April 13, 2024 by sriaurobindocenterla

“I am not a Jnani, for I have no knowledge except what God gives me for His work. How am I to know whether what I see be reason or folly? Nay, it is neither; for the thing seen is … Continue reading →

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If Birth is a Becoming, Death also is Becoming — Sri Aurobindo

Posted on March 16, 2024 by sriaurobindocenterla

Man, born into the world, revolves between world and world in the action of Prakriti and Karma. Purusha in Prakriti is his formula: what the soul in him thinks, contemplates and acts, that always he becomes. All that he had … Continue reading →

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People Are Not Aware — Mother

Posted on March 2, 2024 by sriaurobindocenterla

People are not aware of the workings of Grace except when there has been some danger, that is, when there has been the beginning of an accident or the accident has taken place and they have escaped it. Then they … Continue reading →

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Judging people – Mother

Posted on September 30, 2023 by sriaurobindocenterla

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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Escape from other people’s influence — Mother

Posted on July 12, 2023 by sriaurobindocenterla

Sweet Mother, how can we escape from other people’s influence? By concentrating more and more totally and completely on the Divine. If you aspire with all your ardour, if you want to receive only the divine influence, if all the … Continue reading →

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The supreme purity within us — Mother

Posted on June 10, 2023 by sriaurobindocenterla

Whatever may be the past, whatever may be the faults committed, whatever the ignorance in which one might have lived, one carries deep within oneself the supreme purity which can translate itself into a wonderful realisation. The whole point is … Continue reading →

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Relations with the Divine — Mother

Posted on April 29, 2023 by sriaurobindocenterla

“A spiritual Truth and Right have convicted the good and evil of this world of imperfection or of falsehood and unveiled a supreme good…. But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these … Continue reading →

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Judging others — Mother

Posted on February 10, 2023 by sriaurobindocenterla

Judging Others   The more a mind is ignorant, the more easily it judges everything it does not know or is incapable of understanding. I want the peace to come into your mind and also the quiet, patient wisdom which … Continue reading →

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Silence more effective than speech — Mother

Posted on November 26, 2022 by sriaurobindocenterla

5 June 1957 Do you have any questions? No  Sweet Mother, should one ask questions which don’t come spontaneously? What do you mean by a question that doesn’t come spontaneously? For, usually, in class, we often feel that if we … Continue reading →

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Consciousness — Mother

Posted on November 11, 2022 by sriaurobindocenterla

Identification of Consciousness THE Prayers¹ speak always of the identification of consciousness with the Supreme. There is also the other identification of the consciousness, on the other side, namely, with things and beings, with the world outside: to that also … Continue reading →

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The Goal — Sri Aurobindo

Posted on June 15, 2022 by sriaurobindocenterla
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Learning to listen within — Mother

Posted on January 29, 2022 by sriaurobindocenterla

Below is a response from the Mother to a letter from a disciple. Though meant for the disciple, it is universal in its appeal and can be taken as a powerful reminder to all seekers that the Divine Inhabitant is … Continue reading →

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