AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
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Spirituality

Your today’s answer on Traditions shows how immature you people are. If she becomes even more stubborn, inspired by your response, what will the atmosphere be like in her home? Why don’t you teach or show a middle path? If she wears these things out of respect when she’s around her in-laws, what’s the harm? Change is bound to come from the next generation anyway, so why the rush? why not let today’s generation be a little more flexible in such emotional issues and prevent families from breaking apart?

The basis of holding families together should be mutual respect and love, acceptance of generational and other differences, above all truth that allows each individual

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Pranam Alokji,  can you please kindly explain to me this —- The sign that I am in contact with Perfect God is that there is    nothing in my life about which I will  complain!. Even in human relationships we see that a mother will not allow the child to jump from heights which it can not manage…and she permits simply because a child keeps on asking and afterwards saying to child that see it was you who asked for it..Such things happen only when they are out of control of human mother. But with devine mother you say nothing is out of her control.  So in perfect love (as you  understand God to be) what should happen that God by his power of oneness and devine love should share God,’s devine insights to the devotee so that devotee will not ask fo such things…🤨

To do what you say is an equivalent of creating automatons, a perfect faultless humanity, robotic and exact and artificial and false driven by AI

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Alok da,this is a question on “desire” as I’m trying to understand from what Sri Aurobindo wrote and also from my own little perplexion I’m facing in life right now. in the opening passage of national value of art Sri Aurobindo says unlike the simple primitive life, wants of vital instincts brought the hunger for wealth, luxury, beautiful women, rich food and drinks but also brought violence, fraud, selfishness etc…i was reminded of this passage when Someone online recently posted a weirdly fascinating piece of design they’ve made for their luxurious home and there’s this particular response to that post by praising it and mocking the glorification of so called banal minimalist houses, let me quote it for context “This is what you gave up when you chose minimalism. You gave up drama. You gave up spirit. You gave up whimsy. And you plastered all of it flat”🤔.

Minimalism and spartan living has little to do with spiritual life. The spiritual man and woman can sport with luxury, govern a kingdom, engage in

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Alok da , Throughout our two epics the proud heros make heroic proclamations on how they will not yield to fate, how they will challenge the fate with their will, manhood and courage, they display such a dynamism of self will and resoluteness in such moments and even Savitri’ s tale is about challenging fate but we have also this disposition towards surrender, of telling the mother let thy will be done. Is there any really a bit of conflict between both these standpoints? If my will and desire isn’t exactly in tune with the Mother’s will can I be stubborn like an angry child that I will rather die fighting for it rather than accept the fact that this might not be the Mother’s will🤨?

Here we have to first understand that the Divine Will does not operate freely in the world. If it did so the world would be

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