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Ornaments cannot be made from pure gold. What about leaders? We see leaders in industries are greedy and and less of caring. In the present political situation we need leaders who can take action against the evil. What should be the correct qualities of leadership in view of current situation following the path of Sri Aurobindo🫤?

And above all, set them the right example…. Be yourself what you would like them to be. Give them the example of disinterestedness, patience, self-control,

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Why this happens ? when you deeply long for certain things—whether it’s a relationship or something else in life—you desire it with all your heart, but you also want it now. You feel restless, thinking, what’s the point if I get it after a few years or in old age? I need it now, I crave it desperately now, I don’t want it later😪.

It is the usual way that the vital desire and the ego-self operates. It thinks only about oneself and the want, like in a state

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Alok da, sometimes I feel that nature is holding me captive consciously. Sometimes the touch of God is felt in the entire consciousness, sometimes without any reason doubt and the absence of devotion is felt. Earlier this stage seemed to be the most depressed but now I don’t feel any difference. All of them have coming and are going on their own. I detach myself from this activities. Still I feel pain due to this unconscious spontaneous activities. There is a feeling in my heart that I too should worship my mother like Ramkrishna, Ramprasad etc had done but now everything is going in reverse. Still, I feel something inside that stay for some time and let mother do her work. In this state, how can I reveal the devotion and dedication that I was expressing earlier? How to face this situation in right attitude😥?

This Yoga is different from the bhakti Yoga practiced by Ramprasad and Chaitanya. It is a relatively slower but more complete process. Because it involves

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One of my grandmothers is growing old and frail she is almost bed ridden cannot get out of her room and is 92 years, I pray that she may be freed from this body that has become a burden and reason for pain, is this a selfish prayer? Can one pray for a loved ones death😪? What is the best approach in times like these ?

Many prayers are for selfish reasons so that itself does not make a prayer meaningless. But this prayer for someone’s departure at the person’s presumed

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I was just reading Karl marx’s Short essay on the power of money, he wonders about this bewildering engimatic force which shapes our life and history and he quotes many of Sri Aurobindo’s favourite poets like Shakespeare and Goethe on how this mysterious force turns things upside down, Sri Aurobindo in Savitri covers everything about the cosmos even if it’s just a few lines but there’s isn’t anything about money if I am not wrong. Why is this so? Why is such a gigantic subject ignored🤔?

First of all there are a few presumptions there. Though Sri Aurobindo has appreciated Shakespeare and Goethe his appreciation of them is part of a

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I had a question on a particular phrase in Savitri. “The universe is an endless masquerade: For nothing here is utterly what it seems; It is a dream-fact vision of a truth Which but for the dream would not be wholly true, A phenomenon stands out significant Against dim backgrounds of eternity; “What exactly is a “dream-fact vision of a truth”? Either we have dreams, or we have facts, two different order of realities🤔.

To think of the language of Savitri, it feels like Sri Aurobindo has stretched the bounds of the finite to the utmost, by capturing the

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Goddess Gayatri is my Ishta Devata. I chant Gayatri mantra regularly for a bright future for my family. Till now I believed that Mother Gayatri bestows wisdom, prosperity and strength on her sadhaka so that he can live a happy meaningful life. I used to meditate🧘‍♂️ like this during Gayatri Japa which was as advised by my parents & guru. …

You can deal with this dilemma in two different ways. First is that though each god or goddess has a certain limited function, the overriding

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“Follow your passion” some people say. I am stuck a little. I have a broad direction in which I want my life to develop — in service of the nation. At the same time, the scope of different careers is so wide that I don’t know what is best for me! A part of me wants to study something very practical which will enable me to realise this vision even if I don’t like the subject in and of itself (for example, studying finance). Another part of me wants me to do something that I would intrinsically enjoy studying (for example, music or history). However, I doubt whether choosing this path will enable me to develop the skills or knowledge that will be of much use when it comes to making impactful change in society. Can you suggest how I can develop clarity on this? I definitely agree with people who say that you can only succeed in and be happy doing something that you feel passionate about. But isn’t this idea slightly overrated? Shouldn’t one be able to enjoy and succeed in whatever one does, no matter what it is? Even if it’s not something one enjoyed doing as a child or doesn’t have a natural predisposition towards😠?

We should first differentiate between what we are naturally drawn towards by our innate temperament and predilection. It is more of an inborn inclination whose

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Few days back there was an incident in Baroda when a youth has consumed substances and crashed his car, when he came out of the car he did not even realise what had happened, videos have come of completely intoxicated and shouting, in all this a young person died, now i am asking from other side, i have read somewhere, Ma says that there are no accidents so then what about the person who died with no fault of his? how can one console his family😰?

The Mother says that the cause of accidents is unconsciousness. We call it accident and mean by the word that it is something that is

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