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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

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. πŸ˜ŠπŸ™πŸ»πŸͺ·πŸ”₯[…]

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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It is said that Sri Aurobindo’s yoga begins where all other yogas end. It is said that the Goal of all other yogas is Moksha/ Nirvana/ Liberation. If my understanding is right, having attained Moksha, the individual has now internalised all other yogas – Bhakti, Jnana, Karma and Raj seamlessly. πŸŒ„πŸ¦š[…]

By attaining Moksha one does not necessarily internalize all the other paths as the nature of realisation is different in each path. It is somewhat

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Alok Da, in the poem ‘Love and Death’ – I felt Ruru made a wrong choice; if he had become a Rishi, he could have led a race, but here he chose his own vital love. Well, in Savitri, it was different. She chose to come back with him because their work was unfinished … What do you think?Β πŸŒΉβ€οΈβ€πŸ”₯

Yes. But perhaps he became a yogi pursuing the path of love transmuting the vital love into psychic by pursuing the law of sacrifice. Once

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There are a few rituals we perform for a departed person, like Asthi Visharjan, 13/40 days, and doing meditation in our Ashram here in Pondicherry. Do these rituals really help the Departed Soul, or is it more for the satisfaction of friends and relatives of the departed soul? What do the Mother and Sri Aurobindo say on these activities that we appear to take quite seriously? πŸ™„πŸ™πŸ»πŸͺ·

The ancient rituals for the departed were based on an occult knowledge that has now been lost. Its purpose was to dissolve the vital sheath

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Thou seemest to bewilder my intelligence with a confused and mingled speech; tell me then decisively that one thing by which I may attain to my soul’s weal.||2|| Really I want to know which one book, reading by which will give me the essence and understanding of all scriptural knowledge fully?Because every scripture attracts me.Β (Bhagavsdsm, Ramayanam, Bhavadgita, Upanishads) πŸ“–

Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri contains everything.
If for some reason you find it difficult then simply read Letters on Yoga Volume 1 and 2

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