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.
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The Peace and Quietude within me is increasing day by day but I’m having to protect it like a precious flame. When I work it’s fine, mixing with others is fine (in small doses), and all the other outer movements I’m finding ok. However, at certain points I become quite externalised and then feel a tremendous pain coming out of touch with this inner quietude and then I have to sit and concentrate to regain it. It comes back quicker each time is what I’ve noticed, but is it ok to avoid certain people, situations, interactions if it causes me to become so externalised 🤨? I don’t want to be ascetic but then I also don’t feel like frankly that I’m at the point where I can just do whatever and not lose that inner peace and joy from Mother. I still feel like it’s in the beginning fragile stage [Conti]
It is certainly important to guard this precious treasures that are gifts of the Divine Grace, more important than guardian material treasures. Don’t we safeguard
What happens when one wants to enter into a relationship because one feels love and wants to make it beautiful and take it to its highest but the other person wants only something physical and casual? But still one feels the need to go ahead. Should one try to avoid such things🤔?
One should see where is this need coming from, especially because a mismatch of hopes, ideals and expectations are likely to lead to disappointment and
We human beings belong to which plane or world 🌏 among these three lower worlds? Can you give example of beings belonging to physical, vital and mental worlds separately?
Everything including the Supreme is everywhere and in everything but held back putting forth one or the other aspect. Everything including the Supreme is everywhere
Alok da, if the Bharat will be united and come to its earlier form, then I think, the population may show an another picture, where perhaps, the population of muslims will be greater than Sanatanis. And if they as always try to dominate the Sanatanis using their capacity of terrorism, then, will it be possible for Bharat to become the Spiritual Heart of the Earth ? Or it will be now a long process
The danger is there but we cannot solve it by becoming like them and start producing like rabbits and dogs. That will enfeeble the race
Kindly tell what is triple world of ignorance and the lesser triple universe🤔?
According to mystic experience the One Divine has created seven planes or seven main worlds for His Self Manifestation. These can be broadly arranged hierarchically
If Divine is in everything, why are there such repulsive places and things one earth, like I remember walking on the streets of Amsterdam and the things I saw, how can divine be there 🫨?
It is because the Divine has given man the exceptional privilege of being at least a partial or co-creator. And the first thing that man
I had a dream of which I can’t fully understand the message. I dreamt I’m in my room which is well lit but due to some work going on there are some boxes piled up on my bed. The floors are bare and the room is bare. I think that I will have to sleep in my mother’s room in that case. I enter my mother’s room and see that it is semi dark. I can see the bed but it’s not a well lit room. I tell my mother I have to sleep in her room. Somehow a light catches my eye and falls on something above the bed. I can’t tell at first what it is but with more light it illuminates an alligator in silhouette above the bed. So the alligator is dark and I can’t see any details and it seems to be waiting for me. At this point I wake up🤨
The new well lit room are portions of your being touched by the higher Light. It is however yet to be organised for you to
Reading Songs of the Soul: December 23, 2024 makes me think. Can the fire of aspiration🔥 and the discovery of our soul free us from the karmic chains of our egotistical reactions?
The fire of aspiration draws the rain of Grace that dissolves the chain of Karma. Discovery of the soul sets us free from ignorance and
I had a dream. I was in a weird tunnel of whitish light like a river 🌊and was underground in sort of a tunnel but I was not human but a ray of smth and I couldn’t be distinguished from the flow of that whitish river and there was another person in the form of me with me swimming ahead of me and I could communicate with the man without talking and I was going or more like swimming through that light and then a ball of light comes through an Opening from above the tunnel and turns into lady who is warning about the dangers ahead and that there will be rain of fire from all sides but I look at the man in front of me and go undettered swimming. That lady keeps the warning and stays there while I move ahead
Very interesting dream. The stream of white light and the ‘you’ which is a ray is your soul entering through a subconscient passage drawn by
Is it correct to say consciousness is a form of energy – the shakti 🔥?
Consciousness is not equivalent to energy. Energy is power, Shakti. Consciousness is what drives the power along the routes it must take, chetana. Of course
Those who try to escape every problem—whether in work or relationships—by constantly jumping from one thing to another, or by using money as a shield, by constantly changing relationship, often justify their actions with the phrase, “I’m just being practical.” But is being practical always the right approach, especially when it comes to emotions🤨?
Practical should always be aligned to the Ideal. Practical does not mean throwing all ideals and idealism out of the window. It rather means finding
What is infrarational in Sri Aurobindo’s terminology? In our today’s society, what are the infrarational elements? The new-age movement seems to have absorbed some spiritual intuitions but their expression is distorted. Are these infrarational in some way🤔? What’s the best solution to develop in the upward route from an infrarational position? I work in a scientific research background and a lot of confusions arise from within science itself and how most scientists/researchers explore the reality. The scientific method itself seems to have been diluted and an approval of masses are enough to establish the status quo. It’s not the same everywhere, but it is hard to fight this tendency in the current times.
Infrarational is primarily the vital animal, the physical and sense driven as well as the entire subconscious life of man. It also includes those elements
You mention “Thy beatific Smile” in Songs of the Soul: December 9, 2024. Does the Divine Mother manifest herself most often to you in a representation related to your Indian background or are you in the presence of an Idea of the Divine Mother😇.
he Divine Mother is infinite and can manifest in countless ways. Her Smile is a sign of assurance, one of the ways that She manifests
In Gita, Sri Krishna says “What is “Jap Yagya” and how is it performed?
Yagya is the offering we make to the Divine. There are three things here, the state of consciousness in which something is being offered, the
Follow up to my question about faith yesterday, can I claim to have 100% devotion and then worry about small things in life…..if I have faith then should i not just walk into everything life throws at me with full confidence….What should I do if I am Questioning my self in smaller things in life😐?
Faith and fear / worry do not go together. Devotion is a big word. It means asking nothing for oneself and giving everything to God.
Why does it happen that we can not like all the times the people we love😪?!
Liking is based on surface attractions, in certain vital physical affinities, even emotional satisfactions whereas love is based on something much deeper, the recognition and
I have recently gone through an emotionally intense relationship where someone I deeply cared for suddenly decided to marry someone else mainly due to family and societal pressure. I had strong emotional involvement in the relationship and never expected it to end this way😭. [conti]
It is natural to experience what you are going through following the sudden collapse of a beautiful dream which you took to be true. It
I often end up keeping a lot of anger 😤inside myself. I don’t know where this pattern comes from, but I think the main reason is that I try to always avoid confrontations with people. Yet, the anger still remains inside as negativity and tension. Sometimes I envy people who can just freely express their anger at others without suppressing it in this way. I think part of the problem has also to do with moral upbringing — the notion that anger is bad and that you should be composed. What would you suggest me to do? Is learning to express your anger better than keeping it inside?
I don’t think inability to express anger is the cause of anger! You will have to see why anger arises at all in the first