WRITINGS BY THE MOTHER
© Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

Helping Others

Mother dearest, You make me very happy and I would like to see everybody as happy as I.

Of course, this shows very good feelings. But a certain amount of knowledge must be added to these sentiments. For, to communicate peace and joy to others is not so easy, and unless one has within oneself an unshakable peace and joy, there is a great risk of losing what one has rather than passing it on to others.

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My heart is full of compassion for others and I am not insensible to their suffering, but what's the good of this feeling if I cannot come to their aid in their suffering?

One cannot help others to overcome their sorrows and sufferings unless one has overcome all this in oneself and is master of one's feelings and reactions.

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It is to purify your own heart that you must work, instead of passing your time in judging what others do or don't do.

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Yes, one must distrust superficial and baseless judgments.

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It is just when one is innocent that one ought to be most indifferent to ill-treatment, because there is nothing to blame oneself for and one has the approbation of one's conscience to console oneself.

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It would be much better for you not to busy yourself with what others say.

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Surely those who have courage must have some for those who have none.

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