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.Ā
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Does yoga involve the concept of self-respectš¤Ø?
Yes of course. Self-respect is part of the sattwic ego. It is true that eventually the ego-self has to be entirely renounced but it is
What is the significance of 24th April?
‘The anniversary of my return to Pondicherry, which was the tangible sign of the sure Victory over the adverse forces.’ This is the significance that
Alok da, what should I say when people start discussing in the old days Ashram was so much better, people were smiling and products were so good and now so many outsiders come? Please share your light on thisš¤Ø.Ā
Old people everywhere keep thinking about the ‘good old days’. It is everywhere and in every age of mankind. But if we really have faith
Dear Alok da, today on this day how do we share The motherās light to the world?Ā Please guide as what subject should be shared and how? Like how to share all this with the new children? Like podcasts may be digital media films books , the language they understand and howš¤?
What the youngsters need most today is direction and a clear aim or goal. There are too many distractions, too many opinions pulling them in
This is a very serious question.Ā When I started getting connected to The Mother and Sri Aurobindo a year back , listening your talks, going to Delhi ashram, reading the books, I used to feel so close to them, my aspiration was high, I used to be conscious of them, Sincere in my works and offerings.But now when I have spent more than a year in Delhi and college, specially giving alot energy to my relationship, as I took lots of ups and downs, indulging in music societies, and hence getting into all the lower activities like spending time with people with ordinary life and lower tendencies. I did this mistake for a very long time.Ā I’m in my hometown for diwali holidays, far away from everything, everyone. When I sit alone and try to feel her presence and introspect. I see that the flame is not the same, the spark has gone, although I know that I’m for her, I have to live for her, but certainly my aspiration is not the same.Ā I feel myself far from her. The wanting, the curiosity, the questioning mind, the will to grow, everything has come to a static state.Ā I know you can understand, please help me, what can I do, I don’t want to live an ordinary life, I want to live for her, only for her, her ,herš.Ā
These ups and downs come to everyone. One has to persist and persevere through it all refusing to give up. One has to keep learning
My niece is so confused in choosing her career. How should I help her in providing some solution to her confusionš¤?
There are two things mainly to be considered. The first is her goal, the aim that she places before herself, not just in terms of
I donāt quite understand the concept of doing vrats. Many women around me observe fasts on Mondays, Thursdays, and other specific days. These fasts are usually done with a particular intentionālike, āIāll fast for 5 Mondays, please help my husband get a job.ā And surprisingly, after completing the 5 Mondays, their wish often comes true. This strengthens their belief that the fasting made it happen, and then they start encouraging others to do it tooš.
People say and do all kinds of things for fulfilling their wishes. When things happen the way they wanted, they believe in it more, and
Is it so that all those movements that result in regret subsequently were vital or mental movements, and perhaps done in hurry? Also is it because of ego-self only that one feels regretful of ones mistakes; isn’t acknowledgement of one’s own mistakes a sign of growing consciousš?
Human beings live in great ignorance and unconsciousness. As they go through life, consciousness grows little by little, often through lives. Mistakes are therefore part
Can past karmas be one of the factors responsible for lifelong mental illness and considerable mental sufferingš„?
Past karma is always there behind everything but not as a reward and punishment but as a constant learning process. So instead of pondering over
I heard in your talks that the psychic being, after physical death on earth, and shedding off the vital and mental sheaths, goes to the psychic world, where it is put to psychic sleep by the world Mother. Kindly tell me if that sleep is unconscious, semi-conscious, or fully conscious for the psychic beingš? And also, is that sleep Blissful for the psychic being?
It is a blissful state of peaceful unconsciousness, a deep sleep from which you wake up forgetting all the past except what is bare essential.
Last night, I had many dreams, of which I remember two. One was a sexual dream, and the other was a dream where I went to a village to do divine work. There, a dog and a wild animal stood in front of me, but they couldn’t harm me. As I went further, the villagers told me, ‘How did you manage to escape from them? They have killed 130 people so far.’ Then I thought to myself, ‘You donāt know whose work Iāve come to do.’ After that, I was returning home after doing the divine work, and again, those same animals appeared in front of me, trying to bite me, and then the dream ended. Does this have any meaningš¤?
These are the difficulties coming on the path when we undertake the Divine Work. Generally dogs are not harmful creatures but some do represent agents
I go from top to bottom I was getting Down, like in a basement place, it was all maroon colour and had rooms ..chatted with some servants there, our neighbours son who is very dear to us had comes into his new home and he came out to meet me. This house was largely empty as i got down the inner room. As I am finding my way I realise the servants were over smart people. As I got down there are shoes out there in a untidy manner. I took a black pair of shoes and told the servantsĀ itās my sister and we have exchangedĀ and there is a red pair up which is mine I have left for her but servant had to check with the app on her phone. First it did not work so she doubted me as if I was steeling itā¦I told her check again properly. Then I showed her the black heel shoes, this time the app worked so I gave her a firing as you should do your work properly. A Wedding was going in background. Can you please explain this dreamš?
The maroon basement is the subconscient mind and the servants are possibly the senses whose action and working is being organised by the higher intelligence
When two people love each other – what does it mean when it is said that they never leave each other ? I know that they always remain in each otherās hearts but what does it mean that they are always together no matter outer circumstances? Does thinking about the person keep the two close tooš?
We are always close to people whom we love from the depths even if they be physically far from us. So too we may be
Dear Alok da, what is ‘seeing’ the Divineāļø everywhere and in everything? Especially when we are not yet equipped.To experience or realize it, as a first step, how to practice the idea consciously? Is it like remembering that Mother is in all and trying not to think or feel about something or someone as high or low?
Seeing here means a mental seeing through thought, imagination and idea that the Mother is everywhere, in everyone and everything. Later, as this idea grows
Do aliens exist? If so what is their purposeš½?
Creation is full of all kinds of creatures, in this and other galaxies, in this and other universes. Creation has no purpose in the human
Pranaam Revered Alok Da.Ā Ā my question is, whenever one takes this name Krishna, The Face of The Love of my life, my Lord, my Master Sri Aurobindo’s Handsome Face comes to my mind. Could it be my mental construction or something really more than thatš?
Mental constructions are general willed processes or habitual conditioning. Nothing wrong with that too. But this is a clear a psychic feeling and psychic vision
In one of the past answers you said that āEach Element, each Deity, each force, each plane can be resolved into certain rhythm and frequencies that were discovered by the Vedic rishisā Does it mean a mantra is a deity in itselfš¤?
It is the Sound-body and the Word-body of the deity. The principle behind it is that all forms start from the subtlest state of Matter
Is khandava daha parva basically about the clearing of the forests in the ancient times to make a way for the cities and civilized life? Agni desires to devour all the creatures and animals and Sri Krishna and Arjuna fullfill his desire without any mercy in slaying the animals in their warrior like frenzy and they later build Indraprastha over it, Even Ramayana too describes the dreary forests in all their gory and grim details, are the epics very much entangled in those times where clearing vast swathes of forests is a necessity for civilized lifeš¤?
But how else has any of the city developed? Even the place we are sitting and the cellphone on which we are typing is built