AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER

Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

Following para is from the book Shakti & Shakta by Sir John Woodroffe, Page#418 & 419-Chapter XXI-Hindu Ritual: The Wave of Bliss🌊, citing Samaya Tantra, says: “By the worship of some Deva, liberation is with difficulty attained, and by the worship of others enjoyment is to be had, but in the case of the worshipper of the Mother, both enjoyment and liberation lie in the hollow of his hands.” But, unless prayed to, the Mother or Devī does not, give fruit, and naturally so. FOR THE DEVI IS MOVED TO ACTION THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF THE WORSHIPPER. ESSENTIALLY THE WORSHIPPER IS THE DEVĪ HERSELF, AND UNLESS SHE IN HER FORM AS THE WORSHIPPER IS MOVED, SHE IN HER ASPECT AS THE SUPREME LORD—“OUR LADY” DOES NOT MOVE. I am struggling to comprehend the above lines in capital letters. Request your kind guidance.

It means that All is the Divine Mother. The forms She has built by HER power of limiting Maya are Herself in disguise. The power

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Mother speaks in her Agenda, “The most difficult thing in the material world, here, is to fight against the result of all those millennia of experiences that have created a sort of pessimistic and defeatist consciousness—a general consciousness, you know, like this (gesture enveloping the earth). It isn’t formulated in words, but for that consciousness it can be expressed thus, “Yes, we don’t deny the existence of all those divine things, but they aren’t for us, they’re for …” (gesture to the heights)”(1) What exactly is this defeatist 😦consciousness? It is the general resistance from humanity to Truth, as it has always been?

1) Yes it is the general resistance to the possibility of anything ever changing the earthly life. Almost all the spiritual sects I know deny

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Is it useful to have separation of Purusha from Prakriti in Integral Yoga. Also is it necessary to attain this Purusha Consciousness before one can live in Supramental Consciousness 🧐. If yes then what are the steps to attain the Purusha Consciousness in Integral Yoga? If one only surrenders to Mother, can he also attain Purusha Consciousness and then Supramental Consciousness. Kindly discuss elaboratively on this Purusha Consciouness in the light of Sri Aurobindo and also in the light of Gita. Why Gita put more importance on surrender rather than having separation of Purusha from Prakriti. It will be nice if you can provide refences from Sri Aurobindo’s writing on this.

Separation of the Purusha from Prakriti by cultivating and deepening the Sakshi bhav (witness Consciousness) is indeed described as one of the first important steps

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From few weeks I am not able to bear the power of Divine consciousness. I am not able to hear or read anything related to Mother and Sri Aurobindo. Whenever I try to think of anything related to God my mind becomes kind of numb for some time. I am scared that my mind can breakdown if i continue on the path. I don’t know if its because I am not able to surrender to the Divine because I have doubts about which form of Divine i have to surrender to. How can i help myself in this case? Also recently some relationship did not work and I feel very sad about it. I don’t find meaning in life. I want to live for the ideal of immortal love and also take care that I take a wise decision so that my ideal is not against the Higher Wisdom. How can I make life more meaningful with this ideal in mind 😪(to have love in my heart for the person till the end and not give that space to anyone else)?

It is beautiful to have an ideal because without an ideal man is as good as dead. Yet at the same time one must know

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“Gautam Buddha had renounced everything in the internal circumstances he faced; I don’t think the Gita could have resolved that situation by sending him back to household life and restoring the kingdom to him.” — Sri Aurobindo (Gita Prabandh, Essence of the Teachings) Sir, what kind of problem was it that the Gita could not solve🤔?

Arjuna’s problem was whether to fight the war or not. He was fleeing from his duty, being afflicted by the attachment to his family. On

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Many times I feel closeness with Sri Aurobindo naturally easier than with The Mother. Also I feel like putting my prayers to Him, remember Him, lovingly. Will Sri Aurobindo not like this? Because here Sri Aurobindo insisted to come through The Mother only? So He will not sanction my prayer directly given to Him? You have mentioned in your talks, he told his disciples to obey, love The Mother mainly, He didn’t like them coming to Him crossing Her. Asking this because I remember Sri Aurobindo 😇very much and ask Him for help.

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are far above likes and dislikes. Their words come from a source, the Source, if we like, that is way

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How to manage practicality and spiritual path…one says that Maa will take care…what about other necessities of life where one has to put efforts like financial freedom, family issues,and so on…If you offer anger to Maa that’s ok but sometime people take it oh how helpless and fool he or she is…How can one manage emotions smartly🙄?

If the Mother has to do everything then there is no need of sadhana or yoga or anything else. This is just what Sri Aurobindo

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Mother writes in her essay ‘To Know How to Suffer😵’: “Each time we feel that our heart is breaking, a deeper door opens within us, revealing new horizons, ever richer in hidden treasures, whose golden influx brings once more a new and intenser life to the organism on the brink of destruction”. Is this new life after suffering given only to those who call upon the Divine or to everyone? Because some seem to be consumed by suffering that they rarely come out of it well.

Suffering is a common experience of humanity but it’s degree, nature, impact and consequences differ. It is easy to see that the root cause of

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You mentioned in one of your talks to offer all the work to the Mother then one doesn’t worry about the outcome. But if it doesn’t come spontaneously from the hear that I am working for the Mother, what should one do? Currently, I work because I find joy in working or feel driven by possibilities of what all can be done. In this scenario, if one just holds the thought that I am working for the Mother but doesn’t feel it in the heart, will that be of help🙂?

The work may not be done for the Mother. In fact it is good to be honest about the motive behind the work which may

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How exactly does one meditate, and how is it done fruitfully? I see nothing and feel nothing when I meditate, I just close my eyes, and my brain is left, right and centre, and if I try and quieten it, it just goes blank and then after a few minutes I open my eyes again and that’s that. I don’t feel anything different, or a sense of peace…nothing. Many people say that meditation is the way to open the being and discover what is inside, but I am worried that I am incapable of ever experiencing that. What do I do to progress in it😇 ?

Meditation is only one of the ways to progress spiritually though neither the only one nor the easiest one. Bhakti is the swiftest but it

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