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How to manage practicality and spiritual path…one says that Maa will take care…what about other necessities of life where one has to put efforts like financial freedom, family issues,and so on…If you offer anger to Maa that’s ok but sometime people take it oh how helpless and fool he or she is…How can one manage emotions smartly๐Ÿ™„?

If the Mother has to do everything then there is no need of sadhana or yoga or anything else.ย  This is just what Sri Aurobindo cautions about the tamasic surrender.ย  We have to do our part and let the Divine his own.ย  Our part is to make the right choices, apply our will steadily to reject the mixtures of lower nature such as fear, greed, anger, lust etc, to purify our nature of egoism, to replace desire and ambition with the spirit of service to the Divine, to make our heart a beautiful channel of Divine Harmony and love. This does not mean one stops working for livelihood and waits upon the Divine to provide money and shelter and all else that is needed. The Ashram was meant for those who want to take up that route, so that they don’t have to think about the basic material needs. But one cannot take that approach while in the world outside.ย  Though it may happen that the Divine takes care even of all our material needs there as well but that happens only when the self giving is complete and one is no longer moved by the whip of desire.ย  Until then we have to put in effort in both inner and outer life while leaving the results in the Divine hands, the nishkama karma of the Gita. One has to also practice equanimity in success and failure and yet continue to put efforts without faltering since now all we do, job, family,ย  other aspects of life must become a service and worship of the Divine Mother. Later one realises that even the effort was or is prompted, inspired and helped by the Mother. However even then one continues to work and put in efforts, in both inner and outer life, until the two grow one single unit, the outer perfectly aligned to the inner, our will and effort a natural outflowing of Her Will and Force.ย 

The same applies to emotions. One does not have to stop loving but love truly as the Divine loves and as far as our emotional needs are concerned we should depend only on the Divine.ย  To love the Divine Mother and let something of that love flow towards all with whom we are connected without any expectations from them is the great secret.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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