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Sir, I had a dream two days ago. Could you please help me understand its possible significance? I was with a friend, and we were in distress because the world was witnessing a massive flood. Landmasses, countries, and continents were slowly submerging under water. People were panicking and preparing to enter the water ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป […]

It shows an opening to the cosmic consciousness in you. What you saw is the play of the world forces, the forces of the lower

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My friend called me and told me that he had a dream in which I was reading Savitri and explaining to him how Savitri accepts and embraces human struggles. Then he told me that he felt a strange sense of dรฉjร  vu, as if he had already told me about this before. Is there any meaning to this dream? ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿ’ญ

This dream suggests an old connection with Savitri, the book, and perhaps with you as well. It seems something deeply imprinted in the psychic being,

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Connecting the dots began when Their words gave meaning and touch to my life. When adverse forces rushed in and urged me to escape the cosmos, Sri Arvind and Sri MA anchored me with the truth that Her work is to be done right here on Earth. I learned that true understanding does not lie in the mindโ€™s synthesis, but in quietude and inner union. First Union with the Divine, then Work. ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

Yes, I understand. What I have understood as the essence and crux of this yoga is opening and surrender to The Mother. The whole secret

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Can the ego be converted? If so, how? Psychic individuality is the need. Even if the ego is converted, will it allow the Psychic to come forward and take over ? I was told i am ruled by my ego. Its been difficult for me to understand and also find my true identity amidst various identities within, without any concrete individuality. ๐ŸŒธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

Conversion of the ego means that instead of turning towards the satisfaction of desires and being at the mercy of every stroke of nature it

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Growing up, I always felt that sex was something that should happen after marriage. But honestly, it was never really about traditional or moral beliefs for me. It was more because I have been doing sadhana of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and somewhere within me, I always wonderedโ€”why should an emotion like lust or sexual desire come into this? ๐Ÿ’ž๐Ÿชท […]

These are three different things that must be seen each in its own right.

Firstly, sex and yoga: as far as most yogas are concerned,

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I read the following advice from the Mother to an artist learning to paint:ย Would you like me to draw birds or animals sometimes? If you likeโ€”but drawings from nature are best for learning. I have done this picture without anybody’s help. How is it? Will I be able to learn? โœ๏ธ๐ŸŽจโœจ […]

Poetry requires an inner hearing, the faculty of inspiration so to say, just as painting requires an inner vision, a faculty that reveals what is

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