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In Rajyoga, it is taught that we should think positively even about those who behave negatively. Just as we offer blessings to someone who is physically ill, we should also extend forgiveness and compassion to those who are emotionally or spiritually unwell. Rajyoga emphasizes the power of pure thoughts, inner peace, and soul consciousness. By connecting with the Supreme through meditation, we cultivate virtues like patience, kindness, and detachment, allowing us to remain stable and loving even in the face of negativity. What are your thoughts on this and how much this is aligned to Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga?

August 2, 2025

Yes it is a very helpful practice and is quite aligned to Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga. It helps in a preliminary purification. It is a cultivation

Have you had the experience or realisation of the psychic being? If you feel it is appropriate, would you be willing to share something of that journey?

August 2, 2025

My life has been a journey of Her Grace. In fact it is so with everyone. Like all who are called upon to tread the

When’s the divine realization will be permanently settled? Spontaneously it comes and going their. When I loose the contact I have not feel any happy. I feel that i am losing my precious things. After lose this contact difficulties comes again in a huge way but something is inside that doesn’t affected by the difficulties. Spontaneously outer conscious running in my mind and in silence spontaneously naam jaap going with the respiration🤔.

August 2, 2025

Have patience and trust in the Grace. What you are having are some experiences on the way. The Divine realisation is a far off thing.

Also you said-“These are man’s beginnings. He rises by the descent of ever higher types of Manu from the Bhuvarloka,—first he is Pashu, then Pishacha, then Pramatha, then Rakshasa, then Asura, then Deva, then Siddha. So he ascends the ladder of his own being towards the Sat Purusha.’ Are these the 7 levels through which the soul evolves? Does everyone has to ascend through this ladder one by one or there can be a leap possible🤔? Please elaborate.

July 31, 2025

This ascension through successive lives from one grade to another was the idea behind Chaturvarnya, the fourfold soul types, soul involved in Matter (Shudra), soul

When one prays to Hindu gods like Shiva, Vishnu, Ganesh, Gauri, Krishna, Hanuman, Durga, Tripurasundari or Kali etc., one is invoking the divine forces operating in lower – earth nature. Is it correct? I read somewhere that the the Para Prakriti is beyond human understanding and hence our sages have found her various nurturing aspects at work in Earth Nature, to whom we can approach for help and guidance🙏.

July 30, 2025

The gods and goddesses are cosmic powers and hence they are neither confined to India nor belong to the Hindus. They had other names in

While concentration on my heart centre, I feel strong presence of calmness. Is it due to the psychic presence or the emotional chakra at heart💓?

July 28, 2025

The peace and calm are invariably due to the psychic being opening the doors to the Divine Presence within. The opening of the emotional center

I want to know about the practice of Tratak?What is the right method of doing it and how does it help in self realisation? Or does it help in finding your own truth?🤨

July 26, 2025

Tratak does not necessarily helps in self-realisation, at least not directly. Its main help is to train the mind in concentration. Self realisation comes by

Does one’s dharma stay the same over multiple rebirths🤨?

July 25, 2025

Dharma has three connotations and none of them refers to religion. The first connotation refers to the eternal and unchanging basis of everything. That of

“Some men in their blindness , when they seek knowledge, forsake the light where they are – only to enter into what is for them a new darkness “Alok da can you pls elaborate on this☝️ with practical examples in daily life🙏

July 24, 2025

Practically it means that instead of leaving the worldly life and the knowledge it brings to pursue the spiritual one should deepen and widen this

God’s servant is something, God’s slave is greater. What does this mean🤨?

July 21, 2025

A servant works for wages, has fixed hours, takes wages and does according to the work entrusted to him. A slave has no wages, he

Why was Arjuna chosen to witness the Virat Swaroop and receive the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, instead of someone else? And, when Yudhishthira had questions, Shri Krishna advised him to seek answers from Bhishma.

July 20, 2025

Yudhisthira is the ultimate sattwic man, and like all righteous men lives in the self-sufficiency of his intellect. He governs his life by the Shastra

What could be the meaning of seeing Maa Gauri’s glimpses showering blessings of mangalya (auspiciousness)🤔

July 17, 2025

It is a special Grace and a wonderful blessing. She is watching over you and your worldly life…

Sir as I had taken Mantra Dikshya earlier and was doing japa regularly, now when ever I am reciting name of Maa mentally, my earlier mantra is coming spontaneously in between. So what to do? May I continue the earlier mantra japa or will do japa of Maa Maa🙏? Please guide.

July 17, 2025

You can continue with the earlier mantra and direct it to the Divine Mother as the Origin and Source of everything. If you keep Her…

Will you elaborate on The Hindu cosmology myth ” Ashtgajjas” 🤔

July 16, 2025

It is not mythology but the description of 8 cosmic powers that hold the earth in its motion through Space. The ancient seers saw the

Often one becomes very serious in the path of yoga and Sadhna, whereas Mother says the contrary. How can one cultivate an attitude of cheerfulness☺️ in oneself , in any kind of work which one does and in all kinds of relationships one comes across?

July 15, 2025

That is quite a correct observations. Seriousness should be only with regard to the goal and for this one needs to cultivate sincerity. But the

For 2-3 days now during meditation I am getting glimpses of Gauri sitting in snowy mountain conditions with Shiva and their both sons (specially of Ganesha having more clear image) sending her blessings of auspiciousness. In this background please let me know your views on the significance of mount Kailash as the abode of Shiva and Shakti in our religion. I always wonder how a place on earth plane could be a home to the divine family🤨.

July 14, 2025

Gauri is the Divine Mother who has become this earth nature. Shiva is the Lord of tapasya who helps her to rise to the highest

Sri Aurobindo has written-“…Whenever he chooses to take the full pleasure of ignorance, of the dualities, of strife and wrath and tears and weakness and selfishness, the tamasic and rajasic pleasures, of the play of the Kali in short, he dims the knowledge in India and puts her down into weakness and degradation so that she may retire into herself and not interfere with this movement of his Lila…”I am not able to understand these lines. How can Divine do this only for his Lila🤔? Please elaborate.

July 14, 2025

Lila means the Divine unfolding in creation. This unfolding sometimes requires the veiling of the Light just as some plants need shade and others brightness

Now the question is, as a person dies, apart from the psychic being, what other things are carried to the next life and who carries them? The body is not there, the psychic being goes to the psychic world. The vital goes to the vital world. The mental part goes to the mental world. So, it is only the psychic that proceeds to the next birth. Then, while going to take the next birth, does the psychic collect certain elements from the vital and mental world? If yes, how can it find its corresponding vital and mental which it had in the previous birth🤔?

July 13, 2025

The psychic being, as it evolves, develops an individual psychic personality around its core which of course is the divine spark within it. This psychic

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