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Why do I experience deep fall in consciousness intermittently? Why do I commit inexcusable acts whenever I start approaching the Mother and Sri Aurobindo with much intensity? I have encountered these situations many a time, whenever I come to Pondicherry, or when I am returning from Pondicherry, after a Satsang at home, or returning from attending a Satsang at the Centre. I commit blunders after blunders in many ways, in expressing my ego, my arrogance, my anger, my fight, my jealousy, my idleness, my desire for food, gossip and sex skyrocket whenever I start becoming serious in my Sadhana. I feel some rush of unknown massive adverse force has captured me in parallel to The Mother’s Force within me and is not letting me go towards The Mother or do any kinds of Divine work. Sometime I feel so devastated and helpless within that I am worried about the consequences of acting against the Divine Will. Please guide me how to tackle these forces within?

This is quite a common experience. The Mother has described it stating the reasons for the same. Savitri also describes it beautifully. ‘The high and

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You talk so many times of detachment in general life. Either it’s relationship which hurts anyone or the homely or office life from which one is not satisfied. But how should I detach from the outer things happening in my life whether it’s bad or good. What is the process of that? Can you please elaborate the method. There are times in my life when I have a problem and I am unable to find any solution to that, will detachment to that problem will help me? Will it give me less pain ? Or will it help me to find a way?

By attaching oneself to the Divine one gets more and more detached with the surface play of the world which is essentially a play of

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I am a married woman and a new mother, I have always wanted to take up this yoga and read books of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. But due to my other duties I am unable to give myself completely to this yoga. Is it possible that I can do this yoga while carrying on my worldly duties. I do read books but it takes me time to grasp the subject but your lectures and talks helps me a lot Has mother given any simpler way to do this yoga ? And as a new mother how should I inculcate the teachings of Sri Aurobindo in my daughter. I am staying in USA and I am scared that my daughter is going to learn things in this western country which is most of the time very superficial and doesn’t help in any inner growth. Kindly suggest me what should I do?

The world and God are not as opposed to each other as they seem to be. God dwells in world and governs the world-play from

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Sometimes i feel a peace in my lower abdominal part but it is not everlasting a long time. Due to this reason the centeral pressure of my heart also not staying permanently which gives peace, wideness, bhakti and the feeling of fearless. Why this is happening? Is it any process of this yoga? But now when the difficulties arises then i have smiling in every situation. Every time i recite “All this is belongs to the Mother”, in this recitation i feel a strong obstacles arising but don’t affect the peace in the heart. Many types of difficulties coming but something in my sense feel that if the difficulties coming then it must be offered to the mother so that it will be solved. Have my experience is right? How to be totally get rid of this difficulties?

Difficulties are part of the journey and the work of the Yoga of transformation. It is a long process and one has to go through

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