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Can you explain the meaning of, “Soul Journey”?

June 18, 2025

The soul is a portion of the Divine as a seed is a portion of the tree. But just as the seed contains within itself

In yoga, the desire for God is the key. How to develop it within yourself? It does not come naturally to me. At present, I need God to help me and my family live a beautiful life. It does not matter whether I am body or soul.

June 18, 2025

Very few start with a desire for God. Most people approach God for the fulfilment of their desires until one day they end up desiring

Feel like giving up in my life.. I want to stay still and do nothing … I have to work on this but I am stuck in this feeling for quite sometime.. I am afraid I might terribly fall down.

June 18, 2025

Doing nothing is the most difficult thing to do. Even the mere maintenance of the framework of life needs quite an effort. So that is

Can you share your views and ideas which led to the aircraft disaster in Ahmedabad. Can it be viewed beyond human, technical error in a higher plane above human hands. If so how best these accidents can be avoided? What is the way a spiritual seeker or a true devotee or a true believer in Divine should feel and act by witnessing the most grieved families of the deceased. If possible you can give a video talk to this respect.

June 18, 2025

I will surely give a talk on this. But meanwhile it is not the result of a human technical error. It is the result of

The desire for wealth (to enjoy the luxuries of life), power and sex appear to be the driving forces in human beings. Without these desires there would be no activity. Is it not true that life cannot be imagined without these desires. Can you help me understand why then we are told to get rid of these desires that seem so natural and should be created with purpose by the creator🤔?

June 18, 2025

Life without desires is not only imaginable but also the most wonderful life one can conceive of, it is a life of peace and freedom

When I see something is bad happen in my surrounding (selfish activities, blaming others, jealous, anger etc) I don’t bearing this things, feeling sorrow in my inner part. But I am not condemning to anyone, still i think I also same responsible for this situation, if i can change these things myself then it’s affect will be down. I feel detachment inside, not the exempt everything detachment but peace and joyful state i feel inside and every world still the nature will affect me. If sometimes I loose the inner peace or pressure of my heart then remembering, aspiring her will suddenly this contact is establish. In this stage what should i do? How I can liberate the cruel behavior of the nature? How will be establish the relation among those people who have around me🤨?

June 18, 2025

The sorrow you feel is a psychic sorrow and the need for harmony and peace among people a psychic need. It is in answer to

Actually I get conflicted. Sometimes I’m thinking of Krishna 🦚and talking to him and sometimes to mother. Now that I’m remembering Mother more and more. I feel like I’m moving away from Krishna. How do I overcome this puzzling situation. When I sit to meditate I get confused about whom to imagine. So I end up with both of them together. Is it fine or I’m too much stuck in ignorance and all. I keep a small Krishna in my pocket always and talk sometimes and you told me before to take Krishna everywhere with me like a living being and I forget to buy when I remember sometimes I think of him in my chest like he is watching from there and talk to him. I’m definitely not fully sincere, I feel like I’m making simple stuff more difficult and getting stuck in mental thoughts. What can I do Da?

June 18, 2025

The conflict is coming due to too much focus on the outer form. But there is no reason to be conflicted. Sri Krishna and the

I am facing a contradiction in my mind regarding the fate of the soul who are at an advanced stage of spiritual life but not reached the highest and have to discard the physical body in a violent manner like the last plane crash . Will they have to halt at the subtle – physical and vital domain for a longer period, because at the moment of death the psychic being can not take any decision. In this case moment of death must have passed in fear. I have purchased the book Death, dying and beyond written by you and started reading it. It is really wonderful book.

June 17, 2025

Sadhaks that are really advanced have no fear, absolutely no fear. They see and find the Divine everywhere and neither life nor death carries any

If Mother sees everything then why such a horrible plane crash happened 😱?

June 17, 2025

The Mother is always there but She acts from behind a veil through many of Her different personalities and powers. These personalities or gods and

While reading The Sunlit Path, I came across the Mother’s statement that ‘Reason must be the Master’ and that Reason is developed by using it. I’m unsure about what she exactly mean by ‘Reason’ in this context🤔.

June 17, 2025

Also, what kind of habits or inner attitudes can I cultivate so that reason becomes an active, guiding force in life.

