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Poverty

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

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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. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ“–๐ŸŒ„[…]

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

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On 9th Dec 1972, the Mother said : โ€œ Do not ask me any questions about the mind; I am no longer interested in it. I am concentrated on union with the overmind.โ€ What did she mean by it? Wasnโ€™t she doing yoga of the cells at that time? And why didnโ€™t she want to instruct the disciple about the mind? ๐Ÿงฌโœจ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

It is about establishing the principle of the Overmind fully in the cells as part of the cellular yoga.

As to giving instructions about the

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For the last two years, I have constantly felt fearful about my family members’ health. I keep worrying that if something happens to them, what will I do? At the same time, I also feel fearful about my own health, wondering what my family members would do if something happened to me. ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป […]

The fact that your parents went through the challenges successfully should bring faith rather than fear. Fear is an absence of faith. Ask for faith

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It’s been more than a month now; I feel pressure in my neck every time I read Savitri, even sometimes when I am simply walking on the terrace or just sitting quietly. It started happening very concretely on the night of 24th April when I was meditating; that day I experienced a kind of pressure and a few sensations in my head. ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿง˜โœจ […]

It is the pressure of the higher consciousness trying to open the centres of the Mind and speech. It is a good thing, the sign

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Sri Aurobindo says there is no shortcut to Divinity. Does it mean that, apart from an understanding of yoga, one must fulfil certain moral, ethical responsibilities towards family or people before one can practise consecration to the Divine, union, realization of the Divine, etc? ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

No no no. Moral, ethical, social notions have little to do with the true spiritual life. There are number of examples of authentic spiritual Masters

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