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How exactly does one meditate, and how is it done fruitfully? I see nothing and feel nothing when I meditate, I just close my eyes, and my brain is left, right and centre, and if I try and quieten it, it just goes blank and then after a few minutes I open my eyes again and that’s that. I don’t feel anything different, or a sense of peace…nothing. Many people say that meditation is the way to open the being and discover what is inside, but I am worried that I am incapable of ever experiencing that. What do I do to progress in it😇 ?

Meditation is only one of the ways to progress spiritually though neither the only one nor the easiest one. Bhakti is the swiftest but it

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What do Mother and Sri Aurobindo say about Abortion? This is not for personal advice but a general question that I’ve been wondering and cannot seem to find online when searching their works. And when does a foetus become a human? Mother has said that the psychic enters different babies at different times so I’m just confused on when the cells becomes a human (spiritually)🤔?

Though they have not said anything directly about it but from a couple of letters it seems that the Mother and Sri Aurobindo were not

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As we open Facebook and Whatsapp of various groups to which we are tied or are at times forcibly included because of past associations, there are postings against activities of other religious groups, which are depicted as anti national😡 or against our religion. We know that age of religion is over. But we also don’t like which go against our cultural heritage or say philistine in nature. What should be our attitude to or reactions to all such postings?

It is for each one to decide. One can try to understand if there is a truth in what is said. Or one can choose

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Why alcohol is connected to freedom? These days, just to prove a point people, specially women too have started drinking in the name of freedom 😡 but isn’t real freedom not needing a drink to be happy ? Isn’t real freedom that I don’t need a drink to forget my problems because like an adult one has solved them or faced them ? 

Yes the sign of an adult is that one faces the challenge, tries to understand the real problem and finds healthy ways of dealing with

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