Everyday Struggles of Human Nature
- How to get beyond blaming yourself and move forward?
- How to overcome boredom?
- What should be my attitude towards criticisms? How should I deal with it?
Questions and answers
Light on Life
Real questions people ask about everyday difficulties, answered in the words of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. 147 questions, gathered by theme and by topic.
How to use it: find the question closest to yours, read the answer slowly, and take one line into your day.
From Light on Life, questions and answers compiled by the Sri Aurobindo Society.
Questions by theme
Inner Guidance and the Divine Will
- How to become conscious of the Divine Force?
- How to be guided by the Divine Will?
- What is the best way of forgetting oneself?
Living and Working in the World
- Can business be done with higher ideals beyond making money? Is doing business incompatible with spiritual life?
- Material objects like chair or watch are a part of our daily life. What is their real nature?
- Helping Others and the World
Qualities for a Good Life
- We tend to be disturbed or overwhelmed by circumstances. Is it a necessity or a habit which can be overcome? Is it possible to remain inwardly calm and undisturbed under all circumstances?
- What does it mean to be confident? What is the deeper source of this virtue?
- Generosity
The Mind and Our Thoughts
- What is the proper function of the intellect? Is it a help or an obstruction to spiritual progress?
- How can one become a master of one’s thoughts?
- How to examine our mind?
The Unseen Side of Life
- What are the deeper causes for such mishaps? Can the accidents be prevented? If yes, how?
- Is Astrology a science or a superstition?
- Ghosts and black magic are considered to be part of our fantasy, meant perhaps to intimidate infantile minds. Are they mere figments of our imagination, or are they real?
Working on Our Character
- How to change our character?
- Changing oneself and Changing others
- How to deal with the dark shadow in us?
Questions by topic
Each of these topics has its own Questions page, next to its summary and compilation.
- Anger
- Art
- Aspiration
- Attention
- Beauty
- Birthdays
- Calm
- Compassion
- Concentration
- Consciousness
- Courage
- Creation and the Creator
- Death
- Devotion/Bhakti
- Discipline
- Divine Love
- Education
- Effort
- Ego
- Equanimity
- Faith
- Fate, Free Will and Karma
- Fear
- Food
- Freedom
- Gods and the Divine
- Grace
- Gratitude
- Happiness
- Health and Healing
- Human Relationships
- Humility
- Illness
- Imagination
- Inner Attitude
- Intuition
- Mantra
- Meditation
- Money
- Music
- Parenting and Prenatal Education
- Peace
- Perseverance
- Planes and Parts of the Being
- Prayer
- Psychic Being
- Purpose
- Rebirth
- Religion
- Silence
- Sleep and Dreams
- Speech
- Suffering
- Surrender
- Symbols/Forms Spiritual Significance
- The Spiritual Path
- Transformation
- Truth
- Will to Progress
- Work
