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“Although a higher state than the other, this supreme Night is termed a greater darkness, because the lower is one of chaos from which reconstitution is always possible, the higher is a conception of Void or Asat, an attachment to non-existence of Self from which it is more difficult to return to fulfilment of Self.” 🧘🏼🙂🙏🏻🌷[…]

Yes, that is what the Isha Upanishad implies. Buddha, and all who leave the world towards self-annihilation in the Beyond go into the greater original

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Sri Aurobindo writes: “The supramental love means an intense unity of soul with soul, mind with mind, life with life, and an entire flooding of the body consciousness with the physical experience of oneness, the presence of the Beloved in every part, in every cell of the body. Is that too something aloof and grand but undesirable?… ” ✒️📖😊🙏🏻🌻[…]

This is a letter written to Dilip Kumar Roy who was into traditional bhakti of Krishna. He wondered if the supramental could provide the kind

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What is the major difference between Sacrifice and Renunciation of something for the sake of the Divine? Sri Rama leaving the kingdom and going to the forest is only Satya Nishtha, not Renunciation or Sacrifice, but Bharatha offering the kingdom to Rama Paduka and remaining in Chitrakut and governing Rama’s kingdom is Renunciation. Am I right? 🫴🏼🪷😊🙏🏻🌻

It is a question of semantics, playing with words. Satya nistha is the motive but the act is renunciation. Renunciation is an action that may

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But why should these things happen to someone who doesn’t even have any Spiritual inclination? He was only visiting to understand my emotional connection to Pondicherry and the Ashram. More than that, he had an academic interest in philosophy, nothing else. This isn’t a common occurrence, is it? 🤔❤️‍🔥🌻🍃

These things are not uncommon. The subconscious mind especially the vital nature has many things hidden within it that show up under the pressure of

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Dear Sir, you mentioned in one of your answers on the Website, regarding the Dhurandhar Movie, that the Protagonist is of an Abhimanyu-type. I would like to understand the difference between an Arjuna-type and an Abhimanyu-type Heroic Soul — both in the context of Spiritual Life and Ordinary Life, since “All Life is Yoga”. 🛞❤️‍🔥🏹🍃✨

The difference between Arjuna and Abhimanyu, in terms of human types and not skills, is that Arjuna is a conscious and chosen divinely appointed instrument.

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