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I was listening to your talk: Steps of the soul. I am beginning to understand what Sri Aurobindo’s collective yoga means and why Sri Aurobindo’s sacrifice is the highest. I realised that it is easy to say I am supporting someone or giving food or donating money, but can I really part with or share what I hold close to me, like the progress that happens after immense psychological struggle? 😯🌼🌄❤️‍🔥[…]

Yes it is never easy to conquer the inner enemies and discover our inmost truth, without which all else we do remains incomplete, subjecting us

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“If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all one-sided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula.” – Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 76 […]

Everyone forms an idea of the Divine for himself according to his personal taste, his possibilities of understanding, his mental preferences, and even his desires.

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In her prayer of May 17, 1914, Mother writes, “One day thou wilt be my head but for the moment turn thy gaze towards the earth.” When a disciple enquired what the phrase “thou wilt be my head” means, She answered that “The head is the original conceiving Consciousness. “Could you simplify the meaning of all this a little further for me? 📖😊🙏🏻🌼

Head is the hub that conceives whereas heart is the hub that impels towards action.

What the Mother seems to be experiencing here, in

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