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I would like to learn the yoga of sleep. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have spoken (from my limited understanding) on the importance of the yoga of sleep and how that can be a powerful sadhana, where we can enter the subtle physical and into the realms of Sri Aurobindo’s abode. Without Ma and Sri Aurobindo’s physical presence, how can one receive the guidance if one aspires to learn this beautiful knowledge of sleep? ๐ŸŒœ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ’ค

May 18, 2026

It is not a separate yoga of sleep that one has to practice but the integral yoga which, in the course of its progression enters

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I feel I need the company of like minded people for studying Sri Aurobindo. I really love to read Mother and Sri Aurobindo but sometimes I can’t get myself to do so in an organised manner. A little bit of a nudge from time to time by a few friends would be great. Are the any online study circles that I can join? I don’t know of any in my city. I don’t find many people on Twitter or Discord who are into the integral yoga, hence I get into these other mixed spiritual communities and waste my time discussing many things that are irrelevant from the perspective of the Yoga. [conti]

May 18, 2026

Yes the need is valid and has its justification. There are certain online study circles, also WhatsApp groups. You…

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A strength is in her that meets everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high tranquil power.Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away into the darkness. So some people are damned? โ€ฆ. Some she castes down or put away into the darkness ? Could you please explain that?๐Ÿ‘‘๐ŸŒŒโ™พ๏ธ๐ŸŒน

May 18, 2026

Not damned. Nobody is damned and none forever. If the Divine. If the Divine damns forever then those things will cease to exist not finding

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I have been not well for most of the year of 2025. I chose not to get the back surgery, but now, I started hearing my own heartbeat in specially my left ear. ENT didn’t find much fluid in my ear so ordered CT Scan. I have 12 mm brain aneurism on the left side and need a brain surgery. Last year I kept joking that I am burning my past karma, but why am I not getting any brake? Now a brain surgery?๐Ÿง ๐Ÿง‘โ€โš•๏ธ๐Ÿฉบ๐Ÿ’Š

May 18, 2026

One either lives with faith or else enters the medical grove which acts according to its present scientific understanding. To live with faith is to

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You mentioned “..spiritual aim, one has chosen..”. Could you please help me understand what does a spiritual aim mean? I read of works of the Motherย  and Sri Aurobindo, and I try to apply their teachings in my everyday life. Does that count as spiritual aim? Or am I following a spiritual life? Please clarify.๐ŸŽฏ๐Ÿชท๐Ÿ•‰๏ธ๐Ÿ›ฃ๏ธ

May 18, 2026

By spiritual aim is meant the goal towards which one is directing one’s inner and outer efforts. It could be a number of things. For

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I am currently facing some conflict inside myself and wanted your guidance regarding the same. My mother and father live alone, we are 3 sisters (all of us live in the same city) but me being the elder one have always taken their every responsibility. Even after my marriage I have been taking the responsibility of both the houses equally and my in-laws are quite supportive too. Because my sisters won’t handle everything as I do so I feel if I had done this it would be better. But then it’s too much on my shoulders to handle. Should I be guilty? Because I am leaving it to others to do it and am doing anything wrong with my parents??

May 18, 2026

There is no question of guilt as all the children should look after the parents equally when they need them. However in reality very often

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I made errors in the past (which I think I did because of my ignorance). This led to my character assassination and my outcast from society. People started ill-treating me and humiliating me. All this led also to my psychosis. I had to cut-off almost all connections from people because anyways I was getting negative treatment from them, through all these years. I have been labelled as a womaniser. My crude nature still haunts me. I am attracted to and look at women, but sometimes people notice me looking at women, which leads to further character assassination.๐Ÿ โ›“๏ธ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ช

May 18, 2026

Human beings, almost all inflict suffering upon each other unwittingly because of the ego and the desire-self that drives us. Behind it all there is

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I was looking up for the Mother’s knowledge on mistakes and came across this one: “It is quite wrong to go on brooding about the past. The true attitude is to remember that nothing happens but by Godโ€™s will and to submit to that will quietly. If you have made mistakes in the past it is by lack of true surrender and the only way to repair the mistakes is to surrender truly.”ย How can I know if it is a mistake or God’s will? What is the internal compass for reference? How can I know for what I should take ownership vs surrender?๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ™ˆ

May 18, 2026

Mistakes are a language of ignorance that makes the ego-self feel that it is the doer and hence responsible for all that happens. As long

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Sri Aurobindo writes in the Essays of Gita: “It is the true goal and the last sense of human living and the highest step in our progressive sacrifice of works. For he remains to the end the master of works and the soul of sacrifice. [p.133]” How does this progressive sacrifice look like in our daily existence? In fact,ย  how does sacrifice manifest in our life? It will be great if you can clarify.๐Ÿ›ž๐Ÿ“œ๐Ÿฆš๐Ÿชˆ

May 18, 2026

The sacrifice starts with the shift of inner motive whence one decides not to live for oneself any more but for the Divine Master and

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I wish I had an experience of Astral Travel, it would have increased my faith in the Mother. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo definitely discouraged it because of its dangers. Besides the work is in the body. By getting out of the body one doesnโ€™t get out of the ego. One simply gets into the vital body. There are other simpler and safer ways to get rid of the ego as well as of the body as being the true self. There are many other things besidesโ€ฆ.๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ โžก๏ธ ๐ŸŒŒ๐ŸŒ€

May 18, 2026

Astral travel may give faith in the idea of other worlds but this too can be known in different ways. But the integral Yoga certainly

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I want to ask, that when we go through tough time, we say just be strong in this time it is a test. God is testing you and you will come out better at the other end. But, for me, this test is going on forever. I am trying so hard to be better and do all the right things and be strong but it has been 5 years same lonely, painful and empty phase is going on. I am so tired now that everything feels pointless. How do I keep myself going? Is there any point of keep going? Will this ever get better?๐Ÿง—๐Ÿงฑโ›ˆ๏ธ๐ŸŒช๏ธ

May 18, 2026

First thing we must know is that God never tests. He is with us through all these tough moments with the full understanding of our

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