Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri Archives - Page 3 of 29

Dear Alok da, I see some edits to the original photographs or symbols of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. These are usually done by some well-meaning devotees. Some recent examples are – instead of the lotus and water inside the square of Sri Aurobindo’s symbol, someone placed the Mother’s symbol in the square; I once saw Sri Aurobindo’s Dec. 1950 photo sleeping on the bed, taken chest-up, turned 90 degrees to make it as if He is standing with eyes closed. 🤔🖼️✨[…]

February 5, 2026

Ideally one should not shift or rotate the photograph. Some touch up is understandable since no photo can ever capture the ‘real thing’. However if

In the Evening Talks, Sri Aurobindo said that there is no ground for the existence of Rama. But he has defended the Avatarhood of Sri Rama in his Letters on Yoga. What is the Truth? 🏹📙🤔

February 4, 2026

I am not sure where is this said about Rama about the non-existence of Rama in the Evening Talks. Sri Aurobindo has very much included

Can two individual Souls travel together on the Mother’s path? 👦🏼❤️‍🔥👧🏼

February 4, 2026

Yes, very much so and support and even strengthen each other’s aspiration. However there is one condition. It is this that they should get free

I was introduced to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo in the year 2021. I first came to Puducherry in 2024 for the Youth Camp conducted by the Society. 🤗❤️‍🔥[…]

February 3, 2026

Each soul enters the path in different ways but once it has entered it has its own unique relation with the Mother. Your soul recognises

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? 🥸🔥[…]

February 2, 2026

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,

The Mother says take the violence out of you, and you will be free from fear. How to conquer fear? 🫡🔥

February 1, 2026

There are several ways of conquering fear.
One way is to reason out and see that most fears are baseless. They are generally

May we consider doing our daily office work and offering it to the Divine Mother as basic Yagnya (Sacrifice)? 🫴🏼🪷

February 1, 2026

Yes very much so. Not only office work but all works including washing oneself, eating, sleeping. All can and should become a yagna.

If I would like to serve in the Ashram as a Volunteer, what do I need to do or whom should I talk to? There isn’t any information about it anywhere on the Website. 🏦🔥🌼[…]

January 31, 2026

It is perfectly fine to ask any question here. When someone specifically requests not to put their answer on the website then we don’t do

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. 🙏🏻🌼

January 30, 2026

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

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? 😊🙏🏻🪷

January 29, 2026

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

Is the transition from the last Kaliyuga to Satyuga explained, or are some signs that appeared given in our Vedic Literature? The current Kaliyuga is coming to an end and a new Satyuga is starting. My question is in this context. 📖🌍🤔

January 28, 2026

The transition from Kaliyuga to Satyuga is given in the Puranas, especially the Matsya, Vishnu and Bhagawat Puranas as well as the much later Bhavishya

Can you give me one universal prayer, a specific one, by The Mother or by Sri Aurobindo, if possible by both, to be recited every day during my pooja time along with my usual prayer hymns? 😊🙏🏻🪷🔥[…]

January 27, 2026

This mantra was written by Sri Aurobindo as well as the Mother Om Anandamayi Chaitanyamayi Satyamayi Parame In the night as in the day be

Sri Aurobindo wrote about the Vedas, Upanishads, Ithihasas, Kalidas. Did He mention about Devi Bhagavadam? If not, why? If so, where? Which context? What is His say on that? 😊🙏🏻🌻🔥[…]

January 26, 2026

He didn’t take up any of the Puranas in detail apart from quoting here and there. He (and the Mother) held the Srimadabhagawatam in high

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? 🤔😊🙏🏻🌻[…]

January 25, 2026

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

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. …🔥🌄[…]

January 24, 2026

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

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? 😊🙏🏻🌹✨[…]

January 23, 2026

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

I pray to the Mother before going to sleep. The problem is that I clench my jaw hard at night. How to apply Mother’s force to stop this? 😖💤

January 22, 2026

The best thing is to relax oneself completely using one of the number of imageries that the Mother has adviced such as contemplating the vastness

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