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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.

Do problems/difficulties exist in the world and in everyone’s life because we are not seeking the Divine?
Everyone has difficulties in life, whether one is seeking the Divine or not. Even those who have found the Divine have their own share of

You recently spoke of the mother’s prophecies, long back I remember reading about her prophecy of london sinking underwater, is this also inevitable?
There is indeed a prophesy like that which is more like caution that being on the sea level, if the waters rise high in the

Each god has two functions related to we humans :-1) In religious sense they are supreme since they can fulfill any legitimate wish to lead a good life but in ignorance. 2) In spiritual sense they are just different aspects of the supreme managing the creation but can be taken as door through which one can pass over to the supreme. Am I understood correctly?
Yes, but with a slight correction. In the religious sense, each god cannot or would not fulfil all the wishes. For example Saraswati can give

How can we understand the below two truths together: 1) Manifestation will never end because the Divine is eternal and infinite. 2) The highest is what we call Purushottama, but man can get to the Ananda plane only.
Manifestation is not only about passing from one plane to another, as for example, from the vital life of an animal or plant to the

As I am Srimad Ramayanam, Srimad Bhagavadam, definitely they give a clear insights about Divine qualities different and higher than even Satwic, or ascetic qualities,we come across among Great kings and Rishis, Tapaswins. So personally for me reading SriRama, Srikrishna, Kapila, Vamana , all very helpful in understanding SriAurobindo’s evolution theory of Man into Divine. Secretaly every body cherishes to be like SriRama , MotherSita , but feel it’s impossible, so self contented with reading about them, meditating on them, we close the book। But SriAurobindo gives a different dimension to our thoughts that even I can become a Perfect Part of The Divine Lord Rama or The Divine Mother Sita , embracing some divine qualities from them.
Yes these books help nourish our psychic parts until we are ready to undertake the journey and become what we presently hardly understand.

Many atheists are living happier lives than theists. At least that is what I think. Believers seek help from divine forces to live a happy life, while atheists live their lives on their own strength and do not take any help from divine powers. Why is this so? Is the concept of divine powers an illusion or are human efforts more powerful than the power of a deity🤔?
But who said that atheists are happier. None is happy upon earth except one who has mastered his ego and conquered his desires, – believing

It is said that Kanyadaan is the highest form of daan. Is that true🤨?
There is no mention of Kanyadaan in the Vedas. It is mentioned in the Manu Smriti as part of many injunctions for the maintenance of

Shiva is the Force aspect of the Divine. Then which Shiva is in Kailash and Kashi🏔️?
These are his heavenly and earthly abodes, – Kailash in the higher regions and Kashi upon earth. But he is everywhere, ever in each electron

Alok da, how to control speech🤔?
Speech is the last and the highest amongst the faculties that have evolved in human beings. It has two aspects, sound and word. The impact

How do watching horror 😱 movies affect our consciousness?
Human beings can be seen as receivers and transmitters of certain energies and vibrations, as conduits of states of consciousness, as instruments and channels of

Alok da, the other day my son came from school and he was so irritated he had to do a write up on Mahatma Ghandhi and he just did not want to, he said I have had it ahimsa and all that, then I remember that when I was a child I myself was irritated to study about him, all that was do boring and then why son asked me why is he even called the father of the nation ? And I know studying ghandhi ji is so boring oh these dharam karam ki baatein as a teenager I could not relate to him, he is not like Shivaji or Rama or Krishna or Sri Aurobindo.. what should I tell him…🤔?
You can tell him that everyone has his own ideas and so did Gandhi ji have his own. As far as his ideas go, they

I had a dream last night I saw that I have board a very very fast moving train 🚅and we are going to some place which we don’t know but seems like a place like there was too much crime and chaos, everything is fine we sat down, then suddenly everybody in the train was asked to came in between the walking area between seats of the train away from the windows, I was surprised why we are asked to do so…someone told me it’s going to a place like Bihar and we want that nobody gets to see that there are people inside this train…I could not see people outside the train as it was moving with full speed…but they said there are people outside and they may attack us..so people inside the train stood in between the path of the train.
The extremely fast train is the vital aspects of Nature under whose influence or impulse we often move. This is disorienting and confusing especially as

Alok da can you share the part from Agenda where Mother said about the new food that will come in the future, also in context to that so many food supplements💊, collegians builders protein powders dehydrated food etc has come in the markets so how should we look at them? Are they the new age food or just another fad?
It is a conversation of May 27, 1970 as reproduced below where She describes the future being. ‘I saw that future being (I saw it

Can you explain to me the difference between brain🤯 and mind ? Can you rationally explain the existence of something beyond the physical organ. To me it seems obvious that everybody is different because of genetic makeup, their environment etc. but Roshni is saying there is something beyond brain that operates and tried to explain but I can’t see the logic in it nor understand what she’s trying to explain it’s too complex.
That things, even material things exist beyond the limits of the senses is well known, isn’t it. The universe is teeming with very small objects

Alok Sir, It is almost 14 years when I just read something very little about Gangadharan (The Disciple of Mother and Sri Aurobindo) in one Magazine published by Vedmurti Sri Ram Sharma Acharya (Shantikunj), Since that time I was extremely attracted and fascinated for his simplicity and devotion towards Mother and Sri Aurobindo, just one day before I knew something more about him and his Writings ( Sri Aravinda Ashtothara Shatha Namavali) 108 names of Sri Aurobindo. 1- History about writing these names🪷.
There is no history as such though The Golden Chain did carry a piece on him, long back. These names appeared to him in his

How to come out of ignorance and falsehood and inconscience 🤨?
The Mother’s Grace. From our side an inner state made up of aspiration, faith, sincerity, devotion and surrender to open our consciousness entirely to…

Why do we see Leapord, tiger busts in Ma / Sri Aurobindo’s rooms – akin to what hunters keep as their priced killings? Have Ma and Sri Aurobindo themselves said something about this🐅?
The outer reason is that it was gifted to them by a devotee who was probably inspired by the image of Shiva wearing a tiger

I came across a reel on Instagram where a person’s body was being burned after death, and someone was moving it around with a stick. It really shook me 🫨and made me reflect deeply, if our body is ultimately destroyed like this, does it mean it has no real significance? I’m trying to explore this from a scientific perspective: are we merely a combination of cells, atoms, and chemical reactions? What exactly are we? Why are we here? And most importantly, how do I begin to discover the answers to these questions?
Human thought has swung between two extremes with regard to the physical body. One extreme materialistic view is to regard the body as everything, as