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.
This evening, while doing parikarma at the Ashram, my friend called me on the phone. He is also a Sri Aurobindo devotee and requested that I pray at Samadhi on his behalf for help in his sadhana, as he told me that he is currently encountering trouble in his spiritual practice. Spontaneously, I agreed and did so. Please guide me on how to approach such situations. 🙏🏻🕊️
We can certainly pray for someone wherever we are or may be. Though prayer is a privilege given to everyone, it is true that prayer
Alok, your words are most motivating and cause feelings of joy in the heart. I am left wondering about the relationship between the psychic opening and finding the divine aim within one’s nature. 🪷✨ […]
Your early experience are itself an indication that you are marked out for the true spiritual life. That is what I meant as aim. Finding
In villages, families tend to be large, and neighbors play a significant role in their lives. However, I have a question: how should one deal with family members who are driven solely by self-interest—caring only for themselves rather than observing the principle of mutual give-and-take? 🌿🕊️[…]
The Mother has answered this in one word, ‘detachment’. Even when the family is good it often absorbs a lot of energies, often in trivial
Can I ask you something about my latest experience with Cannabis / Marijuana, which was taken in oil form – prepared traditionally by drying and heating it in oil and filtering it so that we have the oil with the full-body infusion.🌿🙏🏻 […]
Cannabis and other similar drugs can at times put us in contact with immense forces of the lower vital world by knocking off the rational
How can I purify my relationship with the Mother? Asking the Divine for too many things seems selfish and at the same time, if I make a promise to myself that I will not ask for unnecessary things and face difficulties myself, it seems not to be the right thing to do. I feel my relationship with Mother is the most valued thing in my life, so how do I make it pure? 🪷🙏🏻
Surely we can ask the Divine Mother for what we need. Only our relationship should not be confined to that. One should learn to give,
Pranam Sir. I want to ask about how to deal with negative anticipations, thoughts, and expectations in our daily life. One of my colleagues always targeting me and quarreling with me over each minor issue or mistake and even insults me in front of juniors. He is visually challenged. 🌿🕊️[…]
The best way is to completely ignore him, and if you cannot do so then remain inwardly totally indifferent to him. The best response to
What does the chant “OM SHANTI” truly signify—is peace merely the repetition of a sacred word, or a state to be deeply imbibed within the heart? We often define peace simply as the absence of external conflict, agitation, or turbulence, but this surface calmness is only temporary and amounts to nothing more than restraining turbulent emotions. What, then, constitutes real, unshakable inner peace, and how can one truly attain and sustain it? 🕉️🕊️
Peace is not an absence of disturbance. Even inertia is free from disturbance. Peace is something positive and powerful, a fundamental foundational status of the
My sister is pregnant and has entered her ninth month. Because she has a low-lying placenta, the doctor has recommended a C-section and suggested dates around August 14th or 15th. When I learned about the dates, I suggested August 15th because it is Sri Aurobindo’s birthday. 👶🗓️[…]
Trying to find an auspicious date, hoping for a better future through the limited means given to man, stepping back from the first impulse and
During meditation, I observe how bodily senses and the vital nature constantly stir restless activity, while true guidance emerges only as an inner voice heard in deep silence. 🧘🌸[…]
As to inner experiences there are plenty, and as you said, mixed true and false. As to the senses, yes it is quite possible to
After a difficult period adjusting my medications, I am now stable on a working treatment plan and preparing to attend the Sri Aurobindo Birthday darshan. 🙏🌿[…]
Usually these things come because of fear as well as some hereditary predisposition. What helps is sincerity and humility. The one practical method is taking
After a person’s death, many rituals and ceremonies are performed with the belief that they help the departed soul attain atma sadgati (a peaceful and progressive onward journey). These practices have been followed for generations and are deeply rooted in religious and cultural traditions. 🕊️[…]
The rituals prescribed for the departed are only for the period after death as far as the Rigveda and the Atharva Veda goes. Their purpose
How to strengthen the weak vital & nervous plane causing social anxiety, panic attacks, sleeplessness, sleep disturbance, difficulty in living & doing duty? Does psychiatric medicine strengthen vital & nervous plane? Can medicine for sleep be taken for a month or so? 🌿🧘
Medicines help cutting down the surface symptoms and thereby give us time and energy to engage in ways to change our attitudes and lifestyles. The
I have one question. If Maa is doing everything, then what is my role? I prefer letting life unfold naturally rather than following a rigid blueprint, but the lack of a clear direction often leaves me feeling restless and scattered.🙏🧭 […]
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother never asked anyone to believe that The Mother does everything. If that were the case then the Mother would be
Why would the material, vital, despite its inertia and resistance to change, strive upward? 🌱✨
Even the most material substance aspires because despite the principle of inertia and unconsciousness there is yet within the Divine Presence. And since matter itself
What is the best way to maintain friendly and distant relationships, Alok da? Not too personal and close – don’t share too much emotional stuff, but keep it healthy: just meet and greet once in a while, occasional conversations. 🤝🌿 […]
One should be like the dew drop. It enhances the beauty of everything wherever it settles but it sticks to nothing, is attached to nothing.
Dada, what is the actual meaning of Goodness? 🌸💛 […]
Goodness is the ability to see good and do good regardless of outer circumstances. It is to be able to see the ‘positive’ hiding behind
Respected Sir, Sri Aurobindo had once wrote in a letter to Barin in 1920 about the “ten limbs of the body of this Yoga”. K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, in his famous book, “Sri Aurobindo: A Biography and a History,” has also dedicated a chapter on the subject in Chapter 23. I want to know precisely actually what does it mean. 🧘📖
The ten limbs have intrigued many as he didn’t expliitly mention the details of the ten limbs. What he did write in detail was the
Today I dreamed of a very cute domestic black cat living in my house. She wanted to explore outside and jumped out. After taking only a few steps, however, ants began biting her paws. Seeing her vulnerability, I picked her up, gently petted her, and brought her back inside the house. Could you please tell me what this dream might mean? 🐈⬛🌙
Black cat means occult forces or occult powers that may be developing in you. The ants represent the lower vital energies from which you should