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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.
Can you please share something on Subhash Chandra Bose, I think he was a overrated freedom fighter. What was he thinking by going and shaking hands with Hitler? Why people have made so many movies and stories on him🙄?
Subhash Chandra Bose, though a man of courage was moved by ambition and a kind of sentimental idealism to which such natures are prone. No
I think my aspiration has switched off📴, please help me get back on track. No matter what I try, I’m unable to make sustained efforts to change myself.There was a phase not too long ago when I would eagerly read Mother and Sri Aurobindo, listen many talks on youtube channels whenever I get even a little bit of free time. But now..
These phases come to everyone. Possibly there was an over eager effort on one part but rest of the nature was unable to keep pace.
If Asuras 👿and Devas 😇, good and evil souls all have to reach at the same goal with or without consciousness or other efforts then why one has to put so much efforts like surrender, sincerity, remember and offer , atmosphere, presence, discipline, punctuality? Can’ t one go through only faith wherever I am and whatever I am…with lot of defects and even full of ignorance. Divine will take me to my real and destined goal?
The Asuras and Devas do not reach the same goal. They both reach the Divine, which is a different thing. The Asuras are dissolved in
These days I am letting too much of clutter affect me in terms of persons, their behaviour and thoughts, my feelings and thoughts – all that hardly have any importance. What should I do😯?
Yes these things have very little importance. It is the great malady that we often give too much importance to things that have little or
How can I cultivate patience when things aren’t going my way😓? I recognize that my karma is at play, and I know I should chant prayers, but I’m struggling to find the patience within myself.
Patience is connected with faith in God and trust that the Divine Wisdom knows what is best for us. Desires cause restlessness and…
Can a sexual act be spiritual🌹?
This is a slippery slope for which the safest answer is no because sexuality generally turns the consciousness downwards and outwards whereas spirituality is about
How can I make sure that my ego surrender is to the Divine only and not to other people😖? I feel a lot of courage is needed for this that I am unable to muster many times.
Yes it needs lot of courage to act with the only idea of fulfilling God’s Will. We should neither try to please ourselves nor try
‘A silent spiritual revolution’-An article written by Alok Da 🙏
The theme of your book is very interesting and contemporary. We are living in times when human thought is reevaluating the past and assessing its
How does one let go of things from the past😫? Things that didn’t work out the way we would have “hoped”, people we didn’t get to know well that maybe we wanted to, or regrets about actions that we would have taken differently today?And how does one stop daydreams or indulging in fantasies that do not have any basis? I’m stuck on an idea of someone from the past and cannot get them out of my head. I offer my feelings up to the Mother and just let it be… is that the right approach?
First thing that we need to understand is that the ‘mistakes’ that happened and yet may happen are not because there is something bad in
How can one discover their psychic being🌟? Is it necessary to come to the Ashram for this? How can one be sure they have found it? What are the signs to know it?
The discovery of the psychic being requires a great degree of persistence and perseverance. It is akin to discovering the parasmani whose touch changes our
What are the Overmind and the Supermind? I only know these two names. Are there other related terms🤨?
Supermind can be described in simple terms as the Mind of God as the Creator. It is the Omniscience and Omnipotence of God and through
Alok da, we are learning about Ghandhi ji in school which is very boring and I can’t wait when that boring 😜 book gets over but I have a question he use to not drink cow’s milk because cow would get hurt, then why was he drinking goat’s milk? I don’t understand when he does not understand this how is he the father of the nation?
Your question is very logical but unfortunately Gandhi ji, for whatever other good qualities he may have had was not a logical man. Or rather
Sir, I think you missed to explain 🙄last part of the sentence (but still it has a real power and significance) yesterday.
Yes, even a crudely formulated childish prayer has in it a real power. This power of the prayer lies in the bhaava, the inner state
Would the Divine Will make me do something I don’t want to do? My life seems heading towards it. Its about physical relationship with someone I don’t feel connected to. This has been troubling me for quite some time now 😓.
Ordinarily the Divine Will acts from behind through the veil of ego and desires, not directly. To believe that all that happens in the world
Alok da, studying sankhya makes me feel like it had all the potential to develop into a school of scientific research into nature 🤔 like the Aristotleian school did in the west (Sri Aurobindo says all scientific claims starts with sankhya like analysis) but sankhya ultimately got confined to remain in the realm of psycho spiritual practice and liberation, while on the other hand Organised church and it’s educational networks across Europe helped Aristotle’s philosophy to develop into systematic scientific research while in India sankhya again confined to few guru shishya relationship,did we miss a chance here? Sri Aurobindo in the beggining of his play Perseus the deliverer also hints at how the greek thought will develop into science and taming nature and giving him reign over it,is it cos of our veneration of prakriti too as a goddess that inhibited us to look at it dispassionately like the europeans with later Christianity started to look at nature as god given reign for men to exploit and kind of desacralised it,it might be an error but still the error might have worked in their favour in developing science while Indians wanted to annul nature altogether and merge into brahman/Nirvana
Sankhya was more interested in solving the hard problem of consciousness with which scientists are grappling now. The Sankhya philosophers nearly solved it by bringing
I find this concept a little speculative can you lease let me know your views on the following:I have been told that many gods 😇 and goddesses in Hinduism are simply the names of various forms of nurturing energies in the cosmos like : Brahma – creates forms, Vishnu/ Lakshmi – maintains & nourishes the form (Prosperity),Shiva / Kali – strength for survival. Ganesh – energy that remove obstacles, Savitri – Inspire intellect to act wisely….
…..Shakti in Tantra / Parvati in Puranas / Divine Mother – the sum total of all the energy in the universeThrough various modes of worship
Who am I😊?
Physically you are a lovely boy, the son of two beautiful people. Psychologically, you are a child with lot of potential who is being shaped
Kindly explain the sentence on Prayers, in the book📖 – The Synthesis of Yoga. “Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance.”
Chillike form implies the words, the sentences, and outer structure given to the prayer. Childish refers to the actual content of the prayer, for example