I don’t know where my anxiety comes from. It feels like my body becomes tense suddenly, as though something bad were about to happen and my mind starts panicking. 🧘🏼‍♂️😰💖🌾[...]

I’ve been practising Pranayama with Breath Retention for 16 seconds, even though for very short periods (3-5 minutes). I don’t do any Asanas but do intense sports practices. Can you tell me whether this panic could be a result of Pranayama?

Some types of pranayama can lead to difficulties. The safe ones are Nadi shuddhi and very simply observing the breath without trying to regulate it. Simple deep breathing also helps. This should take away the panic.

Do practice asanas and set a time apart for calling Peace. 🌼

Affectionately,

Alok Da

How to open to the Mother and Surrender to the Mother? I understand the meaning and have read and listened to Talks on Surrender and Opening to the Mother. Could you please guide on a practical way of doing it in everyday life for the common man? 🌄🙂🙏🏻🪷

May 2, 2026

For Opening to the Mother:

1. Read Her works, especially Prayers and Meditations.

2. Read Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, The Mother with Letters on The Mother.

3. Think of Her and meditate upon Her Presence in the heart and the head….

I was reading The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, and in the chapters “Rebellion” and “The Grand Inquisitor”, Ivan raises certain points that actually shook me to the Core. For me, they had an impact similar to Yama’s arguments in Savitri. 📗📖😊🙏🏻🌷[…]

May 2, 2026

This is a question that has vexed every sensitive heart since the awakening of self-consciousness in man. Animals don’t suffer from the gift of reflection and the seeking for answers that the conscious experience of psychological suffering brings. Here itself we find the first hint of the intense suffering that we experience. …

In one of your videos on ‘Surrender of Desire’, you said that the best and safest way to ask for something is by saying ‘Thy Will be Done’. Sir, can you explain it in detail? ❤️‍🔥😊🙏🏻🌷

May 2, 2026

Desire is a movement of ignorance because we really do not know whether what our heart desires is really good for us or not. Often an apparent immediate success turns out to be a big obstacle from the soul’s point of view as …

ASK ALOK DA

AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER

Ask Alok da

I don’t know where my anxiety comes from. It feels like my body becomes tense suddenly, as though something bad were about to happen and my mind starts panicking. 🧘🏼‍♂️😰💖🌾[…]

I’ve been practising Pranayama with Breath Retention for 16 seconds, even though for very short periods (3-5 minutes). I don’t do any Asanas but do intense sports practices. Can you tell me whether this panic could be a result of Pranayama?

Related Posts

How to open to the Mother and Surrender to the Mother? I understand the meaning and have read and listened to Talks on Surrender and Opening to the Mother. Could you please guide on a practical way of doing it in everyday life for the common man? 🌄🙂🙏🏻🪷

I was reading The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, and in the chapters “Rebellion” and “The Grand Inquisitor”, Ivan raises certain points that actually shook me to the Core. For me, they had an impact similar to Yama’s arguments in Savitri. 📗📖😊🙏🏻🌷[…]

In one of your videos on ‘Surrender of Desire’, you said that the best and safest way to ask for something is by saying ‘Thy Will be Done’. Sir, can you explain it in detail? ❤️‍🔥😊🙏🏻🌷