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I had a dream 💤few nights back. Actually before sleeping, I wrote in my diary, ma please visit me in my dreams and it happened. I was in a bus and there many people around me and there was a photo pasted on the wall and friends around me told me that the man in the picture loves mother dearly and he had a very magnetic aura and in an instant I was telling myself I have to meet this man and i kept staring deeply at the picture. it was a old yellowish rustic picture…

The first dream indicates your coming in contact with the Mother through the mediation of devotees. The second dream indicates that the Mother is watching

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Can you please expand on how to raise beyond individuality and ego? Sri Aurobindo has written “When we have passed beyond individuality then we shall be the real persons. Ego was the helper; Ego is the bar” Mother expanded on this in Nov 1956 – her response was upto the point of how one can know that one is conscious and that to become a spiritual being one should give all that up but doesn’t expand on how or what it means to do it. (Can you please expand on what/how to do, apart from surrendering and aspiring for help and cultivating a strong will and strong body and offering it to Mother🤔?)

es the way is a conscious surrender of one’s individuality with an aspiration. The nature of the aspiration then determines what way this individuality will

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We recently brought a Shivling from my in-law’s place as they are not able to take proper care of it. My in-laws used to worship it with elaborate rituals. We have also been advised to follow it. To be honest, I don’t have much faith in their long rituals which were advised by our family priest. To me a simple ritual with faith & devotion is what is actually needed in worship🤨.

I understand your situation and have experienced this with other families as well. Ritual involves a,material and a spiritual aspect. The material side is to

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Last night, I had a dream where I saw that my father and I were getting a tubewell installed, and at the end, when we inserted the pipe, a lot of water came out and it was sparkling. Then, Grandpa came and asked why we had the tubewell installed, saying that the water is salty. When we drank it, the taste was a bit salty, so I said at least the water would be useful. Later, I saw that my brother and I were checking the car’s headlight, but it didn’t light up. So, I said, doesn’t the light work? What’s the problem? He said it’s fine, and when I turned it on, the light was very dim. Then, we removed the mirror from the headlight and saw that it was giving off very little light. What could be the symbolic meaning of this dream🤔?

I don’t think it has any deeper symbolic meaning. Looks more like a dip into the subconscient where the water is not tasty and the

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