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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

“At first was laid a strange anomalous base, A void, a cipher of some secret Whole, Where zero held infinity in its sum And All and Nothing were a single term” Is this the non being, the void or the shunya Buddhists talk about? If so then what is “being ” and how do being, non-being and becoming related to one another🤔?

Non-being simply implies that the Being and everything else is held back. It is not an absence but a state of infinite possibilities yet not

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Sri Aurobindo writes in the Life Divine on the nature of suffering and endurance: Since the nature of suffering is a failure of the conscious-force in us to meet the shocks of existence and a consequent shrinking and contraction and its root is an inequality of that receptive and possessing force due to our self-limitation by egoism consequent on the ignorance of our true Self🤨, …

Sri Aurobindo describes this in much greater detail in The Synthesis of Yoga. At physical level it implies endurance of physical pleasure and pain and

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This question is from one of Mother’s Prayers: A teaching can be profitable only if it is perfectly sincere, that is, if it is lived while it is being given, and words often repeated, thoughts expressed frequently can no longer be sincere…Why should oft repeated words or thoughts become insincere? Is Mother saying that by doing it we become attached to the outer shell than to the inner Truth🤔?

Words are vehicles meant to carry certain vibrations through the medium of speech. The vibrations are contributed by the spontaneous movements of the inner being.

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