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My sister is a medical student and her college is introducing them to Transcendental Meditation of Maharshi Mahesh Yogi as a regular practice to do for 4.5 years. She is not a spiritual aspirant, and I am not sure if this practice is safe as I think they use some modifies beej mantras to relax the mind. Is it safe or should I discourage her to enroll in it?🧘✨🕯️🌊

It is a kind of beej mantra to relax the mind. Generally, this kind of meditation should not be of any harm. Whether to do

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I don’t know if this is a valid question, but I am asking here. The souls grow into psychic beings, as seeds into trees. My question – is this growth in every soul an addition to the total Divine Substance, as all souls’ substance is nothing but the Divine Himself? Does evolution contribute to the net addition in the Substance of the Divine? Is this a desirable gain?🌱🌳🕯️🌟

Yes very much so. Each element of creation is nothing else but a concealed divinity, like a raw material. It is our …

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What if the external comes attracted emotionally, and the Soul does not want? So the person goes away again and again? I always felt, it’s the soul which is rejecting, but external appreciates and wants, so it comes again and again. Because I am already initiated into Spiritual Life by a Divine Guru, I wanted to be sure through my Soul, which is The Real Call?🌅👁️🪐✨

Here is what Sri Aurobindo writes in the Synthesis of Yoga.

‘All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out

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Over a long period of time, quite passively, slowly, a faith has developed, possibly still in its early stages of formation.  If the Lord and the Mother say something which, if I grasp correctly, becomes my final word with least doubts. They are The Absolute Truth to me. I luckily had no religious background from childhood and was least interested in religion and “religious” God. What should be my FOCUS in this life on? 🎯🔍📍🧐  

One of the most beautiful answer that the Mother gave to this question about ‘Who am I’ is very simply, ‘the Divine in many disguises.

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Dear Alok da, I am in a very big dilemma for so long…it seems never ending. On one hand I feel that listening different masters and little bit of knowing all paths has benifit me and broadened my perspective in so many ways but on the other hand it makes me confused and I want to do a little bit of all sadhnas. Although I know my conviction of bhaktimarga being Supreme will not go but I can’t help myself spreading me too thin…pls help⚜️👑🪷🌌

The description of your journey clearly indicates that Sri Krishna is turning you from a narrow bhakti towards gyana. Once the basis of gyana is

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When I look at Sri Aurobindo, my mind gets concentrated on his left eye and then that eye of his seems as if it is looking at me like Mahakaal (the destroyer) and I like his looking at me like that and sometimes it happens that during the day while serving, that eye suddenly starts appearing on my third eye and when I bow to him, then that eye starts appearing, that means it happens many times during the day that his eye appears on my third eye. Is this because of looking at his picture too much or is it a true experience?👁️‍🗨️🔱🕉️🔥

Experiences, however subjective they may be always carry a truth within them. It is just that the interference of the ego and desires builds a

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I  have reached the 12th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita by Sri Aurobindo. I have one topic which I have not fully understood, this is making my further reading a bit slower. The roles/difference between Purusha and Prakriti . So what I have understood is Purusha is the male energy , Vishnu and Shiva (parabrahman) and Prakriti is the Female energy, shakti, force of creation and nature So how are nature and feminine energy related to each other? I understand it is force of creation because it is the feminine energy which can create a new offspring, is this the right interpretation (I don’t get it because even males play a role in creation)?🪈🐎☸️📜

Purusha and Prakriti are two aspects of one Consciousness. Purusha is the static witness mode whereas Prakriti is the dynamic active mode. This is the

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