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
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Alok da, I was going through this work by the philosopher Descartes called Rules for the Direction of the Mind. So much of this work is about how to better purify the various human faculties of sense perception, memory, judgment, imagination, etc., so that one can observe minute facts of nature with precision and without prejudiced universal presuppositions and arrive at a true universal knowledge, which is arrived at only after mastery of minute particulars. ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฌ๐๐[…]
Certainly the Hindus knew the various means of purifying the mind and intelligence and, during the heydays of ancient India, the Vedic period and even
Sir, is whatever happens with us is always for our best? ๐๐ป๐ผ
The Mother has given a very beautiful and complete answer to this.
‘Is it really the best that always happens?… It is clear that all
I frequently experience sudden, intense visual or mental sensations triggered by everyday moments like listening to music or watching sports. These fleeting perceptions last less than a second before vanishing, leaving me unable to analyze or recall what I saw. ๐ฅ๐ป๐ฆ[…]
The second is a complimentary response of your soul. Your psychic being is trying to emerge out of the shell of the present ego personality.
Seeking mental clarity to illuminate the mind rather than fixate on rigid concepts, I ask this from the premise of The Life Divine: How far does the eternally unveiled Divine and His Shakti directly intervene within this veiled evolutionary world? ๐ฑโจ[…]
Spiritual experience affirms that creation exists at at least two levels. In the evolutionary world like ours it can be seen as two stages of
If so, genuine bhakti may truly begin only when the Psychic Being comes forward. ๐๐ป๐ชท
True Bhakti starts as the psychic being begins to awaken and take lead of life. But its full emergence and coming forward completely takes time.
I have held these experiences close out of fear they might be mere mental illusions, but they have now become constant: spontaneously seeing the Mother’s feet or form before me, her symbol glowing during prayer, and a deep orange sun against the sky.๐ชทโจ๐๐ป[…]
These are all genuine experiences that indicate a deep inner link with the Divine Mother, especially Her Knowledge or Maheshwari aspect. …
This new-age concept of detachment – how valid is it? Does it work? Sincerity of effort is more important, right, than jumping from one thing to the other. As you said, nothing is perfect. Had to be made so. Then why so much stress on it?ย ๐ง๐๏ธ […]
A certain degree of inner detachment gives us a vantage point in terms of taking decisions. It also blunts the reactions of pleasure and pain
My dealing assistantโs brother-in-law has been very ill for 3 weeks. He is suffering from kidney cancer and a blockage in the arteries. He is nearly 45 years old and has 2 daughters (ages 16 and 14). ๐๐ป๐๏ธ[…]
Oh, I see. It is indeed a difficult time for him and his family. Yes one must pray. Whether prayer will save him or not
What is the difference between God and Divine? Why did Sri Aurobindo use the word Divine and not God? ๐คโจ
Sri Aurobindo has used both words. His earlier writings has the word God much more often. The reason why he has used the word Divine
Could you please advise whether one can chant slokas or mantras, in particular to read hanuman chalisa everyday after opening to Mother. Should I offer this act to Mother before reading the Hanuman Chalisa? Iโm confused; could you please clarify? ๐ฟ๐๐ผ
Offer the act, the urge and the feeling to the Divine Mother and pray that the readings and invocation reach Her.
On 9th Dec 1972, the Mother said : โ Do not ask me any questions about the mind; I am no longer interested in it. I am concentrated on union with the overmind.โ What did she mean by it? Wasnโt she doing yoga of the cells at that time? And why didnโt she want to instruct the disciple about the mind? ๐งฌโจ๐๐ป
It is about establishing the principle of the Overmind fully in the cells as part of the cellular yoga.
As to giving instructions about the
For the last two years, I have constantly felt fearful about my family members’ health. I keep worrying that if something happens to them, what will I do? At the same time, I also feel fearful about my own health, wondering what my family members would do if something happened to me. ๐๏ธ๐ช๐๐ป […]
The fact that your parents went through the challenges successfully should bring faith rather than fear. Fear is an absence of faith. Ask for faith
Most early devotional movements seem to be emotional-vital surges rather than true bhakti. โค๏ธ๐๐ป๐ผ
Difficult to generalise. The vital-emotional surges may spring from the soul because the emptional centre is near the psychic. There are beautiful psychic movements that
Real bhakti perhaps belongs primarily to the psychic being, while the mind and emotional-vital nature mainly reflect, imitate, or express its influence. โค๏ธ๐ผ
Yes. The other parts may reflect. After all the psychic consciousness must lead and guide the others. Imitation is a different thing. It is a
Dear Alok Bhaiya, Sri Aurobindo has cited the Siege of Troy as one of the four major events in the history of the world. What kind of transformation did this event bring about in the world? ๐๏ธ๐ […]
As Sri Aurobindo reveals the seige of Troy created Hellas after the name of Helen over whom the war was fought. Before the Trojan war,
It’s been more than a month now; I feel pressure in my neck every time I read Savitri, even sometimes when I am simply walking on the terrace or just sitting quietly. It started happening very concretely on the night of 24th April when I was meditating; that day I experienced a kind of pressure and a few sensations in my head. ๐๐งโจ […]
It is the pressure of the higher consciousness trying to open the centres of the Mind and speech. It is a good thing, the sign
Sri Aurobindo says there is no shortcut to Divinity. Does it mean that, apart from an understanding of yoga, one must fulfil certain moral, ethical responsibilities towards family or people before one can practise consecration to the Divine, union, realization of the Divine, etc? ๐ฑ๐ง๐๐ป
No no no. Moral, ethical, social notions have little to do with the true spiritual life. There are number of examples of authentic spiritual Masters
I have never been able to fully understand: Yet amidst this crowd, this noise, and this illusion, finding God perhaps is the most difficult journey of all. Sometimes it feels as though He exists everywhere, and at other times, it seems an entire lifetime may pass in the search for Him. ๐โจ๐๐ป
In its essence this world and all other worlds, in fact the whole creation is nothing but a manifestation of the Divine who is the