Ask Alok da
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 I think too much?I told you during meditation some thought/question attracts my attention and I is strong enough that I know I need to find the answer. And when I get that ‘AHA’ moment I know that is the correct answer. I get physical reaction at that moment too. The best way to describe it is what I have seen on tv and in movies, when the fine electric shock to person’s heart to bring him back. I kind of feel mild jolt near heart and I get a mild convulsion thru my body. No pain, no discomfort. What is this🤔?
It is an aha moment, the opening of an inner door leading to a flash of insight…..
You mentioned in one of your speeches that people typically seek a spiritual path when they are dissatisfied with the world or realise its limitations. The first strategy is a little pessimistic because Mother mentions that if the same world begins to meet your wants, you might become enamoured or attracted once more. However, what if we are just in the initial stage, such as being unhappy with the world? Does it still serve as a launching pad for our spiritual development🤨?
Yes certainly whatever makes one turn towards and seek the Divine, even if it be for material goods or well-being is fine. But for this
How to deal with people with whom you are connected in your daily life, you cannot avoid them but they are completely dilution and self centered and they can go on and on as how good they are, how superior they are than others and blah blah now how to react and they expect you to indulge in a conversation and one has nothing more to add? Sometimes I am shocked as I wonder are they even listening to what they are saying🙄? These type of new people I just don’t indulge more I keep any relations but what to do with the ones whom The Mother has put around you?
I fully understand and have gone through this phase in the beginning of the Yoga. Used to switch off inwardly, directing the consciousness to concentration
It would help if you could clarity two terms Life and Thought, from the Life Divine. This is from the opening para of the chapter Reality Omnipresent: Since, then, we admit both the claim of the pure Spirit to manifest in us its absolute freedom and the claim of universal Matter to be the mold and condition of our manifestation, we have to find a truth that can entirely reconcile these antagonists and can give to both their due portion in Life and their due justification in Thought, amercing neither of its rights, denying in neither the sovereign truth from which even its errors, even the exclusiveness of its exaggerations draw so constant a strength🤔 (pg. 29)
Life is the means through which matter begins to aspire and seek, however vaguely towards the Spirit. Life is also the energy needed for anything,
There’s something very fascinating about the apocalyptic imagery to the human mind from ancient flood mythologies to the fascination with nuclear armageddon, something in the spirit craves destruction and blowing it all up, Many actually crave Kali’s dance of destruction. How to understand this psychological impulse and phenomenon😐?
Yes, human mind is always caught between these two forces, Love and Death. Love gives birth to new life, nurtures and nourishes it, releases the
Please inform what is the difference between Sri Aurobindo’s Gayatri Mantra and previous Gayatri Mantra🤔?
There are three things to be considered in a mantra, the Chhanda or metre, the Rishi or the Mantradrsta, the Deity to whom it is
In the Prayers and Meditation 3 September 1919 The Mother writes: “Since the man refused the meal I had prepared with so much love and care, I invoked the God to take it.” About which meal Mother has mentioned here, that then Mother give it to The God🙄?
The meal is the material creation which She had prepared for receiving the Divine Consciousness but man does not want it. He prefers the falsehoods
Alok da, where is the mind located? Can it be located🤨?
Mind as a principle is a plane of consciousness that extends across several layers. These layers or levels of consciousness has each its separate Time-Space
Other than Sri Aurobindo who others belong to Supramental Consciousness🤨?
As humans, none so far but with the supramental evolution there will be quite a …
What I understand here is, in old Yoga also there was Psychisization and Spiritualization although they were using this for Liberation only🤨?
Not psychicisation and spiritualisation but psychic and spiritual realisations except for some incidental changes in nature. If one reads carefully the literature and life of
In one of your talks you said that after 1961 Mother was out of Her body but She had to undergo pain for some reason. Can you explain me a little clearly as why Mother who was the Divine had to undergo this pain in her body. I mean she could have avoided it if She wanted. But why She didn’t do that🤔?
If She avoided the pain, it would mean She was just like any of us looking after Her personal welfare though with a greater power
In one of the answer you advised us to approach one of the main four gods. What about the goddess?What if the main four aspects of the divine is represented as follow:-1) Sat / Brahma 2) Chit-Tapas / Shiva- Shakti 3) Anand / Vishnu. The above looks more appropriate to me based on the Chapter 12 – Vishnu, the All-Pervading Godhead of Part 2 of The Secret of the Veda🤔.
If this appeals to you, it is fine. Sri Krishna would not object to it. However here is what Sri Aurobindo himself has written. <br
My grandmother is a very pessimistic and depressive person. And I noticed that relating tends to attract some accidents and bad luck in my life. She always says things like “I don’t wanna live”. But because she is so alone in life I feel a certain sense of guilt if I don’t relate to her and speak with her more often. Am I a heartless person if I choose not to sympathize with her self-pity and thus stay away😥?
Each one is responsible for what they do, the attitudes they take and the inevitable consequences they have to go through. No one can undo
When two people who were once in love decide to part ways, what’s the right way to behave afterwards? Is it fair for one person to react impulsively, by blocking, avoiding, and acting like nothing ever existed between them, just because the relationship didn’t work out😢?
Such an outward behavior (blocking, acting like nothing existed) shows that perhaps there never was love from the person who is doing so. The person
Sir, is it not the air in the mind where it is, but space in the head? Therefore, does the ‘thought of the mind’ have any sound? Yet, it feels like I am hearing it. And when I speak, it strikes the ears because it is outside, and then we are able to hear it👂?
Thoughts move in the subtle ether. Besides Vayu is not just this physical Vayu. It is the power that lifts, expands and transfers everything within
Yesterday on my morning walk when I saw workers out there sweeping the roads it suddenly struck me that how much do we have to battle against the dust, rust and filth from our own homes to the entire ecosystems of cities. Corrosion, decay, smell and bacteria keep us on vigilance every single day. Is this cos of the inconscient foundation of the cosmos?How to understand it metaphysically🤨?
Not taking care of the material basis of life is the sign of unconsciousness and stems from the old idea of disgust of the world.
How to cultivate quietude ? Then how to establish Peace ?I’ve been searching for such a long time. I know it needs to be done, but nobody is telling me how. Please tell me how to establish the first steps at least😯 [conti]
The Mother has advised calling Peace as a way of life.
‘How can we establish a settled peace and silence in the mind?
Do Lord Shiva, Brahman & Vishnu belong to OVERMIND/ ADHIMANAS alike Lord Krishna.🦚?
In their supreme origin, these gods are part of the One Supreme Divine. In their action and working so far they have acted from the