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Life Problems And Psychological Difficulties

I’ve always been wondering that our current suffering has got anything to do with our past life sin. I just want to know about this because I’ve been suffering from mental illness. I’ve always wanted to commit suicide. I don’t like this life at all. One day I’ve had almost tried to kill myself but something was stopped me. I was also sexually assaulted by men. Is it also related to my past life sin๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿฅ€?

Sin is a human invention. The sense of sin and guilt played a role at some point of time in our social evolution. But they

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My mother recently underwent a surgery for breast cancer and now doctor has advised chemotherapy after 2 weeks.ย We are not able to handle this news. We are devotees of Shri Maa and Shri Arvind but are finding ourselves unable to gather faith and strength at this moment. She is my only parent and I cant see her in pain…๐ŸŽ€๐Ÿฉบ๐ŸŽ—๏ธ๐Ÿฅ

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are here to transform earthly life precisely because it is imperfect. The human body is still not responsive to the

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Dada nowadays I feel the pressure in my knee part but it is not creating any unwarth. When the sexual desire arises in sex part then suddenly I repeat myself I am the child of divine mother, after that spontaneously I feel the pressure in knee part. What is this? Is it any harmful in our sadhana?๐ŸŒถ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ˜ˆ๐Ÿ”ฅ

This is a beautiful thought to keep. The sensation in the knee is because the subconscious parts where forces of sex reside feels the pressure.

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I lost 3.5 lakh rupees in future and option in share market in last 1.5 year and so many people are loosing their money in this market still I canโ€™t leave it or stop doing this I try to recover these money I know itโ€™s a gamble but I canโ€™t stop doing this Please help me to change my this habit and accept this loss and share good video regarding greed and share market is bad for todayโ€™s youths.๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿ“ˆโžก๏ธ๐Ÿ“‰

Yes, the Mother always adviced against speculating and investing in shares as it creates artificial holes somewhere and heaps elsewhere. The mind gets preoccupied with

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In this short time, I have started having a lot of experiences, so I have started doubting whether my mind is imagining such a favour without any reason, whereas I am not even worthy of this, I do not have any qualities in me. I am a weak person, full of arrogance and doubts. Even if I tell you honestly, I am writing all this to you, even then all this is coming to me that look how good I am, who is calling himself weak. I am full of thousands of such defects, that is why I doubt whether I am even worthy of this or not, Dada.โŒ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ’ญโ“

To judge oneself either in a self depreciatory way or with pride are both a play of the ego. The Divine Grace neither sees nor

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I used to remain sick since childhood. When I was 8 months old I used to get pneumonia, then I suffered from sinus, then appendix, after that I suffered from migraine, then I used to get malaria every year, after that I had L-4, L-5 problem in my waist, after that my stomach lost its digestive power, then I was attacked by some adverse forces but now I am slowly getting better. In such a situation what should I do so that I can depend completely on mother’s power and the internal weakness goes away?๐Ÿค’๐Ÿ’Š๐Ÿ›Œโค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน

It is good to heal oneself with the Mother’s Force but one should first establish Peace. The body must be open and receptive to the

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I do understand what you said about the surgery. But my confusion is still there. I know both Sri Aurobindo and The Mother were against surgery. They were both working on their own bodies. Even in last days Sri Aurobindo registered medicine. Were they against surgery on themselves or for every one?๐Ÿค’๐Ÿ’Š๐Ÿ›Œ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฉบ

The Mother and Sri Aurobindo generally adviced against surgery to all their disciples. Of course there were those who went ahead with it due to

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Dada, how to stop thinking? I mean, continuous thoughts are coming and going regarding useless things. Sri Aurobindo has said we have to watch thoughts and not attach any importance to them, but how should we do that? Or how to calm our minds and think about our Master’s only?๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒช๏ธ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿง 

While stopping of thoughts completely is not an easy thing, it is very much possible to direct the flow consciously towards an object. Thus, you

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Sometimes I think that I wish I had done this, or I wish I hadnโ€™t done that. If the circumstances had been different, maybe everything would have been different. I always feel a sense of guilt. Even my mother tells me that if I had done this or not done that, my life would have been different. I am exhausted from carrying this guilt. How can I free myself from it?๐Ÿ˜”โ›“๏ธ๐Ÿซฅ๐ŸŒง๏ธ

Every sensitive person passes through this critical self-evaluation at some point or the other. The simplest way to handle this is to understand that man

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