Yes, it is due to an instability in nature. Psychosis itself is the result of this instability that arises because the consciousness has got centered
Yes, of course, reading and writing prepare the ground, they are not a replacement or substitute for direct experience which comes through the meeting of
He has already answered this as you have correctly indicated, through the svabhava. Svabhava is the Divine Impulsion in creation that generates karma. It is
Yes, I understand the sense of lost opportunities that come sometimes when we look back at life. It is inevitable because human beings live in
Yes, your intuitive insight is quite correct about much of the present humanity. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo herself cautioned about this in several places.
Matter is the jada tattva of which all earthly life is based upon. Its nature is obscurity, inertia, darkness. It carries its own truth within
These longings are normal and natural at your age. There is nothing wrong in going through these aspects of life consciously, offering it all at
Yes, that is what I meant about the complications that married life brings. However it is also a good preparation as it opens the heart’s
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.
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
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
It is a very good thought and I am sure She will arrange all that you need. Pursue your deepest inner truth and have faith
A long time ago Plato made Socrates pose this classic question in his Euthyphro dilemma, in a slightly different way. Socrates simply asks: Why is
Purification means bringing all the parts and all the movements completely under the Divine Influence and no other. Naturally it is a long process and
Thou hast subjected me to a hard discipline; rung after rung, I have climbed the ladder which leads to Thee and, at the summit of
By teaching them self mastery and self control, not giving in to unreasonable demands, by instilling the will to take challenges and persevere. They should
If you ask me in one short sentence it is the beginning of the end of the forces of falsehood that had entrenched themselves deep
It is the psychic being that pulls us towards the Divine, generally using the mind or the heart as its instrument. But if the vital
