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You said that just reading books isn’t enough, but from my understanding, if one wants to follow Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, the first step should at least be reading their works. Please correct me if I’m wrong. And if reading alone isn’t enough, how should one practice it, specially since it’s so vast and deepšŸ™?

Yes, reading books is helpful but evidently it is not enough. Even in ordinary fields of knowledge such as physics, biology, arts, literature etc we

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Why is it that some 50-year-olds, despite having experienced so much in life and claiming to be wise, still fail to grasp certain basic truths? When I ask them not to think negatively, they insist they’re not being negative, just realistic. They say, ā€œThis is how humans are. We have endless responsibilities. You younger ones won’t understand, our minds are always preoccupied.ā€ I can’t help but wonder how, after all these years, they still haven’t learned the fundamentals.😔

Yes some people never really grow up and learn. Instead they take it that whatever they have been or learnt is the ultimate truth and

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Alok da, since last 15 days we are struggling to make our 11 year old sleep in his own room, though he sleeps in his room every other night he come and sleep with us, we have tried everything but he wants me to make him sleep and even after that he gets up and wants me to put him to sleep again in the middle of the night, we feel it’s high time that he needs to sleep on his own, Please advice😳.

Yes children should begin to sleep by themselves by 5. In India, due to stronger emotional bonding and family attachment it takes longer. In any

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For a while now, I’ve been thinking what if there were a reversal of roles between Sri Ram and Sri Krishna, keeping rest of the circumstances same! In what ways would they have taken the decisions differently, how different would have been the choices made differently- How would have been Krishnayan and Srimad Bhagwadam and Mahabharat happened differentlyšŸ¤”?

It is not just a reversal of role but the change of times, that is also important. Each Yug has its own dharma. What is

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Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga gives the least importance to worship and rituals. Rather it excludes them. Then why did our sages devise so many rituals? Why did they advise us to worship many gods? I believe that these worships and rituals must have some great benefits, otherwise our sages should not have invented them. Your kind thoughtsšŸ¤”.

Everything has its place, its role and its function in the grand scheme of things. Rituals were used by certain rishis to invoke and propitiate

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