Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri Archives

What does the Swastika mean in the context of Sri Aurobindo and Mother’s Philosophy? 🕉️

November 20, 2025

The Swastika is the wheel of Time in dynamic forward motion indicated by the four clockwise strokes in the circumference. At the centre is Dharma

Alok Da, how do I know if I have surrendered all of my being and not the perception of things to the Divine Mother? How can I completely surrender myself on a day-to-day basis to the Divine Mother? 😌🙏🏻

November 19, 2025

True surrender implies obeying the Divine in life and actions. It means getting rid of the cravings of desire and living with faith in the

I wanted to ask you: Sometimes I look at my life and think, why am I so Blessed? What is the Reason? Especially when I hear some tragedies happening in other people’s lives, like medical problems or sudden deaths, or economic problems. 🥺[…]

November 18, 2025

Grace is always unconditional or rather it has its own logic stretching across lives. The human mind cannot fathom its mystery and its working. Often

Recently, I was studying Sri Aurobindo’s The Essays on the Gita alongside the actual Gita text. It suddenly flashed in my head that whatever Sri Aurobindo is saying there in these Essays, though it may seem to contradict the traditional commentaries on the Gita, but when his arguments are compared with the actual text, they seem to be exactly the thing Krishna wants to say.😳[…]

November 17, 2025

It is quite a correct and pertinent observation. The Gita has undergone much distortion (in its meaning) in the hands of the traditionalists. That is

I have a question and want to understand how one can hold on to the space we get during Darshan days for long? Usually, I have observed this pattern: after every Darshan day, I have wave of circumstances that come to disturb the Beauty that is created during the Darshan period. 😣[…]

November 16, 2025

The simplest thing is to keep the phone away for a couple of hours and don’t interact much on the Darshan day. If …

I have a roomate, now he is now opening to the vastness of Sri Aurobindo, He is reading ’12 Years with Sri Aurobindo’ and tells me very happily the events between Nirod da and Sri Aurobindo that he reads. And we discuss about Sri Aurobindo during the walks, is it ok to discuss? 😊🙏🏻🪷[…]

November 15, 2025

It is perfectly fine to share and discuss things between friends. At the same time it is always good to be humble and know that

What does Sri Aurobindo mean by ‘Heart’ in the Synthesis of Yoga? Because it is mentioned separate from Vital and Sensational Being. Is it the Psychic Being? 🌼

November 13, 2025

“Heart” refers to the emotional being, the seat of emotions in the center of the chest. It is very close to the psychic centre, right

Simply tell yourself: “We don’t know how to do things as they ought to be done; well, they are being done for us, come what may!” And if we could see to what extent all that seems to be, yes, a difficulty, a mistake, a failure, an obstacle — all that is just to help us, so that the realisation may be more perfect. Once you know that, everything becomes easy.” – The Mother 🦚✨

November 12, 2025

It means to shed the arrogance of the mind and understand that the Divine knows infinitely better than us and hence, instead of imposing our

I received a message yesterday – “Remain in politics and try to bring Truth into politics. It is a very sure way towards effective spirituality.” – The Mother. Does this mean that The Mother supported politics as one of the means for spiritual development or this has been said in any particular context? Kindly make it clear. 🙂🙏🏻

November 11, 2025

The message is certainly contextual written to a particular person. However we have to understand it at different levels. Since “All life is Yoga”, a

Nowadays, after the pandemic of 2021, there are lots of study circles from morning to night. Is it appropriate to attend all those classes or to settle and do some intensive readings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother? Please put some lights on the subject. Jai Maa. 😊🙏🏻🪷

November 10, 2025

Doing intensive study by oneself is always better. Additionally one can join one study circle which goes best with …

What happens to the mind, when one reads Sri Aurobindo? 📖

November 9, 2025

By reading Sri Aurobindo, one comes in contact with the consciousness of Sri Aurobindo, opens to the truths that his writings contain, and one develops

I am deeply intrigued by learning more and more about the Divine Mother, yet I also feel a strong need to work outwardly for a greater cause. Continuing with my current job wouldn’t feel fulfilling, as there’s a clear mismatch between my inner growth and outer work.😕[…]

November 7, 2025

As far as job is concerned any job can be made part of the Divine Work by doing dedicating it inwardly to the Mother. When

I saw a very disturbing dream🫣, I was in my school and a new teacher comes, looking like 40 Y/o something. And who calls himself Sri Aurobindo, and teaches Synthesis of Yoga, The Life Divine and Human Cycle (I read these three names before Sleeping, so I saw these only in the dream). […]

November 7, 2025

Sri Aurobindo can come in any form. If you felt happy by the contact it means that something of Sri Aurobindo, possibly his pre-Pondicherry days

Please explain these lines of Savitri: Immortal hush before the gods are born; […]

November 6, 2025

The gods come into existence once the Divine Mother impels the Supreme to create. This is beautifully described in the Rig Veda as well as

Why do we sneeze? 🤧

November 5, 2025

Sneezing is an act to clear the nose of things that may be harmful or irritant to us.

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