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Yesterday one of my classmates said to me, Why don’t you wear shoes👟?( as I feel more comfortable in chappals), ‘ban than ke raha kar’ .Why do we have to be presentable? and to whom? to those who don’t even know what their own opinions are as it changes from morning to noon a hundred times, to those  who are wearing half torn jeans and pants? For me, decent clothes are clean, and those which are enough to cover my body. Chappals are very comfortable. Aren’t they?

In complete agreement with you. Some wear their identity upon their dress, others carry it in their high climbing thoughts and the aspiration of their

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Sri Aurobindo speaks of our imperfection toiling towards perfection, of our body as a chrysalis of the soul. But if our body is the vessel for this transformation, why do we often neglect it? I find myself pushing beyond my limits, exhausting my body until it forces me to stop. If our journey is one of growth and awakening, shouldn’t caring for our body be just as important as nurturing our mind and spirit? How do I learn to honor this balance? How do I work on truly respecting my body as part of this larger process of becoming🤔?

The body needs to be taken care of but always the soul comes first. Pushing beyond limits does take a toll upon the bodily life

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Praying, chanting to the Divine.. Still very dark for some. Hell to some of us is: Intense Pain – emotional, mental that becomes Physical, with no solution in sight – Just faith in the Divine that makes the person not wanting to kill oneself! With absolutely no support physical or emotional… Totally one their own. Is this a test? This is karmic we believe. But this absolute pain makes one fall and get into cravings for holding onto little faith. So one guru says, when someone is hungry and poor  give him food not philosophy!  Isn’t it the condition with people who are going through hell😈?

As to personal hell, of course the person does not need lecture. I am myself a psychiatrist and do not speak scriptures to those who

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