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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.

What do I need to do to live in Ashram? Right now, I don’t have any money. With Mother’s grace, I’ve only recently started working. As for my parents and my first wife, I feel they will never be ready for my Ashram life. My second wife can certainly join me. In this situation, Dada, please point me in the right direction, because I don’t think it will be easy for me to practice yoga here at home. And if I even discuss Ashram life with my family, they will start to oppose it. So, Dada, please give me the right guidance so that I can truly surrender myself to yoga and The Mother.🧘📜🌹🌳

I would advice you to make a visit first, for a week or so. Perhaps sometime in the coming year. Then we can personally meet

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I celebrated one more birthday of mine last month. With each passing day and year I always think ‘Life is running out, time is slipping away and I haven’t done much for the Divine’. Of course, the aspiration always grows but there is a dissatisfaction somewhere that I have not been or done fully what I could have done for Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and because of this, the Divine has not yet become a full living reality. 🎂📝🎯🌱

I won’t call it impatience, but an intensifying of the aspiration on the birthday as the soul perhaps senses that more should be done. There

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I live in a small nuclear family with my wife, a kid and with my mother, there is always a presence of disturbing environment where we don’t talk to each other. Although the reason is minor, but I’m not very sure about the fact that why this circumstance situation is happening whether it is my ego or it is something which I don’t know. I constantly try to ask Maa for help, although I know Help will come eventually, but what should I do at this moment? Should I ask the person to also change, which is not easy and other other person is more of a non Bhakta?🏠💔🤫👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Quarrels don’t have any reason. They are simply the sign of a weak vital and a lack of sufficient control over oneself. They are usually

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Always Sri Aurobindo  answers  from  the topmost point of every question asked. Whatever be  the  level of the questioner, He explains from the highest view so that the readers too climb to that level at least theoretically, to receive The Answer as a gift. Whereas Mother gives  one  direct simple sentence with everything condensed? 🪷🌸☀️💙

Yes, Sri Aurobindo is like the Himalaya whereas the Mother is like the Ganga flowing from the heart of the mountains to nourish the earth.

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Sir, I would like to know from you about Karni Mata. Her temple is very popular, which is located in Deshnok near Bikaner city in Rajasthan. The temple is also famous in a way that there are lots of mice in the temple, which did not cause any disease to the people. I have seen people taking ‘Jyoth’ not only in this temple on even other temples in Rajasthan. what is the significance of taking ‘jyoth’?🛕🔱🌅🏜️

Karni Mata is one of the emanations of Maa Durga who was born in a family connected with the royal family. Among the many miracles

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I think it is wrong to say my life hasn’t changed at all. I’m trying in my own way to follow whatever I have learnt. One thing is for sure, that I have moved away from the fear mongering about karma that I often saw in traditions and lamentation about world existence. Mother and Sri Aurobindo’s words have definitely brought clarity to mind, and though it hasn’t completely translated into action, I am making changes everyday. I am also reminded that though I must take action, it is not by ‘my’ strength that success will come. I have faith that the Divine will one day make of me what She wants me to be.🪷🌹♾️🌌

Very beautiful attitude. I can fully understand the need for some decisive experience that pops up from time to time.

The decisive experiences however come

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