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Sometimes I feel that something higher and vast is trying to touch and enter not only my mind but also my physical brain. Yet I feel that the brain is not ready for it. It is still too narrow and rigid, not sufficiently supple or plastic. It feels as though the higher consciousness is waiting for the right moment. 🧠✨🙏🏻 […]

It is quite possible what you say. The simplest way to prepare the brain is by reading Sri Aurobindo. Similarly the simplest way to prepare

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After many years in a demanding corporate career, I have never felt truly aligned with this path, finding my genuine fulfillment instead in creative pursuits like filmmaking and photography. Alongside my job, I built a creative venture that is now gaining steady traction, though familial responsibilities keep me tied to my day job for now. 🎬🪷[…]

You are on just the right track and it is a clear sign of an inner leading. Follow your heart’s intuition. It is leading you

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What do we mean by “there was a calling to …” to visit a place or to be in Pondicherry, in the ashram? What is this calling? How does it feel when one experiences such a thing? And when people say “Mata ne bolaya hai” or “Bolenath ne bolaya hai”, how true is it? In essence, do gods really call people to visit them? 🪷🙏🏻

Call simply means an inner urge, an impulsion, the awakening of the will or a strong feeling to do something, say to visit a special

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Alok da, I was contemplating on the idea that in life, humans mostly live to make others happy- at least I have lived mostly like that. It starts from parents to friends to partner to future kids maybe. But isn’t it true that if the Divine is happy with us, there is no need to worry about anyone’s happiness? 🌷🙏🏻[…]

It is only the Sattwic people who think of other’s happiness. Most live and think only or mainly about their happiness. However since almost whole

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In the third chapter of The Mother, it is written: “Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation.” My question is: what is meant by ‘divine work’? We do household works mainly and rarely do we go out. Do I understand by this that whatever work we do should be considered as Mother’s work? 📖🪷🙏🏻 […]

Divine Work is the work given by the Divine that we are originally meant to do. But it takes time to grow conscious of this

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The Divine Consciousness

By the Divine Consciousness we mean the spiritual consciousness to which the Divine alone exists, because all is the Divine and by which one passes

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This was the second time this happened. I had a dream at night that my scooty had stopped because it was out of fuel; this was the dream. Now real thing that happened the next day was that the same thing happened, but because I was aware, I went to the petrol pump and the scooty stopped right there only. 🌙🔮[…]

These are dream signals given by certain benevolent vital forces that are in contact with you. Of course these will pass off as premonitory dreams.

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Out of deep reverence and spiritual curiosity, I have a question regarding the internal structure of the sacred Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. I have heard that in the Samadhi vault, Sri Aurobindo’s physical body is placed in a wooden casket at the lower level, and directly above it, The Mother’s physical body is placed in another wooden casket. 🕯️🌸[…]

Yes, the understanding is quite correct. It is also generally believed (based on some conversations with old earliest disciples) that while the rectangular part contains

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According to the Isha Upanishad, self-slayers go to the dark world and remain there for an unlimited period of time. Sri Aurobindo has also condemned suicide in Letters on Yoga. What will be the fate of those who pray to the Divine and desire shortening of their days upon earth by not taking treatment for their diseases? Is it equivalent to self-slaying and do the persons to suffer after their departure? 🕊️🙏🏻

Refusing to take treatment is fine but if it is done with a will to die, with a defeatist attitude, to cut short the thread

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