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Regarding the process of reading the original texts of Sri Aurobindo, like The Life Divine or The Synthesis of Yoga and others, generally, I follow the following process: 1] First, I read the paragraph loudly, in a lower volume, and finish the paragraph. 2] Then I go through it silently, only lip-syncing, and try to follow and understand. Am I following the right process? Please provide some guidance. 📚📖😊🙏🏻🪷

March 18, 2026

Yes, it is a wonderful way. Additionally, you can write some of the passages that touch you deeply.

Do you think a Sales Job is good or can lead me towards God, like perfecting it? I am unable to lie to people, but I am also unable to get other jobs than Sales. I want to know that da. 🏪🙄🌱🦋✨

March 18, 2026

Any and every job can be good and helpful in realising and serving the Divine if done with the right attitude with sincerity, dedication, as

What should our consciousness be while offering pranam on Samadhi? 😊🙏🏻🪷🌄

March 17, 2026

Complete self giving of oneself to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother with a heart full of gratitude.

Won’t wars around the world affect India’s economic growth negatively? 🪖🌏💵⚠️

March 17, 2026

Wars do temporarily affect the economics and everything else. But in the long run they clear the passage towards a greater prosperity. Germany, France, India

Work as a consecration to the Mother, is it preferable to work also on weekends? 🗓️🫡🌻✨

March 17, 2026

There are no holidays for someone who wants to pursue the path of Yoga in real earnest. Weekdays are a concession given to human nature

What are the daily practices that can help us to silence the mind and get in touch with our Psychic Being? How can these be explained to people who do not know anything about the Psychic Being? ❤️‍🔥😊🙏🏻🌻

March 17, 2026

Nieltze Huppes has written a book on some of these daily practices. People have found it helpful. The less terminologies we use, the better it

The Chinese are called the Lunar Race and there is also a lineage of Lings in India that is the Chandravansh. What is the relationship between them? 🌒🌾😊🙏🏻🪷

March 16, 2026

This idea did flash across me once but the lunar race lineage (Chandravanshi) described in the Scripture are emotional, artistic, aesthetic unlike the moonlings that

I am seeing that people linked to Sri Maa have Reading Circles and Groups that they read with regularly. Does this have a Greater Purpose than reading by oneself? ❤️‍🔥😊🙏🏻🌷🔥

March 16, 2026

When the candle flame and the winds are strong, it helps if there is a fire or other flames around. When the spark or the

I found that every problem I faced in my life so far was due to my ego. Please suggest me how can I abolish my ego and create a steady contact with my True Self. 💖🪷🌻🌄

March 16, 2026

Try to first change a vehement rajasic ego into a sattwic ego that learns to accept and accomodate different viewpoints and takes into consideration the

Dear mentor, I read lots and lots about the vital to really understand myself and my being. I have learned that it’s because not all of my vital is open to the Light and becomes susceptible to higher as well as lower forces. 🪻🙂💖🦋✨[…]

March 16, 2026

The vital is a seat of difficulties in everybody and the first step is taken by identifying the difficulty rather than justifying it. Next one

Sri Aurobindo writes, “The evolution has a purpose, but it is a purpose in a circle. It is not a straight line or other figure of progression from the not to the is, from the less to the more.” – What do you mean by the purpose of evolution is a circle? Does it repeat itself? Does it go up and again come down? Please clarify what Sri Aurobindo means by that? 🌀🌄💖🌻

March 15, 2026

He speaks of Cyclic nature of creation and not circular. What it means is that creation advances upto a point and when it is unable

Alok da, “There are others which the Gita does not raise or answer, for they were not pressingly present to the human mind of that day.” Has Sri Aurobindo raised and answered these beyond the Gita? 📙✒️🦚🪷[…]

March 15, 2026

There are a number of questions that the Gita doesn’t take up such as the purpose of creation and the goal of the collective human

I saw a dream where I was sightseeing the city of Kashi, but the streets were broader, larger, spacious and they were covered with flowers. Also, there was a strange hue and the population was very sparse, like in European cities. 🏙️🪷🐈🦚🕊️[…]

March 15, 2026

It is quite likely the Kashi of the future in the subtle physical world waiting for its hour. Though strangely the description feels also similar

I have this intense desire to expose truth, to reach the depth of things, to analyze. When I feel that the other person is hiding something or lying, I want to have clarity and truth. Being lied to hurts me a lot. 💔👥🌾[…]

March 15, 2026

People tell lies because they fear being misunderstood. They hide because they value your love and do not want to hurt you and, at the

Is it just a coincidence that Sri Krishna was the de facto ruler of Dwarka and Sri Aurobindo started his work as the de facto ruler of Gujarat? I feel as if it indicates that he has started his work from where Sri Krishna left. 🦚🪷🍃🌄

March 14, 2026

There are quite a few other similarities. Sri Krishna was brought up in a foster home away from his parents and so was Sri Aurobindo.

In Sri Aurobindo’s writings, he very much stresses the need for sexual discipline and Brahmacharya during the student phase of life, and I remember reading Schopenhauer on how the childlike curiosity, inquiry and energy get directed towards sexual mating with the coming of puberty.😯🦋✨💖[…]

March 14, 2026

Nature has created this world in a many-tiered way. The animal plan is its beginning, the animal humanity and the higher humanity are the middle,

In Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy, the Divine consciousness manifests into the world through Involution, and human suffering is often described as a side effect of this evolutionary process. 🤔😣🥀🌄[…]

March 14, 2026

The first thing to understand is that the Divine who chose to plunge into the ignorance with the full knowledge of the aftermath of suffering

Is subconscious mind have some miraculous power, as claimed in some books like – ‘The Power of subconscious mind’ by Joseph Murphy? Does conscious affirmation really programme our subconscious mind for something better? 😶‍🌫️😊🙏🏻🌻

March 14, 2026

What is called as the subconscious mind by these authors is generally the subliminal that is to say below the threshold of our awareness. The

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