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The Peace and Quietude within me is increasing day by day but I’m having to protect it like a precious flame. When I work it’s fine, mixing with others is fine (in small doses), and all the other outer movements I’m finding ok. However, at certain points I become quite externalised and then feel a tremendous pain coming out of touch with this inner quietude and then I have to sit and concentrate to regain it. It comes back quicker each time is what I’ve noticed, but is it ok to avoid certain people, situations, interactions if it causes me to become so externalised 🤨? I don’t want to be ascetic but then I also don’t feel like frankly that I’m at the point where I can just do whatever and not lose that inner peace and joy from Mother. I still feel like it’s in the beginning fragile stage [Conti]

It is certainly important to guard this precious treasures that are gifts of the Divine Grace, more important than guardian material treasures. Don’t we safeguard

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Dada nowadays I am feeling very happy spontaneously, that doesn’t depends on any conditions. I feel peace in my mind and vital part. In previous time when the unpleasant things was happening then my lower vital was resisting very much, but now they are coming but they don’t affect me. Now if any person or friend arguing or teasing me then i have not affect their words still I staying in the peace. In chest part I feel some pressure or also feel quite in lower abdominal part. Is it a real experience? What does this experience indicate us😊?

Why doubt something that is happening within you with tangible effects. The psychic pressure first brought out the hidden resistances of the lower vital, then

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I feel uplifted when I listen to your talks or read the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. It inspires me to live by their teachings in my daily life. But as soon as I close the book or the talk ends, I find myself slipping back into old habits and patterns, handling things the same way I always have. How can I truly practice their path in my everyday lifešŸ¤”?

It is quite the normal course in most persons except some rare exceptional instances of those who had gone through the needed preparation in the

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What are the indications one should look for to renounce things of the past to leap towards a new future? For instance, if one has to move countries, change jobs, renounce one ideal for another one – in all these how does one take the correct decision of leaping from one stage of life to another? One feels mental indications are not that reliable🤨.

There are no outer indications on which one can rely. Equally the mind is a poor guide weighing pros and cons. The sure indication can

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