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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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What I explored today when there were scoundrels harassing us in a park, that while focusing on getting Gyaan, I have ignored Shakti. I don’t have courage. I should have turned that man upside down. And is not the Mother’s protection with me? Then why didn’t I have any urge to fight anyone. I ignored those rascals without getting disturbed. But Why? They deserved to be beaten up. Understand my points please and Guide me😬.
As to Shakti, I agree. We have become too much seekers after philosophical knowledge and too much of emotional bhaktas. Both these things are no
Yesterday I had a dream where a golden bald man was driving an open yellow car through a crowded chaos and trying to make his way…🤔, Can you please explain this..
Seems like some being from the higher mental worlds pushing his way through the crowded vital realms, the lower vital …
I remember you saying in one of the talks that Shiva is Prajnya. However in many places Sri Aurobindo mentions Shiva as the Tapas-Force aspect of the divine. How would you integrate these two aspects in Shiva? Please explain Prajnya & Tapas in detail for better understanding. Also how can we relate prajnya and tapas with Shiva’s consort Parvati🤔?
These are two different but interconnected systems. In the image of the Upanishad, Brahman is fourfold, Virat is material existence with Brahma as the Godhead.
From the 19th century onwards here is this perception that kala purusha invaded the world like never before, right from railways and airplanes shortening distances of the entire globe, static paintings or camera pictures being replaced by moving images like cinema, being able to send messages across continents in micro seconds, one big historical event is immediately faded out into memory by the other one, no solidified identity in terms of occupation or even nation is possible, novels and films with non linear storytelling have erupted, theories about time in physics and studies of evolution in biology, and disciplines like geology etc.. are all deeply intertwined with time flux, there’s a sentence that “everything solid melts into air” in this modern time-era, and with social media humanity is living moment to moment in it’s lowest type, Sri Aurobindo also wrote a piece on kala purusha, How to understand this phenomenon in both it’s good and bad aspects😥?
What we are witnessing is an accelerated evolution at an unprecedented pace. It happens when the Spirit of Time, Kalpurusha, is turning a new page.
I had a dream few days back, I was at this beautiful place it was so fresh, trees were red yellow glimmering and snow was there and there was so much peace and then suddenly a place got filled with rowdy crowd and they started waving red triangular type flags and called then selves mujahideen, I was not at all afraid as i looked at everything as a witness as if I knew the ending of the story, then later I had a lover who was caught as one of them and he was shot dead, even then I was not shocked and was at peace. People asked me how I was and told them that he is gone but it’s new start for him and that end of a tragic life, can you explain me this dream😬?
The calm, peaceful place is the inner being closer to the soul. The red flags and IM are symbols of adverse forces trying to invade
May I please request you to offer some guidance on what does it mean to expand our consciousness, and some suggestions to practice it in everyday life😇?
In the integral yoga we don’t use these terms or practice. Here the goal and the methods are very different. Expansion of consciousness is a
What does The Mother say anything about Valentine’s Day💖 ? In my opinion every day should be Valentine’s Day….but is there anything special about this day that she’s used?
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo spoke about love in its truest, deepest and highest sense. Valentine’s Day is more about celebrating romance which is quite
I want to know in depth about human mind. Which Sri Aurobindo and The Mother’s literature should I read🙂?
You can read Early Cultural Writings, Letters on Yoga, The Synthesis of Yoga…
Why Arjuna’s was given the integral vision? Why was he chosen by Sri Krishna🫤?
Yes it is indeed interesting that it is Arjuna who has been chosen by the supreme Godhead for revealing his grand Viswaroopa and not some
About Mataji’s experiments on her cells, I am trying to say something, but it is not very clear in my mind. It’s almost like it is right there, but I am not reaching it yet. I actually want to go back to a Soul and the Psychic Being. In a booklet called a Psychic Being, its a question and answer booklet, where The Mataji says on page 103.The Soul and Psychic Being are not exactly same thing.. The Soul is the Divine spark, and the Psychic Being is formed progressively until the time comes when Psychic Being fully formed and awakened becomes conscious sheath around the Soul around which it is formed, and thus identifies with the Divine. So, right now it is the Psychic being who is keeping an account of my activities in this lifetime, and after death the Psychic Being will decide (so to speak) what needs to be retained for future and what to be discarded🤔?
