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I dreamt of some crows on a tree, some in the open sky. 1st I liked their black color (black beauty). Then I tried to touch them but didn’t. They flew from my very close to me. But after some time, something happened: an element like subtle like crystal/ transparent little rope but thick, as if falling upon my neck. 🐦🌙[..]

The crow generally symbolise practical cleverness though sometimes they are believed to be communicating mediums between the ancestors and the living. May be they came

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Through deep witness meditation, I realized the egoic “I” is false and that Nature executes all movements, but this intellectual detachment soon spiraled into a dangerous permissiveness: assuming Divine Prakriti would self-correct everything, I opened the door to old, lower habits that have returned with a personal vengeance.🧘🏻‍♂️🙏🏼[…]

It is a kind of mind game that seems to have taken hold. Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna, and all others used the word I and

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My 8-year-old daughter wanted to understand the meaning of this quote by Sri Aurobindo. Can u please explain? The ideal Yogi is not a withdrawn and pent-up force, but ever engaged in doing good to all creatures, either by the flood of the divine energy that he pours on the world or by himself standing in the front of humanity, its leader in the march and the battle, but unbound by his works and superior to his personality. 🌼🙏🏻

It means that a yogi is not someone cut off from life and work and people. He engages with everything but in a new and

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1. If everything happens for a reason, and every suffering or misfortune we experience is understood as the consequence of some past karma—possibly from a past life that we do not remember—then where did the first wrong action or “original sin” come from? ⚖️🌱 […]

These are assumptions, not facts. Suffering comes because of imperfections, limitations and attachments. Actions done under ignorance, attachments, desires etc bring pleasure and pain. Since

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