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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; 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, seek only to know what God has set down as right and necessary.” How  am I to know if my  choice of this yoga is God’s wish, He has set it right and necessary  or my heart’s passion?🏹🐎 🛞⚖️

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. 🎂📝🎯🌱

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.🪷🌹♾️🌌

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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 I am able to meditate with immense ease in Puducherry. Be it Ashram, Auroville, Sharanam etc. Why is it hard for me to do the same concentration or meditation at home? Yes I need to create such atmosphere from scratch on a daily basis. I am not able to do it. Lately I feel the dire need to cleanse my aura and that’s possible by only concentrating on Mother and asking Her the guidance for the same. How much of concentration/meditation is needed? How can I inculcate that on a daily basis because you know how Indian households are. Help me out.🧘‍♀️🩵🕯️🕉️

Yes it is due to the atmosphere which is palpably different in the Ashram, Auroville and places dedicated to Sri Aurobindo and The Mother vis

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