alokda, Author at Ask Alok Da

These are universal mantras and do need any special or specific preliminary purification. They can be done by anyone and anytime. However mantras don’t work

During Ganesha chaturthi people play movie songs, may I dare say, in Sri Aurobindo’s language, the lower vital songs, doesn’t Lord Ganesha gets pissed at our stupidity? Or is Lord Ganesha seeking that vital energy from us through the festival? Yes I know I sound crazy but this got me thinking so much. When do people start respecting Ganu bappa as he’s supposed to be? I know we’re evolving and all. I wish it happens soon so that I can witness it. Most probably I’ll be there, as someone else in different region. 🥁🎺🕺🏽🐘

May 21, 2026

He is not happy at all. But most of the time it is not Lord Ganesha himself but one of his ganas in the vital

Different people have different opinions about banana shake. Modern science and gym goers consider it a good source for weight gain, whereas Ayurveda says that the combination of banana with milk is not good for digestion! So, Dada, should we drink banana shake or not?🍌🍽️😌

May 21, 2026

Banana is very good for gaining weight. In the Ashram Dining Room here Banana and milk are given everyday and hence I suppose it is

Why was the Mother born in France and not in India? I mean I am aware everything is Her. Everywhere is Her. Just this brain of mine needs a rational answer or is just too curious than it needs to be. Either way please tell me. ☀️🪷👑✨🌸

May 21, 2026

The Mother was born in France because at that time France was the hub of intellectual and artistic renaissance in the Age of rational enlightenment

Sir, my question to you was why is Mother not helping and protecting us from these issues. I only get sleep because of medication, which is not a good thing in the long run. When Mother knows about our problems, why isn’t she guiding us and helping us get out of them?🛡️🪽😔✨

May 21, 2026

Why do you presume that the Divine Mother is not helping you? But there is something that we have to do to fully receive the

How is Maa Durga, Mahalaxmi, Maheswari, Maha Saraswati and Maha Kali related to Sri Aurobindo and Maa? Did these Rishis worship them or are they are mightier than the above mentioned devis?🦁🔱🩸✨👁️

May 21, 2026

The gods and goddesses are all children of the Divine Mother. Some of them are helpers and collaborators in Their Work.

Some Rishis took

“Of course Christ has little to do with Christianity and the Bible and the institutionalized organised Church built around his name. ” If Bhagvat Gita, Bhagavadam, Brindavan have nothing to do with Shri krishna, then how will anybody come to know Him? 📜✨📖🧘‍♂️

May 21, 2026

One doesn’t know the Divine through the Scriptures but through love and bhakti, through his service, through meditation upon Him, through Yoga. Scriptures are at

Gita 9-25: They who worship the gods go to the gods, to the (divinised) Ancestors go the Ancestor-worshippers, to elemental spirits go those who sacrifice to elemental spirits; but My worshippers come to Me. My questions: 1) What is meant by the (divinised) Ancestors?🛞🕉️🪈🦚

May 21, 2026

Divinised has been added to the word ancestors wrongly because it is believed that after death and crossing the vital world the ancestors enter the

Alok da, the story of Raja Harishchandra from the purans glorify the steadfastness of the raja to truth and integrity and in the end is blessed by lord Shiva for his chastity. However, in the process of living for his truth, he puts his wife and child through extreme perilous conditions. While the moral lesson as understood by masses is that benevolence should always be regarded as the ultimate dharma, are we missing out on any hidden aspects or probably lessons? Can the actions taken by Harishchandra be completely justified? [conti]👑⚖️🔥🧹

May 21, 2026

We have to understand this story in the background of the Indian mind which lived extreme characters. The Western heroes are restless and aggrandised humans,

I get nauseous on buses. I even puked as we were approaching Auroville. Someone said that it’s the negative force going out of the body as we were nearing the sacred place and it made so much sense. The whole day I had to roam around Puducherry in that AC bus which made my journey worse. The next part of the camp was to visit the Ashram. There was a collective meditation. When I was just a kid of the Mother crying for Her. Why did I cry that way? 🟡🌳🕊️🌏

May 21, 2026

Yes it is because your soul has recognised Her as your true Mother.

Naga guarding wealth, beings of vital worlds, hitler possessed by an asura. Occult world. What is all this happening? In the Geeta Bhagwan says that I am the source of all creation without my command not even a lead can move. Then who created asuras and naga to guard wealth?🪙💵💥🌱🌌

May 21, 2026

All has come into creation from the Divine just as all the shades of colours including black come from the parent white.

Creation is

The great Ramanujan was a very peculiar mathematical genius. In contrast to the greatest Western mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), often called the prince of mathematics, who perceived mathematics as a logical cosmos to be carefully mapped with reason and proof—treating it like a disciplined architect uncovering eternal structures with rigorous precision—Ramanujan approached it like a mystic, intuitively glimpsing patterns as revelations from a deeper reality. He experienced mathematics as a stream of divine intuition, with equations arriving like mantras revealed to his inner vision rather than deductions of the mind.🧑‍🔬🔢🧠➕📐

May 21, 2026

Ramanujan himself often said his insights were gifts from Namagiri Thayar (Lakshmi of Namakkal), his family’s goddess, who appeared in his dreams and visions, writing

What is the occult world? Have you seen it?🌌🔮👁️🌀✨

May 21, 2026

Occult worlds are simply planes of consciousness, their beings, forces, energies hidden from the range of human senses. These include the higher luminous worlds of

Sometimes I think that I wish I had done this, or I wish I hadn’t done that. If the circumstances had been different, maybe everything would have been different. I always feel a sense of guilt. Even my mother tells me that if I had done this or not done that, my life would have been different. I am exhausted from carrying this guilt. How can I free myself from it?😔⛓️🫥🌧️

May 21, 2026

Every sensitive person passes through this critical self-evaluation at some point or the other. The simplest way to handle this is to understand that man