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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.Ā
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I my free time i keep on scrolling to YouTube Reels. How to stop this time killer addictionš? How to gain mastery on this? Please guide.
Have a clear goal for yourself, an ultimate goal so to say, and several mini goals as steps towards it. For example if the goal
No matter how much effort I make to organise our home it ends up in clutter, specially inside the drawers and cupboards, I am trying to change and get a bit organised as lot of time is wasted in looking for things but my son as well my husband are also some one who just dumps things in drawers etc, can you please advise as if I organise one corner the other gets disorganised plus many days I am running around and donāt get time to organise š„?Ā
So it means you have two children to look after as is common in many Indian households due to strictly defining gender roles, – men
What is ones duty when some elder in place of parent continues to harass youš and put you down all the time and manipulates?
Is standing for one self with self respect against this elder person and stopping this happen is against dharma. If some one who’s supposed to
How to know one has realised the Divine? Is it based on any sign or experience? I feel a constant pressure inside my heart and it gives an aspiration, peace and devotion towards the divine. On the other hand the surface nature constantly act by the negative movement. This reason sometime that pressure is vanished. How much time the body will act on the surface nature? It is very unnerving stage for me. The sexual thought, ambition, laziness, repeating the mistake etc spontaneously arises and act upon the body and mind. In this stage what should I doš„? Please show me the right direction.
The deeper one goes into the soul, the more these negative tendencies open up in the surface nature. Everyone has to pass through it with
So, can the psychic šperceive the bliss and peace in that state of psychic sleep, if it is unconscious..?
The psychic is in a state of peace and bliss always as it is its very nature. But since it enters into a state that
Why is it that many parents, especially those in their 50s, often glorify their past struggles, like working long hours just to earn dollars two hundred more, and keep reminding their children of the sacrifices they made to raise them? Why canāt they allow their children to recognize it naturally, instead of constantly seeking acknowledgment or credit and glorifying their struggles
Bringing up a child can be a very challenging task and sometimes it does require quite a bit of sacrifice. But the child has not
Is there any chance of confusions in genuine loveš?
Genuine love? That’s a rarety and a wonder. But even granted that it is there, confusions can always arise since human nature at large is
What is Sri Aurobindo’s and The Mother’s position on path of Devotionš®? As opposed to path of knowledge.
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother describe devotion as the crowning movement of Yoga. Faith, surrender to the Divine Mother, opening to Her through service and
I understand I need to let go of my father now. But before I got to know you and started bothering you with my unending questions, my father was my teacherš. I had never realized how well read my father was until I started reading Sri Aurobindo’s books about 7 years ago, that too with lot of skepticism.
It is never good to think of those who have passed beyond except when there is genuine gratitude and in a loving way. Memories, attachments,
In one of your answers on marriage you said ” The essence of marriage is to keep God in the Centre while two people walk together hand in hand” what it mean to keep “God in the centre”š¤Ø?
It means to keep the Aspiration for higher things like an Ideal to guide us together, supporting each other’s journey towards the Light and Truth
“The Rishis were scientists of the Spirit and its occult energies and powers and had discovered the ways to come in contact with these forces and seek their active help to make earthly life better in every way.” This is a sentence from one of your answers on 27-10-2024. Can you please elaborate more on those “ways” discovered by our rishis? Were you referring to different types of Yagnas, Mantras, Tantra pooja rituals and Yoga practicesš¤?
he poojas, havans, mantras and rituals are the most outwards and not indispensable means. The real means are inner which includes a one-pointed Godward aspiration
Third question, you are going to laugh at, I did! I listen to old Hindi songs when I am cooking/cleaning, old habit. But a song came on from Hathi Mere Sathi š that Rajesh Khanna sings after K N Singh, kills his elephant Ramu, Nafarat Ki Dunia Ko Chodke Pyar Ki Dunia Me Khush Raho Mere Yar. This was movie, but in real life what would happen to that elephant’s soul?
Most animals do not have a crystallized individual soul. They are generally governed by the soul of the species. That is why they rarely have
What is the concept of hell and heaven? I donāt find any particular reason to have this concept so then they people made this conceptš?
Heaven and Hell simply mean that there are places in the universe (there is not one but many universes, each with its own Time Space
Ā On which date we should celebrate our birthday, according to English calendar or according to previous calculation as (panchanng) counting of purnima to amabashya etc.š¤?
The solar calendar has certain advantages over the lunar in terms of the date returning cyclically after a fixed number of days. I suppose it
If your parents have not been responsible and taken care of you properly in your child hood why do they have so many useless expectations from their children when they grow up? And how to deal with thisš ?Ā Like they are still not there when you need them as their priorities are different even today, can you explain this from dharma point of view as well?Ā
Dharma is about our individual conduct regardless of what others do or do not do. One thing is obvious that parents (as well as others)
My mother was and is still is biased towards my elder brotherš«¤. I do understand she is just a child of an environment that has been biased towards male child. Today I do understand it and to an extent dont hold her responsible, but still the lifelong hurt is there. But this question is more about her than me, has she created Karma? Can she resolve it in this lifetime? But for that I have to tell her that I have been hurt.
She has created karma by attachment and its inevitable result is suffering regardless of the nature of attachment. It is not good to judge people
Wanted to share something with you that happened to me in the last 1 week. So Iāve been together with my father celebrating his birthday. I donāt know enough about all of his friends to make judgments, but one of the āfriendsā living with us was a businessman who is very influential and supposedly has tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. He is relatively young for his success ā 39 years old. He has great charisma and is very knowledgeable, his intellect often shining in discussions. I always knew that he was into some shady things in terms of money-making. But I just didnāt know to what extent. It turns out, my father told me, that his entire business is actually based on ripping poor people offš”. He has ācall centersā where scammers working for him call innocent elderly people, war veterans, students, and all kinds of other vulnerable people, and tell them that their ābank account is frozen and they have to pay a certain amount of money to unblock itā, and other similar lies ā all aimed at scaring and threatening these people to make money off them. And the worst thing is that these people are often times already highly vulnerable and poor in the first place. Another business that he has revolves around microfinancing, where people are given short term loans that quickly rise in interest. Again, the whole thing is meant to scam people. . A person takes 100-200 dollars to buy something, and in many cases they do it under difficult circumstances such as having to buy medicine, or under influence of drug addiction or gambling addiction. And the interest rises every week or month to the point where the initial 100 dollars becomes 10 thousand dollars in a matter of months! And then, they take away that personās apartment [conti]
I truly appreciate your idealism and fully endorse it. It requires a great courage to stand up for what you consider as true values even
Saint Paul and Early Christian converts in Rome literally believed the second coming of Christ and the apocalyptic judgement was going to happen in their own life times, when someone asked Paul about marriage he said why bother with these earthly things when the cleansing fire of apocalypse and new creation is just on the edge and this belief continued up until the 4th-5th centuries and slowly the disillusionment started coming in with occasional outbursts of prophecies throughout medieval Europe and gradually it just became a scriptural literary allusion. What’s the prospects that the whole supramental creation you talk about suffer the same fateš¤Ø?
As far as the second coming of Christ or of the Buddha, and Sri Krishna himself is concerned (all have said it one way or