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Sometimes I am so upset in life; I think I should take up Yoga.

August 2, 2024

Yoga is not done by a despondent heart; it has to be done by a glad heart.

Despondence due to life situations is almost

What is the soul? How to discover it and what do we do after self discovery and realization. Is it possible to find out about our previous births?

August 1, 2024

Beautiful question for a 12 year old. It seems you are developed far beyond your age to ask such a question so I am very

I have turned 23 and I see people around me running after recognition and money. I too tried it but it doesn’t make me happy, but I still do it thinking I am might make a mistake of not utilizing the resources she has given. How do I create a harmony between being close to The Mother and work without delving in the pleasure of comfort or inertia?

July 26, 2024

Earn the money and use it for Her Work. Receive what you get from the world but know that it all comes from the Divine

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?

July 25, 2024

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

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?

July 22, 2024

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

Is it doing the yoga and wanting the Mother and serving Her, the ultimate aim of a person the same?

July 21, 2024

One can say that the ultimate aim is to become one with the Divine and growing one, to manifest the Divine since that is the

Sometimes without any reason I feel sad, depressed, no will to talk to anyone, a strong urge of leaving everything and Live in a Himalayan village (though don’t have dare to leave own comfort zone) etc. Whats the reason???

July 10, 2024

The state you describe is a kind of vairagya that sometimes takes the form of sadness. As you have experienced these feelings are like waves

I did not understand the difference between the central being and psychic being. The psychic being is the soul which we need to realise. Right? Then what is the central being?

June 24, 2024

The psychic being is the fully developed soul within man. The soul develops through the cycle of birth and death and rebirth just as a

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?

June 6, 2024

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