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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

Sri Aurobindo writes, “The evolution has a purpose, but it is a purpose in a circle. It is not a straight line or other figure of progression from the not to the is, from the less to the more.” – What do you mean by the purpose of evolution is a circle? Does it repeat itself?Β Does it go up and again come down?Β Please clarify what Sri Aurobindo meansΒ by that?Β πŸŒ€πŸŒ„πŸ’–πŸŒ»

He speaks of Cyclic nature of creation and not circular. What it means is that creation advances upto a point and when it is unable

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Jai Maa. Today I was reading the Two Natures chapter from Essays on the Gita and there Sri Aurobindo explains that the desire in consonance with dharma does not lead to any bondage, while there he also mentions that desire born of Rajogun leads to bondage and misery. πŸ“–βœ’οΈπŸ˜ŠπŸ™πŸ»πŸŒ»[…]

He has already answered this as you have correctly indicated, through the svabhava. Svabhava is the Divine Impulsion in creation that generates karma. It is

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Sri Aurobindo writes inΒ “The web of yoga”, “We can pass into the Paratpara Brahman, but we can’t know the Paratpara Brahman.” Does it mean attaining Nirvanam, The Total Merger,Β that nothing individual is left? So knowing is not possible in Nirvanam.Β Am I right in my understanding?Β πŸ’«πŸ’–πŸͺ·βœ¨

Yes because knowing implies a competition between the knower and the known. We can therefore become Brahman not know IT as know an object. We

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Sri Aurobindo talks of bringing the Divine Consciousness upon Earth and transforming the modern man into a Supramental Race. What does it really mean? How is our society, community, culture and our material life going to look like after this Grand Evolution? What is the roadmap Sri Aurobindo had envisaged for this extraordinary Transformation? πŸŒπŸ‘±πŸΌπŸ‘©πŸΌπŸŒ»

We are what we are due to our consciousness. It is consciousness that holds the key. Through yoga the human consciousness comes in contact with

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