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Alok da Mother has told never leave your children with servants and all. Around here in the cities parents leave their children to the servants all the time, what will happen to these children? What psychological and developmental problems happen to these children😡?
Yes it is never a good thing to leave your children with servants since generally (not always though) they carry a rather low consciousness on
“Educate the Will first, through the Will educate the Jnanam, through the Jnanam purify the Chitta, control the Prana and calm the Manas. “. Alokda, will you kindly explain how to educate the Will and through it the Jnanam🤨?
This is from an early automatic writing of Sri Aurobindo through his inner contact with the spirit of Ram Mohan Roy. It is the tantric
Sir, is it ok to do worship to Maa only and not any other god🤔?
Yes our surrender should be only to the Divine Mother. ..
How should you deal with people whether friends, colleagues or others where you’ve put in genuine effort to maintain the relationship, but they respond with indifference, disinterest or little reciprocity😏?
Their response is their karma. We should not be effected by how they respond. But yes one should see and understand the nature of such
I’ve heard that observing the Janmashtami fast is said to be equivalent to the merit of a hundred or more Ekadashi fasts. Is their any special significance of doing fast on that day🤨?
There is no such short cut method to our inner evolution and God is not pleased by us keeping hungry one day or many days
Tom, very fortunate day is coming, the 15th August The Birthday of Sri Aurobindo🙂, this year it is coincidence that 15th August is Sri Krishna Birthday too, it is called Mohratri ( one of the four nights which is important for sadhna purpose and Mantra jab, Four nights are Kalratri, Maharatri, Mohratri, Darunratri).
Om namo Bhagawate Sri Arvindaye will be best and most appropriate.
Alok da, in Hinduism, is marriage allowed between second cousins? Are there any consequences? What are your thoughts on it🤔?
A classic example is Arjuna’s marriage to Subhadra. She was indeed his distant or rather step cousin. There are other examples too.
It is
This year Janmashtami is falling on 15 August. I don’t recall ever seeing Sri Aurobindo’s birth anniversary and Janmashtami fall on the same day. What is the significance of this😌?
The coinciding of the birthdays of Sri Aurobindo and Sri Krishna would indicate the manifestation of a greater potency of the Divine, of Truth and
How do you say No to someone you are deeply in love with, yet know that you cannot marry😥?
One should say as simply and directly as one should. There should be nothing to fear if there is love for love understands perfectly. At
I would like to bring to your notice that some of the answers from last year and earlier are not accessible on the website. For example, I am unable to open the answer from 17 October 2024, which contains a Mathematics-related photo and a question along the lines of “Why do we study maths in school when it is not applicable in daily life?” The page displays the message “Access is denied😏.”
Thank you for bringing it to our notice. Will surely look into it.
“Fear 😨is the greatest impurity.” How can one overcome fear in the workplace? For example, I sometimes feel frightened that I might make a mistake at work.
Faith is the remedy, faith in oneself, faith in one’s destiny, faith in the Divine and along with faith, surrender to the Divine Mother’s Will
I remember reading somewhere that the Sun is like a black dot against the Supramental Light, please could you remind me where I read that😌
Some people get a pain in the eyes when they look at the sun and are obliged to put on dark glasses because sunlight is
In our daily life, Why we study maths? What Sri Aurobindo’s say about mathematics✖️➕➗?
We study mathematics to make the brain wide and complex as well as to teach us the mysteries of existence, to wonder at the patterns
In Savitri🕊️, Is Aswapati the aspiring soul, Savitri the Divine Mother, and Satyavan the human soul? If not, what do these three figures symbolise?
Aswapati is a divine being from the higher consciousness who has come to earth to help. By assuming a human body he becomes the representative
How important is it to be spiritually on the same page in a marriage. Is it not that its a journey for both the partners where one is behind and one is ahead. Being behind or ahead should not matter as long as the journey takes them to the same destination🛣️
It of course helps if both the partners are on the same path and have the same goal. It creates a bonding at the deepest
Respected sir, why some souls🔥 had to undergo extremely painful and horrific death, what impact they have on souls evolutionary journey? Is it the choice of the psychic being prior to birth to go through such circumstances to gather experiences for evolution?
The soul does not suffer. Its substance is immortal and not subject to suffering and pain. It is only due to its identification with the
Respected Alok Da, How can I maintain a healthy and respectful dialogue with a close friend of 22 years, when our recent conversations have started to feel judgmental, heavy, and emotionally draining—despite my deep affection for him😥?
Keep the affection but avoid the discussions. The mind takes certain positions based on its angle of vision and then it gets fixated upon it.
I remember reading a poem somewhere but struggling to find it again. It was a poem where Sri Aurobindo 🪷 describes beholding the Divine/Peace and describing something like Peace having a face, eyes and features. Looking up at it. I can’t remember the wordings further.
The poem that you are possibly referring to is Shiva where Sri Aurobindo describes Shiva’s face as a mask of Peace.
‘Shiva
A face
