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Dear Dada, what are these knots (pash) by which Women are bound? How many are they? The Mother has worked on releasing Women from these ties. In what ways can we see its impact in the present time, and when can we say that this work has reached its highest goal? πŸ‘©πŸΌβ›“οΈβ€πŸ’₯πŸ™„πŸ™πŸ»πŸŒ·

In the beginning or even almost upto the middle of the previous century women were bound everywhere in so many ways. The family rules were

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Recently there has been a controversy over a comment made by two well known priests on girls, in which the girls are again replying to them and if we leave aside the girls, then everyone else is saying the right thing about these things said by the saints. If we look at all this with a new consciousness, then how should we look at it?πŸ—£οΈπŸ‘‚πŸ‘€πŸ“’

Leaving aside the merits of the saints whom I do not have any personal contact with but just coming to the issue, there are three

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I am listener of your Youtube podcasts, which have been my entry point into Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s teachings. During my regular weekend drive from Bangalore to my in-laws’ home, I usually connect my phone through bluetooth and play your latest Video and leave the phone in the dashboard. I am completely alone during the drives andΒ  allow myself to immerse in your talks till I reach the destination, which is usually within 1.5hrs and I do the same while returning back home as well.πŸ‘‘ ♾️ ✨

It is a well known response that sometimes occurs to the ego-self when it suddenly comes in contact with the Divine Reality. It panics with

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We have an independent food scientist in India called the Millet Man, Dr Khader Vali. My question to you is all food science just relative in nature? Does body finally adapt to whatever food is given to it, as long as it is healthy and eaten in moderation, and produce health? Does mindset top food science?πŸ²πŸ›πŸ₯—πŸ₯‘

Food Science is relative because it does not take into consideration the local conditions, the general occupation, and the mental / genetic / heredity conditioning

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Is it wrong for me to feel bad when I listen to movie songs often? I mean in hindsight my mind says you’re letting your vital take over blah blah blah but it’s just me enjoying the song and dancing to it. My music’s genre is crazy. I adore and soak in the Bhakthi songs, ragas, flute music and I know how to dance and enjoy the movie songs too. So what’s your view on this?Β πŸŽΆπŸŽ΅πŸŽ§πŸ“»

It is natural at a certain stage for those endowed with bhakti to cry at certain songs that suggest beautiful love. It means that love

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I am in corporate where I was working on X topic before. I have been re-assigned to a team to work on a particular topic which I find uninteresting or probably consider so. I still have a desire/ passion to work on X and hence searching for opportunities to change to work on that. But, Mother has said that we should not have preferences/ attachments and it is always better to do what is assigned as an offering to increase plasticity. If I move to some other team to work on something I consider interesting – will it be satisfying my desire discarding an opportunity of spiritual progress to overcome an attachment? How should I approach this situation and make the decision?πŸ’πŸ’»πŸ‘”πŸ“…

There is nothing wrong in seeking a work that is more aligned to your inner temperament and which engages you deeply. What the Mother is

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I am asking Mother to purify my vital, and lately keep coming across talks and books on female codependency as if She is trying to show me what I need to examine and eradicate. I have never really understood what the term is. To me, this is a desire to fix others’ problems, to give emotionally or financially too quickly, or too much, without stepping back and asking the Divine what to do-it feel it comes from a vital egoic place that has been conditioned in women?πŸ’ŽπŸ›‘οΈπŸŒŠπŸ’§

The urge to help, to give, too soon and too much as you say comes from a large and generous vital. It is not necessarily

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What is the difference between remembering via ‘mental memory’ and remembering through ‘states of consciousness’. Mother says the latter is best since mental memory can be wiped out anytime but consciousness remembers always. I did not fully understand how one remembers through consciousness. I thought even our Vedic oral tradition employed mental memory alone. I seem to be missing Mother’s higher level insight.πŸ§ πŸ—„οΈπŸ’­β³

Now, there is another aspect also. Outside the mental memory, which is something defective, there are states of consciousness. Each state of consciousness in which

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I read in AuroMaa, ‘It is given to man as a unique privilege to share His kingdom and His delight, not by indulging in but rather by renouncing pleasure.’ Kindly explain what is expected of us as part of ‘renouncing pleasure’. Does it mean we don’t take joy or pleasure in any activity? How do we fulfil this condition?πŸ™Œβ˜€οΈβœ¨πŸ₯°

Pleasure, joy and delight are three steps to the recovery of greater and greater degrees of Bliss that has gone into the origin of creation.

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