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I am unable to understand my future and even my present feels unclear to me. I realize that I am not serious enough when it comes to making important life decisions. At the moment, I am pursuing a B.Com degree, but I am not happy or satisfied with it. I wish to understand whether certain kinds of work naturally align with one’s inherent nature. Is inner alignment or agreement essential for choosing the right path?🎯🧭🕉️🚶‍♂️

There is a special place marked out for each one of us. Special does not mean in an egoistic sense, something that will give us

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Sir is making a strict schedule and walking on the path taught by Maa can be done parallely? Is suppressing emotions or felling or desires is what in this path what should I do? Sir in military we have that much strict schedule one doesn’t even time to thought more about anything so will following schedule like military and walking on the path or Maa is possible 🧘⏰📝🏹

What do you mean by strict? Military discipline is enforced from outside. It doesn’t change the basic nature, only puts a near cover over it.

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I would like to learn the yoga of sleep. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have spoken (from my limited understanding) on the importance of the yoga of sleep and how that can be a powerful sadhana, where we can enter the subtle physical and into the realms of Sri Aurobindo’s abode. Without Ma and Sri Aurobindo’s physical presence, how can one receive the guidance if one aspires to learn this beautiful knowledge of sleep? 🌜💭😴💤

It is not a separate yoga of sleep that one has to practice but the integral yoga which, in the course of its progression enters

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Why is it that, the people who are so intellectual, especially with spirituality or have an immense knowledge about internal mechanism of humans tend to shock me when (I don’t know what to call it as soon I’ll address it as ‘lower vital’) when they are still in lower vital that is sexually? They’re so well behaved, well-versed in philosophy and what not! Their answers gives so much clarity to me BUT when I get to know about their behaviour around women, they act as if they’ve forgotten what they learnt/preached!? Do you know what I mean? So, this ‘shock’ I have turns into disgust within seconds of me learning about it of them. It’s so hard for me to separate this side of their (lower vital) image to their other genuine, good, kind side. I’ve seen two such cases, very closely. So you tell me, what should I do with these people Daaadaaaa! You know how much work it is for my small, cute little brain and heart and kidney and lungs of mine?👬🧠🎭🗣️

In the natural progression of things, it is the soul and the higher mind that respond first to the call of the Divine. Then it

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Da, whenever I see some incident or read something, thoughts come to my mind and I feel like telling people about it. Like yesterday was Vat Savitri Purnima—I saw in the market that small branches of the banyan tree were being sold, and women were buying them and doing puja with them. Then I started thinking, how can we worship the banyan tree after breaking it? I started wondering about the real meaning behind it—it doesn’t seem right. After all these thoughts, I felt like writing about it and posting it on WhatsApp status, but then I didn’t. These kinds of thoughts keep coming to me, and I feel like sharing them with others, but when I try to write, I stop. So I end up telling Mummy, Didi, or Kunal. But Alok da, how should I write or tell people—or should I not say anything? Then I worry people might misunderstand and think I’m criticizing tradition. Like breaking the banyan tree might become a ritual and the true meaning of Vat Savitri Purnima could be lost or misunderstood. Alok da, I keep getting such thoughts on different topics, that something should be this way or that way, but I can’t put them into words. So how do I express these thoughts or feelings—or is it okay if I don’t? But if someone talks about the same topic at the time, I do speak up. I just can’t write it. And one more thing—when it was my parents’ birthday, I thought I would write a WhatsApp status expressing my feelings for them, but in the end I only wrote ‘Happy birthday, Divine bless you, love you.’ I couldn’t write or even say my true feelings in front of them. So how should I express my thoughts and emotions? Or is it okay if I don’t?

You should write in a diary to the Divine and express yourself freely in front of God. Later, if He feels it is necessary and

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 I visited to Shree Smruti last year there an gujarati apa who guided me about the museum of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo; asked me what are you doing? Then I said not yet settled apa I am under process; preparing for Govt job. Then she suggested me that why do you not try for any company job?how to eliminate this cloudy doubt from my mind I don’t know sir …may u help me in this regard?💼🖥️🏢📋

That way people say so many things in the Ashram but these need not be true. You have to go by what you feel. See

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Do Elves, Gnomes, and other such beings have a physical-material body? We hear stories of them acting directly on physical objects, like fixing machines and taking care of gardens.. wouldn’t vital beings require a medium? If any such beings are around, would we be able to see them with our physical eyes, without requiring any special capacities? Can they be photographed? In one of your talks you said that a being from other world can materialise for a short while, but they would be uncomfortable here. Is that proper-physical matter with Mass, that can be seen, touched etc…🧘✨🌈🧬⚡

These beings belong to the subtle physical world very close to the material. If the physical senses are developed one may sometimes catch a hurried

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