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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.
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You said that destruction was completely avoidable if those involved in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata responded to the Divine Will but it is also said that Divinity of an Avatar will be fully manifested when there is great darkness or adversity at the other side. Without Ravana how the Divinity of Rama would have been fully manifested and also without Kansa or Duryodhana how the Divinity of Krishna would have been fully manifested? There is also the story of Jai – Vijay so is it the leela of the Divine for his complete manifestation or the distortion in creation🤔?
Yes this is the other complimentary truth that the greater the darkness, individually as well as collectively, the greater the possibility of Light. India is
Dada now I experience that when I open to the mother and Sri Aurobindo I feel the difficulties in lower part but when spontaneously my thought turns to Sri Krishna all the obstacles of lower nature vanishes and I feel peace. Why this is happening? Due to this unknowing difficulties I am not able to turn The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. When I think about Sri Aurobindo I feel causeless doubt, depression, no aspiration and bhakti towards mother and Sri Aurobindo. What should I do😥?
It is definitely the play of the mind making you feel like this. The only truth, if at all, could be that turning towards Sri
Being a bad friend: I see a certain insensitivity in me to other people. I lack empathy in some situations, and it makes me feel very bad about myself. I have lost friends in the past because of this. While I generally try to help people, there is something in me unsympathetic towards others. Because of this tendency, I feel myself incapable towards building lasting friendships. I have cried about it, and at this point I don’t even feel like having friends anymore because I’m conscious of this defect in my nature, so I don’t want to repeat the same cycle again and experience the same moral pain that I feel. For now, I can only observe it and feel bad about it. How to change it I have no idea🫤.
This is not such a big defect and in certain ways it is not necessarily a defect. It is possibly because you make your own
I often experience a Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) when I’m not active on social media platforms like Instagram or when I think about deleting my accounts. It’s about missing out on what’s happening in other people’s lives, falling behind on the latest trends, conversations, or even useful content related to my interests like painting, health, and more. What if I feel disconnected without being on these platforms? Also, Why do these feelings arise, and how can I manage them in a healthier way without relying on social media for a sense of belonging or staying informed😥?
These feelings arise from the collective suggestions that are floating around. The more one externalises through these means such as the social media provides, the
Last night, I read a page of ‘Savitri’ before going to sleep. Whenever I read something from ‘Savitri,’ it feels like something is descending within me. It’s like a kind of intoxication that comes with peace. Around 4 AM, I heard a voice within me saying, ‘I am The Mother, I am within everyone, and it is I who is doing everything.’ Are these just my thoughts that are coming to me? Besides this, it has happened two or three times that the name ‘Radha’ starts within me at night. Could there be some deep truth to all this🤨?
Thoughts are not formed by the individual brain or mind but received from several cosmic agencies. The reading of Savitri opened the doors of your
When Sri Aurobindo came back to India, the darkness left him. What does it signify🤔? India was still under British oppression that time.
It means that he overcame the first battle, the inner battle, though of course, as Sri Aurobindo would always say, it happened as a gift
Can you please explain these lines from Savitri🕊️: Even Light and Love by that cloaked danger’s spell Turned from the brilliant nature of the gods [conti]
These lines from Savitri, Book Two Canto Seven, The Descent into Night, reveal the action of the forces of darkness upon earth nature. These forces
Who are the Rahu and Ketu and what is their story🤔?
Rahu and Ketu owe their origin to the demon king Swarbhan, a powerful daitya born of Singhika, the dark Sphinx, guardian of the nether world
Sir, what is affection? Is it different from love💗?
Affection is a form of love that is full of sweetness warmth, tenderness and care that flows from the deep psychic core of a human
Sometime back when a mistake happened you told me , “ we have to be conscious “ I totally agree but what can we do when others are not conscious and they make mistakes? Our work suffers and there are things we don’t have control of… ? How to handle such situations😓?
Yes it is quite a common problem. As we grow conscious we expect others to also be conscious proportionately. But that is never the case.
To a civil services exam aspirant which books of Sri Aurobindo would you recommend☺️?
I am not sure about the exams and what kind of questions they ask but in general The Human Cycle gives a good glimpse of
Hindus worship various gods and goddesses. Like Ganesha for success. Lakshmi for wealth. Durga for protection. Similarly, why is Shivalinga worshipped? As you mentioned yesterday, Shivalinga is a very powerful symbol of divine power working on earth. It is representative of the union of Shiva and Nature. So is Shivalinga worshiped to seek prosperity, nourishment, strength from Prakriti that is Parvati and wisdom, knowledge from Shiva🤔?
As to what one can ask is upto the one who is worshipping. As Sri Krishna says in the Gita that whatever god one worships
I was ruminating on an issue and wanted your opinion. Sri Aurobindo said that Sri Ramakrishna was as much an Avatar as Christ, so his spiritual power or impact on world in numbers or quality must be similar if not equivalent to that of Christ. Sri Ramakrishna also reveals that Maa Sarada devi was the Avatar of Mahasaraswati, so she too must be equivalent in power and impact on the world to Sri Ramakrishna and therefore Christ. And Swami Vivekananda was a Rudra vibhuti who did Tapasya and realized the truth within, so his spiritual power and impact must be greater than Muhammad or even Shivaji or Augustus. And I don’t even need to mention Sri Aurobindo and the Mother themselves as the Supreme Avatars. And there were countless enlightened sages unleashed into India in the last century like the Heavens had broke loose😐.
First about the facts. Sri Aurobindo did not speak of Sri Ramkrishna as an Avatar in the sense of the Gita. In fact Sri Ramakrishna
If faith in the Divine can greatly diminish the possibility of the thing feared, doesn’t this faith come in the way of spiritual progress, because otherwise, the danger which was thus prevented (by faith), could have made the person stronger, if allowed to happen🫤?
But why seek danger and court difficulties? That is never the advice given by anyone. The advice is that if danger and difficulties comes, then
Dada how to forget oneself and completely emerged with the Divine😇?
To forget oneself the simplest way to remain engaged in work, not done for personal gains and profit, not done for name and fame but
“Simplest and most powerful of all (means to conquer fears) is a complete faith and trust in the Divine Grace. If it is lacking then one can additionally offer one’s fears to the Divine with a prayer for protection.” So, if I fulfil above condition, what should be my attitude out of the below two: 1) I should feel that the thing I feared can not happen🤔?
That is best. Your faith itself will greatly diminish its possibility….
When Sri Aurobindo was not even 7 years old, He experienced great darkness enveloping him in Darjeeling. This darkness always hung over him during his stay in England. The darkness left him when He came back to India. What was the reason behind that🤨?
It is the spirit of the Age, of Kali, that he had absorbed within himself since it was precisely this shadow that hung over the
I had a dream 💤few nights back. Actually before sleeping, I wrote in my diary, ma please visit me in my dreams and it happened. I was in a bus and there many people around me and there was a photo pasted on the wall and friends around me told me that the man in the picture loves mother dearly and he had a very magnetic aura and in an instant I was telling myself I have to meet this man and i kept staring deeply at the picture. it was a old yellowish rustic picture…
The first dream indicates your coming in contact with the Mother through the mediation of devotees. The second dream indicates that the Mother is watching