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Alok da, in The Synthesis of Yoga, Chapter 2: The Three Steps of Nature, in the 7th para, Sri Aurobindo says, โ€œthe sane, robust, longlivedย human body is ordinarily foundย only in races or classes of men who reject the effort of thought, its disturbances, its tensions, or think only with the material mind.โ€๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ‘ฅ๐ŸŒผ๐Ÿฆ‹[…]

Sri Aurobindo is speaking largely of an earlier humanity that was not touched by modern mind and its ways of life. That humanity is hardly

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Someone told me most of our dreams come from the subconscient which are almost trash.ย We should only pay attention to dreams that repeat again and again.ย Please explainโ€ฆ If they are all so mixed upโ€ฆ How can one know which one is guidance and which one is trash?ย ๐Ÿ’ญ๐Ÿค”๐ŸŒป[…]

Dreams come from different sources. The subconscient dreams are quite chaotic. Interpreting them requires intuition and experience.

It is always good if one can remember

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I have a question that makes me feel that people compare and based on their comparison, they decide and come to their preferences; they favour them. And when I see this play of ego, of pleasing the other person, and when one understands that oneโ€™s higher-up favours him/her, one feels good about that closeness. ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ˜”๐Ÿฆ‹๐ŸŒพ[…]

It is wonderful that you are able to see the falsehood behind this kind of vital love of praise which is indeed a kind of

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Itโ€™s easier to think about aligning with God when idle, but harder in moments of real choiceโ€”especially when torn between comfort and asking, โ€œWhat would God want me to do?โ€ Acting with sincerity, enthusiasm, and self-forgetfulness, being a resource to others, and embodying cheerful equanimity feels like a truer way to connect with the Divine. Imagining Their presence and working for Them helps deepen that connection. ๐Ÿซจ๐ŸŒผ๐Ÿฆ‹[…]

The defects you enumerate are universal, though the extent and expression differs. Their root cause is ego, ignorance and desire which almost universally afflict all

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