Home » Questions on Mother, Sri Aurobindo and Savitri » I was listening to one of the talk where you mentioned about a book written by Anirvan which is on Gita. Can you please give the name of that book📖?
Anirvan translated The Life Divine in Bengali. You are probably referring to Anil Baran who has written the Bhagavad Gita with English translation and appropriate passages from Sri Aurobindo’s writings. It is available through SABDA.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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Taking the Divine Name helps but so long as the full faith and surrender is not there, these inner reactions will be there. Ask the Mother to give true faith for if one has done what one could do and left the rest in the hands of the Divine then there is no reason for worry. After all there are so many things, so many factors we cannot control, so many unseen forces we cannot fathom. The only way is to have faith that all will be well….
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