Sometimes, scrolling through social media and seeing other people's photos creates the illusion that their lives are perfect—free from struggles or worries. It seems as if they have effortlessly found true love, married their soulmate, and stepped into their "happily ever after," as though everything has fallen into place flawlessly. But your own life😥,[Conti]...

the path hasn’t been so smooth. If you have found love, it came with its own set of challenges, and if you haven’t, the journey has been even more difficult. Unlike those who seem to meet their soulmate with ease, you have endured emotional struggles, setbacks, and heartbreaks. Love didn’t arrive in your first relationship, nor did things work out as seamlessly as they appear for others. And as you continue navigating these hardships, witnessing others seemingly living their perfect lives only deepens the weight of your own reality.

Have you not heard the story about the advertisement of hell. It is overactive and its sole purpose is to turn humanity away or since it cannot do so forever, to delay the human from turning towards the true solution. In fact it is difficult to say which is a better fate, – the illusory happiness that keeps you imprisoned and tied to little pleasures and joys of life or, not finding these, pushing us to exceed our limits in search of something that is true and lasting and beautiful. To believe that one can find these within the human limits while leading a life given to the satisfaction of desires and surface emotions is the folly of thought we need to rectify. Of course if a person abandons one’s swadharma of a seeker and keeps comparing with those who are happy in their comfort zones is the greatest of miseries since then one misses one’s goal and the true law of one’s life.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

I remember once reading in Sri Aurobindo’s commentary on the Isha Upanishad that one cannot become a Brahmin without first becoming a Kshatriya. I believe that I never had the Kshatriya element developed sufficiently within me, and it has always been a source of embarrassment and insecurity for me as a man. 💪🙏🏻🪷[…]

September 15, 2026

He said both are needed. But these are things ingrained within us. Brahmin and Kshatriya are not soul states, inner innate temperaments and not so much of outer actions. Nevertheless everything can be developed by practice. By taking the challenges of life, through vigorous physical exercises, by praying for strength, by reading …

Bhaiya, Rishi Panchami fast is coming up, and I read the story behind it. Honestly, I found it quite absurd. The story talks about a woman unknowingly breaking certain rules during menstruation, cooking food that her husband eats, and then both of them facing severe karmic consequences in their next life. 🪷🙏🏻 […]

September 15, 2026

Yes, all these things have been added much later and have no authority in the main Scriptures. It is a story added in some of the Puranas, mainly I suppose to enforce rules of hygiene for women during the menstrual period. This was one of the ways to instil certain hygiene practices through fear. It has no meaning now. Most of the fasts …

How should we understand deities like Subrahmanyeshwara (Skanda/Murugan) and Vinayaka (Ganesha)? Are they individual divine beings, cosmic powers of the One Divine, or symbols of different aspects of consciousness? How should an aspirant in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga relate to them in practice? 🙏🏻✨

September 15, 2026

The four original gods, Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh and, behind them all Krishna, are, in their origin, the four aspects of the One Divine, named in Indian spiritual thought as Sacchidananda. Sat (सत) is infinite existence from which Brahma ji emerges. Chit is Chit-tapas, Consciousness and Force from which Hari or Vishnu ji and Hara or Shiv ji …

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