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.Β
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.
Who is Baba Farid? What is his story? You mentioned him in your latest talk.β³πππΊ
Baba Farid was a Sufi saint of the 13th century AD. He was born in the Punjab province of the then undivided India. His teachings
Pranam Alokda. Till the time one realises their Psychic Being and start to live a ‘truly spiritual’ life, as the Mother states, and can truly start to live the ideal of a ‘Divine Worker’ as stated in the Essays on the Gita, what’s the best and most practical everyday psychological attitude that can be consistently adopted in aspiration for an ideal state like that of a Divine worker where one directly receives command from the Divine and carries it out in the true spirit of Gita. πππ»π»β€οΈβπ₯π
It is difficult to receive direct command from the Divine until one has made a living contact with the psychic being. What one can however
Dada, I saw a dream that I was pregnant, I wanted a normal delivery, so doctors went away with their machines and I delivered a baby boy in normal process, but in that process a boy helped me and strange thing is that he was crying. π€±πΌπΌπΌβ€οΈβπ₯π·[…]
It seems like some soul that got in active contact with you wanting to be born through you. Could be some link from the past.
I don’t know how, but in my mind, I am stuck on the fact that the growth of the Soul will invite newer challenges, and I really don’t have the strength to go through any challenges at the moment. Is seeking happiness the same as wanting the pain to stop? I’m not sure that I can tell the difference. π£π₯β€οΈβπ₯π
Challenges are bound to come in life. It is part of the evolutionary programming. The soul helps us to navigate through these challenges with much
Iβm curious to know what place Sri Aurobindo would have given to Personality Classifications like Myers-Briggs, Socionics, etc. I understand that he spoke of psychoanalysis as an incomplete and partially ignorant tool of understanding the mind. ππ§βπ€π[…]
There was a time, long back, when I read many of these things. Found all of them not only grossly inadequate and limited but also
If a person is elevating their consciousness and developing themselves into a new consciousness, what about those who have already attained Liberation (Mukti) and have become one with the Supreme Being? According to Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, what is their status? Will they also take on the new consciousness?β¨π§ποΈπ
Identifying with the Supreme Being is rare. What is generally called as Mukti is departing from the cycle of birth and death into a state
Sir, the main problem with depressive medicines is that they make the body and mind always sleepy, dull and lethargic. To be honest, I don’t actually know as to how and where to progress on the Spiritual path and in Studies. Even the simplest of things, I am finding it difficult to face off. Really don’t know what to do ahead.π§οΈπ§ββοΈππ«
This was true of earlier medicines. But now there are much safer medicines with fewer side effects if any especially of drowsiness. There is nothing
I want to grow on the path of Integral Yoga. I deeply wish to change myself and transform my Consciousness, but I find it difficult to do so. I often decide to wake up early at 5:30 AM, yet my body resists. Even if I manage to get out of bed, I soon find myself going back to sleep.π§β¨πͺ·π§©[…]
Waking up in the morning is not the most important thing though it is helpful to align one’s waking up with the sunrise. What is
Yesterday I had a dream in which I was in a three-wheeler autorickshaw as the only passenger. There was no driver, and the vehicle was uncontrollably moving down a hill on an earthen road. I was barely able to control it. The road had helical curves, and at the endβif I remember correctlyβit either crashed or overturned, and the dream ended.πππ΄π€[…]
Yes it is clearly a dislocation. Possibly the mind was not in control of body and the vital force that fuels it and the consciousness
Curious to know if some of the older members of the family come as pets in our homes? Can it really happen that humans are born as animals in the next life?β€οΈβπ₯πππ‘π
No, the soul’s evolution is always forward. There is no retrogression as is commonly preached. In fact, the soul is not shifting passively from one
In your recent talk you mentioned Tirupati had a mental breakdown because he could not hold the Divine aflatus. What happened to him and how could he have avoided that crisis?π€―ππ« π₯
It is only when the yoga is done under the stress of vital excitement or if some vanity of being special instrument etc creeping in
I feel more emotionally and readily drawn and attached to Sri Krishna than I do with The Mother yet. I can feel that it is a smaller opening towards The Mother, and it is more mental and conceptual, it is inspired and sweet, but it is less spontaneous and more formal.πͺπ¦πͺ·π[…]
It happens to many. Sri Krishna (and Sri Rama) are deeply embedded in our consciousness for milleniums. Most hindus naturally turn towards them. The Lila
If someone has to undergo radio or chemotherapy because of Cancer he might have some side effects because also the good cells are hit. Is there a way – by Meditation, a Mantra, or Calling the Divine Force – to protect the good cells?ποΈπ§¬ππ»ππ
Though nowadays the treatment is quite targeted and the side effects are relatively less, still they can be further minimized by creating a zone of
Has Sri Aurobindo explained the Patanjali Yoga Sutras? If yes, then in which book is it explained? Please share.βοΈπβ¨π
Sri Aurobindo does refer to Rishi Patanjali in some places. He saw in him mainly a codifier who presented the Rajayoga in a systematic logical
What is your take on trauma bonding? I see few talking about how difficult there life has been and how they were neglected. Not denyingΒ the trauma one has gone through.. but is there a possibility they are magnifyingΒ it and accepting this it for others gratification and attention?? Teens doing that is also worrying.Β What do you think of this?π€·ββοΈπ¬πΆβπ«οΈβ
Human beings almost invariably look at life from the lens of ignorance. They act and react based on their limited understanding and enter into a
Please help understand below (from chapter ‘Equality’, page 191-192) in the right context:” Our secret soul takes a pleasure in this strife and effort, and even a pleasure in adversity and suffering, which can be complete enough in memory and retrospect, but is present too behind at the time and often even rises to the surface of the afflicted mind to support it in its passion; but what really attracts the soul is the whole mingled weft of the thing we call life with all its disturbance of struggle and seeking, its attractions and repulsions, its offer and its menace, its varieties of every kind.”ποΈβ¨πβ€οΈ
Yes the secret soul is the psychic being.
The pleasure in adversity is not necessarily only for the opportunity of progress it provides but
Life feels very hard Alok da. I often feel that nothing has amounted. much in any aspect of my life. Though I keep trying, disappointments. are almost the routine. As you can imagine, I am feeling exhausted. with all that pushing, all the series of frustrations. I don’t expect. life to be smooth, but it feels incredibly bumpy (something that I am reminded of also when I see most of the people around me, such as my peers, my relatives, my colleagues, my friends)βοΈππ§±πͺ«
She is not only watching you but carrying you. How else are you able to navigate through it despite the challenges? However it is important
Recently there has been a controversy over a comment made by two well known priests on girls, in which the girls are again replying to them and if we leave aside the girls, then everyone else is saying the right thing about these things said by the saints. If we look at all this with a new consciousness, then how should we look at it?π£οΈπππ’
Leaving aside the merits of the saints whom I do not have any personal contact with but just coming to the issue, there are three