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In your responses, you emphasize inner life, inner growth, and the inner self. What exactly do you mean by these terms? And how should we do that🤔?

There is an outer personality consisting of our habitual reactions, habitual thoughts and feelings and impulses based on the immediate sensory input. This surface personality with which we are strongly identified as our self is largely based on the sensory inputs, identification with the body and the sense mind.

But there is behind the surface personality, an inner being not identified with the body but by a set of thoughts, ideas, feelings, hopes, aspirations which exists independent of our outer physical reality our outer reactions and responses, our outer situations and circumstances. This inner being is open to insights, creativity, inspiration as well as high climbing aspiration and sacrifices that may even endanger the physical body and outer personality. And finally deep within the inner being is the secret soul, the seeker after Truth and Beauty and Good and Freedom and Immortality, in one word, the Divine.

To discover the inner being, to live in it, we should learn to step back from the immediate surface reactions and rushing and leaping at every sensory input. Then, especially in moments of inner quietude we should reflect upon the purpose of our existence, the aims and goals, the hidden motives and ideas that move us, the love that moves our heart and within it all, our true aspiration. Thus slowly we discover our inner being.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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We recently brought a Shivling from my in-law’s place as they are not able to take proper care of it. My in-laws used to worship it with elaborate rituals. We have also been advised to follow it. To be honest, I don’t have much faith in their long rituals which were advised by our family priest. To me a simple ritual with faith & devotion is what is actually needed in worship🤨.

July 1, 2025

I understand your situation and have experienced this with other families as well. Ritual involves a,material and a spiritual aspect. The material side is to give bath (wash) the Shivalingam daily and keep it in a …

Dear Alok da I am a woman so it’s very easy to look at Divine as a lover… but how can a man relate to Divine like a lover ? Like when Sri Aurobindo writes the poem on Krishna I can relate feel Krishna in that form but what about a man? This was just silly curious question but thought to ask🙂.

July 1, 2025

This is something that i struggled with for a while as to how could I see the Beloved in the Mother or bring before Her all my different parts for the needed change and transformation. Soon I realised that it …

Last night, I had a dream where I saw that my father and I were getting a tubewell installed, and at the end, when we inserted the pipe, a lot of water came out and it was sparkling. Then, Grandpa came and asked why we had the tubewell installed, saying that the water is salty. When we drank it, the taste was a bit salty, so I said at least the water would be useful. Later, I saw that my brother and I were checking the car’s headlight, but it didn’t light up. So, I said, doesn’t the light work? What’s the problem? He said it’s fine, and when I turned it on, the light was very dim. Then, we removed the mirror from the headlight and saw that it was giving off very little light. What could be the symbolic meaning of this dream🤔?

July 1, 2025

I don’t think it has any deeper symbolic meaning. Looks more like a dip into the subconscient where the water is not tasty and the lights are dim. But it could also be…

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In your responses, you emphasize inner life, inner growth, and the inner self. What exactly do you mean by these terms? And how should we do that🤔?

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Dear Alok da I am a woman so it’s very easy to look at Divine as a lover… but how can a man relate to Divine like a lover ? Like when Sri Aurobindo writes the poem on Krishna I can relate feel Krishna in that form but what about a man? This was just silly curious question but thought to ask🙂.