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.
Alok Da, can one surrender when one has fear😨 and anxiety😖. Does surrendering relieve you of your fears and anxiety? Especially in times of crisis?
Surrender is a process of forging a bond of love and trust with the Divine. It is not a recipe for emergency use though the
Some people say divine is light ☀️, some say divine is a person and some say divine is impersonal. Vaisnavas says Divine is Sri Krishna who is a person living in goloka Vrindavan. When The Mother and Sri Aurobindo talks about the Divine who they refer to?
All agree that the Divine is Superconscient and All-knowing as well as All-powerful, All Love, Peace, Light and
Alok Da can you share one of your favourite side stories from Mahabharata🏹
Ah, you are asking me to choose the best jewel from the treasure trove of jewels….
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.
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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