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Sri Aurobindo writes about Mahalakshmi as embodying harmony and beauty in thoughts, feelings, actions, and outward movements. However, most of us know Mahalakshmi or lakshmi only as the goddess of wealth and seek her blessings primarily for financial gains. If our desire is solely for wealth, to whom should we prayšŸ™? And is she not related to money?

Mahalakshmi is related primarily to inner wealth. Now when we try to cultivate beauty and harmony within and around with people and forces and the

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How should I handle it, if friend seems to show off their materialistic achievements, like buying the latest phone, a house, a car, and affording branded clothes and shoes, while taking great pride in emphasizing that their hard work is finally paying off because they can now afford these things. Whenever I talk to them, I feel a sense of competition🤨, as if I need to earn more and more, and it seems like they take satisfaction in knowing that I earn less than them.

You should simply laugh it off. It is the sign that they have not outgrown the child stage where one displays one’s toys. It also

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Dear Alok da, since it’s festival time the atmosphere is full of vital energies and all day I have to meet people and socialise, the days I don’t meet many and in my routine I can concentrate and so my dreams too are clear and symbolic but these days due to the situation all is spoil and dreams are of subconscious chaos, past memories or I don’t remember, so can you advise what to do? Though since more than a month every nite as I sleep off Mother’s Savitri commentaries with Sunil da’s music is on only but other than that what can I došŸ¤”?

Yes, socialization is almost like a disease that is difficult to get out of the system once it settles as a default program of life.

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Why did Yudhishthira gamble everything? Why did Sri Krishna, who was physically present as an Avatar, allow him to do that? How can he be considered the paragon of Dharma? I just cannot understand how a man like Yudhishthira could put everything, including his wife, on the gambling tablešŸ™„?

Yudhishthira’s situation shows that even a man of virtues can make errors and mistakes. Great individuals can commit great errors. Yudhishthira made a significant mistake

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The Divine has created countless galaxies, universes, and billions of stars with planets, yet only EarthšŸŒ has human life. Everything changes outside Earth’s atmosphere, like the lack of sufficient oxygen. Why does life exist only here, and that too in such an imperfect forms? Is it part of a greater plan, or is it simply a mystery beyond understanding?

Yes, earth is a very special place that has been formed for a specific Divine Purpose. You may call it a laboratory of evolution, the

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Before coming to the Mother, I used to give my everything to my friends around me even at the expense of myself. However, I always have given my all to these friends, and yet when I needed them most, the majority were not there for me. The girl I considered my best friend literally does nothing for me, even on my birthday. For a while I thought that it was because she just didn’t know how to express but yet she does so much for my other friends. So clearly she can but she doesn’t want to for me. This broke my heart. I know expectations spoil love, and I need to purify it, but it’s still hurtful to see. Now some new friends are slowly coming into my life, but my closest friends in the past are those whom have hurt me quite hard a few times and now I just don’t even see the point in making new friends. For me, Mother, Sri Aurobindo and my sister give me all the friendship I need. But even in the Ashram, there were beautiful friendships. But now šŸ˜”

The urge to be alone, the dropping off of old friends, the inner distancing from old ties, the new preferences indicating progress in different dimensions

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Many times I feel a burden with my relationship with my sibling, though he is an middle aged adult, my parents treat him like a child and they expect me to do so, our relationship is one sided one as I can hardly can rely on him, where else everything I am expected to do for him. Here I am not complaining as I don’t feel it’s right to constantly protect and spoil someone like a baby when I do not do that same things for my own childrenšŸ™„, how can I manage this as all this hinders in my work and my purpose of life?Ā 

Relationships need to be nurtured from both the sides, otherwise it is not a relationship but a sacrifice. And sacrifice of this kind, done out

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