AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER

Spirituality

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🤔.

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

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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?

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

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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?

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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I went for a healing Ayurvedic retreat. Here, we have yoga classes with a lot of pranayama practices🧘. Some involve more basic pranayama practices, whereas others involve kapal bhati and mula bandha, etc. I don’t really know much about these practices, but I heard that there are some dangers associated with pranayama. Is it better to avoid attending some of these classes and instead focus on more basic practices?

Pranayama, like any other technique or method is best done under an expert except for the basic practice of Nadi Shuddhi. Pranayama, especially Kapala Bhati

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Alok da, sometimes I feel that nature is holding me captive consciously. Sometimes the touch of God is felt in the entire consciousness, sometimes without any reason doubt and the absence of devotion is felt. Earlier this stage seemed to be the most depressed but now I don’t feel any difference. All of them have coming and are going on their own. I detach myself from this activities. Still I feel pain due to this unconscious spontaneous activities. There is a feeling in my heart that I too should worship my mother like Ramkrishna, Ramprasad etc had done but now everything is going in reverse. Still, I feel something inside that stay for some time and let mother do her work. In this state, how can I reveal the devotion and dedication that I was expressing earlier? How to face this situation in right attitude😥?

This Yoga is different from the bhakti Yoga practiced by Ramprasad and Chaitanya. It is a relatively slower but more complete process. Because it involves

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