She means governing life

Bhaiya, you often say that making progress should be our aim. What exactly do you mean by ‘making progress’😳?

June 17, 2025

Progress means to expand one’s capacities, – spiritual, intellectual, emotional, vital, physical by whatever means at one’s disposal.

Spiritual capacity increases by increasing the aspiration,

Why is it that only when something tragic happens, like the Ahmedabad tragedy, people start sharing emotional posts saying things like ‘Life is so, so unpredictable,’ ‘We always think we have time, but the truth is, we don’t,’ or ‘Hug the people you love like it’s the last moment you’re spending with them’? What are your thoughts on such posts circulate during tragedies😳.

June 16, 2025

This shows that we are still too crude and largely live on the surfaces. We need strong outer events to wake up to the world-pain

Alok da since a year or two, a couple of days just before I fall ill with cold and cough🤢, there is a weird kind of awareness mixed with fear sometimes about falling unwell, sometimes a sense of pride that the body has been doing so well despite hectic schedules etc. While I try to surrender the feeling to Mother, there are mixed results every time. Sometimes the viral is mild and passes away, sometimes it is severe. I feel making sense of this phenomenon will help the body and mind to cope better, hence asking you what should be the right attitude during the time when these feelings arise. Also how to make the surrender better?

June 16, 2025

When these feelings arise, it is best to take a few moments of quietude (preferably asap), and then concentrate in the heart and offer it

“There is certainly a great difference between calling and pulling — you can and must always call for help and the rest — the answer will be proportionate to your capacity of reception and assimilation. Pulling is a selfish movement that may bring down forces quite disproportionate to your capacities and thus are harmful.” Alok bhai, what does pulling mean in this msg from Mother🤔?

June 16, 2025

Pulling means trying to get down the Divine Force by the force and intensity of will, generally for some gain of Yoga or to get

What is swabhava and swadharma? I didn’t have goals to become a doctor or engineer etc. I wanted to do well whatever it is that I did for work. I don’t like telling people what to do, not interested in attention, but having the space to do my best. I am not a high planning-oriented person, I try to do what I truly want to do. But, all these become an issue in the society, where people are expected to be very driven, especially in work. My vision naturally arises after one phase of life is over and then I get to slid into the next one, but it is smooth and organic. I also don’t like to be around very dominating people, I have an inward turn of nature in general and not boisterous🫤. I like doing everything quietly, [conti]

June 16, 2025

You are ahead of your times or rather while the people are running on the old beaten tracks that lead us nowhere except in unending

“She is in every blade of grass , every gust of wind, every star and sound. From moss to mountains, from silence to storms – all is Devi. She sees all. She knows all. And yet, She often remains a silent witness. Why? Because unless you invoke Her, She does not interfere🤔.

June 15, 2025

Yes She is everywhere and in everything but She acts in two modes of Her working, Vidya and Avidya, the higher Supernature, Paraprakriti, to which

Just wanted to ask you like I am pursuing MBA and completed my BBA degree too but still not I am sooo confused what too doo not finding exactly what I love and if I don’t get a job before my MBA completion then I have to home and my parents will start forcing Me for marriage they were traditional parents 24-25 mai Shaadi is good and all u have too also even if I say yes too any guy then didn’t allow me to have attest 1 – 1.5 year before marriage …. Feeling soo tensed while thinking about this 1 percent agar job nhi lagi toh .. also at this point I feel I want to live my life enjoy tick list my bucket list … how too deal with this how to make my parents thinking understand my perspective and all😐..

June 15, 2025

It is not easy to convince parents if they have fixed ideas. But if one stays firm they eventually concede. You should have courage and

Ramakrishna says that the Jivakoti can ascend to the Divine but may not descend, while the Ishwarakoti can ascend and descend at will. Sri Aurobindo says that going by this definition ‘Ishwarakoti are those who get to the integral Reality and can therefore combine the Ascent with the Descent and contain the “two ends” of existence in their single being.🤨’ -[Conti]

June 15, 2025

By definition, it seems so. Ramakrishna often alluded in his talks that Brahman and his Shakti are One and the world is their own manifestation

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