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Please accept my sincere regards. I have never been able to fully understand what this world truly is. Yet amidst this crowd, this noise, and this illusion, finding God perhaps is the most difficult journey of all. Sometimes it feels as though He exists everywhere, and at other times, it seems an entire lifetime may pass in the search for Him. 🌍✨🙏🏻

In its essence this world and all other worlds, in fact the whole creation is nothing but a manifestation of the Divine who is the

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I have a question, Alok Da: I recently experienced a profound, day-long state of healing, peace and detachment after contemplating that true divinity lies beyond all determinations. By consciously releasing my sense of being the “doer” and shifting to “Thy Will be done,” I moved from a state of critical analysis to one of surrender. 🕊️🙏🏻[…]

What you tried earlier is the way of discernment characteristic of gyana yoga. Here one relies almost entirely upon one’s own efforts.

The second

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I remember once reading in Sri Aurobindo’s commentary on the Isha Upanishad that one cannot become a Brahmin without first becoming a Kshatriya. I believe that I never had the Kshatriya element developed sufficiently within me, and it has always been a source of embarrassment and insecurity for me as a man. 💪🙏🏻🪷[…]

He said both are needed. But these are things ingrained within us. Brahmin and Kshatriya are not soul states, inner innate temperaments and not so

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You said order, harmony, frankness, wideness, clarity are good. Not chaos and hesitation. Also, that Silence is often a golden thing. One’s feelings and thoughts and ideas should be offered and shared with the Divine. Unless there is something of crucial importance where speaking out is needed. 💬🕊️ […]

Speaking and sharing are surely beautiful things and important ingredients of a relationship. But this sharing should generally be of a beautiful nature, for example

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