Mind is part of Nature, the soul is part of the Divine. At first the soul develops in the womb of nature. When developed and
Actually, I wanted to know according to the science of mantras, is it appropriate to chant 2-3 mantras together or should only one mantra be chanted🤔?
Both are permitted. One can take up more than one mantra provided their deities and function do not clash with each other. Universally accepted mantras
I find it bizarre how people with no belief about creation other than the solitary big bang, or no belief at all in any higher power live life ? Like what is even stopping them from just ending their life if they’re miserable? People with mental health disorders and with no grounding to their existence just roam about in misery…I feel there is something in built in humans that doesn’t accept this self gas-lighting intellectual theory that there’s no higher power, and is it this that makes them continue with life? What exactly is the inward instinct that makes them not only continue to roam aimlessly in what they believe is just an accidental happening of useless matter, but also WANT to continue ? I’ve asked people this question, and every time just reply with…”well, that’s life!”….It’s a little amusing but quite frightening also…😏
Absolutely true. Faith in a Creative Power that drives the wheeling of the stars and the Ages building order out of disorder in intuitively ingrained
Through this question I seek further clarification to your answer to the question:-“Does it matter what form of God I worship or what name I take? Isn’t all one Power just as all religions are the same?🤨”
The fact that there are different gods with different forms and names indicates they have different powers and functions. Of course they are same in
They often tell me that it was the householders who had the supramental “downloads” or words to that effect. They also say marriage is an airplane route in this Integral Yoga Path. I’m not a grihastha as it is against the truth of my being & not in consonance with my needs. Not being a grihastha limits my exposure & experience of human interactions & hence limits the field & scope for progress. Am I then unfit or not qualified either for Integral Yoga or for being touched by supramental? Supramental is too far afield but these queries do come up now & then with age & passage of time). Please shed some light on this 🙏
This is supported neither by facts nor by spiritual logic. The truth of the matter is that marriage does come with a huge burden as
I chant 2-3 mantras like Gayatri, Mrityunjaya, etc., daily. Is this correct, or should I stick to just one mantra? Which one is more effective? Please guide me based on your knowledge of mantra shastra🙏
It is not the mind but the heart that chooses the mantra. In fact it is not we who choose the mantra but the Divine
Aren’t the nihilists partly right when they don’t see any fundamental meaning in all the things society tried to point towards with all its conventions like marriage, money, tradition etc.. but the only thing missing is how Sri Aurobindo in the essays on the Gita writes about Sri Krishna too shunning all the pragmatic queries of arjuna to fight the war and says that the only command is “take refuge in me alone”. Isn’t this alchemical transmutation the only fundamental distinction🤔?
Taking refuge in God is to be free from stain of fear and sin. It means to be awake powerful instrument of the Divine in
How many in the time of Sri Krishna knew he was an Avatar and who where they 🤨?
Yashoda Maa, though she (and Devaki) were made to forget this. The gopa and gopis and of course Maa Radha knew his secret. Akrura and
When we talk about karma, there is a shlok in the 18th adhyay of Gita (Chapter 18, shlok 14) that there are 5 factors responsible for any karma- adhishthan, karta, karan, prayatna and daiva. So, when we were discussing about this in a group, someone asked why daiva does not intervene when something terrible happens (for example rape or something else)? The way Sri Krishna intervened when Draupadi suffered while attempted to be disrobed, why He does not prevent rapes or terrorist assaults? How daiva can allow such things to happen😪?
Daiva is not the Divine nor a particular god but the gods or divine powers that play a role in determining the events and circumstances