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In the prayer of May 31, 1914, (1) Mother describes how She identifies with earth and during one sunset, offers herself in complete self-giving and in the silence of night waits for the grand illumination to happen again. This reminded me of the Sandhya Vandana of Sanatana Dharma, and it felt as if Mother was showing us all how a true offering to the Lord Surya, needs to be done. Is this perception right🙂?
Yes, in another prayer She refers to the sunrise and sunset being special hours. But to offer the entire earth would be possible only if
How could a sensible woman like Draupadi say this, “Andhe Ka beta Andha”? People blame her for the war but I think the war was inevitable and that it was the Mother who veiled herself in her as is mentioned in Savitri, Can you please explain this🤔…
This is one of the classic examples of how false narratives are built. This incidence often quoted to justify the War, though a ridiculous and
Alok da, why is it that when I am alone I feel Mother and Sri Aurobindo continuously and when I am with people I don’t feel them so much, I get distracted and what to do so that I feel them all the time specially when I am with people as I actually miss them that time😬
Yes it is a common experience once one enters the path of Yoga and takes it in real earnest. One likes to be either alone
Today on 26th January, someone casually told me – what’s there to celebrate India’s Republic Day or Independence day when a so many inhuman incidents going on inside India! To which my spontaneous reply was-“Forget not what’s going on just a step outside India” But then I realised this still not justify all that has been happening in India throughout…crime is a crime irrespective of the frequencies and numbers…And all that has been going on is really concerning and leads to a doubt leading ultimately to questioning why there’s not any Divine intervention to uproot the devils roaming in the hides of human and songs of the kind – “Utho Draupadi sastra uthalo..govind ab na aayeinge” reiterate themselves in my mind spontaneously😏..
Celebrating India’s Independence day means that we are happy that India is politically free from the long servitude to the British rule. Political Independence does
In this canto, Satyavan dies, but the first line of the thorns begins with ‘Now it was here in this great golden dawn.’ Why is this morning called golden🌄?
Because it is also the same dawn when Satyavan is saved by Savitri armed with the power of …
What spiritual significance does the planetary parade have🙂 ?
From the occult point of view it means that certain forces that govern our life are coming together and aligning themselves. It is likely to
When someone talks to themselves, who are they talking to😏? The mind is just mumbling in solitude, right? If someone prays, isn’t it the same action? The mind creates an image that religion has given, referring to it as God, and then it engages in a conversation with that image in its mind. Is there something different happening that is being overlooked?
There are many levels of the mind and there are things beyond the mind itself. When we speak to ourselves we are speaking from one
How do I get out of the feeling of being caged, imprisoned😬? I feel like breaking free!! This feeling comes to me all the time.
The cage is the ego, the bird is the soul, desires are the bars of the cage and the lock is ignorance. The stifling feeling
Does dé ja vu have any significance🤨?
It doesn’t have a specific significance as such but reveals something about how our mental consciousness operates at times. Its exact cause is not known
To the best of my knowledge, the term “Integral Yoga” was introduced by Sri Aurobindo. How can others use this name? I came across a YouTube channel named “Integral Yoga” and assumed it would be related to Sri Aurobindo, but it turned out to belong to some Swami Satchidananda 😏
It is true that there are at least two organisations or gurus who have used these words integral yoga as well as Divine Life giving
If Sri Krishna picked up the wheel for Arjuna why did he not break his rule or intervene for Abhimanyu😠?
First of all there is a great difference between Arjuna and any other warrior in the Kurukshetra war, be it Abhimanyu, the five sons of
Sir, I am trying to calm the impulse with emotion and striving to know the truth an attempt to understand the truth using life🤔?
Truth cannot be known by quietening the emotions alone. The mind with its ideas, opinions, views, thought formations has to be made quiet. The vital
I know a woman who is a Vaishnava and pushtimargi and all that and when I told her she needs to change her nature and not lie or manipulate people she told me so what even Krishna cheated and played politics.. what to say to such people🤫?
As far as we know, if we take into account the Mahabharata and the Bhagawat, Sri Krishna never lied. Nor did he try to manipulate
I am officially separated from my partner, but a part of me is struggling to let them go. Some of it stems from jealousy, the thought that they might find someone better. While I genuinely want them to be happy, there’s still a part of me holding on. How can I make peace with the idea that they may eventually find someone else and love that person 😪?
Let them find whoever they are destined to find but an abiding happiness through objects of desire is as rare, if not impossible in the
The more I see the world, there is an anguish that grows in me at times. I am taught to pray to the divine in those situations. I was asking the mother to help me be conscious of my life purpose, after which, I feel more and more identified with Earth as a being, and so recently, there is an inner need in me to pray for the manifestation of divine will on Earth. I even feel like praying and offering certain natures of certain people I know to the mother for the best for them to happen. Is this okay? To pray to the mother for others, to pray or aspire for increasing the intensity of Earth’s aspiration? Somewhere mother has said that it is better if the person needing change prays on their own instead of someone else praying for them or am I misunderstanding something here? Thank you🙂
To pray for all, even for the wicked and the wretch, is indeed the highest of prayers. Such universal prayers are described in the Bhagawat
People often debate about Gita actually happened and was it really given by Sri Krishna on a battlefield🤔?
If we take the facts that it takes about 2 hours to recite the Gita, then it seems very likely that it was given on
January 10, 1917:”Dost Thou then want to teach me that every effort that has my own being as its aim will be useless and vain? That action alone which has as its motive the radiating of Thy Grace is accomplished with ease and success. When the will acts in the external life, it is powerful and effective; when it attempts to practice going inwards, it is without force or effect…. So all action undertaken for personal progress becomes more and more unfruitful, and consequently rarer and rarer. On the other hand, all outer action seems to gain in effectivity what the inner has lost. Thus, O Lord, Thou takest the instrument as it is, and if it has to be refined, that will come in the course of the work.” Alok da , can you please through light on this, its role in practical life🙏 .
This is one sign of the Superman that the Mother mentions. ‘All those who feel that their heart extends further than the limits of their
Why did Sri Krishna allow Shakuni to cheat and win in the unjust game of dice😠?
Because he wanted to prepare the Pandavas; he wanted them to achieve victory rightly and uphold the principles of Dharma. If they had not been