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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Sri Aurobindo and the Mother often talk about the difficulties of the subconscient. Sri Aurobindo mentions in his talks that in 1930s when sadhaks were given the big push by Mother to change their nature to remove all vital or mental admixture to purify their subconscient, most of them dropped under the pressure. What push was this? Cultivation of satwa nature to purify their subconscient? It is said that the light of satwa is initially helpful to purify it.🫤
The big push is not about Sattwa. They never seemed to attach too much importance to mental rules and regulations except for what is needed
For 2-3 days now during meditation I am getting glimpses of Gauri sitting in snowy mountain conditions with Shiva and their both sons (specially of Ganesha having more clear image) sending her blessings of auspiciousness. In this background please let me know your views on the significance of mount Kailash as the abode of Shiva and Shakti in our religion. I always wonder how a place on earth plane could be a home to the divine family🤨.
Gauri is the Divine Mother who has become this earth nature. Shiva is the Lord of tapasya who helps her to rise to the highest
Sri Aurobindo has written-“…Whenever he chooses to take the full pleasure of ignorance, of the dualities, of strife and wrath and tears and weakness and selfishness, the tamasic and rajasic pleasures, of the play of the Kali in short, he dims the knowledge in India and puts her down into weakness and degradation so that she may retire into herself and not interfere with this movement of his Lila…”I am not able to understand these lines. How can Divine do this only for his Lila🤔? Please elaborate.
Lila means the Divine unfolding in creation. This unfolding sometimes requires the veiling of the Light just as some plants need shade and others brightness
I have been in a relationship with a girl for two years, but she has made it clear that we can never get married. Despite this, I strongly desire to live with her because I believe it would make me happier, more focused, and bring stability to my life. Physical intimacy is also important to me, and I deeply crave that connection with her😥. However, it is difficult to manage these feelings knowing her boundaries [conti]
The fear comes because of attachment which is inevitable in any long term relationship. This attachment is a normal process of nature and has nothing
I try my best to open towards The Mother, but I think my nature has too much of deficiencies. I am feeling that too much vanity, doubts, lust etc. are not allowing me to properly turn towards the yoga. Many a times I think that I should do traditional tantrik sadhnas like vishnu sahasranama recitation daily to purify myself first. But again I read from ‘The Mother’ book that I should have complete faith towards my guru and not be under any second influence. Please guide me how should I proceed properly and how to purify myself to do The Mother’s yoga😥.
The choice of yoga is not made according to the difficulties one might encounter but according to the aspiration or the goal that one seeks.
Sri Aurobindo with friend Deshpande was travelling by train and beside Deshpande there was sitting one muslim person. Alok da please share that complete incident and what we must learn from the incident😌
I don’t remember the incident that is being described. I am not sure why someone has specifically quoted it. Sri Aurobindo was generally reticent about
Now the question is, as a person dies, apart from the psychic being, what other things are carried to the next life and who carries them? The body is not there, the psychic being goes to the psychic world. The vital goes to the vital world. The mental part goes to the mental world. So, it is only the psychic that proceeds to the next birth. Then, while going to take the next birth, does the psychic collect certain elements from the vital and mental world? If yes, how can it find its corresponding vital and mental which it had in the previous birth🤔?
The psychic being, as it evolves, develops an individual psychic personality around its core which of course is the divine spark within it. This psychic
Why are people so much obsessed with Bollywood stars? Why they don’t get it it’s all fake and hollow🤨?
Because of the charm of the vital world and the deception created by glitter and glamour that often …
Dada, how do I completely surrender🌹 myself to divine? What can I do please The Mother? I desire to feel her comforting presence.
Start by offering. Offer your day when you wake up. Offer your sleep before you sleep. Offer your work, each work, smallest activities such as
What do you make from a yogic stance of the political situation in America and Trump🤔?
