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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

The Mother has made it very clear. The world is preparing for a change. She is asking whether we would cooperate. Here does she refer an in and out change in human consciousness? We can see the hour has begun since decades. We are witnessing war in and out. We are experiencing hostile attacks outside and inside of ourselves. So, in order to save ourselves collectively and individually should we give special preference to physical education like building a strong body, learning martial arts that can resist, endure the attacks as well as go though the changes in terms of Supramental Terms, like transform the way The Mother wants it to. Like i saw the pictures of many Sadhaks, including Pranab Da, our Tara Didi, even Puraniji who had built the body of real strength. So, in this hour of need, where does physical education stand? How do we build our women and children in this aspect?

Yes, the Mother has given a great importance to physical education in both men and women from an early age. Body is the base for

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Alok Sir, It is almost 14 years when I just read something very little about Gangadharan (The Disciple of Mother and Sri Aurobindo) in one Magazine published by Vedmurti Sri Ram Sharma Acharya (Shantikunj), Since that time I was extremely attracted and fascinated for his simplicity and devotion towards Mother and Sri Aurobindo, just one day before I knew something more about him and his Writings ( Sri Aravinda Ashtothara Shatha Namavali) 108 names of Sri Aurobindo. 1- History about writing these names🪷.

There is no history as such though The Golden Chain did carry a piece on him, long back. These names appeared to him in his

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I have some doubts regarding mantra chanting, I am chanting ” Om Namo Bhagwate Sri Aurobindai” and ” Om Anandmayi Chaityana Satyamayi Parame”, and one Name, “Maa Sri Aurobindo”. But I am confused with some traditional problems that above two are mantras should not chant when I am not clean or in any dirty place. But last mantra, “Ma Sri Aurobindo” is name and I can do it anywhere, anytime, doing anything, even in bathroom🤨?

Sri Aurobindo and The Mother never gave any outer (or even inner conditions) for chanting Their Names or the mantras. Even Sri Krishna does not

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This is a very serious question. When I started getting connected to The Mother and Sri Aurobindo a year back , listening your talks, going to Delhi ashram, reading the books, I used to feel so close to them, my aspiration was high, I used to be conscious of them, Sincere in my works and offerings.But now when I have spent more than a year in Delhi and college, specially giving alot energy to my relationship, as I took lots of ups and downs, indulging in music societies, and hence getting into all the lower activities like spending time with people with ordinary life and lower tendencies. I did this mistake for a very long time. I’m in my hometown for diwali holidays, far away from everything, everyone. When I sit alone and try to feel her presence and introspect. I see that the flame is not the same, the spark has gone, although I know that I’m for her, I have to live for her, but certainly my aspiration is not the same. I feel myself far from her. The wanting, the curiosity, the questioning mind, the will to grow, everything has come to a static state. I know you can understand, please help me, what can I do, I don’t want to live an ordinary life, I want to live for her, only for her, her ,her🙏. 

These ups and downs come to everyone. One has to persist and persevere through it all refusing to give up. One has to keep learning

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Dear Alok da, what is ‘seeing’ the Divine☀️ everywhere and in everything? Especially when we are not yet equipped.To experience or realize it, as a first step, how to practice the idea consciously? Is it like remembering that Mother is in all and trying not to think or feel about something or someone as high or low?

Seeing here means a mental seeing through thought, imagination and idea that the Mother is everywhere, in everyone and everything. Later, as this idea grows

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