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Dear Alok da, I was reading in a particular book on the ashram that most ashramites do not live a spartan life befitting yogis and more often indulge in everyday pleasures and desires. Some even get into earning money. What is the point in living in ashram then🤨?
Actually it is not like that. I don’t think one should be so harsh on poor Ashramite wanting a little change on an odd day
I’ve met quite many people who seem to be interesting, provoke my mental curiosity, vital attraction, but I rarely get to meet someone who has a similar spiritual aspiration. And in such cases, there may be very little vital or physical attraction at all. Is it a mistake to get involved with someone who doesn’t share your spiritual path, even if there is an affinity at all the other levels? Also, what if the other person does have a path, but they are a buddhist, for example? Would that create a contradiction of spiritual currents🫤?
There are no such fixed rules in spiritual life which moves in a wide free space. Each journey is unique and different. What helps one
Alok da, bad dream: A dog attacked me😨 …then I got up
It is the subconscious fear because of the previous incidence. Nothing to worry. Yes I am very afraid of dogs They are nice fellows. If
When I see myself and my life so far, I have always wanted to be free…But what I see is that I am not…I want to be free in true sense…My activities currently are free in a sense where I don’t have to follow anyone and anything. But that is not exactly what free is…Could you tell me what is freedom in true sense😣?
Absolutely. There is no freedom as long as one is living in the ignorance. One is simply the slave of impulses and desires. Freedom implies
Can you please explain this dream: Last night, I had a dream in which I saw that a negative force, like an old man, was attacking my grandmother, and the priest said that the effect of the ritual performed earlier with a Muslim man was diminishing. Then the priest said we would have to perform the ritual again. Preparations for the ritual began, and I had a small baby in my lap. I was trying to tell my family not to get involved in this and to chant God’s name instead. They brought a chest from inside. Initially, it wouldn’t open, but when they finally opened it, vegetables came out, and it seemed like those vegetables had been inside for many years. The vegetables turned into plants, and they were very fresh. There was a chili plant among them. Then my little sister and I went outside to plant it. There, we found a lemon plant with tiny lemons on it. My sister changed it and put some wooden support around the plant. When I checked it, the lemon plant broke from my hand, and I cried a lotðŸ˜.
The sandook is the past subconscious store of experiences that have come with you. Dadi also represents that. These seeds sown in the past and
As Sri Aurobindo’s yoga is collective yoga , How we can balance in our work as there are so many opinions of different people🤔?
Collective Yoga does not mean a democratic decision by taking everybody’s opinion. It means directing our collective efforts towards the realisation of the Divine Life
Some women are choosing to freeze their eggs to avoid the pressure of aging and the fear of a ticking biological clock🤔. They don’t want to feel forced into having children just because they are reaching their mid-30s. [conti]
There is a reason why mother Nature has created certain mechanisms. There is a wisdom in her workings. A woman is ready to conceive by
I sometimes feel tempted to talk to my exes, even though I’m in a good relationship. How can I control or stop this😥?
Think of the long term consequences with regard to your present relationship that is doing good. Think also that talking again to your ex may
Alok da, how to make children aware of the false narratives that goes around😠? Like when I was in school and studying in a Christian school I serious thought that Hindus were responsible for all the riots and killings in the 90’s as they demolished the Babri mazid…
Yes it is a war of narratives going on that conceals in its choice the course of human destiny. India and especially the Sanatana Dharma
Why the Ravavas and Mahisasuras consciousness are still alive, while we celebrate the occasion of victory against them😠?
Just as killing of terrorists does not cure us of their menace since terrorism is an idea that needs to be destroyed so also killing
Dada why I am behaving like a stupid. I can’t find out my way. Somewhere I listened that only reciting of the Mother’s name is enough for the starting of new journey towards transformation. But now I became the battle field. Always my mind thoughts and heart fights in between them. I can not hear to my hearts words. Always something is going on in my mind. Da what should I do😣?
Reciting the Mother’s Name is very powerful and the one supreme support of sadhana. But it is also good to cultivate faith and sincerity as
Dada I’m feeling that what ever I’m doing are all are mistakes and it also depressed me. I think all these are the mental phenomena. Please Da show me the right path 😥
It is not good to dwell upon our own mistakes or those of others. Instead we must focus on what we want to be. What
Why we are trapped by affection and love by our family members, relatives, friends and all these things. What is our true relationship with them.The Mother and Sri Aurobindo brings this eternal victory against death. That is death of death and manifest the Supramental being. Savitri didn’t let Jamaraj to bring Satyavan take with him. She could not bear his death, she fought against death and got victory against it. Is it possible to all human being. Can they also achieve it? Death is the necessary thing to learn and to grow up. But why immortality should manifest? Lots of questions arises in my mind Dada. What should I do🫤?Â
We can continue the school analogy here too. Affection, attachments etc are not traps of illusion but steps and stages of our schooling. Just as
For the past two years, I have been at home. I searched for many work opportunities but was unsuccessful in all of them. During this time, I also prayed a lot to understand what I should do. The idea of opening a marble shop kept coming to my mind. A few days ago, I had a dream in which I was looking for a place where I could open a marble shop.
Yes, it is possible that some hint about starting a marble shop is there in this dream.
When all deities are themselves different aspects/energies of the Divine Mother😇, then how could they lack touch of the supreme mother?
Because each deity is something or the other of the Divine Mother one can no doubt, through strong faith and intense aspiration approach Her through
 An article published in the magazine – Akhand Jyoti of All World Gayatri Pariwar. Whole article is quite insightful🙂.
I am not sure what to say about the article on Tantra and Einstein (material science). As far as the attached page of Akhand Jyoti
Why did Sri Aurobindo leave Mrinalini Devi when he says all life is yoga?
He didn’t leave her in the way it is generally understood. However like all great ones he was too intensely focused on the goals he
What’s the precise definition of Divine according to Sri Aurobindo? How will the human mind totally bereft of all premonitions will conceive the Idea Divine? If absolutely there are no Scriptures of any religion, no ideas of any God or anything at all, how will one start his way of understanding The Divine and experiencing his connection with The Divine? If Divine is all, then it should be possible to know The Divine without any aid.
The mind bereft of all conceptions of the Divine will yet conceive something or someone as the Highest , the Origin, the Source of all