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What is the significance of lighting incense? Why do we do it🤔?

March 23, 2025

The world of sensory experience is closely connected with the elemental energies and beings of the subtle physical world. These beings get attracted or repulsed

“Hey mataa praan or man me asur ki shakti de”-From Durga strotra, What does this mean? Why asur ki shakti🤔?

March 23, 2025

In the original Vedic conception, Sur and Asura are not mutual opponents but two sides of the One Divine Reality representing Light and Force respectively.<br

Is Swarglok right here around us? is it that it is just different dimension and that s why we mortals can not see/feel it? Are there even different grades/dimentions in Swarglok🌈? And do souls go to different dimensions based on the Soul’s evolution?

March 22, 2025

Yes it is a different dimension, the vital world so to say. We can feel its impact but not see it or its…

Alok da, sometimes I feel that nature is holding me captive consciously. Sometimes the touch of God is felt in the entire consciousness, sometimes without any reason doubt and the absence of devotion is felt. Earlier this stage seemed to be the most depressed but now I don’t feel any difference. All of them have coming and are going on their own. I detach myself from this activities. Still I feel pain due to this unconscious spontaneous activities. There is a feeling in my heart that I too should worship my mother like Ramkrishna, Ramprasad etc had done but now everything is going in reverse. Still, I feel something inside that stay for some time and let mother do her work. In this state, how can I reveal the devotion and dedication that I was expressing earlier? How to face this situation in right attitude😥?

March 22, 2025

This Yoga is different from the bhakti Yoga practiced by Ramprasad and Chaitanya. It is a relatively slower but more complete process. Because it involves

What is the connection between the Psychic Being 🌟and the Mind?

March 21, 2025

The mind is or should be an instrument of the psychic being. But more often than not it acts like a resistance to the emergence

Could you talk a bit about Buddha🌼. Mother used to speak on the Dhammapada so i got curious. Who is buddha, what did he come to do and what does Mother and Sri Aurobindo say about buddha?

March 20, 2025

ou will find talks on the Buddha on auromaa. Also we had taken out an issue of All India Magazine on the Path of Buddha

Is it true about the soul leaving the body through the hole on top of the head where we concentrate during meditation? Can us mortals see it🫤?

March 20, 2025

There are several doors in the subtle body through which the soul can leave, – eyes, ears, mouth, nostrils and anus. Leaving through the top

Goddess Gayatri is my Ishta Devata. I chant Gayatri mantra regularly for a bright future for my family. Till now I believed that Mother Gayatri bestows wisdom, prosperity and strength on her sadhaka so that he can live a happy meaningful life. I used to meditate🧘‍♂️ like this during Gayatri Japa which was as advised by my parents & guru. …

March 19, 2025

You can deal with this dilemma in two different ways. First is that though each god or goddess has a certain limited function, the overriding

My partner is not willing to accept my connection with the Ashram, the Mother, and Sri Aurobindo. He is opposed to the idea and keeps telling me not to follow such things. He questions how I came across all this, suggesting it happened only because I was alone. He believes that if I had the right people around me, I wouldn’t feel the need for such a path. According to him, I’m drawn to it only because I’m depressed and not surrounded by the right kind of people. I told him that I genuinely like going there, but he still doesn’t understand or accept it😠.

March 15, 2025

Obviously he is limited by his own conceptions and, like most people, shut in the bubble of his own understanding. May be you should not

I feel a bit of pressure or something in the center of my chest💓. What is this? When I reciting mother’s name or reading mother’s book or listening her music I feel the pressure is going very strong and my total body remain silent and vacant. I feel this pressure in my whole work, that gives me peace, beauty and harmony still I have mistake in my action. What is the pressure? Is it right thing? Can you elaborate this?

March 14, 2025

It is a beautiful thing that is happening, a true experience. This pressure is the pressure of your psychic being wanting to emerge and express

What is the difference between a Vibhuti and someone who has found the soul🦢? Doesn’t the Divine act through someone who has found the soul as well as through a Vibhuti?

March 13, 2025

Vibhuti is a phenomenon of nature and not of the soul. Certain natures are developed in certain ways or have possibilities that can be helpful

Is meditation upon death every single moment a good method to cultivate attention and awareness? I’ve come across this young 23 year old Italian man who killed himself and wrote a philosophical work in the 19th century, it’s basically upon how men live as if they are sedated and don’t face their mortality with seriousness and urgency and this German philosopher Heidegger says modern technology only ramps up this anesthestic state of living, Seneca the wise stoic wrote a work advising to live everyday as if it’s the last and depicting examples of slumberous life of many in Rome 🫤 [conti]

March 11, 2025

Meditation upon death is advised by certain mystics including the Buddhist path. Basically it is a meditation on the transience of life, on the impermanence

I’ve met quite many people who seem to be interesting, provoke my mental curiosity, vital attraction, but I rarely get to meet someone who has a similar spiritual aspiration. And in such cases, there may be very little vital or physical attraction at all. Is it a mistake to get involved with someone who doesn’t share your spiritual path, even if there is an affinity at all the other levels? Also, what if the other person does have a path, but they are a buddhist, for example? Would that create a contradiction of spiritual currents🫤?

March 10, 2025

There are no such fixed rules in spiritual life which moves in a wide free space. Each journey is unique and different. What helps one

When all deities are themselves different aspects/energies of the Divine Mother😇, then how could they lack touch of the supreme mother?

March 6, 2025

Because each deity is something or the other of the Divine Mother one can no doubt, through strong faith and intense aspiration approach Her through

Because as soon as I started reading The Garud Puran, the way it describes the hell, and how Yamadoots take souls thru the hell, I could not read anymore, because that is not the way my understanding has formed after my other readings. Yes, we have to resolve our Karmas, but the way Garud Puran describes it, I was not sure those Souls will learn anything from it, may be they will learn that what I did was wrong, and I should not do it again. But that is not resolving Karma, the wronged sides totally left out. But then again, I did not read further as I didn’t agree with it, may be it mentions the wronged side later on🤨.

March 5, 2025

Puranas are not considered as supreme authorities. They belong to the class of Scriptures called Smriti. The authentic scriptures are the Vedas, Upanishads, Gita. They

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What is the significance of lighting incense? Why do we do it🤔?

“Hey mataa praan or man me asur ki shakti de”-From Durga strotra, What does this mean? Why asur ki shakti🤔?

Is Swarglok right here around us? is it that it is just different dimension and that s why we mortals can not see/feel it? Are there even different grades/dimentions in Swarglok🌈? And do souls go to different dimensions based on the Soul’s evolution?

What is the connection between the Psychic Being 🌟and the Mind?

Could you talk a bit about Buddha🌼. Mother used to speak on the Dhammapada so i got curious. Who is buddha, what did he come to do and what does Mother and Sri Aurobindo say about buddha?

Is it true about the soul leaving the body through the hole on top of the head where we concentrate during meditation? Can us mortals see it🫤?

What is the difference between a Vibhuti and someone who has found the soul🦢? Doesn’t the Divine act through someone who has found the soul as well as through a Vibhuti?

When all deities are themselves different aspects/energies of the Divine Mother😇, then how could they lack touch of the supreme mother?

Please tell us about the most famous Hindu mantra – Gayatri Mantra. It is said to be the oldest mantra chanted by mankind. [1] Why is so much importance given to this particular mantra in our scriptures🤨?