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Recently I saw a movie clip where I wanted to slap the director and the actress 😡where she was justifying her having an extra marital affair by quoting Draupadi’s example. Can you please put light on the great woman Draupadi was and her reason to give consent to marry 5 men?

August 26, 2024

First of all Draupadi never had any extramarital affair where one hides and lies one’s attraction towards another man or woman with the motive of

In Gita, Sri Krishna says: I am time the destroyer, Can you please explain this? Sometime back there was an untimely death in the family and the person had lived a miserable life as in alcoholic thus failed in relationships and then when he died suddenly I thought may be this is Divine compassion which gave him a fresh start … is this right in thinking?

August 15, 2024

In the eleventh chapter of Srimadbhagawat Gita, Sri Krishna grants to Arjuna as a special Grace the grand vision of His Viswaroopa. Then the great

I come from a religious family and I grew up listening to religious books and seeing religious rituals. I could not relate to it and rebelled against it to find my own but after coming to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, I see there is some truth in both paths. However, one question comes to me based on what I heard while listening to Puranas in childhood. Its said that there are Yugas which come one after the other and this cycle keeps going on. If current one is Kali Yuga, does Supramental manifestation mean return of Satyayuga? Also, we started from Satyuga, then Treta, then Dwapar and then Kali Yuga, where were humans more evolved? And if I relate the human history and anthropology (based on book ‘Sapiens’,) we have evolved from Chimps and are on an upward evolutionary path. Then I am not able to understand the presence of Satyuga, Treta and Dwapar on the timeline where humans seems more evolved. I am not able to put it all in perspective?

August 13, 2024

The concept of the four yugas implies that there have been a number of cycles (six to be precise) through which creation and perhaps humanity

When can goddess of delight manifest on earth?

August 11, 2024

Well the conditions are difficult as for Delight to manifest man has to surpass beyond

Everywhere, I see that the rich give millions to temples and institutions, but I do not have much money to spare as we are always in a hand-to-mouth situation. So, if I do not give much to God, then I think that’s not a good thing. Right?

August 8, 2024

Let me share a sweet story told by The Mother: “It does not depend on the amount you have. I remember reading a story in

What is the most surprising thing in the world?

July 6, 2024

Well this question was answered by Yudhishthira, “Everyday people die and yet man thinks he is immortal.”

This well known phrase in the Mahabharata during