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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

Sir, why in Sadness and in Grief, we seem to be more Open to the Divine Mother? I was reading lines of Savitri and the Mother’s Prayer, tears flowed, my centre shifted to Heart(effortlessly), I felt the absorption of the Consciousness, my breath rate increased, I couldn’t hold myself for a while. 📖🥲🥹❤️‍🔥🌼[…]

Grief is a state of intense concentration and can, if the consciousness makes just a little shift open the doors the Divine. As the Mother

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On a different note, what is happening at Auroville? I recently spoke to a guy who shared his experience of staying at Auroville, and the way he was talking, it was like a hedonistic trip, with people just indulging in substances and getting intoxicated. I was so shocked! How can such a thing happen at Auroville? 😵‍💫🍃🙄🌷🌄

Hedonistic type have always been present in Auroville since its early years. In fact now, due to a strict administration they are being sent out

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Why did Sri Aurobindo and the Mother alone descend to bring about the Supramental Transformation and elaborate a complete path of Integral Yoga, while other great souls like Sri Krishna, Mahavatar Baba, or altruistic truths-seekers, though Divine, did not undertake this specific, comprehensive work of Transforming earthly life?🌄❤️‍🔥😊🙏🏻🌷

One could answer this question in different ways. But first we need to draw a distinction between a sattwic, selfless, honest person and a spiritual

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The photographs of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother are being retouched so much as in their eyes and other facial features are so edited and it’s so clearly visible that it’s annoying, outrageous and sad to see. Where and who do I raise this issue to? I might come across very rude but in my opinion I don’t think anyone has any rights to touch Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’s pictures because if they did, they are ruining the whole essence of having a photographs in the first place.📷🖼️😠😤

You can write to The Trustees

Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry

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Alok da, this might be a bit of a tough question for me to articulate, but I’ll try asking. Going through a bit of the Mother’s Works, I find a persistent theme in which She stresses the importance of Organizing One’s Mind, One’s Cognition, and Cerebral Capacity. And I’ve always been fascinated by how the mind of a good poet or a novelist works. ✒️🎶🤔🌻✨[…]

The Mother has already explained this in her essay on Education (CWM 12) where she speaks of five main things to develop by persistent practice.

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