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World As It Is

Is it true that I have evolved from jad bastu? Then the stone flowing in the river, by striking one stone against another or on the land by sunlight & other environmental forces, it break down into small particles & gets a chance at life, like single-cell species: amoeba, bacteria, etc. ๐ŸŒฑโœจ […]

The Divine Presence is everywhere and in everything. The individual soul however enters when the need for individualisation begins, generally in higher mammals such as

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My question is: Namaste Alok Da. I was reading some predictions related to Pakistan and China by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo on the website. Was the Mother referring to a future event that is yet to manifest, or was this vision specific to that time period and did not occur due to divine intervention or a change in the working of forces? Is there any future possibility where China might invade India? ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ”Ž

The Mother was referring to a possibility that was trying to manifest since the formation of Communist China in 1949. Sri Aurobindo also spoke about

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Alok da, I was going through this work by the philosopher Descartes called Rules for the Direction of the Mind. So much of this work is about how to better purify the various human faculties of sense perception, memory, judgment, imagination, etc., so that one can observe minute facts of nature with precision and without prejudiced universal presuppositions and arrive at a true universal knowledge, which is arrived at only after mastery of minute particulars. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ“–๐ŸŒ„[…]

Certainly the Hindus knew the various means of purifying the mind and intelligence and, during the heydays of ancient India, the Vedic period and even

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We saw terrible destruction in Nepal due to the floods, and many innocent people, a large number of whom were visiting holy places at the time, were swept away. Why do we see such things happening constantly if there is a God somewhere? Why doesn’t God give us a single hint or clue of His existence? ๐Ÿ—ป๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ˜ฅ๐Ÿฅ€[…]

The idea and experience of God as well as natural disasters, even catastrophes, calamities have existed side by side since the very beginning of humanity

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A historian from the early 20th century, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, remarking on historical awareness in India, writes: โ€œProperly speaking India had no history. We as a race have no consciousness of it, for our history has been written mostly by foreigners โ€“ the Greeks, the Arabs and the Chinese. … ๐Ÿ“œ๐Ÿฅธ๐ŸŒผ[…]

This is the typical example of defining something in a particular (and limited) way and thereby destroying its truth. If history is merely about the

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