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Sir, on the morning of mahalaya many people goes to riverside for ‘tarpan’ ritual. Which is to offer water towards the ancestors. Sir , can this ritual be explained from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy🤨?
These rituals are performed for several reasons.
1. It is a way of paying homage and remaining connected to the family roots.
2. From
Why are most Hindu goddesses😇 depicted with three eyes and a crescent moon, like Shiva—the god of tamas and destruction? Even images of goddesses of light and wisdom, such as Gayatri and Gauri, have three eyes and a crescent moon, like Shiva.
Many of these depictions are not necessarily by yogis and seers who alone can see and discern the form of gods. Most images are rather
Sir please suggest the sequence in which one must read Sri Aurobindo’s books from easy to difficult. What should be the first book to read🤔?
First one should read Works of the Mother, especially Volumes 1, 2 and 3. One may like to read all the other volumes in which
Dear Alok da, you have been giving public talks for over more than 20 years now. How was the response of the devotees to the words of Mother and Sri Aurobindo? Do a few awaken, or many🙂?
I have done it always as a part of nishkama karma in an unattached way. In fact largely in a non-doer state.
Of course plenty
Why do we need physical exercise🤾♂️? Can I fill in the rest?
We need physical exercises to stay healthy and make the body a fit and strong instrument. Rest is needed for the body and mind to
I have done so many mistakes, will Maa forgive me? I have impure desires, i do not know what to do, how to do, may be I am not fit at all for yoga. Maa please help me🙏
If the Divine were to judge then there would be no hope for anyone. Even the highest human goodness is almost always motivated by selfishness
Why do we need to study in school?
We study in school to develop mental muscles, to gain knowledge and to equip ourselves for the future. Knowledge is power and the school studies
Connecting 🛜 with the infinite… but how?
By going beyond the Mind and the ego-self which are the main cause of our limitation.
The Infinite is not something elsewhere. It is
What causes restlessness, lately I feel very restless there is a sense of weird urgency as there is some I should be doing but I am not getting a hold of it. My 9 to 5 feels suffocating as if a part of me resisting to be bound to a place and time. In a recent talk you Mentioned Jonathan livingston Seagull, I read it and it is one of the best books I have ever read. Dada I would love for you to suggest similar books you know 🙂
Restlessness comes due to some desire or the other of which we are not yet conscious. The desire pushes from behind, the nerves respond trying
I notice that there are different traits that attract me in different people. I’ve been trying to observe the different elements in me that are being pulled by different sorts of friends and personalities. There is one side of me that gets pulled to people who are pure, refined, cultured, intellectually curious and open. But then there is another side of me that gets pulled to people with a lot of energy, confidence, strength, ambition, and dynamic energy⚡.
Yes a combination of intellectual refinement and vital ambition is generally not found because the full development of mental faculties require a certain mastery over
I feel that I’m a dominant partner. I think many women are like this in their relationships. However, when your partner starts to become afraid of this dominant nature, it’s not good because then they do everything out of fear. How to get rid of this dominant nature🤨?
Yes, the need to dominate and as its offshoot, to control, certainly spoils a relationship as it brings fear and, as a consequence, lying.
It
I hope you or someone gets this. The whole point of being more conscious and aware is very tiring and not easy. It leads to huge drawdown and “night” of the yoga. Still it feels like there is no other option as not being aware in our actions leads to lot of worldly “Thapede”. Still lot of resistance in taking up the part of being vigilant😶
Yes vigilance needs some effort and any effort can be tiring beyond a point. Besides points of resistances often remain hidden behind comfortable explanations and
Alok da, I was reading a book on teachings of the buddha and it’s supposedly preceding the highest state of nirvana that the monks will reach of state of being where all time with it’s circle of all the past and future as a whole will appear to him, this very much sounded like what you talk about the triple time/ supramental time vision. If so, wouldn’t have buddha glimpsed at the supramental purpose of creation and it’s coming but he still went along with establishing the goal as nirvana? I was perplexed because I remember somewhere that The Mother said that even the Buddha didn’t teach everything and he probably was either wantedly silent or hidden something🤔?
Triple Time Vision, trikaladrsti has been known to ancient yogis though it has been a rare acquisition. Vyas and Valmiki had it. Surely Sri Krishna
Dada, from a spiritual prespective what a rainbow🌈 symbolises? Why it is always feels special when we observe rainbow?
Rainbow symbolises peace and deliverance that comes after a storm, hence the special feeling. It also symbolises a bridge between the earth and heaven, a
Why do people always say that everything happens for a reason or that whatever happens, happens for the best? If my relationship is going really well but for some reason we still have to part ways, I don’t want to see that as something Good or as part of God’s plan. I do have faith in God but I don’t believe that something that Failed or didn’t Work out should automatically be seen as “Good”. The relationship itself was good, but its ending isn’t. So why do people insist on saying that everything happens for a Good? How can I look differently apart from tagging it Good or Bad🤨?
Good and bad is obviously a question of perspective and hence cannot be the arbiter. One person’s good may be another person’s bad given exactly
In the divine family of Lord Shiva, Goddess Parvati, Lord Ganesha, and Lord Kartikeya, each deity is shown with an animal or vāhana — Nandi, the snake, the lion, the mouse, and the peacock. Interestingly, these animals are natural enemies and could destroy one another but how do they live in harmony there? What is the deeper spiritual meaning behind this symbolism, and what does it teach us🤔?
It gives us the secret of harmony which is to unite around the Divine Self and recognize our one and common Divine Mother. We may
In my early teen years, I went through sexual abuse very intense, the whole night, all freezed, dark, cold, really horrible, now at i am in my thirtees taking therapy from very authentic person, Shri Maa follower, much needed I suppose. So leading life now in present is very traumatic experience itself.. awareness hits and hurts triggers, I know Mother is, has been watching, she knows it!
I can fully understand the trauma and its deep impact as a child. But one has to move towards the future rather than continuing to
What is the difference between God and the Mother😇? Are incarnations and God different? Isn’t the Ishtadev itself God? How is spiritual evolution possible when the ego is deeply hurt and its impact on health?
I am attaching this letter to an AIM issue on the twelve qualities mentioned in the symbol of Sri Ma.
God is the name