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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.
I have read that as we are part and portion of the Divine, we share a very special bonding with Him. Kindly put more words into it🙏.
It means that our real identity is the child of the Divine Mother. But it is hidden and covered by ignorance of earth-nature. It is
I wanted to know who carried which warrior’s blood to Druapadi for her to rub it in her hair so that she could, at last wash and braid it once again, according to her pledge. I can’t find it anywhere. Duhsasana has been killed and his blood drunk by Bhima. Duryodhana is about to be killed. This is an important event which I am missing, without which I can’t proceed. As usual, please help me😳.
Bhima killed Dushasana and as promised to Draupadi smeared his face with Dushasana’s blood and then took it to Draupadi to braid her hair. Though
Why isn’t The love and daring of seafaring that you see in European history and culture right from the homer’s epic of odyssey to Vasco De Gama to the British mastery of the ocean in creating a world empire isn’t anywhere nearly as visible as it is in Indian culture except for chola expeditions? They went so far as to even ban sea travel in medieval ages and seafaring fishing communities are often placed very low in the social order from Gujarat to Kerala. Like Sri Aurobindo said regarding the village republics on how irrespective of the march of empires in the country they were undisturbed and hibernating in their own villages for centuries without any curiousity. As I understand it too much obsession with the order and not embracing love of chaotic flow of oceans and it’s unknown vasts as it is visible in European naval history and literature is an inevitable evolutionary decline in spirit. I was a bit disappointed recently knowing that when European merchants reached in medieval times Japan the Japanese were very curious and quick to enquire about their map making and cartographic equipment while none such Indian records exist,there are many foreigner traveller records of them coming to India and writing the records of their observations of India while there’s no Indian who went to foreign lands and wrote such observations and records cos the foreign lands are inhabited by mlecchas and it makes you impure entering them. What explains such close mindedness, Is this what Sri Aurobindo meant by decline in thought power that happened🤔?
The India you are comparing with the modern European is the India of the dark ages. But even till the last few centuries, Indians also
Could you please talk about Operation Sindoor and the current situation on Auromaa 🙏? Thank you.
Will surely give a talk on the subject on auromaa. The situation is still evolving and the Operation Sindoor is still on. Three things have
“Each time a progress is to be made there is a test to pass” This was posted in Alokda recording group chat today. My understand is that Mother does not test but in the passage its says there are three categories of test, one of which is divine and spiritual force. Its quite confusing to my understanding😳.
It is not the Mother who takes any test but the cosmic forces. If you read carefully She mentions the three kinds of forces that
As you said, choose the career as per swabhava and swadharma. I have concluded that my nature and temperament best fits for, a professor in university. I don’t want to get added in the rat race of MBA and UPSC people. I want a peaceful life, lots of time, exploration, travel, and a platform from where I can bring some changes. I can see myself doing best as a professor in future. This is my highest aspiration. But not with my subject commerce, I can go with psychology, philosophy, history but not commerce😊.
Basically into teaching. So you can shift to graduation in a subject of your choice such as philosophy or ….
Often driven by comparison and jealousy, people in today’s fast-paced world are eager to experience everything quickly, from switching careers, traveling, and earning more, to staying fit and competing with others. Can this be called over-ambition? Does the age-old saying by Rahim still hold relevance😳?
This feverish fast-paced hyperactivity of our modern times, whatever its outer reasons (and there are quite a few) is because evolution has been put in
In letters on yoga Sri Aurobindo said theres the vital which brings us outward and downward and theres the psychic which is aways close to Mother. Then there is the witness purusha which has to choose where it sides and has to stand with the psychic and reject the lower movements. What is the difference between the witness purusha and the soul, are they the same thing? How does one make the witness purusha stand on the side of the psychic🤨?
The Witness Purusha is the inner being, mainly the inner mental that can separate itself and stand back from the workings of outer nature. This
Sri Aurobindo said Tantra was founded on the ideas which are partially true. What is missing in it🤔?
He spoke of it as the great effort at creating a synthesis between the Divine Self and Nature by leaning on the Divine Mother. However
Sometimes in personal life we have to lie because the other person is not ready to listen to the truth or he opposes it very strongly, he gets very angry and there is an atmosphere of unrest, what should we do in this situation, because nowadays whenever I tell a lie, this line starts inside me: निर्मल मन जन सो मोहि पावा। मोहि कपट छल छिद्र न भावा॥ [A person with a pure mind attains me. I do not like deceit, fraud, or malice.]😥
One should never tell a lie. But that does not mean that one is compelled to tell the truth. First of all one does not
Kindly put some words on the below line from Savitri🕊️: “Whatever the appearance we must bear”
The full passage explains it well. ‘One who has shaped this world is ever its lord:Our errors are his steps upon the way;
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Mother says to “rise above falsehood, live in the pure Light of your soul and you will be close, very close to the Lord”. How can one rise above falsehood? What are the practical means of doing that😳?
Falsehood is all that creates division in our consciousness, and the last of these divisions is the division between God and the World.
What is the difference between living in Pondy and staying outside and doing yoga? Which is best for spiritual growth🤔?
It is the difference between lighting a beautiful lamp at an altar built in the home and making the altar itself your home and plunging
Alok da how to get rid of these right, wrong, true, false, mental conception, ideas, thought which create a strong barrier towards the divine. How to be widening and plastic in every part of our being? Is it any state where the right, wrong, true, false will vanishes? Then how to achieve this state because in this narrowness I feel captive inside a cave😥.
It is neither possible nor advisable to drop off the dualities by a mental understanding that there is a higher state where they cease to
Is there any deeper reason for Sri Aurobindo refusing to meet Gandhi even after multiple requests cos it’s tough to believe Sri Aurobindo denying to give a chance to the man who emerged as the biggest leader Indians are rallying behind in the freedom movement after his and tilak’s departure and I’m thinking of alternate possibilities of the meeting probably bringing at least a little change in Gandhi’s ways and steer the country’s future to a better ways than what actually turned out🤔
Gandhi was too rigid to change and Sri Aurobindo knew very well who he was. As far as changing him, if at all, it would
What do you think about the statues with sexual postures in temples like Khajuraho? I read Osho’s discourse on this subject that it means conquer the sexuality inside us and getting the divine inside😳.
The images do not indicate conquest of sexuality as much as they suggest different forms of union between the masculine and feminine principles, Purusha and
Kindly put more words into the below quote from Sri Aurobindo: If thy heart is troubled within thee, if for long seasons thou makest no progress, if thy strength faint and repine, remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master🤨, “I will free thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve”.
It means that whatever be the inner or outer challenges and difficulties we must remember that the Divine has given the promise to man that
As I have shared earlier that I was in the lineage of DLS Rishikesh, but today onwards I took my final decision to follow the spiritual path of the Divine Mother and Sri Aurobindo and continuing silent chanting of the divine name “Sri Maa”. I may have disturbed a lot by asking many more questions to you, for that I beg your pardon. But I have few more queries, please guide me 😊 (1) What should be the regular routine for a spiritual seeker?
The outer routine has to be according to the needs and demands of one’s work and life. The inner attitude is most important. It is