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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.
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.
Kindly add some more words to the below line, taken from one of your writings: “In this sense, faith moves mountains, makes the lame walk, the dumb speak and the blind see.”😊
Faith, if steady, makes us undertake and fulfil the most seemingly impossible tasks. One continues putting one’s utmost effort even …
Would you please tell us about bipolar mood disorder? Is it curable😬?
There are a number of conditions for which we do not use the word cure, since it would mean that the illness has gone away
I have some questions about the psychology of the mind. What could be the possible reasons for unwanted and intrusive thoughts that suddenly pop up in the mind and can sometimes be very disturbing? Related to that, I have a question about OCD—what is it, and why does it happen😥?
Thoughts come from all around but those whose physical and mechanical mind is very active have a tendency to hold on to them and turn
What was The Mother’s relation to Sri Aurobindo, can we say she is his wife 🤔?
The Mother herself mentions why she came and lived with Sri Aurobindo for the common work they came to do. ‘Between 11 and 13 a
The poem says, “Time ⌛travels towards revealed eternity.” Some say that time is an illusion, so how do I find out that will there be an end to this time , if eternity is a reality then what end result am I searching for ?
Time is not an illusion but a subordinate power of the Eternal that helps in the unfolding of the Divine Will. It is somewhat like
Sir, why should we desire to be Immortal🦢??
Desire for immortality can stem from various motives. The lowest of these is out of fear of Death or the need to prolong one’s earthly
Do we do everything in life just for the sake of happiness? Whether it’s earning money or visiting spiritual places—some people even say that we go there because we find peace and happiness and happiness is the ultimate goal😊.
Not at all. Happiness is what the average person seeks. There are people who seek knowledge, others who seek love, still others who seek harmony
Bhaiya, can you share your thoughts on the 10 Devi forms or the Dasha MahaVidya🤔?
The Dashamahavidyas are ten forms of the World Mother representing her cosmic powers from the highest worlds of Beauty and Light, Tripurasundari, to the lowest
Can Moksha be attained after death depending on your karma’s or is it something that can be realized during one’s lifetime— or are both possibilities true🤨?
Both possibilities are true. Moksha is not an automatic process. It is the result of a long sadhana. The sadhana is usually done in the
Can you share what you think the future of United Nations🌍 will be?
The League of Nations, and now the United Nations and its extensions UNSC, UNGA, UNESCO are all efforts of the human mind and reason to
Can we read Mother’s Agenda🤔?
The short answer is yes, one should read the Agenda because it contains some very important aspects of Her life and work that one does
I am practicing surrender in my day to day life to krishna bhagwaan. I try to surrender myself to him while doing any type kind of work during the day like be it office work or talking to someone over phone or personal meetings or even just being silent etc. After certain extent, my ego fights with it. It does not allow me to surrender further. It caused a little disbalance in my mind yesterday and it caused headache. I did not like it. Was i suppressing my self here in order to go selfless?? How should i counter this force to move ahead in surrendering? Should i remind myself of the true aspiration that I have to know my creator when such things happen🤨?
Yes, the reaction and revolt rises because certain parts of the vital have been just suppressed. The way is to become conscious of the inner
What is the difference between the the path before Sri Aurobindo and Sri Maa and path of supramental in the basis of vairagya. They left home or samsara it’s their praradha they have no attachments, so why it is not acceptable because when I talk to other devotees in Odisha they strongly oppose these path before.😬….
Vairagya is of two kinds. One kind of Vairagya is born out of disappointment from the world or an inability to face its challenges. It
Yesterday night I bathe, and read Savitri🕊️, and read the mother with letters on the mother. I slept with Savitri music turned on. And then also saw a horror dream, I was passing by my kitchen and saw someone there, [Conti]
It must have been some contact with some kind of an elemental energy. These things are everywhere and sometimes they get detected during the dream
Sir, Can you please explain “Prakasha” & “Vimarsha” in simple terms? If you could give examples to illustrate this concept, it would be much easier for me to understand🤨.
They are two aspects of One Reality, called differently in different traditions as Existence and Consciousness, Ishwara and Shakti, Brahman and Maya. Prakash is the
Sometimes curses become less in difficult times. What to do then? Usually I am running haphazardly, trying all means or going back in shell and tired of even facing the difficulties. How to manage these times😥?
Stop trying and learn to relax, opening yourself quietly to the Divine Mother and relying upon Her Grace. Trying hard itself becomes a movement of
Mother says there is no evil, the only one evil is that things are not in its proper time and place, then what about men like Hitler and Pablo Escobar😈?
Hitler was indeed an incarnation of the Asura of falsehood. Paolo Escobar was indeed a criminal who pumped cocaine into the world market.
Now if
I have a question regarding the rejection of lower mental activities. Sri Aurobindo has written in The Mother book as following, “rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind” What I have understood from above sentence is, for example if I have a Mayavadi point of view of looking at the world and now Sri Aurobindo is saying something higher than that, then I should drop my Mayavadi point of view and accept his vision of the world. Is this a right understanding🤔?
This is very true from the practice point of view, a path that I myself took. What it means however is not to remain shut