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Can I use Durga Saptsati Mantras to pray and invoke The Mother, or any specific Devi Mantra/Beej Mantras to pray or invoke The Mother? My Kuldevi is Mother Dakshineswari Kali, so should I use Mother Kali Mantra to invoke The Mother or as a prayer to Her? Or any traditional prayer of Shiva/any Devta for “Maa Sri Aurobindo” – Please Please Guide Sir. 🙂🙏🏻🌷

The traditional Mantras invoke one or the other aspect of the Divine Mother. Each of these great goddesses has a specific function. Instead, why not

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yatroparamate chittaṁ niruddhaṁ yoga-sevayā | yatra chaivātmanātmānaṁ paśhyann ātmani tuṣhyati || 20|| sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam | vetti yatra na chaivāyaṁ sthitaśh chalati tattvataḥ || 21|| – Nothing more than Atma Sukham. Isn’t it? 😊🙏🏻❤️‍🔥

Greater than Atma Sukham is Atma abhivyaktim for which creation emerged and Atma paripoornata in which the Divine dwells.

Sri Aurobindo reveals in Savitri.

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Sunita Williams’ space travel is a thrill, clearly exceeds the bodily human limitations. Even the designing of the spacecraft and its functions are marvellous outgrowing example of the human brain. There are many such cases where human capabilities of body, will, and intellect cross human limitations to a great extent. 👩🏼‍🚀🛰️✨[…]

In ancient India there was no such dichotomy. Let me give a few examples. Arjuna and Bhisma both were yogis and had mastered the art

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There are a few rituals we perform for a departed person, like Asthi Visharjan, 13/40 days, and doing meditation in our Ashram here in Pondicherry. Do these rituals really help the Departed Soul, or is it more for the satisfaction of friends and relatives of the departed soul? What do the Mother and Sri Aurobindo say on these activities that we appear to take quite seriously? 🙄🙏🏻🪷

The ancient rituals for the departed were based on an occult knowledge that has now been lost. Its purpose was to dissolve the vital sheath

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Even if there is Maya dragging us away from the Divine, instead of shunning and running away from it, why don’t we face it as A Divine Power by dipping all the Vishayas (Rasa, Roopa, Gandha, Sparsha, Shabda). into The Divine Rasa, and make them Divine, and enjoy them as Divine Prasad with the mind offered to The Divine? ❤️‍🔥

Yes, we should experience it as the Divine experiences these objects. Enjoying them as Divine Prasad, and be ready to leave them if He so

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