I sometimes feel that money is important too, and if I continue with commerce... MBA and job, then only I'll be able to fulfill this wish. The mind is very bad. It keep questioning. Sometimes it get satisfied with my nature and choose a work like philosophy professor, sometimes it looks at my parents and wish to get any job asap to become independent, and sometimes it wants money😥. [...]

A lot of money to fulfill my passions, like buying a bike, travelling all of India, taking my parents to various countries, buying cameras, telescopes to sneak into the galaxy, sometimes I feel won’t the mother give me everything if I really need all this? Or if my needs are really imp? But then it comes to my mind, we have to work and get a job on our own! Passive surrender is not good?

It is quite natural at your age. Best is to go through sanyama which means to regulate rather than nigragaha or forced repression. Take the path of inner and outer balance, avoiding the extremes, as given in the Gita. Go through life but know that you belong to the Divine Mother alone. Receive what comes to you but know that you are a trustee and everything belongs to the Mother. Do not covet or try to grab or snatch and possess. Be firm in the practice of equanimity and be not afraid of life and its gifts of joy and sorrow, success and failure. Above all be steadfast in faith in the Divine Mother. Serve Her and love Her and shrink not from life and love.

When I was dropping her off at school, she asked me: Mummy, hum knife se body ko katte hain to Aatma kyu nahi marti… I replied: Kyuki Gita me likha hain ki Aatma ajar hain, amar hain. Then she asked me: Aesa kya hain jo wo nahi mar sakti. She is not satisfied with my answer da. 👧🏼👩🏻‍👧🏻🪷🌻

March 10, 2026

Beautiful question. You can give her some examples of material things that cannot be killed or destroyed by knife, for example water, air, fire, space. Energy also cannot be destroyed. So too thoughts and feelings and will cannot be destroyed by any external force. This way she will understand that there are many things even within the…

My brother recently had a daughter. This made me read and explore more about that subject. I understand that the soul chooses to take human birth to progress further, but does it also choose the family or parents through whom to come into this human vital world? 👧🏼🪷🌻✨

March 10, 2026

Choosing the parents happens when the psychic being is developed and able to chose the conditions of earthly life into details. Until then it is only a general choice about the conditions and not particular details. Until a certain degree of development is completed the psychic being only goes by a …

Sri Aurobindo writes in “The web of yoga”, “We can pass into the Paratpara Brahman, but we can’t know the Paratpara Brahman.” Does it mean attaining Nirvanam, The Total Merger, that nothing individual is left? So knowing is not possible in Nirvanam. Am I right in my understanding? 💫💖🪷✨

March 10, 2026

Yes because knowing implies a competition between the knower and the known. We can therefore become Brahman not know IT as know an object. We can lose ourselves into …

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