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How can one maintain peace of mind, if one faces a property dispute court case, which by its very nature, is the killer of peace😢?

April 10, 2025

If you regard anything as yours and desire it for personal pleasure then obviously there can be no peace. Desires, wants and peace don’t go

Sir, is it not the air in the mind where it is, but space in the head? Therefore, does the ‘thought of the mind’ have any sound? Yet, it feels like I am hearing it. And when I speak, it strikes the ears because it is outside, and then we are able to hear it👂?

April 6, 2025

Thoughts move in the subtle ether. Besides Vayu is not just this physical Vayu. It is the power that lifts, expands and transfers everything within

Yesterday on my morning walk when I saw workers out there sweeping the roads it suddenly struck me that how much do we have to battle against the dust, rust and filth from our own homes to the entire ecosystems of cities. Corrosion, decay, smell and bacteria keep us on vigilance every single day. Is this cos of the inconscient foundation of the cosmos?How to understand it metaphysically🤨?

April 5, 2025

Not taking care of the material basis of life is the sign of unconsciousness and stems from the old idea of disgust of the world.

Why do people always seek to be seen as good by others? What mindset drives this attitude🤨?

April 4, 2025

Being seen good by others is different from being good. Being seen good stems from the need for social approval, often due to an underlying

I heard someone say that we, Hindus, have a responsibility to protect Sanatan Dharma. If we fail to do so, it may disappear within the next 200–500 years, and Hindus could become a minority🤔

April 3, 2025

These ideas of defending the dharma are probably based on the injunction in the Manu Smriti, repeated in the Mahabharata as below. धर्म एव हतो

With the pace at which AI💻 is growing, do you think it’s possible that it becomes an evil force and takes over as human’s masters? How does it fit into the journey of humans becoming superhumans! [Conti]

March 30, 2025

Increasing machination of life does pose risks, especially the atrophy of certain natural capacities and faculties of human existence. While a portion of the mind

Dear Alok da,as you may know, there will be a partial solar eclipse on 29th March. I don’t think it is just a coincidence that it falls on the same day as the Mother’s first arrival in Pondicherry. Could you please explain to me the significance of this event?

March 29, 2025

Solar eclipse works both ways. By cutting the direct impact of the energies of the sun it can set in gloom and despair in the

Alok da, if divine is everywhere, why I feel repelled at places like pan parlour, parties where people are smoking hukka, dirty toilets? Earlier could manage these places now I just can’t bear these places? Why i don’t have this samtha in me🫤?

March 29, 2025

Yes the Divine is everywhere and in everything but as the secret essence. However this Divine Presence is covered with a crust of ignorance that

Bhaiya, you often say in your talks that just because everyone is doing something, it doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing to do or follow. But we’ve also heard people say that if everyone is doing it, then it must be the right thing😣?

March 26, 2025

You must have heard of the flock of sheep, called in hindi as भेड़ चाल । it is the same thing. Sparrows and crows like

If the universe of time and space as we see it fluctuated out of spaceless, timeless void of unmanifest potentiality, once this happened does this unmanifest void have a role in the becomings and happenings of the universe or is it just there as quality less state without any interaction with happenings of the world🌏 like a certain view of nirvana suggests? Cos Sri Aurobindo talks about how things which perish are thrown back into unmanifest and reappear later in new forms and combinations and how things old and new are fashioned in these depths suggest that this void which is supposedly devoid of any qualities and movement is still interacting with the world in it’s dynamic becoming. So is this origin ever present and active or has no role whatsoever after once the universe came out of this void like some mokshavadins or nirvanists say?

March 25, 2025

If we accept the view of Sanatana Dharma as well as Sri Aurobindo’s own experience, this seeming Void, teeming with possibilities is very much present

Men 👨‍🦰today seem to be a whole lot less masculine and more emotionally weak than what they were in the past. What are the causes of this trend? Could it be that there is no longer mandatory military service and life became too comfortable? How to reverse this trend on an individual level? What are the practical steps and decisions?

March 24, 2025

As far as emotions are concerned women are (and always were) generally stronger than men. Social pressures have only further strengthened them. In fact the

Alok da there is a man in Kolkata just to raise attention for women equality👩‍🦰👨‍🦰, goes on the streets and wear women clothing, now I found this very absurd and ridiculous, please explain can woman equality be done by wearing woman clothing, I think this is just a gimmick to attract attention.

