AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
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Alok Da, in the poem ‘Love and Death’ – I felt Ruru made a wrong choice; if he had become a Rishi, he could have led a race, but here he chose his own vital love. Well, in Savitri, it was different. She chose to come back with him because their work was unfinished โ€ฆ What do you think?ย ๐ŸŒนโค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ

Yes. But perhaps he became a yogi pursuing the path of love transmuting the vital love into psychic by pursuing the law of sacrifice. Once

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What do you think about the CA course? It may help me achieve my material goals also. My Wish of exploring the world, getting my bike, and travelling the Himalayas, all this cannot be achieved by a 9-5 Govt Job.ย Isn’t it a good idea? I know, I have asked you so many times about my career, but I don’t want to regret it in the future. So I have to clear all my doubts, and hope you are OK with this. ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ผ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธโ›ฐ๏ธ

Where there is a will, there is a way. In my fairly vast experience I have seen that the job one does hardly matters. What

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There are a few rituals we perform for a departed person, like Asthi Visharjan, 13/40 days, and doing meditation in our Ashram here in Pondicherry. Do these rituals really help the Departed Soul, or is it more for the satisfaction of friends and relatives of the departed soul? What do the Mother and Sri Aurobindo say on these activities that we appear to take quite seriously? ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐Ÿชท

The ancient rituals for the departed were based on an occult knowledge that has now been lost. Its purpose was to dissolve the vital sheath

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Even if there is Maya dragging us away from the Divine, instead of shunning and running away from it, why don’t we face it as A Divine Power by dipping all the Vishayas (Rasa, Roopa, Gandha, Sparsha, Shabda). into The Divine Rasa, and make them Divine, and enjoy them as Divine Prasad with the mind offered to The Divine? โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿ”ฅ

Yes, we should experience it as the Divine experiences these objects. Enjoying them as Divine Prasad, and be ready to leave them if He so

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Thou seemest to bewilder my intelligence with a confused and mingled speech; tell me then decisively that one thing by which I may attain to my soulโ€™s weal.||2|| Really I want to know which one book, reading by which will give me the essence and understanding of all scriptural knowledge fully?Because every scripture attracts me.ย (Bhagavsdsm, Ramayanam, Bhavadgita, Upanishads) ๐Ÿ“–

Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri contains everything.
If for some reason you find it difficult then simply read Letters on Yoga Volume 1 and 2

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