Jai Maa. Today I was reading the Two Natures chapter from Essays on the Gita and there Sri Aurobindo explains that the desire in consonance with dharma does not lead to any bondage, while there he also mentions that desire born of Rajogun leads to bondage and misery. 📖✒️😊🙏🏻🌻[...]

3. How to know whether my actions are in consonance with the Swabhava or not?

He has already answered this, as you have correctly indicated, through the svabhava. Svabhava is the Divine Impulsion in creation that generates karma. It is the swabhava of the kshatriya to fight for truth and justice and conquer kingdoms, but govern them in a fair way. It is the svabhava of the Vaishya to generate wealth, opulence and luxury and so on and so forth. As long as one is acting under the impulsion of the svabhava, say, collecting beautiful things as expressions of beauty (Vaishya) or engaging in righteous battles (for a kshatriya), it is a desire consistent with his dharma.

To know the svabhava, one has to get rid of all artificial conditioning that pushes everyone towards money, fame, satisfying ambition and fear and lust and look carefully within for what comes most naturally to us, our purpose without which our life is meaningless, the deepest reason and motive hidden behind our outer strivings, our innate temperament, tastes and tendencies.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

I have been taking antipsychotics for the last 15.5 years (olanzapine 15 mg every night). The issue is – I feel a bad mood and irritation for 4-6 hours after getting up from sleep every day. Is it happening because of my psychosis condition, dear Alok da? 🔮😫😥🦋✨

March 12, 2026

Yes, it is due to an instability in nature. Psychosis itself is the result of this instability that arises because the consciousness has got centered around the little ego and perceives everything from that point of view. Learn to step back and do not accept every thought and suggestion or flow with every feeling as if it is true.

Reading all the writings, all the answers to my seekings, there remains a gap, a feeling of being unanswered. My inner call says that I can’t know anything fully while staying in the same dimension; there is a higher level or dimension than my present one, or maybe many of them, and only when I reach there, my quest will end. 🤔🌷🌄✨

March 12, 2026

Yes, of course, reading and writing prepare the ground, they are not a replacement or substitute for direct experience which comes through the meeting of Aspiration and the Grace.