It sometimes makes me feel uneasy that I might have to take a break from my literature readings, including the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, to prepare for exams that don't genuinely interest me. 📚🎓🙄🦋[...]

It does make one wonder about the way the system is structured. While I don’t have a desire to study Mathematics, it seems to be a path that could lead to a job. It’s a bit disheartening to think about pursuing a career that doesn’t hold my interest.

Yes, there is much that is wanting in the present education system. But take an interest in all you do as part of the preparation. While there may not be much time for serious reading, but you can always take out time for a Prayer from the Prayers and Meditations, as well as a passage from Savitri.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

Poverty

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It is a world which has emerged from the Inconscient and these things [poverty and misery] are results of the imperfect working of the human mind which, being born into the ignorant life and matter, has to learn by effort …

Alok da, I was going through this work by the philosopher Descartes called Rules for the Direction of the Mind. So much of this work is about how to better purify the various human faculties of sense perception, memory, judgment, imagination, etc., so that one can observe minute facts of nature with precision and without prejudiced universal presuppositions and arrive at a true universal knowledge, which is arrived at only after mastery of minute particulars. 🇮🇳🔬📖🌄[…]

September 11, 2026

Certainly the Hindus knew the various means of purifying the mind and intelligence and, during the heydays of ancient India, the Vedic period and even much later, they did turn it both inwards and outwards. That is how they discovered such wonderful things which included plastic surgery, an elaborate pharmacopeia, warcraft and deadly weapons, principles of politics and administration, rules of mathematics and chemistry, linguistics and …

Sir, is whatever happens with us is always for our best? 🙏🏻🌼

September 11, 2026

The Mother has given a very beautiful and complete answer to this.

‘Is it really the best that always happens?… It is clear that all that has happened had to happen: it could not be otherwise—by the universal determinism it had to happen. But we can say so only after it has happened, not before. For the problem of the very best that can happen is an individual problem, whether the individual be a nation or a single human being; and all depends upon the personal attitude. If, in the presence of circumstances…

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It sometimes makes me feel uneasy that I might have to take a break from my literature readings, including the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, to prepare for exams that don’t genuinely interest me. 📚🎓🙄🦋[…]

It does make one wonder about the way the system is structured. While I don’t have a desire to study Mathematics, it seems to be a path that could lead to a job. It’s a bit disheartening to think about pursuing a career that doesn’t hold my interest.

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