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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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The principle of karma is based on progress and development, and the energy we release while performing any action (through emotions, thoughts, intentions, and actions) returns to us. So, does this energy come back in the next birth as well (which we might call destiny or Prarabdha)? And is the coming of this energy determined by the conscious entity or by nature🤨?
The law of Karma is ingrained in nature as part of a vast and complex process through which the soul evolves. But the soul has
Nowadays, I’m seeing some people who started following Mother and Sri Aurobindo very enthusiastically and willingly seems to have very pessimistic mindset they only talk about their problems, money and limited comforts they have. They admire the people who are living normal life like Earning Money, Getting married leading typical settled life. So is this happen due to the reason that they enter into the path prematurely just for aha factor or is this a sincerity test by an adverse force or a kind of phase which comes in everyone’s life who follow the path😳?
It means that they not following Sri Aurobindo at all. They are simply paying a lip service adopting more of a religious approach towards Sri
Please explain Bhakti vs Tantra🤔
There are two main systems of Yoga, Veda, Vedanta leaning on the Purusha or the Masculine aspect of the One Divine Reality and, Tantra, which
How can you manage your life when you are living around pleasure centric individuals, either they want to party and make programs and if they are at home they are irritated.. and they hinder your work …so what to do? As there is a point in live that I just want to avoid them as I have nothing more to talk to them and also I get annoyed with the amount of social programs they make😪…
Here is a letter of Sri Aurobindo with regard to contact with the outside world. Here is a letter of Sri Aurobindo with regard to
Can you please help me to guide how to do meditation and how much time to do meditation? Are there any fixed time🤨?
Start with fixing a time and a suitable place for the practice of concentration, preferably short concentrations of 20 to 30 minutes twice a day.
So shall I stop mala japa and start reciting mother’s name Maa Maa … ? Because I want to chant one name always silently and internally like my earlier mantra🤨.
That would be the best. Sri Aurobindo writes to someone seeking initiation. ‘Please initiate me into a tangible form of Yoga. I make this assurance
I had a ‘Ah Ha’ moment yesterday. Souls’s evolution and all that I am understanding, but still there was a missing link.’ why would God put us here to start evolving? Then yesterday there was ‘Ah Ha’ somehow I remembered The Life Devine’s first chapter. I remembered the involution into the Matter part! So, I, that is that Devine spark, -The Soul , – started my life in the matter. And started with that one cell life, and now here I am now😇! Is that correct?
It is a good insight. More will follow. It is the soul that chose for this adventure as thus…
I have too many confusions in understanding the great god – Shiva.(1) He is both fierce as Rudra 🔥& Bhairava and benevolent as Shiva & Mahadeva.
Shiva’s story is of synthesis rather than of contradictions. It is our human misreading that has erected the gulf between the spiritual and the material,
The Mother said that the death of Caesar was an important event in Europe. This is from a her commentary on Thoughts and Aphorisms. What does that mean🤔?
Julius Caesar was assassinated to bring back the Roman Republic but paradoxically it ended up, quite unexpectedly, in the birth of the Roman or more
Why have relationships based on love without marriage become a norm? How to face this fear of being different from the masses🤨?
Relationships based on love rather than social sanction are becoming more common and will be the future norm because of the following reason.
The
Alok da, you’ve been optimistic about not there being another nuclear scale war but on a podcast you said there might be a nuclear war around the time of 2050 or something like and that humans itch to use them, what caused the change in view and what are the challenges India has to face in such a war🫨? and also in a response you’ve said the fossil fuel resources might exhaust ,all of our modern housing, electricity, food, clothing to transport everything depends on them, so will we go back to pre modern huts? How is supermind going to navigate all this?
A limited nuclear war is quite likely. It is about the Third World War about which i said would not happen.
The source of energy
How can one learn to be patient😐?
By teaching and training the vital to wait. One can start with simple things like food and go on to other things wherein one learns
Sri Aurobindo explains to Nirod da: ‘A little observation ought to show that you are not manufacturing your own thoughts, but rather thoughts occur in you. Thoughts are born, not made—like poets, according to the proverb. Of course, there is a sort of labour and effort when you try to produce or else to think on a certain subject, but that is a concentration for making thoughts come up, come in, come down, as the case may be, and fit themselves together. The idea that you are shaping the thoughts or fitting them together is an egoistic delusion. They are doing it themselves, or Nature is doing it for you, only under a certain compulsion;’🤔
Yes, this is one of the things that strikes as an obvious truth that thoughts, feelings, desires, none of them are generated by us. They
Why do some people feel happy when others are going through difficult times😡?
It is best not to notice or try to analyse and understand the perverse side of others. Doing so implies that there is something akin
What causes cancer, given that it affects people of all ages—from the elderly to young children🫨?
The rise of cancer in our times is due to a number of reasons which cannot be discussed in a letter here. It is partly
Kundalini yoga has become really widespread in the West — you can see so many groups in every city, so many YouTube videos. Do you think this trend is good? Isn’t kundalini yoga a little bit risky if practiced without proper guidance? Do you recommend trying it🤔?
I have known such people from my teenage college days. What is taught under the name of kundalini yoga is a whole lot of things
Can consciousness be trained or cultivated or developed? How does one do it🤔?
Consciousness is the key to everything, in fact to all authentic change. It is consciousness that enters the forms and inhabits them, identifying and limiting
What happens when someone starts a marriage based on a lie😳?
Lie is never a good thing, least of all as a basis to start a marriage. Marriage especially is based upon trust and a lie