THE MOTHER'S SOLE AUTHORITY OVER THE ASHRAM WORK

I would suggest that in your relations with others, — which seem always to have been full of disharmony, — when incidents occur, it would be much better for you not to take the standpoint that you are all in the right and they are all in the wrong.  It would be wiser to be fair and just in reflection, seeing where you have gone astray, and even laying stress on your own fault and not on theirs.

Debate

Q.How is it that we lose a chance to widen our knowledge 


   by prevailing in a  debate?
   
Ans. A debate is never anything but a conflict of opinions; and opinions are nothing but very fragmentary aspects of the truth. Even if you were able to put together and synthesise all opinions on a given subject, you still would not achieve anything but a very imperfect expression of the truth.If you

We believe in the Truth revealed by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Faith - Anchor of Life

Faith - Anchor of Life
Happy are men anchored on fixed belief 
In this uncertain and ambiguous world,
Or who have planted in the heart's rich soil
One small grain of spiritual certitude.
Happiest who stand on faith as on a rock. 
                                       - Sri Aurobindo
(Savitri, Book VII, Canto III)

Have Faith in the Path and the Guru

Have faith in the Divine, in the Divine Grace, in the truth of the sadhana, in the eventual triumph of the spirit over its mental and vital and physical difficulties, in   the Path and the Guru, in the experience of things other than are written in the philosophy of Haeckel or Huxley or Bertrand Russell, because if these things are not true, there is no meaning in yoga.

How Sri Aurobindo achieved Yoga Siddhi in 1926? The Mother explains thus:

24 November - 1926 


Except for Krishna.... In 1926, I had begun a sort of overmental creation, that is, I had brought the /Overmind /down into matter, here on earth (miracles and all kinds of things were beginning to happen). I asked all these gods to incarnate, to identify themselves with a body (some of them absolutely refused). [298] Well, with my very own eyes I saw Krishna, who had always

Happy Mahashivaratri !