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We read often words by realised being like the Buddha or Swami Vivekananda that ‘We are what our minds make us, we are what our thoughts shape us.’ To change yourself and your destiny’, they say ‘change your mind and your view of life itself changes.’ Is it true that mind is all? What about vital being, the real creator of storms and the real misleader in life?🧠🤔💭🧘

Yes, quite so. The realised beings have gone beyond the sphere of suffering where good and evil, positive and negative are locked in a struggle

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Referring SriAurobindo on “The yoga and its objects”, SriAurobindo says. “You must put aside what you want and wish to know what God wants; distrust what your heart, your passions or your habitual opinions prefer to hold as right and necessary, and passing beyond them, like Arjuna in the Gita, seek only to know what God has set down as right and necessary.” How  am I to know if my  choice of this yoga is God’s wish, He has set it right and necessary  or my heart’s passion?🏹🐎 🛞⚖️

All being taken is a big thing. But the Call to this yoga is certainly there, otherwise you wouldn’t have felt anything at all, like

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What do I need to do to live in Ashram? Right now, I don’t have any money. With Mother’s grace, I’ve only recently started working. As for my parents and my first wife, I feel they will never be ready for my Ashram life. My second wife can certainly join me. In this situation, Dada, please point me in the right direction, because I don’t think it will be easy for me to practice yoga here at home. And if I even discuss Ashram life with my family, they will start to oppose it. So, Dada, please give me the right guidance so that I can truly surrender myself to yoga and The Mother.🧘📜🌹🌳

I would advice you to make a visit first, for a week or so. Perhaps sometime in the coming year. Then we can personally meet

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I celebrated one more birthday of mine last month. With each passing day and year I always think ‘Life is running out, time is slipping away and I haven’t done much for the Divine’. Of course, the aspiration always grows but there is a dissatisfaction somewhere that I have not been or done fully what I could have done for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and because of this, the Divine has not yet become a full living reality. 🎂📝🎯🌱

I won’t call it impatience, but an intensifying of the aspiration on the birthday as the soul perhaps senses that more should be done. There

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