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.ย
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You mentioned “..spiritual aim, one has chosen..”. Could you please help me understand what does a spiritual aim mean? I read of works of the Motherย and Sri Aurobindo, and I try to apply their teachings in my everyday life. Does that count as spiritual aim? Or am I following a spiritual life? Please clarify.๐ฏ๐ชท๐๏ธ๐ฃ๏ธ
By spiritual aim is meant the goal towards which one is directing one’s inner and outer efforts. It could be a number of things. For
A strength is in her that meets everything and masters and none can prevail in the end against her vast intangible wisdom and high tranquil power.Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away into the darkness. So some people are damned? โฆ. Some she castes down or put away into the darkness ? Could you please explain that?๐๐โพ๏ธ๐น
Not damned. Nobody is damned and none forever. If the Divine. If the Divine damns forever then those things will cease to exist not finding
I am currently facing some conflict inside myself and wanted your guidance regarding the same. My mother and father live alone, we are 3 sisters (all of us live in the same city) but me being the elder one have always taken their every responsibility. Even after my marriage I have been taking the responsibility of both the houses equally and my in-laws are quite supportive too. Because my sisters won’t handle everything as I do so I feel if I had done this it would be better. But then it’s too much on my shoulders to handle. Should I be guilty? Because I am leaving it to others to do it and am doing anything wrong with my parents??
There is no question of guilt as all the children should look after the parents equally when they need them. However in reality very often
What is the difference between sadhana and upasna?๐๐ง๐๏ธ๐ช
Sadhana is a general terms for all effort and practices directed towards a higher spiritual goal.
Upasana specifically refers to worship and devotion, sitting
I made errors in the past (which I think I did because of my ignorance). This led to my character assassination and my outcast from society. People started ill-treating me and humiliating me. All this led also to my psychosis. I had to cut-off almost all connections from people because anyways I was getting negative treatment from them, through all these years. I have been labelled as a womaniser. My crude nature still haunts me. I am attracted to and look at women, but sometimes people notice me looking at women, which leads to further character assassination.๐ โ๏ธ๐ฃ๏ธ๐ช
Human beings, almost all inflict suffering upon each other unwittingly because of the ego and the desire-self that drives us. Behind it all there is
I was looking up for the Mother’s knowledge on mistakes and came across this one: “It is quite wrong to go on brooding about the past. The true attitude is to remember that nothing happens but by Godโs will and to submit to that will quietly. If you have made mistakes in the past it is by lack of true surrender and the only way to repair the mistakes is to surrender truly.”ย How can I know if it is a mistake or God’s will? What is the internal compass for reference? How can I know for what I should take ownership vs surrender?๐คฆ๐ฅ๐ฌ๐
Mistakes are a language of ignorance that makes the ego-self feel that it is the doer and hence responsible for all that happens. As long
First of all thank you very much for last two beautiful replies in your busy schedule, eternally indebted to you for that. Today I come with a huge dilemma and a heaviness in my heart and my soul about the words of the mother and of Sri Aurobindo.ย ๐นโพ๏ธ๐โ๏ธ
irst I will confess that it must be my own shortcoming and a mental barrier that I am unable to accept the divinity of the
What’s the difference between Vijnanamaya Purusha, Akshara Purusha, or are they the same? Can we think that the former is stationed in the Supermind and the latter in the Static Brahman?ย ๐๐โ๏ธ๐๏ธ
The Vigyanamaya Purusha is indeed the Divine Being in His Supramental poise whence He is simultaneously and fully conscious of Himself and all the worlds
In a recent e-mail you mentioned that Sarada devi made a comment about Sri Aurobindo. I thought they never met. Can you clarify please?โ๏ธโพ๏ธ๐โ๏ธ
They never met. The comment was made to Sri Aurobindo’s wife Mrinalini devi who met her when Sri Aurobindo was in the Alipore Jail. At
Can you please elaborate on this message from The Mother? It very simply means that one can progress much more rapidly through work done as a service to the Divine than through interiorisation and meditation…๐ฑ โก๏ธ ๐ฟโฐ๏ธ
If one reads the full prayer as below it becomes evident enough….
Request you to please send me yourย ย links in Q and A and many of your wisdom talks resently which will boost the divine life.๐๐ฎ๐ณ
There are number of question answer sessions available on auromaa which you can try.
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What is the ideal response when people keep telling things from their point of view even though the situation has been explained several times patiently. And I have to take a stance and they seem to understand only sterness?๐๐๐ซฅ
Ignorance is absence of true knowledge about Self and World and God. Its web is created by the senses and the mind that see only
Sri Aurobindo writes in the Essays of Gita: “It is the true goal and the last sense of human living and the highest step in our progressive sacrifice of works. For he remains to the end the master of works and the soul of sacrifice. [p.133]” How does this progressive sacrifice look like in our daily existence? In fact,ย how does sacrifice manifest in our life? It will be great if you can clarify.๐๐๐ฆ๐ช
The sacrifice starts with the shift of inner motive whence one decides not to live for oneself any more but for the Divine Master and
I wish I had an experience of Astral Travel, it would have increased my faith in the Mother. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo definitely discouraged it because of its dangers. Besides the work is in the body. By getting out of the body one doesnโt get out of the ego. One simply gets into the vital body. There are other simpler and safer ways to get rid of the ego as well as of the body as being the true self. There are many other things besidesโฆ.๐ถโโ๏ธ โก๏ธ ๐๐
Astral travel may give faith in the idea of other worlds but this too can be known in different ways. But the integral Yoga certainly
I want to ask, that when we go through tough time, we say just be strong in this time it is a test. God is testing you and you will come out better at the other end. But, for me, this test is going on forever. I am trying so hard to be better and do all the right things and be strong but it has been 5 years same lonely, painful and empty phase is going on. I am so tired now that everything feels pointless. How do I keep myself going? Is there any point of keep going? Will this ever get better?๐ง๐งฑโ๏ธ๐ช๏ธ
First thing we must know is that God never tests. He is with us through all these tough moments with the full understanding of our
I had a dream yesterday night, it was night and was dark and maybe I was asking something to a man and suddenly his face started changing like an asura or something cruel like animal and he called his friends whose face also got changed. I shouted screamed but they held my hands and wanted to touch me. I shouted Maa, Maa then started saying Savitri lines. Then ‘Prayer upon his lips and the great Name’ saved me. It felt like I was out of the dream after I recited it. ๐ค๐ด๐ญ๐
It looks like some attack from adverse forces in the vital world, forces of falsehood and fear that you threw away with the help of
Why is there a tendency of sin and evil in man? What should be our attitude towards sinners? Does every saint have a sinful past, and every sinner has a sainthood future?๐๐๐ฃ๐ค
What we call as sin and evil are simply movements of nature and tendencies that were needed in the early or primitive stages of evolution.
I want to do everyday but I can’t..and also exams are coming and I have to read lots of things and I don’t know why I feel like I can’t remember. I mean whenever I read some topics and sometime after I forgot. I mean whenever I read some topics and sometime after I forgotย ย ๐๐๐๏ธ๐ฅถ
To increase the memory one has to increase the power of concentration. And our concentration is at its best when the mind is quiet and