AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
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Any correlation between purusha being dismembered to create the world and the material world being food? Is the scenario of wild dogs devouring a deer and all the natural processes of life feeding upon life a reenactment of that original primal sacrifice in an inverted way🤔? I remember reading Upanishadic sages talking about everything in the world from physical to the spiritual processes being a sacrifice. Can we see even the world history from being isolated tribes dispersed throughout the globe to the global unit that is the earth today as reintegration of dismembered purusha through the wars and battles of history? Sri Aurobindo wrote a piece on kala purusha the devourer of legions and the opening of brihadaranyaka upanishad has the imagery of devouring of creatures the moment time came into being and western occultism has this image of chronus the father of time eating his own children. Sri Aurobindo also also mentions about agni being the flame of time and death and everything is his food. I know it’s a lengthy and complicated question but really want to get some clarity on the enigmatic Purusa sukta and how it’s broader implications operates in the cosmos

The sacrifice of the Purusha as described in the Purusha Sukta of the Rig Veda as well as the sacrifice of the Divine Mother as

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This question is related to a series of experiences I am having. As I have turned to the Mother and Sri aurobindo, I feel very close to mother kali which is weird because before this I Have never in my life prayed to a female deity. Kali ma is showing her presence every time I think of her. How do I pray 🙏to her in a way Sri Maa would like me to?

In Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga there is no separate praying to different powers and aspects of the Divine Mother that may become prominent in their action

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