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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.
The other day I was discussing with someone about Radical Islam and he pointed out that they purposely increase their population and taking over the world and we too should be doing this. Well I argued that even if they do that soon they will be destroyed by their own population as soon they will realise no point producing rats as I believe 1 lion🦁 is enough to set all this straight But then he argued that look they are increasing the population taking over places, taking over governments by voting the wrong person, so then I did not know what to say? Please throw light on this subject.
If we look at nature, the apex creatures strangely do not multiply so much as the lower creatures. To those down below, Nature gives numbers.
My husband comes from a very orthodox family, and to be honest, he often humiliates me for not pronouncing Sanskrit shlokas correctly. He teases me, saying that I am not from a Brahmin family. I’m in an environment where respect seems to be granted only when I earn. Although I didn’t leave my job intentionally, I was laid off. How should I respond or pray in these circumstances😥? I’ve been communicating with the Mother about this regularly, but I haven’t seen any results.
You should know that those who are truly wise and developed are humble. Whereas those who are proud are merely vain. So you needn’t attach
I long to connect with The Mother🌹, whether through dreams or other means. What steps can I take to make this happen? I understand that unwavering faith is essential.
Faith, aspiration, reading Her books, taking Her Name, thinking of Her, hearing Her recorded voice, concentrating upon Her photographs, meditating upon Her image or …
How can I deepen my spiritual life, and why do my prayers seem to go unanswered😯? (example: I am praying regularly and upgrading my skills in preparation for a new job, yet I still struggle to succeed in interviews. Before each interview, I call on the Mother to be with me. While I believe something good will come my way, I’m left wondering when and how that will happen!!)
There are things that we are supposed to do. It is part of our evolutionary effort. There are things that the Divine has to do.
What do you think is the role or usefulness of Chat GPT 💻 in studying Sri Aurobindo’s works and those of other Masters?
This software looks like a wonderful utilisation of an emerging AI world and turned to serve a better purpose and it is very interesting and
How should one deal with comparison to peers and feelings of inadequacy or inferiority? Even if I logically know it is not the correct response and everyone is on their own journey, I panic every time I see someone reach a milestone and feel shame, sadness, and urgency about the things that haven’t worked out for me😓.
It is not enough to say that everyone has their own unique goal. True though it is, yet it remains at best an intellectual conception,
I had read The Mother’s answer to a question and recently in one video you too had mentioned it that physical difference in male and female will not be there in the new world. The LGBT community that we are either seeing more and more or noticing more in recent days, is that a precursor to it🙄?
The LGBT community rights and activism are more around the sexual and gender orientation. It is understood that in any civilised country all citizens should
What can be the way to tackle the confusion about choosing a career, if one got no preferences, no interests, one only wants to get lots of money to become independent and then do something great for the nation for its resurgence😩?
Take the profession that is closest to your heart, to your true nature, swabhava and swadharma. Do it with sincerity in the spirit of serving
Alok da, What’s the origin of qualities like Aura, charisma or swag as they call it when describing some of the historical figures/political leaders/film actors. Is it a result of higher vital/pranomay kosha? It doesn’t seem like it comes through effort/practice but rather inherited through the karmic results from past lives. They are definitely one of the major qualities to have a hold upon minds of the public☺
In most people this charisma is due to the vital constitution, especially an expansive vital. It is not necessarily a good thing from the higher
Is it true to feel that there is a honesty among pessimists and nihilsts rather than among the theists who try to justify the supposed ways of god with so much of mind games🤔?
Honesty in pessimists? I don’t see the logic. Honesty means looking at things as they really are, right. So the pessimist seeing only the dark
About LGBT, I meant to say, if as The Mother has said in the new world order, male and female bodies wont be different, I guess, still I am having difficulty explaining, but from what I understand, same body will have both male and female attributes? So my question was people born with LGBT attributes, are they first step toward that? Not people who make choices, but who are born that way🤔?
No, it will not be the same body having masculine and feminine traits but a sexless body. LGBT on the other hand is about rights
What is the significance of 24th November🦚🌞?
The word used to describe the 24th November 1926 is Siddhi Day. Though the word is used to describe the acquisition of powers, here it
I want to ask if it is considered a sin to have a relationship or friendship while staying in the ashram🙄?
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother have allowed a great degree of freedom in the Ashram. Transforming friendship and human relationship are part of the work
How to deal with jealousy in close relationships😥?
I presume that you mean if others feel jealous because you are closer to someone? Well the way is to give each one their rightful
Alok da, reading Sri Aurobindo’s poem on the tiger and the deer made me a bit perplexed for a long time. I was checking the predator-prey populations and all the predator animals with grandiose strength like tigers 🐱are shrinking while the prey population like deers 🦒 are in millions,the supposed reasons are apparently cos of High energy demands of predators wrt to their body weight and strength,less reproductive rates and being vulnerable to ecological/climate changes and requiring a larger territory for themselves to survive while the prey population like deers have low energy demands cos they are herbivores, adaptive to ecological changes cos they are mobile, flexible creatures and the ability to change their habitat and can do more with less like birds etc.. Isn’t this an opposite of survival of the fittest? Deers are of-course gentle,beautiful creatures but all the poets and humanity at large was also fascinated by the grandiose of predator animals and they are shrinking.does this mean that it’s the meek that shall actually inherit the earth? Sri Aurobindo writes that Titans fall by their own weight in the human cycle,does this apply here and What are the deeper implications of this phenomenon to Sri Aurobindo’s vision and supramental evolution?
Absolutely so. Survival of the fittest is a surface reading of a deeper process going on behind and through the play of outer forms. It
How to deal with selfish people around you😠?
Ignore them if you don’t have anything specific to do with them. If you need to deal with them for some reason keep focused to
What is inner Shakti present in a man (Kundalini) and what is her relationship with outer abundance of energy (divine mother) that exists in the universe. While worshiping whom to invoke – Shakti sitting in Muladhara or the outer Shakti that exists in the cosmos♾?
The Shakti at the base of the Spine is the Power of the Divine Mother that is completely involved in matter. In man there is
In my school there is a very extra bad teacher. He scolds us for no reason insults us in front of the class like you are stupid etc etc he never smiles and always sad. My teacher said in the ptm when mumma complained that many parents have complained. And has problem with the faculties of school too. He expects us to ask questions but when we ask he says is your brain not working?But when we don’t he says why are you not paying attention? When we take our iPad out he scolds us and takes our iPad once in that he broke my keyboard and when we do not he says you don’t understand he teaches coding which is hard and never explains I end up using chat gpt but still scolds me in that plz help please 😭
That teacher is preparing you unknowingly to take the challenge of the world because such kind of people are found everywhere. You have to learn