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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

While I understand that Helen had to leave her daughter for a greater work (though on the surface it seems selfish), I want to know what kind of compensation such souls, who have suffered directly for the Divine, get. Do they get some special Grace and do they get to be near the Divine as Avatars?β›΅πŸ‘‘πŸ¦’πŸ”₯🏰

Yes, certainly. As the Mother put it, ‘there is a divine recompense for every struggle and suffering.’ Generally this recompense is in the form of

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A question came to me when I was listening to one of your recent talks. You were talking about Ilion and the Trojan War there. When Helen of Troy left with Paris, she left behind her little daughter, Hermione. I don’t want to judge the Divine but wouldn’t that have been traumatizing for Hermione to see her mother leave her for her lover? I know in the grand scheme of things the emotions of a little girl hardly matter but I can’t help but feel bad for her. How does the Divine compensate for such sufferings?Β β›΅πŸ‘‘πŸ¦’πŸ”₯🏰

War, battle, death, destruction are part of the process of evolution. Beings born with a greater purpose understand this intuitively. They are charged with a

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I would like to learn the yoga of sleep. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have spoken (from my limited understanding) on the importance of the yoga of sleep and how that can be a powerful sadhana, where we can enter the subtle physical and into the realms of Sri Aurobindo’s abode. Without Ma and Sri Aurobindo’s physical presence, how can one receive the guidance if one aspires to learn this beautiful knowledge of sleep? πŸŒœπŸ’­πŸ˜΄πŸ’€

It is not a separate yoga of sleep that one has to practice but the integral yoga which, in the course of its progression enters

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I feel I need the company of like minded people for studying Sri Aurobindo. I really love to read Mother and Sri Aurobindo but sometimes I can’t get myself to do so in an organised manner. A little bit of a nudge from time to time by a few friends would be great. Are the any online study circles that I can join? I don’t know of any in my city. I don’t find many people on Twitter or Discord who are into the integral yoga, hence I get into these other mixed spiritual communities and waste my time discussing many things that are irrelevant from the perspective of the Yoga. [conti]

Yes the need is valid and has its justification. There are certain online study circles, also WhatsApp groups. You…

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A strength is in her that meets everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high tranquil power.Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away into the darkness. So some people are damned? …. Some she castes down or put away into the darkness ? Could you please explain that?πŸ‘‘πŸŒŒβ™ΎοΈπŸŒΉ

Not damned. Nobody is damned and none forever. If the Divine. If the Divine damns forever then those things will cease to exist not finding

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I was looking up for the Mother’s knowledge on mistakes and came across this one: “It is quite wrong to go on brooding about the past. The true attitude is to remember that nothing happens but by God’s will and to submit to that will quietly. If you have made mistakes in the past it is by lack of true surrender and the only way to repair the mistakes is to surrender truly.”Β How can I know if it is a mistake or God’s will? What is the internal compass for reference? How can I know for what I should take ownership vs surrender?🀦πŸ’₯πŸ˜¬πŸ™ˆ

Mistakes are a language of ignorance that makes the ego-self feel that it is the doer and hence responsible for all that happens. As long

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Sri Aurobindo writes in the Essays of Gita: “It is the true goal and the last sense of human living and the highest step in our progressive sacrifice of works. For he remains to the end the master of works and the soul of sacrifice. [p.133]” How does this progressive sacrifice look like in our daily existence? In fact,Β  how does sacrifice manifest in our life? It will be great if you can clarify.πŸ›žπŸ“œπŸ¦šπŸͺˆ

The sacrifice starts with the shift of inner motive whence one decides not to live for oneself any more but for the Divine Master and

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I am in my early 40’s, I am unmarried. I visit psychiatrist on regular basis since a decade. My grandfather was devotee of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. I don’t like masturbation but I do it vehemently which must not be done as said by Sri Aurobindo, I want to get rid of these vulgar things but my will and resolution is too weak. Sometimes I eat too much which is also a bad thing. I become angry and feel to be culprit after doing these foolish things. I don’t do physical exercise regularly, I am very lazy person. I offer to The Mother these foolish things as told by you in your videos. I atleast want to become sincere which The Mother wants from us for our betterment. I want to walk on this path of yoga, but I make mistake endlessly. I have fear and want to become fearless. I don’t want to become unworthy child of The Mother. You say this path of yoga is difficult but I want to walk on this path couragiously without fear, I want to strengthen my faith. I need your guidance. Is it right thing to read Prayers and Meditations and listen organ music while sleeping in the night. What is the exact meaning of Sri Aurobindo’s aphorism ‘You must say someone fool sometimes but you are supreme fool of humanity’. Those who are on medication related to mental illness are not allowed in ashram, is it true?πŸͺ·β˜€οΈπŸ§˜πŸ•―️

Yes you can do all these things such as playing Savitri music, reading Savitri, reading works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. But it is

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Alok da, now when I am making a decision or choosing an idea/something, try to follow The Mother’s guidance. Try not to be egoistic or hypocritical or under someone’s influence or judgmental. I know I am not one hundred per cent perfect, but I try to follow it and also surrender the action and result to The mother. Nowadays the by the grace of the mother, the result of the action (success or failure) does not affect me so much, and the Mother Sri Arobindo helps to move forward. There is lot of things going on inside and outside.Β  As you say kail doing the dancing. Today I need help on a specific condition. Because the action I am taking is not always as per the wife’s choice, it creates a conflicting/argumental situation. Is the feeling emerging from my ego (that she is not understanding my journey) or anything else? 🦁πŸ₯‡β­πŸ’«

It is the soul within us that feel detached and turns away from when it sees the limitations and imperfections of the earthly life. It

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