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I am practicing surrender in my day to day life to krishna bhagwaan. I try to surrender myself to him while doing any type kind of work during the day like be it office work or talking to someone over phone or personal meetings or even just being silent etc. After certain extent, my ego fights with it. It does not allow me to surrender further. It caused a little disbalance in my mind yesterday and it caused headache. I did not like it. Was i suppressing my self here in order to go selfless?? How should i counter this force to move ahead in surrendering? Should i remind myself of the true aspiration that I have to know my creator when such things happen🤨?

September 26, 2025

Yes, the reaction and revolt rises because certain parts of the vital have been just suppressed. The way is to become conscious of the inner

What is the difference between the the path before Sri Aurobindo and Sri Maa and path of supramental in the basis of vairagya. They left home or samsara it’s their praradha they have no attachments, so why it is not acceptable because when I talk to other devotees in Odisha they strongly oppose these path before.😬….

September 26, 2025

Vairagya is of two kinds. One kind of Vairagya is born out of disappointment from the world or an inability to face its challenges. It

Yesterday night I bathe, and read Savitri🕊️, and read the mother with letters on the mother. I slept with Savitri music turned on. And then also saw a horror dream, I was passing by my kitchen and saw someone there, [Conti]

September 26, 2025

It must have been some contact with some kind of an elemental energy. These things are everywhere and sometimes they get detected during the dream

Sir, Can you please explain “Prakasha” & “Vimarsha” in simple terms? If you could give examples to illustrate this concept, it would be much easier for me to understand🤨.

September 25, 2025

They are two aspects of One Reality, called differently in different traditions as Existence and Consciousness, Ishwara and Shakti, Brahman and Maya. Prakash is the

Sometimes curses become less in difficult times. What to do then? Usually I am running haphazardly, trying all means or going back in shell and tired of even facing the difficulties. How to manage these times😥?

September 25, 2025

Stop trying and learn to relax, opening yourself quietly to the Divine Mother and relying upon Her Grace. Trying hard itself becomes a movement of

Mother says there is no evil, the only one evil is that things are not in its proper time and place, then what about men like Hitler and Pablo Escobar😈?

September 25, 2025

Hitler was indeed an incarnation of the Asura of falsehood. Paolo Escobar was indeed a criminal who pumped cocaine into the world market.

Now if

I have a question regarding the rejection of lower mental activities. Sri Aurobindo has written in The Mother book as following, “rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind” What I have understood from above sentence is, for example if I have a Mayavadi point of view of looking at the world and now Sri Aurobindo is saying something higher than that, then I should drop my Mayavadi point of view and accept his vision of the world. Is this a right understanding🤔?

September 25, 2025

This is very true from the practice point of view, a path that I myself took. What it means however is not to remain shut

You said with the help of the Supermind, only we can clean or transform our falsehood to its source of truth, or some dissolve to their origin 😇[conti]

September 24, 2025

It is understood that the mind cannot know the working of the Supermind as long as it remains itself. It is so because the Supermind

When we feel jealousy, angry about anyone, by remembering the words of mother “not to entertain these activities within urself” succeed in ceasing the action or manifestation & sexual impulse also in the same process. Though it lasts 1 min or half a min in our thoughts. Just diverting our minds, we succeeded in stopping these actions 🤔 (A stable/ cool form is established within our body system) [conti]

September 24, 2025

The question is deep and very much valid. Indeed the body remembers not only the memories it has had during the lifetime in a particular

Alok da, if we had to convince a rational, modern educated person about the significance of traditional Indian knowledge, we could cite examples of how our civilisation, arts and sciences flourished. But if the question is “so what if India indeed had a great knowledgeable history, how is returning to this knowledge relevant today”, “what is it that India can give to the education system of the world”, what should be the answer🤨?

September 24, 2025

Educated people are hardly rational. They are informed by books which they believe to be true. Their reason is based on the assumption that what

Alok da since few days my 11 year has started telling me , Mumma you never understand” please help me so I can understand him better and how to deal with him😥

September 24, 2025

It means he has entered adolescence and one has to stop treating him as a child who has no independent identity. During adolescence children begin

There are some desires in us that are too strong. Even if we try and surrender those, something in us still clings to those desires and makes us anxious about them. Some part in us also has the knowledge that even if this desire is fulfilled, it will be transient and has no future, but the part that clings to the desire feels something like “Even if it gives me happiness for 1 second, I want it”😬[conti]

September 23, 2025

It is true for all of us. Almost all go through this process and the Divine Mother carries each through this treacherous terrain and sometimes

To what extent are we bound by our biological inheritance from our parents? It is said that one’s bodily characteristics are predetermined by one’s parents. But to what extent do one’s vitality (sensitivity/crudeness/strength/refinement/etc.) and mental characteristics (intelligence/plasticity/depth/etc.) inherited too? If one has inherited certain vital or mental characteristics, are they malleable; can one make one’s vital or mind into what one aspires them to be for a work one wishes to accomplish🤨?

September 23, 2025

Everything can be changed. There is no such inevitable iron law or absolutely fixed determinism. Yes, by and large things follow a certain pattern, a

After listening your recent talk on journey to the Maha Kumbh i came to know that Sri Aurobindo Sadhanalaya, Ayodhya is blocked from all the four sides. It is really very sad. Why don’t the Lord and Rajrajeshwari Maa who can do anything prevented this from happening?It is really very painful for those who love The Mother and Sri Aurobindo😥

September 23, 2025

The Divine does not act according to the human ideas of omnipotence. He allows a great degree of freedom of choices to the human instruments

Get an orientation on the initial books📚, writings to begin with so that step by step, systematically I have enough material to last for a year.

September 23, 2025

One should ideally read the book with which one feels naturally engaged since it answers our inner need. A good combination is The Synthesis of

As I understand, There’s always this material counterpoint in evolutionary course of man’s development, he begins to shift from the hunter gatherer life to settled life with the coming of agriculture and another epoch of history begins with the Aryans, their domestication of horse and chariot warfare and gunpowder, printing press appear at that particular time period which Sri Aurobindo writes in the human cycle when monarchies were centralising and modern nation states are coming into existence and there is a shift from muscle power to coal-fossils energy with modernity 🤔[conti]

September 22, 2025

To start with, if we take the standpoint that nothing happens without a cause then we must look for the hidden drivers of man’s material

What is the true meaning and significance of Navratri🪔, and how should we, as the children of the Divine Mother, observe and practice during these sacred days?

September 22, 2025

Navratri is the festival of Durga and her victory over demons. The rituals and celebrations are meant to be prepations for her action within us

Do dreams💤 have their meaning?

September 22, 2025

Not all and not always, since many of them may be just a spill over of the subconscient elements recorded habitually as we move through

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