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Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri

Sri Aurobindo was focused on India at first until he found out that the war in Europe was threatening His yoga for the world and ultimately the yogic path could be blocked for all of mankind for a thousand years. How about now? Cripps proposal is a bad example of how audacious humans can be in opposing the will of the Divine. Is it true that the Divine chose to work from entirely behind the scenes so that humans may no longer commit gross and horrendous sins of going against His uttered words and suggestions? [conti]🏛️📜👑🕰️

I can fully understand your intense feelings and aspiration. To this we must add the faith that since this aspiration is born in us, it

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I have a question about personal effort and reliance on the Mother. I know that you have talked about this subject already but still I am having some trouble understanding it. I want to rely more on the Mother, since only personal effort can puff up the ego. However when I tell myself to also rely on Her, I am scared to fall back into laziness and inertia and I am unable to rely on Her sometimes. My problem is, that I don’t know where to put in the personal effort and where to rely on the Mother. How to find the right balance between these two states?🧱🧗✍️🧘‍♂️

The best way is of course to put in one’s best effort yet knowing that even the best of our efforts is only a limited

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Forgive my impertinence, but I don’t see many mentions of the kinds of powers/abilities/states/ stages that the sustained practice of Integral Yoga unlocks, as confirmed in the experience of the practioners. You would excuse me, because I have been really hard pressed to find such admissions. I do understand the principle of not gracelessly publishing feats or meaningful realizations, given they are full of distractive sounds and fury for the ego.. But still I would like to know, because I am looking at it with the wonder of a child who just wants some news of his Home to which he has promised himself to journey through perils, stagnation and frustration.🌌➡️🪷🌍

As mentioned above, you have not dug deep enough which is understandable given the enormous wealth of his vast and all-comprehensive literature. If you want

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Sri Aurobindo says that all true knowledge grows by intuition and not by intellect. But the jnana yogins, especially the advaitins, primarily employ their intellect as an aid to realise the Divine. Their methods of nitya-anitya vastu viveka and the triple concept of sravana, manana and nidhidhyasana seem to suggest that. Are they actually preparing the ground for intuitive understanding using the intellect at the start? 🌑➡️🕯️☀️

Intellectual discernment between what is true and of lasting value and what temporary and transient helps the mind detach from surface appearance. It also develops

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