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AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER

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I have been listening to you and reading collected works of mother which I have not finished yet and I aspire to walk on Sri Aurobindo’s Integral yoga path. My question is: despite everything i constantly feel the urge of becoming a mother which wasn’t there till I was 29..I keep aspiring but this urge constantly hit me. Can you put some light on it. How shall I overcome it😳?

May 21, 2025

The urge for motherhood is natural in women. It is a biological instinct strongly ingrained in us. If one ignores it for sometime it tends

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How to decide whether to have kids or no? On one hand I am worried about my ability to be a good father while even struggling to take up responsibility of being a good partner, good son. On the other, it feels so much joy to think about upbringing a child in the world. There is also a factor of my wife’s age (35) which sort of brings this question to urgent. I grew up where my parents fought a lot and they still do. Me and my wife too have our set of fights.. But we do consciously strive to get better.. and we are..But the fights and shouting at times does happen. What would happen to the child? Cannot expect for this to go away like a switch. I am not sure how to think about all of this altogether😥.

May 21, 2025

The coming of a child no doubt brings joy but also a lot of responsibility. The decision has to be taken consciously based on whether

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I see a lot of people nowadays in the spiritual community going for Vipassana retreats. I don’t need to explain what it is. On the other hand, a lot of devotees of Mother don’t spend many hours meditating. To my rational mind, it seems like those who practise vipassana 10 hours a day seem to be making a lot of progress because of their tapasya. On the other hand, I feel no inclination to follow this path. Can you give an overview of the significance of vipassana meditation from the Integral Yoga’s standpoint🤔?

May 20, 2025

Vipassana meditation is a good practice to quieten the mind. The same can be achieved through the practice of Witnessing or inculcating the Sakshi bhav.

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Pranam Alok da. I stay in Kolkata and I’ve been having the worst war anxiety. It’s been 6 months and I’ve been getting anxious 🫨about absolutely anything and everything from my external environment especially this month. I kept thinking something will happen to me or my family or my home. Before this, I’ve always had faith on the Mother but this time I’ve spiraled like never before. I’ve thought of the worst scenarios, imagined attacks on my home, haven’t let my family go out of the house even for work which is silly because we’re in Kolkata, which is far from the border.

May 20, 2025

How to stop such bad thoughts from coming in and more importantly, how to keep faith in such scenarios? Turn the mind away rather than

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In Synthesis, Sri Aurobindo says that the only way to attain the goal of Yoga is for the individual to have no other aims in life. Hence, one must only have one goal. I see with me this is very clearly not the case, and I feel very drawn to Sri Aurobindo and Mother, I like to read them, to listen to their disciples, to come to the ashram, to meditate, but still I have soo many desires outside of that. I want to become great, I want to succeed in everything I do, I want to look good, I want to have a lot of money and power, and so many other things outside of the spiritual realm. It’s not that I feel guilty about having these things; rather, I sometimes question whether my spiritual efforts are at all useful in such a case. Am I not deceiving myself by trying to follow Sri Aurobindo and Mother when in reality I am still driven by ambition and desire😳? Perhaps my time of renunciation will come, but I feel it would be premature to give up these things without having attained them.

May 19, 2025

In the Synthesis itself and in the same chapter Sri Aurobindo also says this.

‘The intellect has been interested, the heart attracted, the will has

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First Dream: In the first dream, I am in a village, and a tiger appears, attacking people😫. Everyone runs away to escape the tiger. While running, we hide near the water tank’s outlet. Some people hide elsewhere. Then I look back and see a locked house and an empty temple nearby with no idol but with items for worship. I suggest to everyone that we should go into the house to be safe from the tiger. As soon as we enter the temple, instead of the tiger, a woman’s spirit (a witch) appears, flying in the air and killing everyone with her nails. We go inside the temple, but the witch follows us because there is no idol. I say we need to place an idol of Lord Ganesh there and perform the ritual. We leave the temple, find an idol, perform the ritual, and then the witch cannot enter the temple. But she stays outside, attacking those who remain there. The entire village comes to the temple for safety. I tell everyone to apply vermillion (sindoor) on their bodies, so the witch will not harm them. We should hide in the nearby house and sprinkle vermillion outside, so the witch cannot enter. Some of us will go and kill her. Can you please explain this?

May 19, 2025

The first dream indicates being chased by adverse vital forces which are probably moving around in the village environment. The solution is to grow in

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At times, there is a vague sense that the prayers to consecrate my life to The Mother has been accepted in some way. From here, what can be steps to deepen the yoga and the spiritual practice? Maybe there is no exact order, like step by step process to the next milestone. It might be helpful for me to know a few basic ideas about walking the path further. Could you please share some thoughts of yours that might provide me some direction🤔? I want to give the best I can, so I am concerned whether I am doing enough and also to gain some clarity…

May 19, 2025

Sri Aurobindo and The Mother emphasised on establishing Peace and Equanimity as a fundamental basis for the yoga. Similarly increase and strengthening of faith, aspiration,

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Sir, these days people, especially those how are filled with the zeal of Hindu dharma are showing lots of skepticism with respect to the teachings of various gurus of the 20th century😳, including Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo. With Sri Aurobindo, people are beginning to value his contributions to the freedom movement, they are moved by the Uttarpara speech, but they can’t digest his post 1914 writings. Many do not understand his reasons for supporting the Cripps mission or supporting the allied powers.

May 18, 2025

The traditionalists view all his work with skeptism because he has spoken of Christ and Buddha as Avatars and does not support the stance that

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In today’s hyper-connected world🌏, where the consequences of our actions—direct or indirect—are often beyond our perception, did our shastras anticipate such complexity? Have our masters offered a simple, practical framework—perhaps 3–4 guiding questions—to help us align with dharma and the law of karma in modern times?

May 18, 2025

The problem of a hyper-connected world is an increasing restlessness and increased demand on time with little time left to ‘stand and stare’. A quick

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Some Hindus speak as if with the coming of modernity🤨, Islam’s role and chapter in history is supposed to have been over but just at this moment in history of industrialism where the entire planet is run on energy with it’s fossil fuel revolution, God has gifted their particular geographical birth places of Islam with the abundance of oil like a treasure of gold mine that’s discovered at the right time, Islamic states like Qatar has investments all over the western world including universities with their oil money. God seemed to have some favouritism against naysayers of Islam from this lens and Saudi just had a 150billion$ military deal with America. Why would goddess Lakshmi shover them with such wealth if they have no future?

May 18, 2025

Perhaps you are not aware that this store of black gold is limited and it is just a question of few decades that the oil

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Reading Sri Aurobindo some times brings me a grim mood cos I begin to feel the immense labour of evolution in my heart,how much did it take for life to even emerge out of inconscient matter and even his historical writings in so far as what it takes to be a free independent nation and the test of world history that we and many other nations had to face. I think Sri Aurobindo in the Ilion depicts a bit of the tragic nature of existence but he also says in an aphorism that poets sometimes make too much of the tragedies of life. How to tackle these mood swings of immense energy and jest and the tragic melancholic contemplation admist this battle of life😥?

May 17, 2025

One has to cultivate faith. It is the surest guide in the darkest days. Faith comes by reminding ourselves that there is indeed a Divine

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