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Your words there have stayed with me, and they gave me the confidence to reach out now for guidance on an important inner dilemma. I come from a family where the worship of Lord Shiva has been passed down for generations. Should I keep Shiva inwardly in the heart while following the Motherโ€™s way, or is there a way to integrate both without inner conflict and without sending the wrong signal to family and children?๐Ÿ•‰๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฑ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒ™

Shiva is a mighty god and has a very important role to play in the New Creation. By internalising your bhakti for Lord Shiva you

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Dear Sir, from my teenage years onwards whenever I thought, contemplated and reflect about the divine in the form of Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Hanuman, Ganesha or in other forms, first there were adorations of the form, name, qualities, personality, pastimes and then sometimes if the intensity was enough and all other factors were right, the thought or imagination would slip or transcend from the deity to a colossal being or a virat Purusha who appeared as a huge silhouette with a sweet smile on his face, a deep darkness with profound peace and only the outline of the being was visible. Then in a great awe and bewilderment I would ask who are you or what are you. Though these incidents or imaginations were very rare, the effect and impression on the mind was considerable. Because of these imaginations I got a firm idea in my mind that all the incarnations and deities are actually the emanations of that one silent smiling supreme being. He is Rama, Shiva, Krishna but at the same time He is more than them, a very great and infinite but an individual being. These incidents continue even today, though very rarely. I have never shared this with anyone. I am very skeptical about these things and consider them to be mere figments of the imagination and fantasies but I love these images. Should I cherish these images or ignore them and move on ?

These are images cast by the Truth-imagination which is the formative faculty of the mind under the influence of Truth. It can be a help

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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;ย 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,ย seek only to know what God has set down as right and necessary.” Howย  am I to know if myย  choice of this yoga is God’s wish, He has set it right and necessaryย  or my heart’s passion?๐Ÿน๐ŸŽย ๐Ÿ›žโš–๏ธ

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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