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Spirituality

I’m beginning to understand my inner conflict and desire for a more outwardly developing life. I’m confused about how to cultivate aspirations and the difference between living consciously and going with the flow. The teachings of Sri Aurobindo in ‘The Mother’ resonate with me about having a steadfast aspiration. Am I seeking the Divine for protection and power? I feel drawn to Ashram and Auroville living, but sometimes wonder if it’s pretentious. How can I anchor and focus my life? What human experiences should I look forward to🤷‍♂️?

There are quite a few people who get drawn into the Yoga or start living in spaces that are meant for Yoga without any conscious

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Gita mentions that sthitha pragnya as a being without निरहङ्कारः. Sri Aurobindo says that to be truly free of निरहङ्कारः, the nature has to be supramentalised otherwise the ‘I’ sense remains, though in a sublimated and divine way. So what is निरहङ्कारः according to the Gita🤔?

Nirahankar, निरहंकार, normoha, निर्मोह, ahamshoonya, अहमशून्य, are closely allied states. Nirahankar is the absence of egoism which is very much possible by the practice of

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If Asuras 👿and Devas 😇, good and evil souls all have to reach at the same goal with or without consciousness or other efforts then why one has to put so much efforts like surrender, sincerity, remember and offer , atmosphere, presence, discipline, punctuality? Can’ t one go through only faith wherever I am and whatever I am…with lot of defects and even full of ignorance. Divine will take me to my real and destined goal?

The Asuras and Devas do not reach the same goal. They both reach the Divine, which is a different thing. The Asuras are dissolved in

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Did India miss a chance to develop Sankhya into a systematic scientific research tradition like the Aristotelian school in the West, and was our veneration of Prakriti as a goddess a factor that inhibited the dispassionate, “desacralized” observation of nature required for modern science? 📜🔬🌿🏛️

Sankhya was more interested in solving the hard problem of consciousness with which scientists are grappling now. The Sankhya philosophers nearly solved it by bringing

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I find this concept a little speculative can you lease let me know your views on the following:I have been told that many gods 😇 and goddesses in Hinduism are simply the names of various forms of nurturing energies in the cosmos like : Brahma – creates forms, Vishnu/ Lakshmi – maintains & nourishes the form (Prosperity),Shiva / Kali – strength for survival. Ganesh – energy that remove obstacles, Savitri – Inspire intellect to act wisely….

…..Shakti in Tantra / Parvati in Puranas / Divine Mother – the sum total of all the energy in the universeThrough various modes of worship

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