How can I cultivate patience when things aren't going my way😓? I recognize that my karma is at play, and I know I should chant prayers, but I'm struggling to find the patience within myself.

For us Westerners, it is sometimes difficult to arrive at a clear understanding of the steps involved in this yoga, because certain terms carry different meanings in a Western context. 🧭🪷[…]

September 13, 2026

Yes I understand that. There is a difficulty with the Indian mind also because we are accustomed to a certain spiritual outlook that often misses many intermediary links that connect the spiritual and the material.

These links serve as various roads and bridges or else as roadblocks, obstacles to our spiritual journey. In simple words our nature, meaning thereby our thoughts, feelings, impulses, motives, passions, desires, the entire range…

It’s so sad, Alok da, to fight over money and property and forget the emotional bond. Cheap narrow-mindedness. That’s too my dad’s money. Not brothers or SiLs. So wrong. 💔💰

September 13, 2026

Yes but the world is full of such things. Even great wars have taken place over women, wealth and power.

Please refer to Prayers and Meditations prayer on August 13, 1914, where the Mother writes, “…accept the offering of my being despite its little worth and its limitations: Come.” My question is: if Mother is the Divine Mother, then why is She calling herself “being of little worth and limitations”? 🙏🏻📖

September 13, 2026

Here is a letter of Sri Aurobindo himself explaining this in response to a similar question.

‘In some of the Mother’s prayers which are addressed to “divin Maître” I find the words: “avec notre divine Mère”. How can the Mother and “divin Maître” have a “divine Mère”? It is as if the Mother was not the “divine Mère” and there was some other Mother, and the “divin Maître” was not the Transcendent and had…

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How can I cultivate patience when things aren’t going my way😓? I recognize that my karma is at play, and I know I should chant prayers, but I’m struggling to find the patience within myself.

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It’s so sad, Alok da, to fight over money and property and forget the emotional bond. Cheap narrow-mindedness. That’s too my dad’s money. Not brothers or SiLs. So wrong. 💔💰