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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

Some advanced sadhaks, in their talks, create fear of another pandemic, or big loss of money, if we do not surrender completely, or start an Ashram or be a part of Ashram life, and give everything for the Divine purpose. They say marriage and family life are dangerous for sadhana or any realisation. Govt or Pvt Jobs should not be done as it curtails our freedom. They say to leave everything: family, children, jobs, as these are blockers in our Sadhana, and every moment try to lead a spiritual life by surrendering completely for Mother’s work directly. If we are not leading an Ashram life, we are far far away from the Divine. Should we join Integral Yoga communities out of fear of some destruction? What is Mother’s views in this regard?

Sin, guilt, fear belong to the old world and to religion. It has no place in spiritual life. The Mother did caution that some people

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Sri Aurobindo writes in the life divine that Matter and Spirit are truly reconciled only in the cosmic consciousness. He explains why it is so: For in the cosmic consciousness Mind and Life are intermediaries and no longer, as they seem in the ordinary egoistic mentality, agents of separation, fomenters of an artificial quarrel between the positive and negative principles of the same unknowable Reality.(Ch. 4, Pg. 29) If Mind and Life are intermediaries in the cosmic consciousness, does that mean that philosophies like that of Advaita and Buddhism that deny the reality of Matter, are not seeing the Truth from cosmic consciousness? How come they are missing this truth of reconciliation?

Obviously they missed, in fact from the accounts available it is unlikely that they truly experienced the cosmic consciousness especially because their problem was the

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