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I am 29 year old. From the very early childhood l am so attracted towards traditional spirituality, After joining society, Maa is so merciful to me and I can feel the guidance of her intuitively, the way serious of events happen. But last month I  visited Ramkrishna mission, now the childhood attraction is arising again. I want to give myself totally in divine hands and wanted to join as brahmchari there, which can further led to sannyasi. The way I visited there is also dramatically , like mother wanted me to experience that🫤. Then I prayed to mother to show the path ,what to do and just open the post (book Supreme) mother say there …[conti]

It is a genuine feeling, a truth energing from the past life. It is neither a vital being guiding you nor any hallucination. It is

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I have been reading the Human Cycle by Sri Aurobindo and getting very inspired by his references to the old European civilisations. I am at a cross-road where I have to choose a field of study. Society, parents tell me I should choose something practical — finance, economics, business? But I have set my mind on going into Ancient history. I want to do it because of the knowledge alone. I have been criticised for it because I may be taking an unsafe road. All this feedback from others makes me doubt myself. I sometimes feel like I am being irresponsible, and sometimes that is why I no longer want to open up to people due to these social pressures. I have no way of knowing the future, what is has in store for me. Is education for the sake of knowledge itself dead? Is servile education really the spirit of this age🤔?

There is a reason why the future is hidden from us. It is so that instead of making a choice based on outer gains and

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Some people identify as atheists — they don’t believe in God or any higher power, yet they strongly believe in the value of hard work, discipline, and ethical living. They focus on doing their work and trust that consistent effort will eventually bring good results, more and more money. Interestingly, such individuals tend to be quite successful in life outwardly. What are your thoughts in this? What is the fundamental difference in the way a theist and an atheist live their lives🤔?

Success comes wherever there is sincerity and effort. It has nothing to do with our inner or outer beliefs. I have seen genuine, sincere workers,

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Sometimes I wish I was driven by a mad vital desire for self improvement, physical fitness, and getting into high income high skilled job. This would have driven me to exceed myself in these areas, whereas now, in the absence of these desires, and also in the absence of the psychic fire to prepare the instrument for the sake of the divine, I find myself utterly incapable driving myself to work on becoming better than what I am right now 🫤

Well desire is certainly better than tamasic inertia, but it need not be a mad desire. Desire restrained by the sattwic mind, a discerning reason,

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On training the will power. Mother says that will power is trained by using it. I am a very systematic person and would like to take a systematic approach to everything I do. I try to become conscious of myself and apply my will whenever possible but the trouble is that it takes a long time to become conscious of what needs to be done. Can you give some general guidelines on how one can take a systematic approach to this training of the will? Something in me has a deep necessity of developing this will, all I need is the right approach where I can measure the results and see the progress in a tangible form. If you can be very specific, it would be really helpful🤨

It is desires and impatience that weaken the will, especially the sense of urgency to gratify an impulse.

By not acting impulsively, by postponing

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I’m 35 now, and I find myself sitting with a tender and important question: whether or not to have a child.When I was 33, I was going through a deep process of separation from my teacher, like a mother. During that time, the desire to have a baby started to surface—it even began to appear in my paintings. It felt like a natural longing [conti]

It is surely possible to do both, raise a beautiful child as well as pursue your ideal in the field of health and healing. But

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