Men are tools of deeper forces. Right now America is under a great pressure of the New Consciousness towards the needed change. Whatever is happening
I want to know the meaning of a dream that I saw . In that dream I was climbing a mountain but there was a huge pit which was like a dark abyss. I had to cross that large pit and then climb the stairs to move forward. After seeing that huge pit i got scared to cross that so i chose another route that had easy stairs to climb the mountain⛰️. Mother and Sri Aurobindo writes a lot of thing about this abyss . Kindly explain some of their writing on this subject.
The pit is the abyss of doubts and fears that makes us feel that the difficulty in reaching the Divine is insurmountable. But the Mother
In today’s hook up culture💘, where two people who are physically attracted to each other engage in casual sex purely for pleasure and physical intimacy, can this be seen as harmful?
There is a difference between sexual act done only for pleasure, under the stress of physical attraction, and the same act done as a natural
I have an intense aspiration to witness the Supramental creation☀️ on the earth in my lifetime. Am I a fool?
Why witness only, why not participate in it? As to fool, it is better to be such a fool than the so-called wise who believes
I feel like my life has been full of hardships and struggles. Nothing ever comes to me easily, while others seem to get the same things effortlessly. And even when I finally do receive what I wanted, I don’t truly enjoy it because when I needed it the most, it wasn’t there. In the end, I do get everything, but it often feels too late to matter 😥 [conti]
Some lives are marked out for struggle, others for fruition. That is the whole idea of rebirth, a constant progress wherein the inner wealth we
Will AI 🖥️take away human job?
The coming of machines has always done so. It has removed a class of human beings who were doing the work that was subsequently taken
I’m developing an interest in reading books📖 from various genres and authors around the world, while also continuing to read Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. I’d like to read the Bhagavad Gita as well. Is it right to read all of these alongside my reading of Sri Aurobindo?
Why not? It helps to make the mind wide and supple. Only thing one should be careful about is how deeply one is getting influenced
Alok da, this recent article published in Times of India, has prompted many known people to question me about it. I am not much aware of problems faced by Auroville , but since it has come out in National News paper🗞️, can I request you to throw some light on it?
Yes Auroville is making lot of news these days though for all the wrong reasons. To understand Auroville is difficult for the human mind in
I need to know Java as basic knowledge for a course called ‘Data Structures and Algorithms’ in order to get even a chance at acceptance at the top university for a masters in computer science 💻/ cybersecurity, even though the track I would be selecting is ‘Policy’ (because I don’t have an undergraduate CS degree and rather a business degree) which does not require much programming in the grand scheme of things. I have a few dilemmas. One is that this entire path to achieve a masters is not appealing to me because of the debt it will create for me, although my father is willing to support me for the entire cost, I will still owe him and it will also be a huge pressure to not fail because he has set some expectations along with loaning me the money. The other dilemma is that the content itself is a bore. The only way to learn is by staring at a screen for 23 hours of the day out of 24. If I really committed to this, my reality is to just sit and stare at my laptop to go through course content (which is online) and even if I found an in person course to take, the content itself is such a bore! It’s absolute gibberish… I don’t have any passion or interest in this subject and yet I have advertised myself as such because my current role is as a business development associate for an IT/cybersecurity organization, where creating your own brand is valuable in finding opportunities, networking etc. and I’ve even told my father and rest of my family that I am committed to starting to get the masters degree next year and have taken baby steps towards this path.I’ve realized their concern is just that I push myself and don’t stay in one place, and that masters is the only way to get real paying opportunities in the field I am in. That may be true, but I abhor sitting all day and staring at a screen when I know other careers exist that can also pay just as well and don’t require me to do that. I recently discovered a path which I think could be better suited for me, and that is skilled trades, such as an electrician. As a woman, this a less common route to take, and often when women do take it, it is because they are coming from low income and this career pathway is well funded by the US government, so it is very inexpensive, and also women who are able to handle well the type of men we generally should avoid, like those from an incarcerated background. So ultimately my dilemma is, how do I explain to my family these thoughts when I have grown a lot from the past and this will re-ignite all their doubts about me because I have made many mistakes which have been rash and caused them to lose trust or faith in my ability to think clearly?
You should listen to the impulsion in your heart, whether it pays much or not, whether family will understand and support you or not, whether