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I see a lot of people nowadays in the spiritual community going for Vipassana retreats. I don’t need to explain what it is. On the other hand, a lot of devotees of Mother don’t spend many hours meditating. To my rational mind, it seems like those who practise vipassana 10 hours a day seem to be making a lot of progress because of their tapasya. On the other hand, I feel no inclination to follow this path. Can you give an overview of the significance of vipassana meditation from the Integral Yoga’s standpoint🤔?

May 20, 2025

Vipassana meditation is a good practice to quieten the mind. The same can be achieved through the practice of Witnessing or inculcating the Sakshi bhav.

Many people have lost faith in ashrams due to past incidents involving fake spiritual leaders, fake babas, leading them to dismiss the entire path as meaningless. They also lack proper guidance in life, most were simply pushed into the cycle of studies, jobs, and earning money, and eventually got caught up in it all😡.

May 16, 2025

Guru is a medium to connect us to the higher consciousness. The psychic being does the same for those who are developed. The Guru can

In one of the answers a few days back you mentioned that -All gods are not the same in power and effect. Each god represents some aspect of the One Divine and hence the response gets filtered through the aspect that we worship. But in sahasranama the god is praised as supreme. Why so🤔?

May 15, 2025

Each god of the Puranas is also regarded as the Supreme. We may rest with the gods in a transactional approach of give and take

I want to know how can one realise presence of a Psychic being 🌟in Oneself. How can a person know He or She has a Psychic being or He or She has only a vital being?

May 13, 2025

Most human beings will have a psychic spark at least barring a few. Those very few who may not have a psychic spark are usually

Why are people who follow a spiritual path often labeled as saints or considered boring by those around them😳?

May 12, 2025

Because the ordinary humanity cannot understand them and it is the tendency to condemn, criticize, mock or belittle what one does not understand. Just ignore

Sometimes I feel following a spiritual path make one feel lonely🤔.

May 9, 2025

Yes initially it does so because one becomes somewhat disengaged from life as it is today. In a way it helps focus one’s consciousness upon

Invitation to Travel. Let’s cast off the moorings of the mind for the open sea.What is the difference between a mental solution and a spiritual solution? A mental solution to a conflict between two or more people will always be shaky and may become the cause of new problems, right? Seeking a mental solution is energy-consuming because we want to understand, and in order to understand, we can lose sleep. We think about it all the time! The difficulties encounter, the challenges are like goads. We go from involution to evolution⛵.

May 8, 2025

It is not just a question of consuming Time and Energy. It is a question of qualitative difference between the mental consciousness and the spiritual.

Do souls always get reborn in the same gender? If so, why🌟?

May 6, 2025

Though the soul itself has no gender, Nature has the masculine and feminine energies. Generally the soul follows the same line of energy (masculine or

In your responses, you emphasize inner life, inner growth, and the inner self. What exactly do you mean by these terms? And how should we do that🤔?

May 5, 2025

There is an outer personality consisting of our habitual reactions, habitual thoughts and feelings and impulses based on the immediate sensory input. This surface personality

With all our gods and goddesses😇, why did we suffer such violence, such brutality at the hands of these savages for 1500 years? And still suffering to these day, wherever we are the minority. What’s the point of having all these gods and goddesses if they can’t protect their people? Where are they hiding? Why are they watching from a safe distance while we go extinct here?

May 3, 2025

The gods, i mean the true gods who govern the universe as cosmic managers, do not act in a partisan manner as we would like

What is the difference between quieting mind and Silence mind? What comes first quieting mind or silence🤨?

May 2, 2025

Quiet mind is an undisturbed mind. The thoughts are there but luminous and beautiful, not restless or stormy..Silent mind is a mind completely free of

In previous times whatever I feel in the lower abdominal part (a pressure) now that same thing I feel in my physical heart. A strong pressure act on this place that give a lot of pain in my physical heart. By her grace the lower nature part remain peace or calm but in a moment when the negative thought or things arise then the physical heart💗 feel a strong pain it seems my heart is breaking. What is this? What is the pain inside of physical heart?

May 1, 2025

Pain in the heart is due to the pressure of the psychic being. It is perhaps this pressure that brought calm in the lower nature.

I came across these difficult passages from the Vedas📖. The following are the mantras: I shall now disclose that the father produced seven kinds of food through meditation and rites. One is common to all eaters. Two he assigned to the gods. Three he designed for himself. And one he gave to the animals. On it (food) rests everything-whatsoever breathes and whatsoever breathes not. Why are not these foods exhausted although they are always being eaten? He who knows the cause of this inexhaustibility of the food eats food with pre-eminence (pratika). He obtains identity with the gods and lives on nectar. [Yajur Veda, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I, V-Manifestations of Prajapati, 1] What are the 7 kinds of food,what is meant by 2 he assigned to the gods?

May 1, 2025

Food involves all that we take in, consume. Prana or life energy is common to all. Material food is given to animals and all that

Yesterday I was just laid on my bed looking at the ceiling listening to music. And I was just thinking of Mother Her Sweetness. I had my eyes open and whilst the music was playing I went into this state of just inexplicable distance. Still with eyes open, I saw a majestic, cosmic, energy with colours I can’t really name. But like a mix of orange and yellow but very subtle colours not powering or crude to the “eyes” (eyes open I don’t know how to explain). Then there were two parts to me. One who was witnessing what’s about to happen and one part of me partaking.

April 30, 2025

It is a very rare Grace, an experience of the Divine Mother in Her cosmic aspect and the psychic being (the tiny part which is

Each god has two functions related to we humans :-1) In religious sense they are supreme since they can fulfill any legitimate wish to lead a good life but in ignorance. 2) In spiritual sense they are just different aspects of the supreme managing the creation but can be taken as door through which one can pass over to the supreme. Am I understood correctly?

April 30, 2025

Yes, but with a slight correction. In the religious sense, each god cannot or would not fulfil all the wishes. For example Saraswati can give

How can we understand the below two truths together: 1) Manifestation will never end because the Divine is eternal and infinite. 2) The highest is what we call Purushottama, but man can get to the Ananda plane only.

April 30, 2025

Manifestation is not only about passing from one plane to another, as for example, from the vital life of an animal or plant to the

As I am Srimad Ramayanam, Srimad Bhagavadam, definitely they give a clear insights about Divine qualities different and higher than even Satwic, or ascetic qualities,we come across among Great kings and Rishis, Tapaswins. So personally for me reading SriRama, Srikrishna, Kapila, Vamana , all very helpful in understanding SriAurobindo’s evolution theory of Man into Divine. Secretaly every body cherishes to be like SriRama , MotherSita , but feel it’s impossible, so self contented with reading about them, meditating on them, we close the book। But SriAurobindo gives a different dimension to our thoughts that even I can become a Perfect Part of The Divine Lord Rama or The Divine Mother Sita , embracing some divine qualities from them.

April 29, 2025

Yes these books help nourish our psychic parts until we are ready to undertake the journey and become what we presently hardly understand.

Can you explain to me the difference between brain🤯 and mind ? Can you rationally explain the existence of something beyond the physical organ. To me it seems obvious that everybody is different because of genetic makeup, their environment etc. but Roshni is saying there is something beyond brain that operates and tried to explain but I can’t see the logic in it nor understand what she’s trying to explain it’s too complex.

April 27, 2025

That things, even material things exist beyond the limits of the senses is well known, isn’t it. The universe is teeming with very small objects

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