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Is khandava daha parva basically about the clearing of the forests in the ancient times to make a way for the cities and civilized life? Agni desires to devour all the creatures and animals and Sri Krishna and Arjuna fullfill his desire without any mercy in slaying the animals in their warrior like frenzy and they later build Indraprastha over it, Even Ramayana too describes the dreary forests in all their gory and grim details, are the epics very much entangled in those times where clearing vast swathes of forests is a necessity for civilized life🤔?

April 20, 2025

But how else has any of the city developed? Even the place we are sitting and the cellphone on which we are typing is built

I my free time i keep on scrolling to YouTube Reels. How to stop this time killer addiction🙄? How to gain mastery on this? Please guide.

April 20, 2025

Have a clear goal for yourself, an ultimate goal so to say, and several mini goals as steps towards it. For example if the goal

Third question, you are going to laugh at, I did! I listen to old Hindi songs when I am cooking/cleaning, old habit. But a song came on from Hathi Mere Sathi 🐘 that Rajesh Khanna sings after K N Singh, kills his elephant Ramu, Nafarat Ki Dunia Ko Chodke Pyar Ki Dunia Me Khush Raho Mere Yar. This was movie, but in real life what would happen to that elephant’s soul?

April 17, 2025

Most animals do not have a crystallized individual soul. They are generally governed by the soul of the species. That is why they rarely have

Wanted to share something with you that happened to me in the last 1 week. So I’ve been together with my father celebrating his birthday. I don’t know enough about all of his friends to make judgments, but one of the “friends” living with us was a businessman who is very influential and supposedly has tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. He is relatively young for his success — 39 years old. He has great charisma and is very knowledgeable, his intellect often shining in discussions. I always knew that he was into some shady things in terms of money-making. But I just didn’t know to what extent. It turns out, my father told me, that his entire business is actually based on ripping poor people off😡. He has “call centers” where scammers working for him call innocent elderly people, war veterans, students, and all kinds of other vulnerable people, and tell them that their “bank account is frozen and they have to pay a certain amount of money to unblock it”, and other similar lies — all aimed at scaring and threatening these people to make money off them. And the worst thing is that these people are often times already highly vulnerable and poor in the first place. Another business that he has revolves around microfinancing, where people are given short term loans that quickly rise in interest. Again, the whole thing is meant to scam people. . A person takes 100-200 dollars to buy something, and in many cases they do it under difficult circumstances such as having to buy medicine, or under influence of drug addiction or gambling addiction. And the interest rises every week or month to the point where the initial 100 dollars becomes 10 thousand dollars in a matter of months! And then, they take away that person’s apartment [conti]

April 15, 2025

I truly appreciate your idealism and fully endorse it. It requires a great courage to stand up for what you consider as true values even

Alok Da, You keep saying that Education should always be Free. Then, what has been the need of Guru Dakshina is not an honorarium. It is a spontaneous expression of gratitude in a student who has been trained and equipped to meet the challenge of life, whose mind and heart have been shaped by the Guru, and in? Isn’t this some form of honorarium to the teacher🤔?

April 14, 2025

Guru Dakshina is not an honorarium. It is a spontaneous expression of gratitude in a student who has been trained and equipped to meet the

Rule of ego may be over but it doesn’t appear so in the outer life today, especially in India – I just went there for month and saw it myself how the culture has turned to worship anyone with 100 Cr + and all the rest of the nonsense – how 50% of the people are living in horrible conditions and the 2.5% are controlling everything. Now one thing about these ‘big heads’ is that they all have a massive ego – ego beyond anything – they live in the vital and hold a lot of lower vital force😥.

April 14, 2025

Appearances are often misleading and as far as the average mass of mankind is concerned, especially the breed of politicians and business houses, it is

Who was prophet Mohammed? What were his influences? How does he relate to the Arabs🤨?

April 13, 2025

The Dark Ages of mankind saw the birth and rise of two Religions, Islam and Christianity. It was a time when post Buddhism and Mayavada,

What to do in situations when you feel uncomfortable going to social functions because of people getting drunk there, etc. when it’s your close relative’s invitation😥? Socially, it would be considered rude and devious to decline attending such events. In terms of one’s career, it can even be harmful to do so because you will miss out on a lot of business opportunities, as ridiculous as it may sound. But on the other hand, I find myself really feeling uncomfortable in such events, almost suffocating. Is it okay to openly share that due to your spiritual path, you don’t want to engage in such activities, or is it better to come up with some excuse or other, such as you have some important work to do, etc? This is a situation I’m facing on a regular basis, and so far I’ve only been submitting to the pressure, to my own discomfort and dissatisfaction.

April 12, 2025

I can understand this very well having gone through it during my Air Force days. I can share my formula with you and it is

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

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