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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? 🎶🎵🎧📻

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?🏢💻👔📅

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?💎🛡️🌊💧

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.🧠🗄️💭⏳

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?🙌☀️✨🥰

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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Dada, these days two different situations are developing within me. On one hand, sometimes worldly matters attract me, and sometimes they irritate me. But one thing I am experiencing is that if anyone uses a mobile phone nearby, it causes me great irritation and I feel like going somewhere quiet and alone. On the other hand, I start getting emotional about everything.🧘‍♂️⚖️🏔️✨

It is a stage through which every aspirant passes through. The old world begins to lose its shine though something is still attracted by force

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Can destiny move in two directions? I am asking this question because Gurudev was earlier preparing me for his work and had blessed me to become a Member of Parliament in politics. Guruma had given me the blessings of Goddess Lakshmi, and they wanted me to carry out the Guru’s work through all these means. But now the Universal Mother has taken me into her refuge, so destiny has changed. Does this mean Gurudev did not know about the journey of my future? And do the blessings he gave me still hold any significance now?🌌✨🌠🧭🛣️

Politics and money are generally not recommended for seekers of the spiritual life. Though these too can be turned into part of Divine Work if

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What do I need to do to live in Ashram? Right now, I don’t have any money. With Mother’s grace, I’ve only recently started working. As for my parents and my first wife, I feel they will never be ready for my Ashram life. My second wife can certainly join me. In this situation, Dada, please point me in the right direction, because I don’t think it will be easy for me to practice yoga here at home. And if I even discuss Ashram life with my family, they will start to oppose it. So, Dada, please give me the right guidance so that I can truly surrender myself to yoga and The Mother.🧘📜🌹🌳

I would advice you to make a visit first, for a week or so. Perhaps sometime in the coming year. Then we can personally meet

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