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I want to improve my concentration and become more focused? My college results are good, so I don’t always feel pressure to push myself harder. Although I know that I feel truly happy when I use my time properly and work on improving myself, still without pressure I don’t always give my full effort.πŸ§ πŸ§πŸ“–πŸŽ―

You need to discover your passion, that unique something which draws you naturally and go deeper and deeper into it. Also try to find different

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I seek your guidance on a persistent right-side sleeping preference. Recently, repeated inflammation in the right jaw made me more aware of this pattern. Right-side lying brings calm and inwardness, whereas supine posture induces subtle anxiety. I wonder whether this lateral dominance reflects any deeper energetic or psycho-spiritual structure, or if it is purely mechanical. Should this tendency be consciously balanced, or simply observed without interference?πŸ˜΄πŸ’€πŸ›Œ

There is indeed a subtle difference in the side one sleeps. Even during the day there is a switching between nostril dominance. It is possibly

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You have said, ‘Then one would laugh at one’s follies and hate and bitterness.’ I find this statement very powerful to counter all bitterness in me towards people. But, when I remember my past frictions with people and the way I was treated, I can’t help feeling anger for them. Is it becoming more difficult because of my psychosis?😠😑πŸ”₯πŸ’’

The more you justify these reactions the more they will linger and grow. Each one has to make a choice whether we keep living in

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‘The progress in sadhana comes from the rectification of the inner and outer attitude, not from the nature of the work one doesβ€”any work, even the most humble, can lead to the Divine if it is done with the right attitude.’ -THE MOTHER. So how is the true way of having this truest or right inner attitude and outer attitude and rectification?? Example while being at home with children, cooking, doing chores… please describe!β›°οΈπŸŒŠπŸŽ―πŸ§­

The first and most important, in fact the most powerful indispensable step is nishkaam karma. It means to do whatever work has fallen to our

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I have desire and fear that covered up the small aspiration to love, and that is why I feel this has happened. But this is not the truth deeper within anybody, and I want to have beautiful feelings and thoughts and to love spontaneously. Everyone has truth and love within them, why should I cover it up with a scared imitation of the actual thing? I think I am not yet that open to Mother and Sri Aurobindo.βœ¨πŸŒˆπŸ’“β™ΎοΈ

We are all made up of different parts that pull in different directions and hence it is quite common to have certain self-contradictory elements within

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I want to know how to make a decision for continuing a certain kind of work ( which is not giving any result ) and letting it go … or rather how to draw a fine line between perseverance and letting go ?Β  Sometimes we feel that the Divine does not want us to carry it any longer… Is it our mental perception?Β βš–οΈπŸ€”πŸ”Ž

Outer results, success or failure are no indication of whether one should continue with a work or not. The indication should come from the inmost

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The need to find fulfilment or satisfaction of one’s desires from one human being only opens the doors to further and further disappointment. However good and even faithful a human being may be, he or she cannot fulfil the deepest need within human beings. It is so because the thirst within us is of the infinite and by its nature, no finite object or person can fulfill it. That is why human love begins to pale after the initial rush and flush is over. πŸ’”β€οΈβ€πŸ©ΉπŸ₯€

Therefore there are two main options before you. Either to accept the outer situations and the realistic human limits and instead of seeking the fulfilment

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Alok da, earlier it was very easy to see faults in others and feel angry about it and life was simple. Since sometime now, there has been a significant shift in this tendency. For every fault in others, there is a corresponding realisation of similar traits in myself. Also, while I am unable to control a lot of emotions like anger, jealousy, possessiveness and sometimes also hatered, but there is a simultaneous experience. As if there are 2 beings inside, something that quickly points out this mistake to the other part. I try to then surrender these tendencies to Mother and sometimes also write to Her. . Is there anything to be done about this?πŸŽ­πŸŒ“πŸ‘₯

This is great progress. It means that the inner being is becoming free from the clutch of outer nature and its habitual reactions. Keep turning

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I don’t seek to ask questions as asking questions feels kind of limiting something when there is river like flow of knowledge and peace, it’s just that in the span of few months, I lost my mother, and after that my girlfriend who seemed to be so perfect and loving to me, and asked to marry me and tell how perfect we were, and she too got married elsehwhere and now have a son. So the only thing which is making me move is the hope that in the end at least god will be there, when nothing else is left , but I sometimes feel what am I doing wrong that I’m not able to calm myself when I thought I was strong already and is there any steps I can take?🌊 πŸŽ’ πŸ˜«β›οΈ

If you look at the events closely you will see that there is a Grace working to take you closer to your true destiny, –

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I just listened your response to the question about ‘Positive Thinking, Negative Thinking and Thinking Divinely’. The examples you gave and what you said about wanting only the Divine Will to prevail, no matter what happens to oneself, I feel that’s what Love means, that’s the Ideal in my Heart, not what I’m doing now. How does one make that choice at each moment or at least at every turn?πŸ€”πŸ’­πŸ’‘

It is best not to think too much about oneself in a self-critical judgmental tone. Quietly one should keep progressing upon the path offering our

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Therefore, I turn to you for guidance regarding even the most trivial matters or decisions, for I currently lack the capacity to discern on my own, possessing as I do no true knowledge. To me, you are the Mother’s Lightβ€”a light in which I place my absolute trust. I understand that you never impose your will, but rather illuminate the various dimensions of a situation; yet, I humbly request once more that you tell me explicitly what I ought to do? πŸ§˜πŸ•―οΈβœ¨πŸ’‘

When everything is told from outside then it delays the progress eventually. We have to open the doors of knowledge which will open in you.

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