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My better half and myself are on the same path following Sri Ma & Sri Aurobindo . Our sonโ€™s green card is expiring in September of this year . He needs to apply for his citizenship or get his go extended . She says that she has asked Sri Ma & that he should apply for his citizenship only. & that I should wholeheartedly accept and leave it at that? I am trying to, but old habits die hard!๐Ÿชท๐Ÿ’–โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ

Acceptance of the Divine Will and surrender to the Divine Mother is the royal road to reconciling everything that jars with our understanding and expectations

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It’s a bit grueling, so the aspiration gets clouded and one is left exhausted. There is much insincerity, so I have to work. I am pushing Her away with my insincerity, so I feel guilty about that. Just hoping that Mother’s presence and guidance is still there somewhere behind the surface, even if I can’t feel it. Am I reading too much into it and should do whichever feels right to the best of my evaluation, do it with the best intentions and offer to Mother?๐Ÿ˜ถโ€๐ŸŒซ๏ธโ˜๏ธ๐ŸŒซ๏ธ๐ŸŒช๏ธ

The first thing needed is to be conscious of your aspiration and the true goal. All these ideas are good but they belong to the

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I don’t know if this is a valid question, but I am asking here. The souls grow into psychic beings, as seeds into trees. My question – is this growth in every soul an addition to the total Divine Substance, as all souls’ substance is nothing but the Divine Himself? Does evolution contribute to the net addition in the Substance of the Divine? Is this a desirable gain?๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ๐ŸŒŸ

Yes very much so. Each element of creation is nothing else but a concealed divinity, like a raw material. It is our …

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As you have mentioned in your videos , that the collective works of Sri Aurobindo can be purchased together as a single unit and kept in homes for positivity and it helps us feel Sri Aurobindo’s presence. My father has inquired at the Ashram book store about this and they said it is not available, can you tell me where I can purchase this? I am looking for two units of the same. Please guide me.ย ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ“œโœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“–

I am glad you are enjoying the talk. It is all Her Grace as you know.

Yes, the Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo are not

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Suppose I do a wrong karma knowingly like told a little lie to my friend. Then he suffered a little though a small suffer, still he suffered only because of my just a silly lie. Then definitely it returned to me & I felt it. Then I smiled, Oh; due to my morning lie I just came across this situation in the afternoon. Question is any karma can be melt by The Divine?๐Ÿชƒ๐Ÿ”„๐ŸŽกโš–๏ธ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

There are plenty of examples but that apart, the law of karma is never about reward and punishment! It is not a tribunal of justice

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I am trying to follow the path shown by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. I love reading their works and Savitri. By this reading and your enlightening talks have helped to ignite a fire of aspiration in me. Now I know that whatever I do in my outer life, my final destination and ultimate aim is to collaborate Their work upon Earth. Last month I was in Pondicherry for a week and enjoyed my stay their but while returning back I was very much sad because of the pain of separation was so intense. The separation from Pondicherry and Ashram just becomes unbearable at that moment. Can you please tell me how should I face such situation? is this the psychic sorrow?๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿ–ค๐ŸŒง๏ธ๐ŸŒฉ๏ธ

It is very much a psychic sorrow and the sign that you are not only meant for this yoga but who knows, at some point

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I’m trying to figure out the right thing but I don’t know what to do? But with Mothers grace things will happen one day in the future I’m sure of.. But there must be some sort of lacking in me, Or I’m just not fully and properly relying upon the Mother I think, that I’m still not able to figure out what to do or not having enough courage to do anything. It’s like I’m juggling with my feelings, desires and right decisions, And there are times of complete helplessness like I’m grounded to earth or chained downโ€ฆMy question is how should I practice to rely on the Mother completely and how should I wake up to this sun light?๐Ÿ™โš“๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ๐Ÿค

What is missing and what you need most is faith. Man cannot take a step forward without faith. This habit of the physical mind to

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Since a few weeks, I have been having ย similar dreams but I am unable to understand the meaning behind them. In those dreams, I am always near or in some kind of water body, with many people near me. However, what is most striking to me is the presence of crocodiles. Within a few moments, they appear and chase after me and other people but they never manage to get to us. ๐ŸŒœ๐Ÿ’ค๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ›Œ

The water is the general world consciousness. Crocodiles represents greed that eats up those who harbour it, basically deceptive forces of the vital world. The

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I’m studying economics and decided to make it the major of my further studies.ย But! Today I noticed many limitations of the subject, it is advocated as a science but actually it is just a social science with some mathematical tools, and that doesn’t make it science.ย The great depression, US Real estate bubble, enron scandalโ€ฆ All these proved that the assumptions of economics about the FREE MARKETS like Prices are fixed through Demand and Supply (then why over or under prices?), There is always Rational behaviour (How can Rational behaviour give rise to a bubble?), these are nothing but fairy and fantasies.ย 

All human subjects are limited because they have been studied by human beings through the lens of their ignorance. It is idle to suppose one

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ย I have a request that kindly dispel one very common misconception, very very widespread even amongst saints and spritual people. As far as I understand only enlightened beings, sages, masters or may be one who is highly evolved can be nishkaam. Those who are so unconscious and full of darkness, just by producing kids how come they become so great …I have personaly experienced too much resistance to my spritual inclination by my mother and I see parents playing havoc with the lives of daughter in laws.โ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿง˜

I understand your point completely. Not sure about the saints who say that one should completely subordinate oneself to parents, family, etc. If they say

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Namaste. I want to get clarity about the location of these places referred to in the poem URVASIE. Though I thought that poetic symbolism need not have a geographical accuracy in it, I found some suggestions in the poem which help to locate these cities along the course of the river Ganges.ย 1.Budrichayshwur โ€” is it Badrinath? Ila- is it somewhere along the course of Ganges as a city even in the current times?๐Ÿ“–โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“œ๐Ÿ’ฎ

Sri Aurobindo often points out the directions of north, northwest, south etc along the poem. Though this too can be reconciled as some spiritual imagination

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Alok da when Savitri’s yoga was going on and when Savitri was talking to Yamdev, what was Satyavan’s role, what was he doing and how did Satyavan accompany Savitri in that? Was Satyavan and Savitri both doing yoga together? And if Satyavan refuses to return thinking that this is my destiny, if god has thought something for me then I will follow that, if you accept this then Savitri will bring Satyavan back, husband? Satyavan will also be with Savitri in this, right, then what did he do?

Though the story of Savitri and Satyavan is narrated in a human setting, as Sri Aurobindo reveals to us, the characters themselves are not the

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What if the external comes attracted emotionally, and the Soul does not want?ย So the person goes away again and again?ย I always felt, it’s the soul which is rejecting, but external appreciates and wants, so it comes again and again. Because I am already initiated into Spiritual Life by a Divine Guru, I wanted to be sure throughย my Soul, which is The Real Call?๐ŸŒ…๐Ÿ‘๏ธ๐Ÿชโœจ

Here is what Sri Aurobindo writes in the Synthesis of Yoga.

‘All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out

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