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What is the difference between the the path before Sri Aurobindo and Sri Maa and path of supramental in the basis of vairagya. They left home or samsara it’s their praradha they have no attachments, so why it is not acceptable because when I talk to other devotees in Odisha they strongly oppose these path before.😬….
Vairagya is of two kinds. One kind of Vairagya is born out of disappointment from the world or an inability to face its challenges. It
Yesterday night I bathe, and read Savitri🕊️, and read the mother with letters on the mother. I slept with Savitri music turned on. And then also saw a horror dream, I was passing by my kitchen and saw someone there, [Conti]
It must have been some contact with some kind of an elemental energy. These things are everywhere and sometimes they get detected during the dream
Sir, Can you please explain “Prakasha” & “Vimarsha” in simple terms? If you could give examples to illustrate this concept, it would be much easier for me to understand🤨.
They are two aspects of One Reality, called differently in different traditions as Existence and Consciousness, Ishwara and Shakti, Brahman and Maya. Prakash is the
Sometimes curses become less in difficult times. What to do then? Usually I am running haphazardly, trying all means or going back in shell and tired of even facing the difficulties. How to manage these times😥?
Stop trying and learn to relax, opening yourself quietly to the Divine Mother and relying upon Her Grace. Trying hard itself becomes a movement of
Mother says there is no evil, the only one evil is that things are not in its proper time and place, then what about men like Hitler and Pablo Escobar😈?
Hitler was indeed an incarnation of the Asura of falsehood. Paolo Escobar was indeed a criminal who pumped cocaine into the world market.
Now if
I have a question regarding the rejection of lower mental activities. Sri Aurobindo has written in The Mother book as following, “rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind” What I have understood from above sentence is, for example if I have a Mayavadi point of view of looking at the world and now Sri Aurobindo is saying something higher than that, then I should drop my Mayavadi point of view and accept his vision of the world. Is this a right understanding🤔?
This is very true from the practice point of view, a path that I myself took. What it means however is not to remain shut
You said with the help of the Supermind, only we can clean or transform our falsehood to its source of truth, or some dissolve to their origin 😇[conti]
It is understood that the mind cannot know the working of the Supermind as long as it remains itself. It is so because the Supermind
When we feel jealousy, angry about anyone, by remembering the words of mother “not to entertain these activities within urself” succeed in ceasing the action or manifestation & sexual impulse also in the same process. Though it lasts 1 min or half a min in our thoughts. Just diverting our minds, we succeeded in stopping these actions 🤔 (A stable/ cool form is established within our body system) [conti]
The question is deep and very much valid. Indeed the body remembers not only the memories it has had during the lifetime in a particular
Alok da, if we had to convince a rational, modern educated person about the significance of traditional Indian knowledge, we could cite examples of how our civilisation, arts and sciences flourished. But if the question is “so what if India indeed had a great knowledgeable history, how is returning to this knowledge relevant today”, “what is it that India can give to the education system of the world”, what should be the answer🤨?
Educated people are hardly rational. They are informed by books which they believe to be true. Their reason is based on the assumption that what
Alok da since few days my 11 year has started telling me , Mumma you never understand” please help me so I can understand him better and how to deal with him😥
It means he has entered adolescence and one has to stop treating him as a child who has no independent identity. During adolescence children begin
There are some desires in us that are too strong. Even if we try and surrender those, something in us still clings to those desires and makes us anxious about them. Some part in us also has the knowledge that even if this desire is fulfilled, it will be transient and has no future, but the part that clings to the desire feels something like “Even if it gives me happiness for 1 second, I want it”😬[conti]
It is true for all of us. Almost all go through this process and the Divine Mother carries each through this treacherous terrain and sometimes
To what extent are we bound by our biological inheritance from our parents? It is said that one’s bodily characteristics are predetermined by one’s parents. But to what extent do one’s vitality (sensitivity/crudeness/strength/refinement/etc.) and mental characteristics (intelligence/plasticity/depth/etc.) inherited too? If one has inherited certain vital or mental characteristics, are they malleable; can one make one’s vital or mind into what one aspires them to be for a work one wishes to accomplish🤨?
Everything can be changed. There is no such inevitable iron law or absolutely fixed determinism. Yes, by and large things follow a certain pattern, a
After listening your recent talk on journey to the Maha Kumbh i came to know that Sri Aurobindo Sadhanalaya, Ayodhya is blocked from all the four sides. It is really very sad. Why don’t the Lord and Rajrajeshwari Maa who can do anything prevented this from happening?It is really very painful for those who love The Mother and Sri Aurobindo😥
The Divine does not act according to the human ideas of omnipotence. He allows a great degree of freedom of choices to the human instruments
Get an orientation on the initial books📚, writings to begin with so that step by step, systematically I have enough material to last for a year.
One should ideally read the book with which one feels naturally engaged since it answers our inner need. A good combination is The Synthesis of
As I understand, There’s always this material counterpoint in evolutionary course of man’s development, he begins to shift from the hunter gatherer life to settled life with the coming of agriculture and another epoch of history begins with the Aryans, their domestication of horse and chariot warfare and gunpowder, printing press appear at that particular time period which Sri Aurobindo writes in the human cycle when monarchies were centralising and modern nation states are coming into existence and there is a shift from muscle power to coal-fossils energy with modernity 🤔[conti]
To start with, if we take the standpoint that nothing happens without a cause then we must look for the hidden drivers of man’s material
What is the true meaning and significance of Navratri🪔, and how should we, as the children of the Divine Mother, observe and practice during these sacred days?
Navratri is the festival of Durga and her victory over demons. The rituals and celebrations are meant to be prepations for her action within us
Do dreams💤 have their meaning?
Not all and not always, since many of them may be just a spill over of the subconscient elements recorded habitually as we move through
I have a question sir, what does Maa Sri Aurobindo want from me? How can i find this out within myself🤨?
First thing they would be happy about is to see us in a state of peace, harmony and joy. This is only possible if we