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Dear Alok Da, In the book “The Mother” – Sri Aurobindo writes: “it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties…” – “Descending from above” I could get the idea. But “opening from below” How can the highest Supreme can be below? 😊🙏🏻🌹✨[…]

January 23, 2026

Opening from below means aspiration. As to the Divine, He is everywhere and in everything in all His Fullness, poornamadam, poornamidam….In His Supreme Transcendent state

Last night I had an interesting dream, but I was unable to understand it. In the dream, I was standing on a balcony along with some other people whom I know. There was a beautiful garden beneath. It was morning, but the sky was dark and very cloudy. 💭🌤️[…]

January 23, 2026

It is a beautiful crystal clear dream. The beautiful garden is the New Creation that has been made ready to manifest. The dark clouds is

Which is the first slip of the Soul in its Manifestation? Is it due to Prakruthi or Purusha? Why and how I fell? Why not corrected in the beginning? Now, what is the meaning of Sacrifice when the child is left uncared for a long time? 🤕

January 23, 2026

There is no slip of the soul. The Jivatma has taken a very conscious decision to plunge into the play just as a child choses

Dear Alok Da, can you please explain Savitri to me. 😊🙏🏻🌼

January 23, 2026

Savitri is the story about the power of love when it is lifted to its maximum capacity. The Divine Mother’s Love can transform our life

I pray to the Mother before going to sleep. The problem is that I clench my jaw hard at night. How to apply Mother’s force to stop this? 😖💤

January 22, 2026

The best thing is to relax oneself completely using one of the number of imageries that the Mother has adviced such as contemplating the vastness

The Dudhkasi and Kailash Mountains are shown in China. It must be within India. Why is it in China? ⛰️🗺️

January 22, 2026

Well the peaks fall in China and the Indian governments have not been able to raise the issue. Besides, it is not easy to get

With the events that are unfolding, is the Human Cycle going to become more and more relevant and indispensable for men to be mindful of? I remember John F. Kennedy being aware of the text and complaining to the Indian Ambassador about not heeding his advice during the Indo-China War. 📚🤔😐[…]

January 22, 2026

Yes, it is true that the present day Communist Chinese block is a most dangerous one and The Mother and Sri Aurobindo both have warned

What is the difference between a Companion and a Married Partner? 🧑🏻‍🤝‍👩🏻❤️‍🔥

January 22, 2026

It is ideal if it is the one and the same person but it is generally not so, especially since life is still organised today

Can there be a possibility that Karl Marx was the Incarnation of forces quite hostile to the Creation? I claim he was an Asura or a vessel of one at the least. Here are some interesting facts that indicate it: When he was a student in Berlin, he wrote a blasphemous play called Oulamen, full of a theme of rebellion against the Divine. 😯[…]

January 21, 2026

I am in complete agreement with you. Though I haven’t read his life but his theories and ideas gave me a clear feeling that he

Before I turned to Sri Aurobindo, I was very much satisfied with the ascetic view of life and felt that it was the ultimate view of life. I was very much convinced by their arguments about the world. Even the scriptures like the Gita seemed to be suggesting that ultimately, renouncing everything is the only way out. 😊🙏🏻🪷🔥[…]

January 21, 2026

It is a genuine feeling as far as your own spiritual evolution is concerned. One can also understand the anguish that every lover of India

You mentioned race issues in Auroville in the early days. What were they? I meet Africans, Europeans and Arabs. I also met Indians from different backgrounds. Sometimes they fight, rape and kill one another. How should I approach race and racial tensions? 😕🥀

January 21, 2026

The tensions and conflicts in Auroville during earliest years were between the Western outlook towards freedom and the Indian understanding represented by Navajat, Chairman of

So, in the Shloka below from the Gita, does ‘universe’ imply a material Universe only, or does it include the Overmental world as well? Gita 10.42 “I support this entire universe with an infinitesimal portion of Myself”. 🤔🌌✨

January 21, 2026

In the Gita, Sri Krishna is speaking as the Purushottama and hence it applies to all the different system of worlds or universes if you

Mother says Surrender aggrandizes us rather than totally losing ourselves. Please explain to me, Sir – how to counter this Fear of losing my Individuality? 😥🙏🏻🦋

January 20, 2026

Surrender brings out the hidden truth of our being, the true self, the true personality, the divine elements within us. What is there to fear?

My question is related to the debate on Environment vs Development. Nowadays, in Chhattisgarh, this debate is very much highlighted in the News because dense Hasdeo Arand Forests of the State are being cut down for Coal Mining, threatening the rich Biodiversity of the State, the displacement of the local tribes, and disturbing the Natural Elephant Corridor. Many media reports and people are saying that Adani’s Greed for Coal is eating up the Hasdeo Forest. […] 🌳🏭🌳

January 20, 2026

This is a narrative which if taken to its logical conclusion would mean no more roads, no more revamping of cities, no more highways, no

My brother has been working in Bangalore for 10 years. He has a wife and 2 children. Recently, he lost money in an online game upto 15 lakhs. He lived life luxuriously. So he took a loan from the bank and outsiders upto 26 lakhs. 😫💰[…]

January 20, 2026

Online gaming, especially involving money is a serious addiction. It is a psychological condition that needs treatment. Paying the debts that he incurred is not