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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

Namaste Dr. Alok Pandey, there is one thing that bothers me day and night, I haven’t got an intuitional thought about this, nothing that I have read makes sense about this – Why is the Mother of the Universe, not just the Physical but the whole Manifestation and the Mother of the Gods, isn’t able to get a few 10,000 dollars per day to support the Ashram? 🥸🔥[…]

What has wealth got to do with the work of supramental manifestation? Lord Rama’s mission was to neutralize Ravana. For this he renounced his kingdom,

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Dearest Alok Da, a question concerning the lines in Savitri. These lines describe Death’s appearance: “Half-seen in clouds appeared a sombre face; Night’s dusk tiara was his matted hair, The ashes of the pyre his forehead’s sign.” (pg.595) – Is this a description of Lord Shiva? Is it Lord Shiva, or even Lord Yama, who is appearing as Death? Because matted hair and ashes on the forehead are worn by Lord Shiva and Lord Yama. 🙏🏻🌼

He stood in silence and in darkness wrapped,
A figure motionless, a shadow vague,
Girt with the terrors of his secret sword….

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Pranam Alok Da. Mentally, I find Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to be complete in all aspects. Still, during meditation, I find it easier to meditate on Sri Ramakrishna than Sri Aurobindo or the Mother. Maybe I find Sri Ramakrishna more approachable when reading the gospel, and I see Sri Aurobindo as God, too tall, as described in Savitri, where some people find Savitri too high! Does it affect my yoga, or is it okay to continue like this? 😊🙏🏻🪷

Yoga doesn’t move along one fixed line valid for all. The inherent complexity of nature and the vastness of the Divine Consciousness cannot be straight

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If the Divine Mother listens to all the prayers from any place, like the workplace, the cooking place, and the bathrooms, as some prayers & Gratitude come naturally at any time. Then can a man pray at that time or he has to preserve those prayers in his mind? And after going to the Samadhi or the Mother’s photo, should he tell those preserved prayers? 🤔😊🙏🏻🌻[…]

One has to pray to the Divine in the heart. Prayer is not a thing of the mind as of the heart. Otherwise a parrot

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Sri Aurobindo writes in” The Mother”, “But there are many planes of her creation, many steps of the Divine Shakti. At the summit of this manifestation of which we are a part there are worlds of infinite existence, consciousness, force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Power. …🔥🌄[…]

There are, 7 planes of the Divine Manifestation. There are three higher worlds (parardha) which are planes proper to Sacchidananda, namely Satloka (world of infinite

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Dear Alok Da, In the book “The Mother” – Sri Aurobindo writes: “it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties…” – “Descending from above” I could get the idea. But “opening from below” How can the highest Supreme can be below? 😊🙏🏻🌹✨[…]

Opening from below means aspiration. As to the Divine, He is everywhere and in everything in all His Fullness, poornamadam, poornamidam….In His Supreme Transcendent state

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Before I turned to Sri Aurobindo, I was very much satisfied with the ascetic view of life and felt that it was the ultimate view of life. I was very much convinced by their arguments about the world. Even the scriptures like the Gita seemed to be suggesting that ultimately, renouncing everything is the only way out. 😊🙏🏻🪷🔥[…]

It is a genuine feeling as far as your own spiritual evolution is concerned. One can also understand the anguish that every lover of India

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