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I have read somewhere that the Mother said the souls who are called for integral yoga are themselves asked for it in past lives, and by calling these souls in the path of yoga, they have kept their promise. How come all the souls on Earth are associated with Mother and Sri Aurobindo in their past lives?🤔[…]

Questions are never silly. In fact this is a very appropriate question. Actually the misunderstanding arises due to a mixing up of three different statements

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Your today’s answer on Traditions shows how immature you people are. If she becomes even more stubborn, inspired by your response, what will the atmosphere be like in her home? Why don’t you teach or show a middle path? If she wears these things out of respect when she’s around her in-laws, what’s the harm? Change is bound to come from the next generation anyway, so why the rush? why not let today’s generation be a little more flexible in such emotional issues and prevent families from breaking apart?

The basis of holding families together should be mutual respect and love, acceptance of generational and other differences, above all truth that allows each individual

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Pranam Alokji,  can you please kindly explain to me this —- The sign that I am in contact with Perfect God is that there is    nothing in my life about which I will  complain!. Even in human relationships we see that a mother will not allow the child to jump from heights which it can not manage…and she permits simply because a child keeps on asking and afterwards saying to child that see it was you who asked for it..Such things happen only when they are out of control of human mother. But with devine mother you say nothing is out of her control.  So in perfect love (as you  understand God to be) what should happen that God by his power of oneness and devine love should share God,’s devine insights to the devotee so that devotee will not ask fo such things…🤨

To do what you say is an equivalent of creating automatons, a perfect faultless humanity, robotic and exact and artificial and false driven by AI

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Is the information and knowledge the same or different? Why do I ask you, In my daily work, I encounter a few people who are well educated, informative, and have the information about what is going on around the world, They talk about the Gita, Veda but for any event, they have a negative approach, and there are few people, the society called the illiterate, but have the faith on god, do there work very sensually, always have a positive approach to the life. It seems they are happy with what they have. So I ask this🤔?

Information is the data we gather through the senses. Knowledge comes when we process the data applying buddhi to what we have read or heard

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Alok da,this is a question on “desire” as I’m trying to understand from what Sri Aurobindo wrote and also from my own little perplexion I’m facing in life right now. in the opening passage of national value of art Sri Aurobindo says unlike the simple primitive life, wants of vital instincts brought the hunger for wealth, luxury, beautiful women, rich food and drinks but also brought violence, fraud, selfishness etc…i was reminded of this passage when Someone online recently posted a weirdly fascinating piece of design they’ve made for their luxurious home and there’s this particular response to that post by praising it and mocking the glorification of so called banal minimalist houses, let me quote it for context “This is what you gave up when you chose minimalism. You gave up drama. You gave up spirit. You gave up whimsy. And you plastered all of it flat”🤔.

Minimalism and spartan living has little to do with spiritual life. The spiritual man and woman can sport with luxury, govern a kingdom, engage in

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