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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.
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.
What do I do if there’s too much pressure on me to succeed academically but I don’t know if I will? because the pressure is really getting to me..😣
Academic success means very little from the point of view of quality and fulfilment of life, let alone its purpose. Much more important is to
Why are the fates of some people good and others’ bad? What about people who make wrong choices and fall into bad company. And what should be done if parents’ company itself is not good. What is it that makes us commit mistakes even when we know what we are doing is not right😥?
The idea of good and bad itself is an error of the mind since it does not have the knowledge to judge anything. A man
Before coming to the Mother, I used to give my everything to my friends around me even at the expense of myself. However, I always have given my all to these friends, and yet when I needed them most, the majority were not there for me. The girl I considered my best friend literally does nothing for me, even on my birthday. For a while I thought that it was because she just didn’t know how to express but yet she does so much for my other friends. So clearly she can but she doesn’t want to for me. This broke my heart. I know expectations spoil love, and I need to purify it, but it’s still hurtful to see. Now some new friends are slowly coming into my life, but my closest friends in the past are those whom have hurt me quite hard a few times and now I just don’t even see the point in making new friends. For me, Mother, Sri Aurobindo and my sister give me all the friendship I need. But even in the Ashram, there were beautiful friendships. But now 😔
The urge to be alone, the dropping off of old friends, the inner distancing from old ties, the new preferences indicating progress in different dimensions
Many times I feel a burden with my relationship with my sibling, though he is an middle aged adult, my parents treat him like a child and they expect me to do so, our relationship is one sided one as I can hardly can rely on him, where else everything I am expected to do for him. Here I am not complaining as I don’t feel it’s right to constantly protect and spoil someone like a baby when I do not do that same things for my own children🙄, how can I manage this as all this hinders in my work and my purpose of life?
Relationships need to be nurtured from both the sides, otherwise it is not a relationship but a sacrifice. And sacrifice of this kind, done out
Why did Draupadi have to go through such humiliation? Why did Sri Krishna let it happen😠?
Because the entire Kuru clan had to be destroyed. Draupadi was not only born to be an empress or a samragyi she was born with
Why do one feels a sense of burden always? I really don’t know if its a general pattern with all specially with my teen that I feel very confused or its specific to me… I see a conflict with my child most of the days… her soul and mind seems to be of a 20 yr old.. the way she analyses sometimes, speaks with clarity feels awww. On the other side her vital, its demands, peer group influence is of a teenager… there is a fight in her and she feesl very angry, worthless, scared of that she would be nothing and no one would know her etc and imposes undue pressure onto her…… and feels exhausted … she can’t be consistent with things, does things when she feels like and knows that is not good and then she will over analyze it and gets into criticism. How to help her out of this😥? What ever we do seems to be of little help as she has a habit of self induce pressure and can’t deliver things.
The sense of burden is common to all thinking human beings. There are those who do not think much and their life is confined either
How can we avoid taking for granted someone who loves us and takes cares for our needs/wants/desires without asking for anything in return, we usually hurt them through our actions🙄?
Yes, that is quite a correct observation. Instead of returning love for love we end up becoming dependent upon it and taking it for …
Why aren’t there recordings of Sri Aurobindo’s voice for us to listen to😣?
I think recording tapes were not yet popular. Besides Sri Aurobindo shunned every kind of popularity. He
Why did Krishna break the rules of dharma😠?
There is a significant lesson to learn here. First of all dharma is not a set of arbitrary man made rules based on fixed human
I was inspired by your suggestion to do digital and social detox as part of realigning with my inner guidance. Right now, I am not able to move much as I am on crutches, and I don’t really gave anywhere to go to apart from my room and the small garden. I want to do at least one day of digital detox. What is the best way to spend my time during this experience, given my confinement to my room?
Listen to music, read, reflect, write with paper and pen, learn something new such as painting or piano or flute, astrology, think, pray, meditate, many
I have faced failure in 4-5 relationships with women, and it always feels like, in the end, they find a reason to leave me. Despite my efforts to make things work, this recurring pattern has left me deeply hurt, alone, and emotionally broken. There are times when the loneliness becomes unbearable, and I can’t help but wonder if there’s something inherently wrong with me, if I’m destined to face these struggles in relationships, or if I am meant to remain single forever😪.
It is difficult to comment on personal aspects. But man-woman relationship is a science as well as an art, especially a capacity to feel the
In a very famous ashram in south India, I noticed that Shiva is worshipped mainly with dhyan and yog sadhana while the same of Devi Linga Bhairavi is performed with all rituals and different types of seva. Their explanation for this difference was not quite satisfactory. If you do not find this question silly, can you please explain what could be the necessity and science behind the ritualistic worship of Devi🧐?
Shiva is Purusha or the inactive, passive aspect of the Divine and hence he is approached through dhyan. Devi is…
Please explain Prakriti in simple words. Mainly the distinction of Lower & Higher Prakriti. I tried a few articles available in Auromaa.org on this subject but could not get a clear understanding. Can we simply say that all the nurturing forces of life like love, wisdom, strength, prosperity etc in the universe constitute Higher Prakriti and hindering forces like ignorance, laziness, lust, anger, unchecked desires etc fall under Lower Prakriti? Is higher prakriti the same as Parvati & Radha to whom we worship🤨?
Prakriti is the executing force that does everything according to the wisdom and power or the secret intelligence hidden in her. This is self evident.
I couldn’t fully understand my dream🤔, but it felt like I was standing in the midst of a war-like situation, surrounded by complete chaos. I kept reciting lines from Savitri repeatedly, encouraging others to do the same, almost as if I was distributing those lines to them, saying, “Read this, read this”
The war-like situation and the chaos is the present world consciousnesses. Savitri is the…
I am easily affected by others opinions and suggestions. For example if someone tells me one thing I start believing that but if someone else tells me something quite opposite of that I start doubting the first one. How to develop my own individuality in which I can take my own decisions (after listening to all) even if it appears wrong to others🤷♀️?
Yes one must develop individuality by taking the charge of life in one’s own hands. We are often afraid to do so partly because we
I want to know whether practices like reiki can help in the healing of the vital? Like if the person has excess tamas , anxiety or extremely sensitive? Secondly , how do these practices help in once spiritual journey🤔?
Reiki, pranic healing, if done properly can be helpful temporarily by opening the subtle channels for the flow of prana. If the organ is sick
What’s the meaning behind terrifying snake/dragon/reptile 🐍🐲myths present in all of humanity?
There are various forces that operate behind the physical universe that we do not sense because of the inherent limitation of our senses. In all
As you have said many times in true love we used to give so how to practice this self-giving🤨?
It has to come naturally. If the urge is there to give then it is a sign that something true is there. As to how