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Dear Sir, from my teenage years onwards whenever I thought, contemplated and reflect about the divine in the form of Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Hanuman, Ganesha or in other forms, first there were adorations of the form, name, qualities, personality, pastimes and then sometimes if the intensity was enough and all other factors were right, the thought or imagination would slip or transcend from the deity to a colossal being or a virat Purusha who appeared as a huge silhouette with a sweet smile on his face, a deep darkness with profound peace and only the outline of the being was visible. Then in a great awe and bewilderment I would ask who are you or what are you. Though these incidents or imaginations were very rare, the effect and impression on the mind was considerable. Because of these imaginations I got a firm idea in my mind that all the incarnations and deities are actually the emanations of that one silent smiling supreme being. He is Rama, Shiva, Krishna but at the same time He is more than them, a very great and infinite but an individual being. These incidents continue even today, though very rarely. I have never shared this with anyone. I am very skeptical about these things and consider them to be mere figments of the imagination and fantasies but I love these images. Should I cherish these images or ignore them and move on ?

These are images cast by the Truth-imagination which is the formative faculty of the mind under the influence of Truth. It can be a help

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Referring SriAurobindo on “The yoga and its objects”, SriAurobindo says. “You must put aside what you want and wish to know what God wants;ย distrust what your heart, your passions or your habitual opinions prefer to hold as right and necessary, and passing beyond them, like Arjuna in the Gita,ย seek only to know what God has set down as right and necessary.” Howย  am I to know if myย  choice of this yoga is God’s wish, He has set it right and necessaryย  or my heart’s passion?๐Ÿน๐ŸŽย ๐Ÿ›žโš–๏ธ

All being taken is a big thing. But the Call to this yoga is certainly there, otherwise you wouldn’t have felt anything at all, like

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I celebrated one more birthday of mine last month. With each passing day and year I always think ‘Life is running out, time is slipping away and I haven’t done much for the Divine’. Of course, the aspiration always grows but there is a dissatisfaction somewhere that I have not been or done fully what I could have done for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and because of this, the Divine has not yet become a full living reality.ย ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽฏ๐ŸŒฑ

I won’t call it impatience, but an intensifying of the aspiration on the birthday as the soul perhaps senses that more should be done. There

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I think it is wrong to say my life hasn’t changed at all. I’m trying in my own way to follow whatever I have learnt. One thing is for sure, that I have moved away from the fear mongering about karma that I often saw in traditions and lamentation about world existence. Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s words have definitely brought clarity to mind, and though it hasn’t completely translated into action, I am making changes everyday. I am also reminded that though I must take action, it is not by ‘my’ strength that success will come. I have faith that the Divine will one day make of me what She wants me to be.๐Ÿชท๐ŸŒนโ™พ๏ธ๐ŸŒŒ

Very beautiful attitude. I can fully understand the need for some decisive experience that pops up from time to time.

The decisive experiences however come

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Referring” Fullness of yoga in condition””He has triumphed over supernatualism, he has chained her down to the material, human & rational; immediately she breaks out fiercely into unthought- of revivals and gigantic supernatualism” Can you give one example of where and how she broke Supernatualism?ย ๐Ÿ”ฎโœจ๐ŸŒŒ๐ŸŒ€

Supernaturalism refers to the spiritual and occult dimensions that exceeds our rational materialistic understanding of the world….

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