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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

About Mataji’s experiments on her cells, I am trying to say something, but it is not very clear in my mind. It’s almost like it is right there, but I am not reaching it yet. I actually want to go back to a Soul and the Psychic Being. In a booklet called a Psychic Being, its a question and answer booklet, where The Mataji says on page 103.The Soul and Psychic Being are not exactly same thing.. The Soul is the Divine spark, and the Psychic Being is formed progressively until the time comes when Psychic Being fully formed and awakened becomes conscious sheath around the Soul around which it is formed, and thus identifies with the Divine. So, right now it is the Psychic being who is keeping an account of my activities in this lifetime, and after death the Psychic Being will decide (so to speak) what needs to be retained for future and what to be discarded🤔?

Mind is part of Nature, the soul is part of the Divine. At first the soul develops in the womb of nature. When developed and

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In the prayer of May 31, 1914, (1) Mother describes how She identifies with earth and during one sunset, offers herself in complete self-giving and in the silence of night waits for the grand illumination to happen again. This reminded me of the Sandhya Vandana of Sanatana Dharma, and it felt as if Mother was showing us all how a true offering to the Lord Surya, needs to be done. Is this perception right🙂?

Yes, in another prayer She refers to the sunrise and sunset being special hours. But to offer the entire earth would be possible only if

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January 10, 1917:”Dost Thou then want to teach me that every effort that has my own being as its aim will be useless and vain? That action alone which has as its motive the radiating of Thy Grace is accomplished with ease and success. When the will acts in the external life, it is powerful and effective; when it attempts to practice going inwards, it is without force or effect…. So all action undertaken for personal progress becomes more and more unfruitful, and consequently rarer and rarer. On the other hand, all outer action seems to gain in effectivity what the inner has lost. Thus, O Lord, Thou takest the instrument as it is, and if it has to be refined, that will come in the course of the work.” Alok da , can you please through light on this, its role in practical life🙏 .

This is one sign of the Superman that the Mother mentions. ‘All those who feel that their heart extends further than the limits of their

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I have a question regarding one of the mother’s statement on Durga, where she asks durga to surrender. Dada, how Durga is not a part of our mother as we have grown up listening her stories and she is considered a divine embodiment herself, so how is she different or distant from mother. When we talk about Mahakali, Mahasaraswati aspects are we referring to different approaches of mother or they are different divine beings altogether🤔?

Durga is very much an aspect of the Divine Mother just as the great Gods Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma and the rest. In fact seen from

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