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We know of so many people who are facing impossible situations and problems and they are helpless. They do not know what to do or whom to ask.ย 

This is a dedicated site for those who are searching for answers, who want to break from their present repeating circles of life and looking for answers that will understand them, help them find a new way-a new solution towards life beautiful and Divine.

Reading all the writings, all the answers to my seekings, there remains a gap, a feeling of being unanswered.ย My inner call says that I can’t know anything fully while staying in the same dimension; there is a higher level or dimension than my present one, or maybe many of them, and only when I reach there, my quest will end. ๐Ÿค”๐ŸŒท๐ŸŒ„โœจ

Yes, of course, reading and writing prepare the ground, they are not a replacement or substitute for direct experience which comes through the meeting of

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Jai Maa. Today I was reading the Two Natures chapter from Essays on the Gita and there Sri Aurobindo explains that the desire in consonance with dharma does not lead to any bondage, while there he also mentions that desire born of Rajogun leads to bondage and misery. ๐Ÿ“–โœ’๏ธ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐ŸŒป[…]

He has already answered this as you have correctly indicated, through the svabhava. Svabhava is the Divine Impulsion in creation that generates karma. It is

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Sir, I am in my early 40s now. I have been the Divine Motherโ€™s devotee since I was a girl of 9-10 years old. Now I feel how lucky I am to get Her image & to walk inside the Ashram, she still walks or drinks the water that she is still drinking/touching despite the pain I’m stuck with for a long time, sir. ๐Ÿฅฒ๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ’–โœจ[…]

Yes, I understand the sense of lost opportunities that come sometimes when we look back at life. It is inevitable because human beings live in

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Right now, the world seems to be engaged in a terrible and depressing Yajna, with modernism and materialistic science as its priest, trying to conquer the world and death through Artificial Intelligence and genetically modifying babies and many more ignorant means and measures. ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฑ๐Ÿฆโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ[…]

Yes, your intuitive insight is quite correct about much of the present humanity. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo herself cautioned about this in several places.

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Alok da, how do I deal with this sense of fusion, that I feel within my being, as if I’m a bit torn apart, because I feel like I want to take part in all that is part of the bourgeois ideal, like a bit of marital sweetness, a bit of cultural activities, good money, societal prestige, etc. … ๐Ÿ˜ฃ๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐Ÿซ‚๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿ’–[…]

These longings are normal and natural at your age. There is nothing wrong in going through these aspects of life consciously, offering it all at

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When I was dropping her off at school, she asked me: Mummy, hum knife se body ko katte hain to Aatma kyu nahi martiโ€ฆ I replied: Kyuki Gita me likha hain ki Aatma ajar hain, amar hain. Then she asked me: Aesa kya hain jo wo nahi mar sakti. She is not satisfied with my answer da. ๐Ÿ‘ง๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ‘ง๐Ÿป๐Ÿชท๐ŸŒป

Beautiful question. You can give her some examples of material things that cannot be killed or destroyed by knife, for example water, air, fire, space.

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Sri Aurobindo writes inย “The web of yoga”, “We can pass into the Paratpara Brahman, but we can’t know the Paratpara Brahman.” Does it mean attaining Nirvanam, The Total Merger,ย that nothing individual is left? So knowing is not possible in Nirvanam.ย Am I right in my understanding?ย ๐Ÿ’ซ๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿชทโœจ

Yes because knowing implies a competition between the knower and the known. We can therefore become Brahman not know IT as know an object. We

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After much thought, I have decided I’m not suited to a 9-5 cubicle job, and I will not go for it. I’ll pursue a master’s degree in English and pursue a teaching career.ย Even if I getย  30Kย  a month, I’ll be happy, rather than doing something that doesn’t hold my interest, even for 2 lakhs.ย ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ผ๐Ÿข๐ŸŒป๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿซ๐Ÿต

It is a very good thought and I am sure She will arrange all that you need. Pursue your deepest inner truth and have faith

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