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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

There are days when you experience a sense of detachment from The Mother. The pain of being apart is so intense 😣 that even the simplest task, like breathing, feels overwhelming. At times, everything flows smoothly like a gentle breeze. How do we cope when we encounter this sense of disconnection, as it often takes a long time to regain our footing? Even after listening to Her music or reading, it feels like you’re starting from scratch?

This happens to everyone and often for a long time because our consciousness is divided. There are different parts with different needs, there are desires

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All are not same in the power and effect. If it were so then the Divine would not assume different names and forms simply to cater to the different needs of different individuals depending upon each one’s stage of evolution.” Does it mean we have to invoke different deities for different powers? Is there any specific form of The Divine Mother 😇 which can bestow all virtues?

The Divine Mother is the original Power, Adya Shakti. If we invoke Her then She does what is needed, gives or takes away whatever is

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My life aim is to read all the books of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and sincerely follow the path they have outlined. However, when I share this with my loved ones, they tell me this is not a true aim and accuse me of avoiding my life responsibilities by following this path. They question whether this teaching encourages cutting oneself off from the world. They just don’t understand😥.

I can fully understand that. This is partly because the yoga and the divine possibility they bring is very new and men generally have a

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The Divine 😇 comes down into the cycle of rebirths, makes the great holocaust, endures shame and abloguy, torture and crucifixion, the burden of human nature, sex and passion and sorrow and suffering, manifests many births before he reveals the Avatar. And when he does reveal it? Well, read the lives of the Avatars and try to understand and see. [CWSA 35:424]

Just as the Sun sends light to the earth in two modes, – a steady stream of photons and as special intense outbursts or solar

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I had a doubt about the other paths of worshipping the Divine Mother and are those worshippers too involved in the divine work which integral yoga aims at? If someone is in the tantric upasana of Maha Kali, who is none other than the Divine Mother in her personality of strength, and he completely surrenders to her will, would he too be joined in the work of manifesting divinity in matter🧐? Or would he go to the path of oneness with her, or the path of traditional concept of Moksha?

Different forms and names, whether of the Ishwara or of the Divine Mother are there precisely because each has a specific power and purpose in

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