AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
Ask Alok da

Spirituality

How to manage practicality and spiritual path…one says that Maa will take care…what about other necessities of life where one has to put efforts like financial freedom, family issues,and so on…If you offer anger to Maa that’s ok but sometime people take it oh how helpless and fool he or she is…How can one manage emotions smartly🙄?

If the Mother has to do everything then there is no need of sadhana or yoga or anything else. This is just what Sri Aurobindo

Read More >

I had asked you about why is it that I am having difficulty associating with, let us say, pictures of Gods😇, Vishnu on Naga or Shankar on Kailash mountain. As I am studying more and more about Life after Death and Souls, I am realizing more and more, that although souls or spirits are pure energy, there must be some system as what happens to soul after he leaves the body. Let me explain further.

Quite so. We can look at the soul as the individualisation of pure energy or pure consciousness and hence it is a drop of Truth

Read More >

When you get a chance, can you please elaborate😳 on the below lines further. Thank you Alok da, “….The power of the vital should be mistrusted, it is a tempter on the path of the work, and there is always a risk of falling into its trap, for it gives you the taste of immediate results; and, in our first eagerness to do the work well, we let ourselves be carried away to make use of this power. But very soon it deflects all our action from the right course and introduces a seed of illusion and death into what we do.”

The Vital enjoys action for the sake of action. Its impetus is desire of one kind of the other. Though it starts with much apparent

Read More >

Can fate be changed🤪?

Yes, the intervention of Divine Grace can completely change even the most fixed fate. Human effort or purusartha can also change certain lines of

Read More >

How exactly does one meditate, and how is it done fruitfully? I see nothing and feel nothing when I meditate, I just close my eyes, and my brain is left, right and centre, and if I try and quieten it, it just goes blank and then after a few minutes I open my eyes again and that’s that. I don’t feel anything different, or a sense of peace…nothing. Many people say that meditation is the way to open the being and discover what is inside, but I am worried that I am incapable of ever experiencing that. What do I do to progress in it😇 ?

Meditation is only one of the ways to progress spiritually though neither the only one nor the easiest one. Bhakti is the swiftest but it

Read More >