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Day to Day Life

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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Sir, whenever I think about watching a movie or a series, I start feeling something unpleasant. It doesn’t feel good. I get a different kind of feeling that is not joyful. Even when I start watching, I feel something inside, like—“What am I doing? Am I betraying Mother?” So, should I not watch movies? Or can I watch them? Is this coming from my mind or from the psychic being?🎞️🎥🍿🎬

These thought suggestions come from a type of adverse forces that want the sadhak to feel guilty and unfit. Do not listen to them. The

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I want to take up a job aligned to physics research. I feel I should learn and work on something that is complex and dedicate it to Mother. But in my current job people are nice and am earning well. And I don’t know if I am in the stage of ordinary life or spiritual life so I should follow swadharma or give up all dharma and follow only what the Divine wants me to which I feel is staying in the same job? In this context what should I do that I will be my authentic self?💼💻🏢🤝

First thing needed is to simplify the coordinates under consideration. People being nice and pay being good must come later. It is also helpful to

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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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