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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.

I feel completely lost and depressed. Nothing in my life is going the way I want. My job isn’t giving me the financial stability I desire, and no matter how hard I try, I feel stuck. My wife left me, my girlfriend left me, and I have no one to turn to. I come home to an empty space, and it feels unbearable. Sometimes, I don’t even want to come home at all, I just want to disappear. The loneliness is crushing. I long for a life partner, someone to stand by me, but no one ever stays. Is it wrong to want that? Is it too much to ask for someone who truly cares? I drink just to escape these thoughts, but the pain always comes back. I don’t know how much longer I can keep going like this.

First thing first. Nothing and nobody is or should be more important than your own life and progress, unless you are in love, which is

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I have not read all the books written by our dear Mother and Sri Aurobindo ji. I just wanted to know what will be after the arrival of supramental being, is there anything mentioned about that in the books. Just curious to know, and is only earth the place where divine work is being done, what about other planets in the cosmos where there is a possibility of life too🫤?

The Mother and Sri Aurobindo do mention the changes that will take place upon earthly life, in the individual as well as the collective life.

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I have a doubt. Sri Aurobindo mention that integral yoga has three transformation, psychic, spiritual and supramental. There are many saint’s who has realized psychic transformation (such as Chaitanya, Anandamayi ma etc). After psychic realization can they feel spiritual and supramental transformation or not? Another question is what is this spiritual and supramental transformation and how it proceeds the Sadhak’s sadhana🤔?

What they have achieved is not psychic and spiritual transformation but psychic realization and certain experiences in the spiritual realm, mostly in the spiritual mind,

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Some people believe that what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have said is nothing unique — they feel that all spiritual paths are essentially the same and only the words are different. They casually say, ‘Whether you hold the ear from this side or that, it’s the same thing.’ They form such opinions after merely reading a few pages of Sri Aurobindo’s writings and then give their verdict. What would you say to such people🫤?

Ask them only one question. Where do they find anything other than individual Nirvana as a goal? Besides, leave alone Sri Aurobindo, even within the

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If the universe of time and space as we see it fluctuated out of spaceless, timeless void of unmanifest potentiality, once this happened does this unmanifest void have a role in the becomings and happenings of the universe or is it just there as quality less state without any interaction with happenings of the world🌏 like a certain view of nirvana suggests? Cos Sri Aurobindo talks about how things which perish are thrown back into unmanifest and reappear later in new forms and combinations and how things old and new are fashioned in these depths suggest that this void which is supposedly devoid of any qualities and movement is still interacting with the world in it’s dynamic becoming. So is this origin ever present and active or has no role whatsoever after once the universe came out of this void like some mokshavadins or nirvanists say?

If we accept the view of Sanatana Dharma as well as Sri Aurobindo’s own experience, this seeming Void, teeming with possibilities is very much present

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I went for a healing Ayurvedic retreat. Here, we have yoga classes with a lot of pranayama practices🧘. Some involve more basic pranayama practices, whereas others involve kapal bhati and mula bandha, etc. I don’t really know much about these practices, but I heard that there are some dangers associated with pranayama. Is it better to avoid attending some of these classes and instead focus on more basic practices?

Pranayama, like any other technique or method is best done under an expert except for the basic practice of Nadi Shuddhi. Pranayama, especially Kapala Bhati

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Men 👨‍🦰today seem to be a whole lot less masculine and more emotionally weak than what they were in the past. What are the causes of this trend? Could it be that there is no longer mandatory military service and life became too comfortable? How to reverse this trend on an individual level? What are the practical steps and decisions?

As far as emotions are concerned women are (and always were) generally stronger than men. Social pressures have only further strengthened them. In fact the

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