I should mainly avoid chatting about trivial things and gossiping. I also have a question about gossiping. I try not to participate in gossip. Unfortunately, I do end up hearing some of it because people are always doing it in front of me (I can't really stop them). How do I rectify this?🤫☕🫗🗣️

Sometimes someone says something bad about someone but in a funny way. Sadly, I do end up laughing at it, even though I don’t want to. It’s not that I am laughing at the person but at the way the thing was said. I have a bad habit of not being able to control my laughter at times and it has landed me in trouble before

Not being able to control laughter is fine. One can never laugh enough. But gossip is no doubt a most useless thing, a total waste of energies and sometimes very harmful for oneself as well as for others. While it is the most favorite pasttime of many people it is also the most useless waste of energies.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

Dear Alok Ji, can you please tell me how I can get rid of my anger at Sri Aurobindo and also how to regain trust in him? 🙏🏻💗

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Again anger is an extremely harmful emotion towards anyone. It hurts and harms both, the one who harbours it and the one towards whom it is directed. But since one cannot harm or hurt the Divine Beings, it falls back upon oneself creating a terrible karma. By all means desist it. It is the straight road to fall…

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It is much better to catch the knot of life at the other end from where it all begins. The riddle of life cannot be understood on the surface. Focus on the one thing needful, the Divine, and all the rest will begin to fall in its place. This has been the experience of all who have gone on the path.

I am reading the Synthesis of Yoga and Sri Aurobindo is speaking about the union having a threefold character (pg. 131). I wanted to understand whether this is a skilful parallel to draw: a union by identity = Atman = Brahman 📖🌟🙏🏻 […]

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Here is the passage from the Synthesis of Yoga to which you are referring.

‘That which is thus made manifest to our vision and experience, and the union has a threefold character. There is a union in spiritual essence, by identity; there is a union by the indwelling of our soul in this highest Being and Consciousness; there is a

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