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Is it ok to get distracted by curiosity? because I want to know more about other countries of the world. not necessarily politics but how people from different cultures are living. There are 195 countries in the world. I feel so small when I think about this and it brings a lot of clarity to live my life with this in mind. I know Mother is taking care of all, so I do not think too much about the negative conditions they are in anymore. It only makes me feel grateful for what I have. I feel my academic progress is moving too slowly as I was wasting a lot of time in the past, now I am feeling the effects of it. I want to make up for all the lost time as quickly as possible and be able to help the world and be an instrument of Mother. I don’t know yet what my ikigai is. I know this means to help myself/make the inner progress first. To be honest I feel I am doing the best I can in the moment, but I know I can do better also so I’m often in a state of narcissism and worry. How do I not get distracted and focus on the academics🤨?

July 24, 2025

Knowing about different countries and cultures is a good thing. It brings wideness. Curiosity is not necessarily bad. World knowledge is part of the total

Recently my granddad passed away on mother side suddenly and I had a dream of my mother running away from me before that happened night. It scared me a lot and that day. Now I dreamt of meeting and old frnd who is abroad in that grandparents home and they were getting ready for a marriage she and her sister. She tells me to pass bangles and they were the purest blue bangles. Then say now I’ll leave as you are busy. But she was not from that home. But I bid bye to her. I felt not good after waking as at this place recently someone passed away. Am I thinking too much I have inate fears of things and dying and ghosts and pain and overthink a lot about all this When dreams like this come, I get scared a lot😱

July 24, 2025

There is nothing to be scared of. Possibly the dream itself is a fear of losing things given by parents or grandparents. But I am

The supreme mother is full of paradoxes. She is both with form and without form, both prideful and free of pride, both the creator of ignorance and its destroyer. In every scripture, She is described with opposing attributes. Why this contradiction😏?

July 23, 2025

There is no contradiction in Her but it is to the limited mind’s way of seeing that it appears as contradictions. In fact everything in

Divine chooses His instruments from time to time whenever there is a great threat to a nation or world then why Divine did not choose any strong leader like Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel to lead India rather than weak leaders like Gandhiji and Nehru? Because of such weak leaders India suffered partition, lost its land to both Pakistan and China and is suffering till now😡

July 23, 2025

The Divine does not work arbitrarily in a vacuum. The will of the people and their free choice is an important aspect of the Divine

Few questions: Earlier since last 19 months I was eating veg. food without garlic and onion, though always it was a problem to our family, still I was continuing the same. Now just few days before after choosing the Mother’s Path I started eating onion and garlic. Is it ok or it is better to continuing food without onion and garlic as I am habituated with it🤔?

July 23, 2025

Onion is tamasic in properties. As far as sadhana goes, Sattwic vegetarian food, the kind which you were taking, is anyday…

Bhaiya My sister has an overprotective instinct for her daughter. She doesn’t allow her to go for a movie with boys. She doesn’t allow her to wear modern outfits, and she used to tell her to do all these things once you get a job. Due to which she asked me a question: is it right to do all these things without asking for permission, or else she will wait until she gets a job? Please advice what should be the right attitude should she take😥

July 23, 2025

It is not a question of doing things with or without permission but doing them consciously and knowing the implications of our actions. One should

Is everyone the son of God or there are mixed human beings-some sons of God and many sons of Asuras? Because in this world most of the human beings are busy in thinking about themselves. No concern about something other than themselves and their loved ones. That’s why many a times i think how such people can be sons of God😏?

July 22, 2025

In their deepest core everyone without exception is the child of God. This child of God present in everyone is the soul within which is

Does that incidence in Sri Aurobindo’s life signify that He won the darkness if any within him🤔?

July 22, 2025

It means that as he put his feet upon the soil of India, the darkness left him automatically without effort or struggle. There was no

In Savitri 🕊️Book 1 Canto 4 it is written that- “We are sons of God and must be even as he: His human portion, we must grow divine.” If we are sons of God then why in most of the human beings animality is dominant rather than divinity?

July 21, 2025

Because the child has forgotten this simple truth, like a child separated from his parents soon after birth, much like the story of Mowgli reared

God’s servant is something, God’s slave is greater. What does this mean🤨?

July 21, 2025

A servant works for wages, has fixed hours, takes wages and does according to the work entrusted to him. A slave has no wages, he

I had this question from childhood, that why despite being a Shiva bhakta did Ravana not change his guna 🤔?

July 21, 2025

Nobody can change someone who doesn’t want to change. Otherwise God would not have already done the needful and there would have been no need

Why was Arjuna chosen to witness the Virat Swaroop and receive the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, instead of someone else? And, when Yudhishthira had questions, Shri Krishna advised him to seek answers from Bhishma.

July 20, 2025

Yudhisthira is the ultimate sattwic man, and like all righteous men lives in the self-sufficiency of his intellect. He governs his life by the Shastra