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In the light of Gita’s concept of tyaga and sanyasa, can we look at Buddha’s spiritual actions as an example of sanyasa, external renunciation? Because he gave up on kingdom and family to be able to pursue Truth. Then again, from what I have read of Buddha’s words himself, he did not pay much attention to external fanfare. He told the monks ‘You can put on the robe in fifteens minutes but learning true monkhood will take you lifetimes of effort as one needs to have a pure mind first.’ This looks like he emphasised more on tayra 🤨. I was wondering how you look at this.

April 11, 2025

I never felt a sanyasi in the Buddha just as I never felt a sanyasi in Sri Aurobindo leaving behind everything as he sailed to

What is the difference between Psychic realization and Psychicisation? Similarly what is the difference between Spiritual Realization and Spiritualization🤔?

April 11, 2025

Psychic realization means finding the soul with its attendant consequences of ahaituki (unconditional) bhakti and absolute self giving to the Divine. Psychicisation means all the

Can one be established in the soul🌟 through actions?

April 10, 2025

What else is the Gita all about. Of course plenty of Yogis such as lineage of Janak, Sri Krishna, Arjuna and Sri Aurobindo himself found

Do I think too much?I told you during meditation some thought/question attracts my attention and I is strong enough that I know I need to find the answer. And when I get that ‘AHA’ moment I know that is the correct answer. I get physical reaction at that moment too. The best way to describe it is what I have seen on tv and in movies, when the fine electric shock to person’s heart to bring him back. I kind of feel mild jolt near heart and I get a mild convulsion thru my body. No pain, no discomfort. What is this🤔?

April 10, 2025

It is an aha moment, the opening of an inner door leading to a flash of insight…..

You mentioned in one of your speeches that people typically seek a spiritual path when they are dissatisfied with the world or realise its limitations. The first strategy is a little pessimistic because Mother mentions that if the same world begins to meet your wants, you might become enamoured or attracted once more. However, what if we are just in the initial stage, such as being unhappy with the world? Does it still serve as a launching pad for our spiritual development🤨?

April 9, 2025

Yes certainly whatever makes one turn towards and seek the Divine, even if it be for material goods or well-being is fine. But for this

It would help if you could clarity two terms Life and Thought, from the Life Divine. This is from the opening para of the chapter Reality Omnipresent: Since, then, we admit both the claim of the pure Spirit to manifest in us its absolute freedom and the claim of universal Matter to be the mold and condition of our manifestation, we have to find a truth that can entirely reconcile these antagonists and can give to both their due portion in Life and their due justification in Thought, amercing neither of its rights, denying in neither the sovereign truth from which even its errors, even the exclusiveness of its exaggerations draw so constant a strength🤔 (pg. 29)

April 9, 2025

Life is the means through which matter begins to aspire and seek, however vaguely towards the Spirit. Life is also the energy needed for anything,

Please inform what is the difference between Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri Mantra and previous Gayatri Mantra🤔?

April 8, 2025

There are three things to be considered in a mantra, the Chhanda or metre, the Rishi or the Mantradrsta, the Deity to whom it is

Alok da, where is the mind located? Can it be located🤨?

April 7, 2025

Mind as a principle is a plane of consciousness that extends across several layers. These layers or levels of consciousness has each its separate Time-Space

What I understand here is, in old Yoga also there was Psychisization and Spiritualization although they were using this for Liberation only🤨?

April 7, 2025

Not psychicisation and spiritualisation but psychic and spiritual realisations except for some incidental changes in nature. If one reads carefully the literature and life of

In one of the answer you advised us to approach one of the main four gods. What about the goddess?What if the main four aspects of the divine is represented as follow:-1) Sat / Brahma 2) Chit-Tapas / Shiva- Shakti 3) Anand / Vishnu. The above looks more appropriate to me based on the Chapter 12 – Vishnu, the All-Pervading Godhead of Part 2 of The Secret of the Veda🤔.

April 6, 2025

If this appeals to you, it is fine. Sri Krishna would not object to it. However here is what Sri Aurobindo himself has written. <br

Please help me to understand difference between Energy of Science and Concept of Shakti in spirituality.

April 3, 2025

The Energy of Science is part of jada prakriti or material nature. Just like matter itself it is unconscious in itself and acts by a

I heard someone say that we, Hindus, have a responsibility to protect Sanatan Dharma. If we fail to do so, it may disappear within the next 200–500 years, and Hindus could become a minority🤔

April 3, 2025

These ideas of defending the dharma are probably based on the injunction in the Manu Smriti, repeated in the Mahabharata as below. धर्म एव हतो

Often when I go into solitude for meditation🧘‍♀️ for a prolonged period interesting things happen. Prophetic dreams, etc. 1.5 years ago I was down with covid and couldn’t see anyone for a week. I was feeling very bad and spent entire days sleeping. One day, I woke up from such a heavenly dream that I will never forget that experience. The dream was very very simple — it was me walking around some “school” if it can even be called that” with a few friends. The location was in some picturesque place in the nature. And I literally felt when I woke up that I wish I had NEVER woken up. It was such a deep feeling of loss that I experienced when I woke up because what I felt in the dream was just absolute Bliss. There is simply no other way to describe that state. And I bet in life there is no experience that can compare with the state of supreme serenity, absolute happiness, and joy beyond all imagination. Just wanted to share this because I haven’t felt that way since, and I still don’t know why that beautiful experience came in the middle of my illness. Could it be that my mind was completely shut off at that point in time, so I could experience something much deeper?

April 3, 2025

Sometimes a state of outer crisis, an illness for instance, open an inner door of help. A withdrawl from the waking state is anyways conducive

This pertains to your today’s answer explaining Divine Vs Occult forces. Which gods and goddesses we worship now a days comes under the divine and occult category🤔?

April 2, 2025

The great gods are mainly the four original. They represent the four aspects of the One Sacchidananda. Brahma or Sad Brahma is Sat or pure

What I was feeling in the center of chest that also I feel in the belly part. What is this🤔?

March 31, 2025

It is a pressure of the Force of Yoga on the lower centres trying to open it. It is the seat of resistance and the

Dear Alok da,as you may know, there will be a partial solar eclipse on 29th March. I don’t think it is just a coincidence that it falls on the same day as the Mother’s first arrival in Pondicherry. Could you please explain to me the significance of this event?

March 29, 2025

Solar eclipse works both ways. By cutting the direct impact of the energies of the sun it can set in gloom and despair in the

What to do if there is something Divine has given us to do and we keep failing and time is running out? Divine also try with us and still we fail. It is Divine’s will and still it does not succeed. As if Divine is also subjected to nature and cannot overcome it. How can it be because I thought the Divine is all powerful🫤?

March 27, 2025

The Divine is indeed all-powerful and if one refuses to give up and is ready to endure with faith the battle and the struggle in

If the universe of time and space as we see it fluctuated out of spaceless, timeless void of unmanifest potentiality, once this happened does this unmanifest void have a role in the becomings and happenings of the universe or is it just there as quality less state without any interaction with happenings of the world🌏 like a certain view of nirvana suggests? Cos Sri Aurobindo talks about how things which perish are thrown back into unmanifest and reappear later in new forms and combinations and how things old and new are fashioned in these depths suggest that this void which is supposedly devoid of any qualities and movement is still interacting with the world in it’s dynamic becoming. So is this origin ever present and active or has no role whatsoever after once the universe came out of this void like some mokshavadins or nirvanists say?

March 25, 2025

If we accept the view of Sanatana Dharma as well as Sri Aurobindo’s own experience, this seeming Void, teeming with possibilities is very much present

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