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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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Dear sir, How does psychic🌟 tackle the challenge of  collective egoism? Example, even though you want to be free from identity, you are forcefully assigned an identity based on your birth in today’s India. And there are gangs out there waiting to spread hatred against various communities. With what attitude would psychic take up and begin solving problems of such nature?

The psychic looks at the truth in the waiting behind the appearances. It discovers this truth and plucks it out from its folds of secrecy.

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Alok da, I had a dream where I was pregnant, and I was going for a very minor, not really required kind of a surgery. My mom is with me to assist. And after the surgery, my baby bump is lost and when I ask my mother she says coolly that I fell down and the child got aborted. And she blames me for falling down. I am very angry and guilty that I didn’t call Mother consciously during the surgery and it was my unconsciousness ad carelessness due to which the child got lost. And I woke up almost crying🥲.

Does it mean something? But in reality, I’m on the Mother’s path and i have no idea of getting married or having a child.

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