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Right now, the world seems to be engaged in a terrible and depressing Yajna, with modernism and materialistic science as its priest, trying to conquer the world and death through Artificial Intelligence and genetically modifying babies and many more ignorant means and measures. 🌎πŸ”₯πŸ”±πŸ¦β€πŸ”₯[…]

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.

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Alok da, how do I deal with this sense of fusion, that I feel within my being, as if I’m a bit torn apart, because I feel like I want to take part in all that is part of the bourgeois ideal, like a bit of marital sweetness, a bit of cultural activities, good money, societal prestige, etc. … 😣πŸ‘₯πŸ«‚πŸŒ„πŸ’–[…]

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

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When I was dropping her off at school, she asked me: Mummy, hum knife se body ko katte hain to Aatma kyu nahi marti… I replied: Kyuki Gita me likha hain ki Aatma ajar hain, amar hain. Then she asked me: Aesa kya hain jo wo nahi mar sakti. She is not satisfied with my answer da. πŸ‘§πŸΌπŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ‘§πŸ»πŸͺ·πŸŒ»

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.

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Sri Aurobindo writes inΒ “The web of yoga”, “We can pass into the Paratpara Brahman, but we can’t know the Paratpara Brahman.” Does it mean attaining Nirvanam, The Total Merger,Β that nothing individual is left? So knowing is not possible in Nirvanam.Β Am I right in my understanding?Β πŸ’«πŸ’–πŸͺ·βœ¨

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

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After much thought, I have decided I’m not suited to a 9-5 cubicle job, and I will not go for it. I’ll pursue a master’s degree in English and pursue a teaching career.Β Even if I getΒ  30KΒ  a month, I’ll be happy, rather than doing something that doesn’t hold my interest, even for 2 lakhs.Β πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ’ΌπŸ’πŸŒ»πŸ‘¨πŸΌβ€πŸ«πŸ΅

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

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“Buildings in America were on fire, and there was talk of a war. America and Israel had been attacked. The distance between Israel and Pakistan is vast, yet it seemed as if a road was being built from Pakistan to Israel. A road appeared on the map between Pakistan and Israel, marked “Work in progress.” What is this road from Pakistan to Israel, Dada? πŸ›£οΈπŸͺ–βš οΈπŸ€”

Pakistan here is a symbol of falsehood. Israel represents, at this point, the forces of truth that are fighting to annihilate this world of falsehood.

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