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How do you best prepare for the new year☀️?

The Mother would usher the New Year with Her music and a message. It is a beautiful way to start the New Year this way. 

Also to feel one’s inmost aspiration in the deep quietude, reinforce it with the fuel of renewed determination and faith in the future. Since it is a collective convention one should add to one’s own prayer, a prayer for the earth and humanity especially for the future. 

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Alok da, how much is the body linked to the development of the Will,? Do those people in professions which involve a thorough exertion of their hands and limbs intune with the head (like craftsman,painters, musicians, dancers,military men, chef’s and even agricultural labourers) have a scope for much development of the Will over those who don’t and are much more in the head(like software engineers,banks and students who spend hours infront of dense books reading), I believe mother once spoke on developing the consciousness of hand or something like that. Please illuminate

Those who work with hands or eye or mouth (speech) or brain develop more consciousness in those organs. It is not just the external instruments that develop by use but even more so, the consciousness in these organs that develops. 

Similarly with the will. It develops if we exercise it. When we do not give up something, be it an effort to understand, or to work with the hands or simply make an effort to be regular and punctual builds the will. One…

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Please tell me that how many types of meditation are there told by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo? Is namajapa a part of meditation? Which meditation is advisable for a mentally ill person? 🧘📿🕊️🙏🏻

Meditation is not meant for all. Besides it is the difficult path. The better, easier and swifter path is discernment, bhakti and works as Sri Krishna himself advocates. Sri Aurobindo and The Mother speak mainly of Aspiration, opening to the Divine, inner remembrance and offering leading to surrender. In fact these methods give quicker …

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In the context of the aim of life, Mother mentions, “ But if you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.” Please elaborate on how to use the one to realize the other. 🌑☀️🔥🙏🏻

It means that we often carry within us the opposite of what we are meant to realise. We all carry in us a divine possibility. But to bring it out we are provided within us the challenge, the opposition to the possibility that we must conquer. Take for instance someone meant to realise true love will find in his life surrounded by some of the ..

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