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I try my best to open towards The Mother, but I think my nature has too much of deficiencies. I am feeling that too much vanity, doubts, lust etc. are not allowing me to properly turn towards the yoga. Many a times I think that I should do traditional tantrik sadhnas like vishnu sahasranama recitation daily to purify myself first. But again I read from ‘The Mother’ book that I should have complete faith towards my guru and not be under any second influence. Please guide me how should I proceed properly and how to purify myself to do The Mother’s yoga😥.

The choice of yoga is not made according to the difficulties one might encounter but according to the aspiration or the goal that one seeks.

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Now the question is, as a person dies, apart from the psychic being, what other things are carried to the next life and who carries them? The body  is not there, the psychic being goes to the psychic world. The vital goes to the vital world. The mental part goes to the mental world.  So, it is only the psychic that proceeds to the next birth. Then, while going to take the next birth, does the psychic collect certain elements from the vital and mental world? If yes,  how can it find its corresponding vital and mental which it had in the previous birth🤔?

The psychic being, as it evolves, develops an individual psychic personality around its core which of course is the divine spark within it. This psychic

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I want to know the meaning of a dream that I saw . In that dream I was climbing a mountain but there was a huge pit which was like a dark abyss. I had to cross that large pit and then climb the stairs to move forward. After seeing that huge pit i got scared to cross that so i chose another route that had easy stairs to climb the mountain⛰️. Mother and Sri Aurobindo writes a lot of thing about this abyss . Kindly explain some of their writing on this subject.

The pit is the abyss of doubts and fears that makes us feel that the difficulty in reaching the Divine is insurmountable. But the Mother

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I feel like my life has been full of hardships and struggles. Nothing ever comes to me easily, while others seem to get the same things effortlessly. And even when I finally do receive what I wanted, I don’t truly enjoy it because when I needed it the most, it wasn’t there. In the end, I do get everything, but it often feels too late to matter 😥 [conti]

Some lives are marked out for struggle, others for fruition. That is the whole idea of rebirth, a constant progress wherein the inner wealth we

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I need to know Java as basic knowledge for a course called ‘Data Structures and Algorithms’ in order to get even a chance at acceptance at the top university for a masters in computer science 💻/ cybersecurity, even though the track I would be selecting is ‘Policy’ (because I don’t have an undergraduate CS degree and rather a business degree) which does not require much programming in the grand scheme of things. I have a few dilemmas. One is that this entire path to achieve a masters is not appealing to me because of the debt it will create for me, although my father is willing to support me for the entire cost, I will still owe him and it will also be a huge pressure to not fail because he has set some expectations along with loaning me the money. The other dilemma is that the content itself is a bore. The only way to learn is by staring at a screen for 23 hours of the day out of 24. If I really committed to this, my reality is to just sit and stare at my laptop to go through course content (which is online) and even if I found an in person course to take, the content itself is such a bore! It’s absolute gibberish… I don’t have any passion or interest in this subject and yet I have advertised myself as such because my current role is as a business development associate for an IT/cybersecurity organization, where creating your own brand is valuable in finding opportunities, networking etc. and I’ve even told my father and rest of my family that I am committed to starting to get the masters degree next year and have taken baby steps towards this path.I’ve realized their concern is just that I push myself and don’t stay in one place, and that masters is the only way to get real paying opportunities in the field I am in. That may be true, but I abhor sitting all day and staring at a screen when I know other careers exist that can also pay just as well and don’t require me to do that. I recently discovered a path which I think could be better suited for me, and that is skilled trades, such as an electrician. As a woman, this a less common route to take, and often when women do take it, it is because they are coming from low income and this career pathway is well funded by the US government, so it is very inexpensive, and also women who are able to handle well the type of men we generally should avoid, like those from an incarcerated background. So ultimately my dilemma is, how do I explain to my family these thoughts when I have grown a lot from the past and this will re-ignite all their doubts about me because I have made many mistakes which have been rash and caused them to lose trust or faith in my ability to think clearly?

You should listen to the impulsion in your heart, whether it pays much or not, whether family will understand and support you or not, whether

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