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We know of so many people who are facing impossible situations and problems and they are helpless. They do not know what to do or whom to ask.
This is a dedicated site for those who are searching for answers, who want to break from their present repeating circles of life and looking for answers that will understand them, help them find a new way-a new solution towards life beautiful and Divine.
Why is it that some 50-year-olds, despite having experienced so much in life and claiming to be wise, still fail to grasp certain basic truths? When I ask them not to think negatively, they insist they’re not being negative, just realistic. They say, “This is how humans are. We have endless responsibilities. You younger ones won’t understand, our minds are always preoccupied.” I can’t help but wonder how, after all these years, they still haven’t learned the fundamentals.😡
Yes some people never really grow up and learn. Instead they take it that whatever they have been or learnt is the ultimate truth and
Hi Alok da. I wanted to ask why Pakistan was formed? What was the Divine purpose? I didn’t understand🤨? Thank you!
As we read yesterday, Pakistan was the result of a deformation of the Divine Will by the forces of falsehood using politicians with gigantic ambition
What is death😳? What is after death?
Death is simply a dark passage from one life to another. The body is like a house and the circumstances of our life are like
In his book “The Mother”, Sri Aurobindo writes–”In all that is done in the universe, the Divine through his Shakti is behind all action but he is veiled by his Yoga Maya and works through the ego of the Jiva in the lower nature.” What does “Yoga Maya” mean? How does the Divine work through man’s ego🤔?
Yoga Maya is the power of the Divine through which He limits Himself into form and name. Thus the jiva feels himself a limited being
I want to know how can one realise presence of a Psychic being 🌟in Oneself. How can a person know He or She has a Psychic being or He or She has only a vital being?
Most human beings will have a psychic spark at least barring a few. Those very few who may not have a psychic spark are usually
Hi Alok ji, I had to ask few questions to ask, since I had to face a super disturbing event recently. Hi Alok ji, I had to ask few questions to ask, since I had to face a super disturbing event recently🫨. Let me share the following incident:
Such people are not worth paying attention to. It is like a pig trying to push the Himalayas by striking against it by its head.
Why are people who follow a spiritual path often labeled as saints or considered boring by those around them😳?
Because the ordinary humanity cannot understand them and it is the tendency to condemn, criticize, mock or belittle what one does not understand. Just ignore
In Agenda volume 13, April 7, 1973 it looks like Pranab da treated both the Mother and Satprem badly. Why did he restrict Satprem from meeting the Mother? It is said that Nolini da and Champaklal, all were scared of Pranab da. Why is that🤔?
This is of course Satprem’s version. He could have sent a letter to the Mother asking for Her audience or simply waited to see if
Alok da, since last 15 days we are struggling to make our 11 year old sleep in his own room, though he sleeps in his room every other night he come and sleep with us, we have tried everything but he wants me to make him sleep and even after that he gets up and wants me to put him to sleep again in the middle of the night, we feel it’s high time that he needs to sleep on his own, Please advice😳.
Yes children should begin to sleep by themselves by 5. In India, due to stronger emotional bonding and family attachment it takes longer. In any
How can we prevent difficulties from coming😥? Will Supermind help by predicting them?
We don’t need the Supermind to predict difficulties. We need to simply understand that there are certain laws that govern our existence and it is
I was reading 12 years with Sri Aurobindo, and read that the Mother did pranam at Sri Aurobindo’s feet. My question is why didn’t Sri Aurobindo ever fall at Mother’s feet ? Is Purusha force more mightier than Prakriti🤨 ?
Bowing at the feet and doing pranam has nothing to do with feelings of superiority or inferiority, nor is it the acknowledgement of someone being
Why do we have seasons😳?
There are two questions, how and why.
How do we have seasons? Because the earth moves around the sun as well as on its
For a while now, I’ve been thinking what if there were a reversal of roles between Sri Ram and Sri Krishna, keeping rest of the circumstances same! In what ways would they have taken the decisions differently, how different would have been the choices made differently- How would have been Krishnayan and Srimad Bhagwadam and Mahabharat happened differently🤔?
It is not just a reversal of role but the change of times, that is also important. Each Yug has its own dharma. What is
Is self realization the last thing in spiritual life🔥?
It is the last thing in traditional Yoga based on the idea that once the soul realises its true nature it would want to withdraw
Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga gives the least importance to worship and rituals. Rather it excludes them. Then why did our sages devise so many rituals? Why did they advise us to worship many gods? I believe that these worships and rituals must have some great benefits, otherwise our sages should not have invented them. Your kind thoughts🤔.
Everything has its place, its role and its function in the grand scheme of things. Rituals were used by certain rishis to invoke and propitiate
Why do I feel angry n can’t control it😡?
Anger is a sign of weakness. A small mud vessel spills easily or even breaks if water enters it with great force. But the wide
Dear Alok Da, foremostly, Thank you for the platform. I have a question or may be an observation. Men (or boys) hold a soft corner for women who are Pretty and are (or act) naive and submissive (whereas at times they are manipulative and drawing undue benefits of men in their awe). But there is a visible difference in their behaviour and they act rudely and insensitively with women who are not so pretty, but bold and assertive. They have a presumed idea of her being a spoilt feminism brat and deserves to be dealt with roughly. Also they offer help to pretty women from their side with pleasure but choose to deny help even if the other kind of women ask them for help, taking it to be an unnecessary weight on them. Is it so important to be pretty and act gently (by dropping off boldness) just to win the collaboration of the counterpart especially at workplace😳?
There is possibly a truth in your observation except that it should not be generalised. If we look carefully it is not so much the
Alok da in the poem The dream boat Sri Aurobindo says about the call of God and on the other side he says all life is yoga, I know it’s my limited understanding and I am not questioning him, I just want to understand what he is saying 🤨…?
Good question actually. All life is Yoga implies two things. First, it means that there is a yoga going on subconsciously through a slow and