AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
Ask Alok da

Even though my soul is my true self, which is immortal and immune from everything, still why do physical and mental pains appear so real to me, even when they cannot touch my soul?

It is because we are not just the soul but also a body prone to various limitations and evolutionary imprints as well as a mind subject to ignorance and habits, conditioned by the sensory inputs.

Besides it is not enough to know that we have a soul. We need to realise it. It is like a dormant chip that needs to be fully activated for its full potential to manifest. 

2) Even if I don’t have access to my psychic consciousness yet, what is the source of my external consciousness? I mean, even when I am not aware of my psychic consciousness, how is it that I feel partially conscious in my external being? 

All is the play of One Consciousness-Force that has built creation. The psychic is its purest form. The mind and vital, the external consciousness are its self-limitations. It is like the water drop at Gomukh is purest Ganga. But ultimately it swells up into a river and becomes polluted. So with the psychic being and the external consciousness. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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