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.Β
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.
Recently I had watched a video in which a recent monk from Vrindavan, who appears to have some spiritual awakening. He preaches the traditional ascetic ideals, denies creation as illusion and a bondage, and speaks of liberation in some heaven beyond as the only solution etc. But in recent videos he was seen to be moving in a lavish Land Rover with his disciples. He even takes allopathic treatment regarding his kidney problem. But I can not say anything about it in my surroundings as people around me may get offended. But honestly I think this is a hypocrisy. Am I right about it?ππ₯π
I have also found it a hypocrisy. In fact if you really believe that the world is Maya then there is nothing to preach anything
As there are different types of souls starting from the infancy to the mature soul, is it so that in order to come out from the cycle of birth and death, everyΒ soul isΒ suppose to pass through all these stages?ππππ±
That is how traditions put it, that the whole purpose of the soul entering the cycles of birth and death is to eventually come out
What is enlightenment? How does it feel? How the experiences releted to The Mother and Sri Aurobindo feels it’s pure form of joy? But what’s that state or requirment to feel or reach their?πβ¨π ποΈ
These are not things to be defined and described as the mind may conjure and imitate it. It belongs to the realm of experiences and
When life feels heavy like everything is crumbling and when one is utterly helpless and cannot support a loved one. And of course, these life situations have weeded out family and friends showing the painful reality of relationships. How is one supposed to have faith and work towards the new creation? Like at times like these, all the emotions go towards finding solutions. And all the enthusiasm and positive emotions towards serving the Mother and Sri Aurobindo just vanish-it is like one could care less about the future and new creation because the present is so challenging and has been so for a very long time! It just feels very very hard. How to direct these painful emotions?π§ π§βοΈβοΈπ₯Ή
These and other challenges are part of the journey of life. Leave the New Creation aside for a moment and see if there is any
I would like to learn the yoga of sleep. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have spoken (from my limited understanding) on the importance of the yoga of sleep and how that can be a powerful sadhana, where we can enter the subtle physical and into the realms of Sri Aurobindo’s abode. Without Ma and Sri Aurobindo’s physical presence, how can one receive the guidance if one aspires to learn this beautiful knowledge of sleep? πππ΄π€
It is not a separate yoga of sleep that one has to practice but the integral yoga which, in the course of its progression enters
A question came to me when I was listening to one of your recent talks. You were talking about Ilion and the Trojan War there. When Helen of Troy left with Paris, she left behind her little daughter, Hermione. I don’t want to judge the Divine but wouldn’t that have been traumatizing for Hermione to see her mother leave her for her lover? I know in the grand scheme of things the emotions of a little girl hardly matter but I can’t help but feel bad for her. How does the Divine compensate for such sufferings?Β β΅ππ¦’π₯π°
War, battle, death, destruction are part of the process of evolution. Beings born with a greater purpose understand this intuitively. They are charged with a
I feel I need the company of like minded people for studying Sri Aurobindo. I really love to read Mother and Sri Aurobindo but sometimes I can’t get myself to do so in an organised manner. A little bit of a nudge from time to time by a few friends would be great. Are the any online study circles that I can join? I don’t know of any in my city. I don’t find many people on Twitter or Discord who are into the integral yoga, hence I get into these other mixed spiritual communities and waste my time discussing many things that are irrelevant from the perspective of the Yoga. [conti]
Yes the need is valid and has its justification. There are certain online study circles, also WhatsApp groups. You…
I have been not well for most of the year of 2025. I chose not to get the back surgery, but now, I started hearing my own heartbeat in specially my left ear. ENT didn’t find much fluid in my ear so ordered CT Scan. I have 12 mm brain aneurism on the left side and need a brain surgery. Last year I kept joking that I am burning my past karma, but why am I not getting any brake? Now a brain surgery?π§ π§ββοΈπ©Ίπ
One either lives with faith or else enters the medical grove which acts according to its present scientific understanding. To live with faith is to
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 MotherΒ 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.π―πͺ·ποΈπ£οΈ
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? β¦. Some she castes down or put away into the darkness ? Could you please explain that?ππβΎοΈπΉ
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?ππ§ποΈπͺ
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.π βοΈπ£οΈπͺ
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 Godβs 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.”Β 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?π€¦π₯π¬π
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.Β πΉβΎοΈπβοΈ
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?Β ππβοΈποΈ
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?βοΈβΎοΈπβοΈ
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…π± β‘οΈ πΏβ°οΈ
If one reads the full prayer as below it becomes evident enough….