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I’m not doing any work and staying at home all day. I tried working, as I had told you earlier that I went to the mines, but everyone there was drinking alcohol, and I became sick. I don’t know if I’m becoming lazy and dodging work or if I simply don’t want to do all of this. It feels like living for money is a selfish life, and I don’t want to live like that. If I do any work apart from serving God, it feels futile to me😥

October 24, 2025

Work is indispensable for progress. Selfishness is an inner attitude and not in the work that one does. Of course doing sewa (service to the

Can one find true peace in daily activities such as cooking, cleaning and gardening? Someone told her that one can find true peace only through meditation or working in an Ashram department. However, my mother and I feel happy🙂 and peaceful, when we are doing our daily chores

October 24, 2025

Of course one can find inner peace anywhere and doing any kind of work. One of my earliest experiences was a concrete, solid descent of

My husband and i were married after being in relationship for 12 years. My family was against our marriage. So it took time. After 2 years of marriage I discovered he is in affair with another girl. We fought a lot and after taking a chance again we decided to have baby. Now we have a daughter, but his affair is continued. First our families were not knowing about it but now both the families know about it and he is not ready to live with us. He agrees in front of everyone that yes I have another woman in life and it’s because he was not satisfied with me 😢[conti]

October 23, 2025

Loyalty in marriage is rarer than we would want to believe. Especially men in all ages have been known to have more than one woman

Alok Da, how can we refine our senses🤔?

October 23, 2025

The degree of refinement of our senses depends upon the quality of our consciousness. At the same time if the senses indulge in crude pleasures

How do we become worthy of Mother’s grace😇?

October 23, 2025

Grace is Grace and it acts unconditionally or rather has its own logic that is not based on human sense of worthy and unworthiness. However

I feel so afraid of dogs. It is unnatural. This time in a short trip to Pondicherry, the dogs 🐕in gangs barked at me and I was even in the middle of fight between two gangs where a few of them came running behind me with voilent noises.

October 22, 2025

Dogs, in fact animals in general tend to mirror our emotions. Especially they react strongly to fear. Practice calling Peace and cultivate calm within you.

How can a man pass all these tests and filter it from truth? What is the need to love? Prem karney ki jarurat kya hai🙄?

October 22, 2025

Deceptions, tests, difficulties, illusions are terms that can be used and are often used to simply avoid the effort needed for our progress or to

Have you seen Krishna🦚? Does he have blue skin?

October 22, 2025

Well yes but not the way he is portrayed. The gods sometimes take the form that the human mind believes in. Sometimes they can take

What is difference inner being and psychic being🌟?

October 21, 2025

There are three layers of our personality. The first is the outer being. It is formed through habit, conditioning, heredity etc and acts largely as

How Can I take control over my mind🤯?

October 21, 2025

Everything is possible but the greater the task the longer it takes and one has to persevere with faith. If one is sincere in one’s

Please talk on certain routine for beginners, though I think there is no such thing in Sri Aurobindo yoga, for a deeper understanding and practice🤔

October 21, 2025

There is no such routine, as you rightly said. Some general notes on the practice can be found here:

What about the wives of warriors (Soilders) of Mahabharata, only 18 person remaining after war🤔?

October 20, 2025

They suffered, as Arjuna had feared. Wars, especially wars in ancient times almost invariably led to great number of widows as well as girls and

Why do we have to share😕?

October 20, 2025

Sharing is a reminder that we are not alone in the universe. We are all interconnected and though distinct and different, we are not separate

How should I deal with fighting for the truth while being selfless. Should I focus on assertiveness while giving my point and not letting the ego come in front. What happens is that the other person always tries to prove himself / herself right by being angry or being loud which I cant do. How should I confront such people while surrendering😥?

October 20, 2025

Truth is very difficult to know, even more difficult than understanding its foster child Justice. It is hidden within layers after layers and while it

Can you tell about Mother Teresa? Was she an evangelist😠?

October 19, 2025

Yes she was very much an evangelist. Evangelist tendencies and religious conversions are signs of a small and narrow consciousness. And to undertake your philanthropic

I have a question regarding spiritual map of India -By what logic is Nepal left outside the Mother’s spiritual cartography when its temples, sages and Himalayan peaks have long been part of the subcontinent’s inner life🙄?

October 19, 2025

The spiritual map of India was not made on the basis of logic but on a spiritual vision. Why was Nepal not included in this

Sri Aurobindo was critical of Subhas Bose for his support of Axis powers, but he was handed over this responsibility by Rash Behari Bose, towards whom, Sri Aurobindo seemed to have shown appreciation. Why is that🤔?

October 19, 2025

I am not sure if Ras Behari Bose asked or adviced Subhas Bose to shake hands with Hitler (he literally did so) and was calling

Sir, about Supermind and Overmind🙂?

October 18, 2025

According to the Vedic tradition, Existence can be divided into two hemispheres, the lower half and the upper half. The upper half is the original

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Can one find true peace in daily activities such as cooking, cleaning and gardening? Someone told her that one can find true peace only through meditation or working in an Ashram department. However, my mother and I feel happy🙂 and peaceful, when we are doing our daily chores

Alok Da, how can we refine our senses🤔?

How do we become worthy of Mother’s grace😇?

I feel so afraid of dogs. It is unnatural. This time in a short trip to Pondicherry, the dogs 🐕in gangs barked at me and I was even in the middle of fight between two gangs where a few of them came running behind me with voilent noises.

How can a man pass all these tests and filter it from truth? What is the need to love? Prem karney ki jarurat kya hai🙄?

Have you seen Krishna🦚? Does he have blue skin?

What is difference inner being and psychic being🌟?

How Can I take control over my mind🤯?

Please talk on certain routine for beginners, though I think there is no such thing in Sri Aurobindo yoga, for a deeper understanding and practice🤔

What about the wives of warriors (Soilders) of Mahabharata, only 18 person remaining after war🤔?

Why do we have to share😕?

Can you tell about Mother Teresa? Was she an evangelist😠?

I have a question regarding spiritual map of India -By what logic is Nepal left outside the Mother’s spiritual cartography when its temples, sages and Himalayan peaks have long been part of the subcontinent’s inner life🙄?

Sri Aurobindo was critical of Subhas Bose for his support of Axis powers, but he was handed over this responsibility by Rash Behari Bose, towards whom, Sri Aurobindo seemed to have shown appreciation. Why is that🤔?

Sir, about Supermind and Overmind🙂?