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Dear Dada, what are these knots (pash) by which Women are bound? How many are they? The Mother has worked on releasing Women from these ties. In what ways can we see its impact in the present time, and when can we say that this work has reached its highest goal? πŸ‘©πŸΌβ›“οΈβ€πŸ’₯πŸ™„πŸ™πŸ»πŸŒ·

In the beginning or even almost upto the middle of the previous century women were bound everywhere in so many ways. The family rules were

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In my Dream, a school friendβ€”whom I consider like a sisterβ€”video calls me. At first, I think of ignoring it, but in the end, I pick up the call. Four other girls are sitting with her, and they’re having fun together. Then she ends the call and sends me a message: “If you want to shine like the sun, stop going to many; one Master is enough.” Please explain this. πŸ’­πŸ‘©πŸΌβ€πŸŽ“β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯🌻

They are not throwing doubts. They are showing the right path of making a decisive final choice of holding on to the One, to the

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1) If we construct a model to explain (approximate, if not possible to explain) spiritual philosophy, where a model consists of a set of assumptions that are accepted as true statements, such that it is beyond the scope of the model to test the validity of the truth of those statements using the same model. Then, other statements called hypotheses can be constructed, which can be placed in one of the 4 categories: provable/ disprovable/ unverifiable/ unable to be classified among the other 3 categories so far.Β πŸ“–βœ’οΈπŸ₯ΈπŸŒ·[…]

These constructs, theories are mental ways of trying to understand something that the mind does not know. It does not want to undertake the journey

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My pranam at Thy Lotus Feet of the Divine Mother.Β  Β  My pranam to you also.Β Dada, in reading through the original texts of Sri Aurobindo, like Life Divine, Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri and others, there are different subjects and thought processes like subconscious, subliminal, planes, etc.Β But how to get access to or connect to the exact explanations by the Mother in her writings?Β Please guide me.Β πŸ˜ŠπŸ™πŸ»β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯πŸŒ·πŸ“šΒ  Β 

Yes, it is always best to read them directly. No interpretation can ever do justice or be a replacement for the direct reading. The original

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Yesterday, I was listening to an excerpt of your talk on how the Divine Grace arranges things on a macro level, taking every individual(probably the ones open to the Grace) into consideration. However, could you please explain the effect of Vital or Mental formations on the working of the Grace on those individuals? πŸ™‚πŸ™πŸ»πŸ¦‹πŸƒ

The mental and vital formations can support or resist the action of the Grace. They do have a role to play. For example if someone

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I was listening to your recent conversation on Social Media. While discussing about body positivity, you’ve so aptly brought out the counterfactual of what if the female lead with whom the male protagonist is romanticizing happened to be ‘visually not fair and pretty’- which actually has been what I too used to think. πŸ«‚β€οΈβœ¨πŸ‘©β€β€οΈβ€πŸ‘¨[…]

Yes love, like most things in our life is fed by certain stereotypes and social constructs. Hence it suffers deformation and distortion like everything else.

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Pranam Alokda. Till the time one realises their Psychic Being and start to live a ‘truly spiritual’ life, as the Mother states, and can truly start to live the ideal of a ‘Divine Worker’ as stated in the Essays on the Gita, what’s the best and most practical everyday psychological attitude that can be consistently adopted in aspiration for an ideal state like that of a Divine worker where one directly receives command from the Divine and carries it out in the true spirit of Gita. πŸ˜ŠπŸ™πŸ»πŸŒ»β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯πŸŒ„

It is difficult to receive direct command from the Divine until one has made a living contact with the psychic being. What one can however

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I don’t know how, but in my mind, I am stuck on the fact that the growth of the Soul will invite newer challenges, and I really don’t have the strength to go through any challenges at the moment. Is seeking happiness the same as wanting the pain to stop? I’m not sure that I can tell the difference. 😣πŸ₯€β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯πŸƒ

Challenges are bound to come in life. It is part of the evolutionary programming. The soul helps us to navigate through these challenges with much

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