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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

My pranam at Thy Lotus Feet of the Divine Mother.    My pranam to you also. Dada, in reading through the original texts of Sri Aurobindo, like Life Divine, Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri and others, there are different subjects and thought processes like subconscious, subliminal, planes, etc. But how to get access to or connect to the exact explanations by the Mother in her writings? Please guide me. 😊🙏🏻❤️‍🔥🌷📚   

Yes, it is always best to read them directly. No interpretation can ever do justice or be a replacement for the direct reading. The original

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Please help understand below (from chapter ‘Equality’, page 191-192) in the right context:” Our secret soul takes a pleasure in this strife and effort, and even a pleasure in adversity and suffering, which can be complete enough in memory and retrospect, but is present too behind at the time and often even rises to the surface of the afflicted mind to support it in its passion; but what really attracts the soul is the whole mingled weft of the thing we call life with all its disturbance of struggle and seeking, its attractions and repulsions, its offer and its menace, its varieties of every kind.”🗝️✨🔒❤️

Yes the secret soul is the psychic being.

The pleasure in adversity is not necessarily only for the opportunity of progress it provides but

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I recently completed this beautiful book – Champaklal Speaks. I have a few questions that came to my mind. 1- The book felt like aspiration and utmost bhakti in bold letters. How is one so consistent with an aspiration. If an aspiration is not consistent, does that mean it wasn’t an aspiration in the first place?🧘‍♂️➔🪷🙏🏼✨☀️

Disciples like Champaklal have lives behind them. Such a special Grace doesn’t come without that.

It takes time for aspiration to become steady and consistent.

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When I read Sri Aurobindo and Sri Ma for the first time, I felt a sense of aha inside me that how good it is to be a human and to be on this earth and I felt a sense of freedom that God should be like this because before reading Sri Aurobindo I was afraid of God, even devotion was a fear and today after reading this again I have the same feeling. May our beautiful earth of God become divine.📘🪷✨✍️

Very beautiful Grace. This bhaav and this aspiration both come from the psychic being and connects you straight to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

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In a video “Param Maa Ke Sandesh” you tell from Sri Aurobindo’s letters that when there is no difference between Sri Maa and Sri Aurobindo, then in true sense supramental yoga begins. Then you tell about Sri Aurobindo and say that going towards Maa will lead to complete yoga, if you stay towards me then the benefit will be less. So Dada, my question is that when Sri Maa is Sri Aurobindo’s power then why did Sri Aurobindo say this?🔽🔼🪷🌍✨

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are in their essential consciousness. But for the purposes of manifestation they appear as two, even as Ishwara and Shakti.

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I have been bothered with this situation several times, when there are certain people who you are associated to as ‘family’ and cannot really cut ties with them although they are someone who I do not get along with, or can reason with. It rather feels stifling to be around them because of the disruption in the environment they cause with their behaviour, presence, and discussions.⛈️ 🧱 ⚡💔 👥 🫥

It never helps to follow and try to fulfil social expectations of people. It is a kind of hypocrisy which is not good for our

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Respected Sir, Reference is CWSA Volume 28 Page 499, subject “Krishna as an Avatar” Answer No.3. Question – If Krishna was an overmind “God”, that means he was not an incarnation, not the Divine, but somebody else who claimed to be the Divine -i.e. he was a god who somehow thought he was God. Not understood, what Sri Aurobindo wants to say about Krishna?🪈🦚💙🛞

There is a gentle sarcasm in it. The disciple has asked a question

“Why is it said that Krishna is an Overmind God?’

The

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As far as prarabdha karma is concerned, does man have to suffer it? Does all accumulated karma get destroyed through sadhna? Please explain this further. I have heard from Yogis that accumulated karma is stored in our Gyanmaya Kosha, Sushumna Nadi and Sapta Chakra, therefore, piercing Brahma Granthi, Vishnu Granthi and Rudra Granthi, Kundalini Shakti consumes all accumulated karma in its journey from Mooladhara to Sahasrar Chakra through Sushumna. Therefore, first of all, it is said to get free from accumulated karma through sadhna. Only then will the vision be truly pure and the seeker will progress on the spiritual path in the true sense.📜⏳🌾🛤️

What yogis and others say is their business. It is a matter of faith in their words and the height and depth of their experience.

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