Ask Alok da
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.
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.
Difficult situations in life should make one stronger, but it has happened the opposite in my case. I have become more fearful after facing those difficulties of the past. Now, I tremble🫨 at the thought of any further difficult situations coming my way. Just to mention here – I have been taking antipsychotics for the past 15.2 years.
Yes some people react with fear and once fear sets in it attracts what is feared creating thereby a vicious cycle. The solution is to
Last night, I had another dream in which there was a small snake🐍 outside my old house, and with me was a friend whom I have met very few times and barely know. We tried to kill that snake, but it ran towards the drain of our old house. There, we saw another small snake, and both of them went inside the stone covering the drain. When we removed the stone, we saw a very large snake that extended into the neighbor’s house through that drain. I ran back and told my friend to step back because it was very dangerous. But my friend stayed there to kill it. The snake spoke and said, “How can I leave from here? I’ve been here for so many years.” The snake was very large and lived in the drain near our old house, with its tail inside the neighbor’s house. What does this mean, Alok Da?
It means some old hostile formation is around and while they are being chased, the main force behind them is deeply entrenched in that area.
In mother’s book “Significance of Flower”💐 that is mentioned that integral gratitude is that which the whole being offers itself to the lord in absolute trust.” Can you elaborate this line to better understand for me. My another question is “what is the meaning of whole being?”
The urge for motherhood is natural in women. It is a biological instinct strongly ingrained in us. If one ignores it for sometime it tends
In one of the answers a few days back you mentioned that -All gods are not the same in power and effect. Each god represents some aspect of the One Divine and hence the response gets filtered through the aspect that we worship. But in sahasranama the god is praised as supreme. Why so🤔?
Each god of the Puranas is also regarded as the Supreme. We may rest with the gods in a transactional approach of give and take
What is the dharma of an elder sister🤔?
To be a good example for her. To help her and care for her. Above all to be there and lend a ear when needed.
You said that just reading books isn’t enough, but from my understanding, if one wants to follow Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, the first step should at least be reading their works. Please correct me if I’m wrong. And if reading alone isn’t enough, how should one practice it, specially since it’s so vast and deep🙏?
Yes, reading books is helpful but evidently it is not enough. Even in ordinary fields of knowledge such as physics, biology, arts, literature etc we
Why is it that some 50-year-olds, despite having experienced so much in life and claiming to be wise, still fail to grasp certain basic truths? When I ask them not to think negatively, they insist they’re not being negative, just realistic. They say, “This is how humans are. We have endless responsibilities. You younger ones won’t understand, our minds are always preoccupied.” I can’t help but wonder how, after all these years, they still haven’t learned the fundamentals.😡
Yes some people never really grow up and learn. Instead they take it that whatever they have been or learnt is the ultimate truth and
Hi Alok da. I wanted to ask why Pakistan was formed? What was the Divine purpose? I didn’t understand🤨? Thank you!
As we read yesterday, Pakistan was the result of a deformation of the Divine Will by the forces of falsehood using politicians with gigantic ambition
What is death😳? What is after death?
Death is simply a dark passage from one life to another. The body is like a house and the circumstances of our life are like
In his book “The Mother”, Sri Aurobindo writes–”In all that is done in the universe, the Divine through his Shakti is behind all action but he is veiled by his Yoga Maya and works through the ego of the Jiva in the lower nature.” What does “Yoga Maya” mean? How does the Divine work through man’s ego🤔?
Yoga Maya is the power of the Divine through which He limits Himself into form and name. Thus the jiva feels himself a limited being
I want to know how can one realise presence of a Psychic being 🌟in Oneself. How can a person know He or She has a Psychic being or He or She has only a vital being?
Most human beings will have a psychic spark at least barring a few. Those very few who may not have a psychic spark are usually
Hi Alok ji, I had to ask few questions to ask, since I had to face a super disturbing event recently. Hi Alok ji, I had to ask few questions to ask, since I had to face a super disturbing event recently🫨. Let me share the following incident:
Such people are not worth paying attention to. It is like a pig trying to push the Himalayas by striking against it by its head.
Why are people who follow a spiritual path often labeled as saints or considered boring by those around them😳?
Because the ordinary humanity cannot understand them and it is the tendency to condemn, criticize, mock or belittle what one does not understand. Just ignore
In Agenda volume 13, April 7, 1973 it looks like Pranab da treated both the Mother and Satprem badly. Why did he restrict Satprem from meeting the Mother? It is said that Nolini da and Champaklal, all were scared of Pranab da. Why is that🤔?
This is of course Satprem’s version. He could have sent a letter to the Mother asking for Her audience or simply waited to see if
Alok da, since last 15 days we are struggling to make our 11 year old sleep in his own room, though he sleeps in his room every other night he come and sleep with us, we have tried everything but he wants me to make him sleep and even after that he gets up and wants me to put him to sleep again in the middle of the night, we feel it’s high time that he needs to sleep on his own, Please advice😳.
Yes children should begin to sleep by themselves by 5. In India, due to stronger emotional bonding and family attachment it takes longer. In any
How can we prevent difficulties from coming😥? Will Supermind help by predicting them?
We don’t need the Supermind to predict difficulties. We need to simply understand that there are certain laws that govern our existence and it is
I was reading 12 years with Sri Aurobindo, and read that the Mother did pranam at Sri Aurobindo’s feet. My question is why didn’t Sri Aurobindo ever fall at Mother’s feet ? Is Purusha force more mightier than Prakriti🤨 ?
Bowing at the feet and doing pranam has nothing to do with feelings of superiority or inferiority, nor is it the acknowledgement of someone being
Why do we have seasons😳?
There are two questions, how and why.
How do we have seasons? Because the earth moves around the sun as well as on its