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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

Can you please explain these Mother’s words: ‘Men, Countries, Continents the choice is imperative. Truth or the abyss’. What I feel is Mother out of love is warning her children to get serious as how to realise the seriousness of the situation and not waste our lives as I can see the sheer waste of lives and not realising that this is the final change given to us… am I right or exaggerating🫤?

Yes of course it is the Mother out of Her immense love cautioning Her children since now it is the Truth Consciousness that is active

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I read two texts from the Mother’s writings regarding human love💗. (1) One was from CWM Vol 12 under the topic “The Four Austerities and The Four Liberations.”From “For one who has known love for the Divine, all other forms of love are obscure and too mixed with pettiness and egoism and darkness;” ….. to……”This concentration will culminate in an integral identification and will be instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth.”

In both these the Mother is revealing to us the different stages of love. The love that is centred around the body and the vital,

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Alok da, how to develop the talent and cognitive skills to deal with such multifaceted subjects like Sri Aurobindo did. I mean it kind of makes me marvel how between different volumes of works on philosophy, poetry, world history, philology, yoga etc.. his metamorphosises as if he’s a master at each one of them. He easily changes even the writing style be it in poetry and prose,the style of his revolutionary writings like bandemataram, karmayogin is quite different from the life divine, and also in poetry if we compare Ilion and Savitri etc..Is it a possible for seekers in general to have such polymath like talent or is it better to stick to one thing or is it just inborn and we can’t train ourselves🤔

Sri Aurobindo attributed the development of certain faculties especially of inspiration, intuition, flow of poetry, etc to the Yoga. As regards Yoga itself he attributed

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This question is related to a series of experiences I am having. As I have turned to the Mother and Sri aurobindo, I feel very close to mother kali which is weird because before this I Have never in my life prayed to a female deity. Kali ma is showing her presence every time I think of her. How do I pray 🙏to her in a way Sri Maa would like me to?

In Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga there is no separate praying to different powers and aspects of the Divine Mother that may become prominent in their action

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Alok da, I’ve once heard you say in one of the talks that a disciple who was away for sometime to study or something was surprised to see Sri Aurobindo’s hair and skin texture changing when he came back. I mean obviously not anywhere near to Sri Aurobindo’s tapas but are any little alchemical changes possible in our body when we offer all the daily acts at a minute level cos this does require us to be mindful of all the psychological states and physical inclinations and the identification and carrying with them in a state of exclusive concentration lessens and what people usually observe about stress reflecting in someone’s face and texture might not if this is the case. I don’t wanna reduce yogic practices to the desire of gaining some mere physical beauty or anything but that comment of yours was in mind for a long time and made me thinking about physical impacts of spiritual practices🤨.

Yes it was Shri AB Purani ji who noted the marked change in Sri Aurobindo. In those who sincerely take to the Yoga some changes

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Alok Da, If I pray and worship the supreme Mother 🌹 through any of her mantras like Gayatri, Navarna and Bija mantras, will she shower on me and family inspiration, knowledge, prosperity and strength to face any situation? If yes, please guide me how to go about it. I want my family to live a beautiful and fulfilling life which I believe is not possible only through human efforts and endeavours.

Mantras and other techniques and processes are secondary. The real thing that matters is faith, aspiration and genuine trust in the Divine Mother that She

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