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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.
As you said, choose the career as per swabhava and swadharma. I have concluded that my nature and temperament best fits for, a professor in university. I don’t want to get added in the rat race of MBA and UPSC people. I want a peaceful life, lots of time, exploration, travel, and a platform from where I can bring some changes. I can see myself doing best as a professor in future. This is my highest aspiration. But not with my subject commerce, I can go with psychology, philosophy, history but not commerce😊.
Basically into teaching. So you can shift to graduation in a subject of your choice such as philosophy or ….
Often driven by comparison and jealousy, people in today’s fast-paced world are eager to experience everything quickly, from switching careers, traveling, and earning more, to staying fit and competing with others. Can this be called over-ambition? Does the age-old saying by Rahim still hold relevance😳?
This feverish fast-paced hyperactivity of our modern times, whatever its outer reasons (and there are quite a few) is because evolution has been put in
In letters on yoga Sri Aurobindo said theres the vital which brings us outward and downward and theres the psychic which is aways close to Mother. Then there is the witness purusha which has to choose where it sides and has to stand with the psychic and reject the lower movements. What is the difference between the witness purusha and the soul, are they the same thing? How does one make the witness purusha stand on the side of the psychic🤨?
The Witness Purusha is the inner being, mainly the inner mental that can separate itself and stand back from the workings of outer nature. This
Sri Aurobindo said Tantra was founded on the ideas which are partially true. What is missing in it🤔?
He spoke of it as the great effort at creating a synthesis between the Divine Self and Nature by leaning on the Divine Mother. However
Sometimes in personal life we have to lie because the other person is not ready to listen to the truth or he opposes it very strongly, he gets very angry and there is an atmosphere of unrest, what should we do in this situation, because nowadays whenever I tell a lie, this line starts inside me: निर्मल मन जन सो मोहि पावा। मोहि कपट छल छिद्र न भावा॥ [A person with a pure mind attains me. I do not like deceit, fraud, or malice.]😥
One should never tell a lie. But that does not mean that one is compelled to tell the truth. First of all one does not
Kindly put some words on the below line from Savitri🕊️: “Whatever the appearance we must bear”
The full passage explains it well. ‘One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:Our errors are his steps upon the way;
He
Mother says to “rise above falsehood, live in the pure Light of your soul and you will be close, very close to the Lord”. How can one rise above falsehood? What are the practical means of doing that😳?
Falsehood is all that creates division in our consciousness, and the last of these divisions is the division between God and the World.
What is the difference between living in Pondy and staying outside and doing yoga? Which is best for spiritual growth🤔?
It is the difference between lighting a beautiful lamp at an altar built in the home and making the altar itself your home and plunging
Alok da how to get rid of these right, wrong, true, false, mental conception, ideas, thought which create a strong barrier towards the divine. How to be widening and plastic in every part of our being? Is it any state where the right, wrong, true, false will vanishes? Then how to achieve this state because in this narrowness I feel captive inside a cave😥.
It is neither possible nor advisable to drop off the dualities by a mental understanding that there is a higher state where they cease to
Is there any deeper reason for Sri Aurobindo refusing to meet Gandhi even after multiple requests cos it’s tough to believe Sri Aurobindo denying to give a chance to the man who emerged as the biggest leader Indians are rallying behind in the freedom movement after his and tilak’s departure and I’m thinking of alternate possibilities of the meeting probably bringing at least a little change in Gandhi’s ways and steer the country’s future to a better ways than what actually turned out🤔
Gandhi was too rigid to change and Sri Aurobindo knew very well who he was. As far as changing him, if at all, it would
What do you think about the statues with sexual postures in temples like Khajuraho? I read Osho’s discourse on this subject that it means conquer the sexuality inside us and getting the divine inside😳.
The images do not indicate conquest of sexuality as much as they suggest different forms of union between the masculine and feminine principles, Purusha and
Kindly put more words into the below quote from Sri Aurobindo: If thy heart is troubled within thee, if for long seasons thou makest no progress, if thy strength faint and repine, remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master🤨, “I will free thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve”.
It means that whatever be the inner or outer challenges and difficulties we must remember that the Divine has given the promise to man that
As I have shared earlier that I was in the lineage of DLS Rishikesh, but today onwards I took my final decision to follow the spiritual path of the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo and continuing silent chanting of the divine name “Sri Maa”. I may have disturbed a lot by asking many more questions to you, for that I beg your pardon. But I have few more queries, please guide me 😊 (1) What should be the regular routine for a spiritual seeker?
The outer routine has to be according to the needs and demands of one’s work and life. The inner attitude is most important. It is
What are the practical ways to cultivate equanimity🙏?
By strengthening the will and exercising it over other parts to discipline them and teach them endurance. By developing a discerning thought that is able
I feel uplifted when I listen to your talks or read the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. It inspires me to live by their teachings in my daily life. But as soon as I close the book or the talk ends, I find myself slipping back into old habits and patterns, handling things the same way I always have. How can I truly practice their path in my everyday life🤔?
It is quite the normal course in most persons except some rare exceptional instances of those who had gone through the needed preparation in the
What are the indications one should look for to renounce things of the past to leap towards a new future? For instance, if one has to move countries, change jobs, renounce one ideal for another one – in all these how does one take the correct decision of leaping from one stage of life to another? One feels mental indications are not that reliable🤨.
There are no outer indications on which one can rely. Equally the mind is a poor guide weighing pros and cons. The sure indication can
What is the best method to establish a permanent peace☮️ and silence in the being, in spite of daily challenges of life that come and go?
Whatever method one may pursue from meditation to peace invocation leading to the descent of Peace, yet it is permanently established only when the desire
Is spicy🌶️ food bad for health and spiritual practice?
Food has a very secondary importance in spiritual life. What matters more than the nature of food is the occult atmosphere in which it is