One thing pains me a lot. I see that people who waste money and resources😠, for example re-constructing homes, breaking and taking down good furniture and replacing it with a new one, wasting electricity in the name of home decorations, wasting water in the name of digging borewells instead of sharing, purchasing what is not required just for the sake of satisfaction and show off, spending lavishly in wedding and the list is endless. Most pathetic thing is that these are the people who have a lot of money while various others strive to fulfill daily needs and try hard to save money to satisfy small- small desires. why such combinations like sensible, spiritual and rich are less? Does it has anything to do with one's thinking pattern? How can one earn money and be good and sensible at the same time?

Are the processes of Purification and Transformation the same thing? I have a little confusion. In the process of Purification, we face some adverse forces that are mentioned by Sri Aurobindo in the chapter ‘The difficulties of Transformation’. Are they the same? 🔥🌄[…]

January 16, 2026

Purification is the indispensable basis for liberation. It means removing the covering and coating of ignorance and falsehood that veils the true self. In the yoga seeking for mukti, the purification has to be less thorough. It is enough to bring some sattwic rectitude in nature, satwasanshuddhi. Transformation proper..

Can we understand Sri Aurobindo and His yoga with the physical mind, as you say physical mind never grasps the Truth in its highest sense. So if we feel good by reading Sri Aurobindo or The Mother, even that is from the physical plane, wanting a good, perfect physical life. 😅❤️‍🔥🦋 […]

January 16, 2026

Yes, it is difficult for the physical mind to shift its fixed position and comfort zones..It feels lost and insecure. But once it accepts the New Idea then it gets firmly established there. It is somewhat like…

The talk sounded like you were putting down Marriage as a concept! True, some regions do this horse ride/wasting money, which is in bad taste. However, Marriage as a concept gives the monkey minds a framework. 🥸💍💒[…]

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Yes, I agree that for the average human being, these outer frameworks and social institutions do serve a purpose of holding people together. Of course, as I mentioned, marriage or not, love and togetherness can be beautiful and ought to be so. But for that, man needs to evolve beyond the present frameworks, which operate as long as one accepts the limits of dos and don’ts. …

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