March 21, 2025

If women equality could come by wearing clothes then the logical way would be to popularize men’s dress for women. This is exactly what was

I was just reading Karl marx’s Short essay on the power of money, he wonders about this bewildering engimatic force which shapes our life and history and he quotes many of Sri Aurobindo’s favourite poets like Shakespeare and Goethe on how this mysterious force turns things upside down, Sri Aurobindo in Savitri covers everything about the cosmos even if it’s just a few lines but there’s isn’t anything about money if I am not wrong. Why is this so? Why is such a gigantic subject ignored🤔?

March 19, 2025

First of all there are a few presumptions there. Though Sri Aurobindo has appreciated Shakespeare and Goethe his appreciation of them is part of a

Few days back there was an incident in Baroda when a youth has consumed substances and crashed his car, when he came out of the car he did not even realise what had happened, videos have come of completely intoxicated and shouting, in all this a young person died, now i am asking from other side, i have read somewhere, Ma says that there are no accidents so then what about the person who died with no fault of his? how can one console his family😰?

March 18, 2025

The Mother says that the cause of accidents is unconsciousness. We call it accident and mean by the word that it is something that is

Da as we know this is the very critical and crucial time for all human beings on earth. The pandemic has already grasped all over the World. We can consider it as the instructions of the Divine action to separate the falsehood from truth. This alarming situation on the earth instructs everyone to cling to the truth. It is the action of supramental force. But Dada is it the only way to give a lesson to the world. The Mother once eradicated the Devil behind Spanish flu. But again this corona pandemic arrived. As we know from Ramayana and Mahabharata and many other stories the victory of the good will happens always and the Asuras are killed. But still then they are alive. The bad will has been now multiplied. What is the permanent solution of this crisis? What should we do now😪? Please da kindly reply it .

March 18, 2025

The Asuras cannot be killed for good since they hide themselves in the human heart and we help them do so. Therefore if the Divine

Why do we have exams📝?

March 17, 2025

Because we as human beings have this unfortunate need to standardise everything with the help of numbers. We wrongly believe that we can judge the

While I was watching your talk on the Worship of Beauty, a question came to my mind. Why is it that our bodies are unable to reflect our inner reality? There are people who are not physically very beautiful but are very beautiful on the inside. Likewise, there are attractive people who are mean and cruel. This is probably the Divine’s Play but again, it does not answer anything. So why is beauty here so out of place? In the future will the outer reality reflect the inner reality of a person🤔?

March 17, 2025

Very pertinent observation. The reason of course is a lack of translation or correspondence between inner Reality and outer truth in general. The material world

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How can one maintain peace of mind, if one faces a property dispute court case, which by its very nature, is the killer of peace😢?

Sir, is it not the air in the mind where it is, but space in the head? Therefore, does the ‘thought of the mind’ have any sound? Yet, it feels like I am hearing it. And when I speak, it strikes the ears because it is outside, and then we are able to hear it👂?

Why do people always seek to be seen as good by others? What mindset drives this attitude🤨?

I heard someone say that we, Hindus, have a responsibility to protect Sanatan Dharma. If we fail to do so, it may disappear within the next 200–500 years, and Hindus could become a minority🤔

With the pace at which AI💻 is growing, do you think it’s possible that it becomes an evil force and takes over as human’s masters? How does it fit into the journey of humans becoming superhumans! [Conti]

Dear Alok da,as you may know, there will be a partial solar eclipse on 29th March. I don’t think it is just a coincidence that it falls on the same day as the Mother’s first arrival in Pondicherry. Could you please explain to me the significance of this event?

Alok da, if divine is everywhere, why I feel repelled at places like pan parlour, parties where people are smoking hukka, dirty toilets? Earlier could manage these places now I just can’t bear these places? Why i don’t have this samtha in me🫤?

Bhaiya, you often say in your talks that just because everyone is doing something, it doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing to do or follow. But we’ve also heard people say that if everyone is doing it, then it must be the right thing😣?

Why do we have exams📝?