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Last night I again had a dream in which a river flows out and after seeing it I say what kind of river is this flowing out of the Himalayas whose water is so clear and that river is flowing over a straight rock then I see that a sheep and a man are standing on top of that river and going along with the river then after seeing them I also stand on top of the river and it seems as if I am skating on the river and I was very happy🙂.

July 31, 2025

Beautiful journey through the higher vital worlds under the psychic influence as the pure water and the smooth flow indicates.

When one prays to Hindu gods like Shiva, Vishnu, Ganesh, Gauri, Krishna, Hanuman, Durga, Tripurasundari or Kali etc., one is invoking the divine forces operating in lower – earth nature. Is it correct? I read somewhere that the the Para Prakriti is beyond human understanding and hence our sages have found her various nurturing aspects at work in Earth Nature, to whom we can approach for help and guidance🙏.

July 30, 2025

The gods and goddesses are cosmic powers and hence they are neither confined to India nor belong to the Hindus. They had other names in

“Sex creates lot of vital excitement and after the act the consciousness takes a dip into dense dark fields exposing and making one vulnerable to forces of darkness and falsehood”. Does this also apply to addictions like alcohol and tobacco etc.🤔?

July 30, 2025

Alcohol and tobacco not only lower the consciousness but leave their stamp upon the brain. They affect not only the vital but also the physical

You must have had people complain to you ad nauseum about the rude behaviour of the ashramites with visitors🤨. The Mother had a advised as far back as in 1957:

July 30, 2025

This is quite a relevant observation and i have given some thought to it. I suppose there are three or four reasons for such behaviour.

How to Be Strong in Dealing with Family Life. My sister-in-law is unhappy that we don’t talk to her proactively. I don’t find it natural to start conversations with her. My spiritual teacher helped her a lot in the past, but it backfired on her. When I was getting married, she advised me to keep my distance. She is 39, unmarried, and has childhood trauma related to her parents. I want to support her, but I feel drained in the process. She often complains that my husband and I don’t talk to her enough. I can feel her pain, but I don’t know how to support her in a healthy way😥 [conti]

July 29, 2025

One should not try to help unless one is very clear about what is the real reason of her problem. Whatever be the past issues

I would like to share an experience with you. There are moments quite often that when I think about the divine or Sri Aurobindo’s words or Mother’s love, tears start coming out. These tears are not of sorrow or happiness or a cry, but It tries to remind me of my ultimate goal which is self realisation and wishes me to see the divine in all its creation. It feels like the truth wants to be expressed through me but it is only able to do so. It gives me a strength and the will to fight for the truth. What feeling is this and why do I cry🥹?

July 29, 2025

It is a psychic feeling, a soul remembrance and is a sign that you are ready for the true spiritual life.

We will not solve the problem by relying on our small means, limited by the mind and the ego. Rational intelligence alone does not have the keys and it misses the essential. The non-dualist Advaidists (Nisargadatta, Ramana Maharshi, J. Krishnamurti, Papaji) speak from their partial realization and their Western disciples despair, because what they aspire to never happens. J. Krishnamurti said: “I have spoken for 50 years and no one has really understood what I wanted to say”. Let us pray that divine Grace enlightens us🙏.

July 29, 2025

Yes. The basis of our hopes is the Divine Grace. Let us put our faith entirely in the Grace and leave the rest to the

While concentration on my heart centre, I feel strong presence of calmness. Is it due to the psychic presence or the emotional chakra at heart💓?

July 28, 2025

The peace and calm are invariably due to the psychic being opening the doors to the Divine Presence within. The opening of the emotional center

Sir, is it wrong to do sex with my wife, though we have two young children and we don’t need any more🤨?

July 28, 2025

From the spiritual point of view with wife has the same effect on consciousness as with someone else, as far as the act itself is

What is the importance of Brahmacharya in the Integral Yoga? which is a life accepting and not shunning, In traditional Yoga they speak of Eight aspects of Brahmacharya which consists of complete shunning of all the contacts with the opposite gender, such as don’t even look at a person with other gender etc. But this kind of practices are not compatible for person living in the city life. So how to practice celibacy from standpoint of Integral Yoga🤔?

July 28, 2025

Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga is indeed a life-embracing Yoga but it embraces life with the view of transforming it. It does not advocate perpetuating the

On our spiritual inclination, we meditate. How can we Differentiate between delusion and visions? How can we be sure that it’s not some sort of hebephrenic episode🤔?

July 27, 2025

A person having delusions and hallucinations does not questions them as he is fully convinced about them. In any case these are terms we use

I have been having a lot of dreams lately. One of it was about a fire 🔥, coming towards me while I am going in car to USA for my career. I try to dodge it, but it grows and I have to take a U-turn and return home and after reaching there, the fire stops. Other than this, I had multiple dreams of me in Pondicherry in and around ashram, or near samadhi. I although haven’t been able to physically visit Pondicherry yet. I am battling with the marital issues and in USA as of now. Please help me understand the dreams.

July 27, 2025

The dream is very clear. It is an objectivisation of your problems and the guidance being provided by your soul through your inner being. It

I want to know about the practice of Tratak?What is the right method of doing it and how does it help in self realisation? Or does it help in finding your own truth?🤨

July 26, 2025

Tratak does not necessarily helps in self-realisation, at least not directly. Its main help is to train the mind in concentration. Self realisation comes by

‘Each problem exists not by itself, but in relation to all the others, and the solution, to be true, must neglect none of them.’ -The Mother (CWM 20) Alok Da please explain🤔

July 26, 2025

It means that instead of piecemeal solution we must consider all sides of a problem so that we may arrive at a more comprehensive solution.

I feel like my life has been full of hardships and struggles. Nothing ever comes to me easily, while others seem to get the same things effortlessly. And even when I finally do receive what I wanted, I don’t truly enjoy it because when I needed it the most, it wasn’t there. In the end, I do get everything, but it often feels too late to matter😥. [conti]

July 26, 2025

Some lives are marked out for struggle, others for fruition. That is the whole idea of rebirth, a constant progress wherein the inner wealth we

Does one’s dharma stay the same over multiple rebirths🤨?

July 25, 2025

Dharma has three connotations and none of them refers to religion. The first connotation refers to the eternal and unchanging basis of everything. That of