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Hindus worship various gods and goddesses. Like Ganesha for success. Lakshmi for wealth. Durga for protection. Similarly, why is Shivalinga worshipped? As you mentioned yesterday, Shivalinga is a very powerful symbol of divine power working on earth. It is representative of the union of Shiva and Nature. So is Shivalinga worshiped to seek prosperity, nourishment, strength from Prakriti that is Parvati and wisdom, knowledge from Shiva🤔?

July 4, 2025

As to what one can ask is upto the one who is worshipping. As Sri Krishna says in the Gita that whatever god one worships

I was ruminating on an issue and wanted your opinion. Sri Aurobindo said that Sri Ramakrishna was as much an Avatar as Christ, so his spiritual power or impact on world in numbers or quality must be similar if not equivalent to that of Christ. Sri Ramakrishna also reveals that Maa Sarada devi was the Avatar of Mahasaraswati, so she too must be equivalent in power and impact on the world to Sri Ramakrishna and therefore Christ. And Swami Vivekananda was a Rudra vibhuti who did Tapasya and realized the truth within, so his spiritual power and impact must be greater than Muhammad or even Shivaji or Augustus. And I don’t even need to mention Sri Aurobindo and the Mother themselves as the Supreme Avatars. And there were countless enlightened sages unleashed into India in the last century like the Heavens had broke loose😐.

July 4, 2025

First about the facts. Sri Aurobindo did not speak of Sri Ramkrishna as an Avatar in the sense of the Gita. In fact Sri Ramakrishna

If faith in the Divine can greatly diminish the possibility of the thing feared, doesn’t this faith come in the way of spiritual progress, because otherwise, the danger which was thus prevented (by faith), could have made the person stronger, if allowed to happen🫤?

July 4, 2025

But why seek danger and court difficulties? That is never the advice given by anyone. The advice is that if danger and difficulties comes, then

Dada how to forget oneself and completely emerged with the Divine😇?

July 3, 2025

To forget oneself the simplest way to remain engaged in work, not done for personal gains and profit, not done for name and fame but

“Simplest and most powerful of all (means to conquer fears) is a complete faith and trust in the Divine Grace. If it is lacking then one can additionally offer one’s fears to the Divine with a prayer for protection.” So, if I fulfil above condition, what should be my attitude out of the below two: 1) I should feel that the thing I feared can not happen🤔?

July 3, 2025

That is best. Your faith itself will greatly diminish its possibility….

When Sri Aurobindo was not even 7 years old, He experienced great darkness enveloping him in Darjeeling. This darkness always hung over him during his stay in England. The darkness left him when He came back to India. What was the reason behind that🤨?

July 3, 2025

It is the spirit of the Age, of Kali, that he had absorbed within himself since it was precisely this shadow that hung over the

I had a dream 💤few nights back. Actually before sleeping, I wrote in my diary, ma please visit me in my dreams and it happened. I was in a bus and there many people around me and there was a photo pasted on the wall and friends around me told me that the man in the picture loves mother dearly and he had a very magnetic aura and in an instant I was telling myself I have to meet this man and i kept staring deeply at the picture. it was a old yellowish rustic picture…

July 3, 2025

The first dream indicates your coming in contact with the Mother through the mediation of devotees. The second dream indicates that the Mother is watching

While going through the Agenda today, I came across a very important observation of the Mother🤨: This is exactly the state of consciousness I am living in now. It’s as if I were facing the same eternal problem but… from a new position.

July 2, 2025

The position of the materialist is that matter alone is real and all other experiences are imaginary or unreal.

The position of the typical

Can Sunil da’s music🎶 (which is also known as the Mother’s music) be taken as Sri Krishna’s flute?

July 2, 2025

No, that is not the right way to look at it. Sri Krishna’s flute enchants the soul and draws it towards God. The Mother’s music

Can you please expand on how to raise beyond individuality and ego? Sri Aurobindo has written “When we have passed beyond individuality then we shall be the real persons. Ego was the helper; Ego is the bar” Mother expanded on this in Nov 1956 – her response was upto the point of how one can know that one is conscious and that to become a spiritual being one should give all that up but doesn’t expand on how or what it means to do it. (Can you please expand on what/how to do, apart from surrendering and aspiring for help and cultivating a strong will and strong body and offering it to Mother🤔?)

July 2, 2025

es the way is a conscious surrender of one’s individuality with an aspiration. The nature of the aspiration then determines what way this individuality will

What to tell when my friends ask what are these about Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s symbols🙂?

July 2, 2025

You may tell them that a symbol stands for the truth of the thing that it is a symbol of. Thus for example the flag

We recently brought a Shivling from my in-law’s place as they are not able to take proper care of it. My in-laws used to worship it with elaborate rituals. We have also been advised to follow it. To be honest, I don’t have much faith in their long rituals which were advised by our family priest. To me a simple ritual with faith & devotion is what is actually needed in worship🤨.

July 1, 2025

I understand your situation and have experienced this with other families as well. Ritual involves a,material and a spiritual aspect. The material side is to

Dear Alok da I am a woman so it’s very easy to look at Divine as a lover… but how can a man relate to Divine like a lover ? Like when Sri Aurobindo writes the poem on Krishna I can relate feel Krishna in that form but what about a man? This was just silly curious question but thought to ask🙂.

July 1, 2025

This is something that i struggled with for a while as to how could I see the Beloved in the Mother or bring before Her

Last night, I had a dream where I saw that my father and I were getting a tubewell installed, and at the end, when we inserted the pipe, a lot of water came out and it was sparkling. Then, Grandpa came and asked why we had the tubewell installed, saying that the water is salty. When we drank it, the taste was a bit salty, so I said at least the water would be useful. Later, I saw that my brother and I were checking the car’s headlight, but it didn’t light up. So, I said, doesn’t the light work? What’s the problem? He said it’s fine, and when I turned it on, the light was very dim. Then, we removed the mirror from the headlight and saw that it was giving off very little light. What could be the symbolic meaning of this dream🤔?

July 1, 2025

I don’t think it has any deeper symbolic meaning. Looks more like a dip into the subconscient where the water is not tasty and the

Can you please share should line on Sri Aurobindo, the bhakta🙏..

July 1, 2025

True love for God is best described in Sri Aurobindo’s own words as below. ‘To love God, excluding the world, is to give Him an

Alok da what should one do when we know that someone has become an instrument of the hostile forces and he is creating a problems in the family and harassing every one 😨?

June 30, 2025

When the Divine Mother willed to create, She brought out different aspects from the One Divine and distributed Her Knowledge and Power to each one

How can we maintain the approach of Dharma and truth in business because every businessman tries to earn maximum profit and for that he exaggerates the objects🤨.

June 30, 2025

Psychic emergence lights up the flame of Godward aspiration. As it emerges more and more the different parts of nature begin to aspire, – the

My question. Mother writes in one of her prayers: In Peace and Silence the Eternal manifests; allow nothing to disturb you and the Eternal will manifest😇; (December 5, 1912)

June 30, 2025

Yes, they in fact complement each other. The Gita declares that a complete mastery is not possible without the touch of the Eternal. The Mother

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