The Mother
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Articles by The Mother (62)
The Essence of immortality
By The Mother - Oct 15, 2020
11 — Immortality is not the survival of the mental personality after death, though that also is true, but the waking possession of the unborn and deathless Self of which body is only an instrument and a shadow.1
The supreme rest
By The Mother - Oct 15, 2019
Mother, you said that the sleep before midnight gives us most rest...
The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It
By The Mother - Oct 15, 2017
Generally speaking, perhaps the greatest obstacle in the way of man’s progress is fear, a fear that is many-sided, multiform, self-contradictory, illogical, unreasoning and often unreasonable. Of all fears the most subtle and the most tenacious is the fear of death. It is deeply rooted in the subconscient and it is not easy to dislodge. It is obviously made up of several interwoven elements: the spirit of conservatism and the concern for self-preservation so as to ensure the continuity of consciousness, the recoil before the unknown, the uneasiness caused by the unexpected and the unforeseeable, and perhaps, behind all that, hidden in the depths of the cells, the instinct that death is not inevitable and that, if certain conditions are fulfilled, it can be conquered; although, as a matter of fact, fear in itself is one of the greatest obstacles to that conquest. For one cannot conquer what one fears, and one who fears death has already been conquered by it.
The atmosphere of protection
By The Mother - Oct 15, 2016
When Sri Aurobindo says that illness comes from outside, what exactly is it that comes?
The miracles of human reason
By The Mother - Oct 15, 2015
14 – They told me, “These things are hallucinations.” I inquired what was a hallucination and found that it meant a subjective or psychical experience which corresponds to no objective or no physical reality. Then I sat and wondered at the miracles of the human reason.”1