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.
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They often tell me that it was the householders who had the supramental “downloads” or words to that effect. They also say marriage is an airplane route in this Integral Yoga Path. I’m not a grihastha as it is against the truth of my being & not in consonance with my needs. Not being a grihastha limits my exposure & experience of human interactions & hence limits the field & scope for progress. Am I then unfit or not qualified either for Integral Yoga or for being touched by supramental? Supramental is too far afield but these queries do come up now & then with age & passage of time). Please shed some light on this 🙏
This is supported neither by facts nor by spiritual logic. The truth of the matter is that marriage does come with a huge burden as
I chant 2-3 mantras like Gayatri, Mrityunjaya, etc., daily. Is this correct, or should I stick to just one mantra? Which one is more effective? Please guide me based on your knowledge of mantra shastra🙏
It is not the mind but the heart that chooses the mantra. In fact it is not we who choose the mantra but the Divine
Aren’t the nihilists partly right when they don’t see any fundamental meaning in all the things society tried to point towards with all its conventions like marriage, money, tradition etc.. but the only thing missing is how Sri Aurobindo in the essays on the Gita writes about Sri Krishna too shunning all the pragmatic queries of arjuna to fight the war and says that the only command is “take refuge in me alone”. Isn’t this alchemical transmutation the only fundamental distinction🤔?
Taking refuge in God is to be free from stain of fear and sin. It means to be awake powerful instrument of the Divine in
How many in the time of Sri Krishna knew he was an Avatar and who where they 🤨?
Yashoda Maa, though she (and Devaki) were made to forget this. The gopa and gopis and of course Maa Radha knew his secret. Akrura and
When we talk about karma, there is a shlok in the 18th adhyay of Gita (Chapter 18, shlok 14) that there are 5 factors responsible for any karma- adhishthan, karta, karan, prayatna and daiva. So, when we were discussing about this in a group, someone asked why daiva does not intervene when something terrible happens (for example rape or something else)? The way Sri Krishna intervened when Draupadi suffered while attempted to be disrobed, why He does not prevent rapes or terrorist assaults? How daiva can allow such things to happen😪?
Daiva is not the Divine nor a particular god but the gods or divine powers that play a role in determining the events and circumstances
In the prayer of May 31, 1914, (1) Mother describes how She identifies with earth and during one sunset, offers herself in complete self-giving and in the silence of night waits for the grand illumination to happen again. This reminded me of the Sandhya Vandana of Sanatana Dharma, and it felt as if Mother was showing us all how a true offering to the Lord Surya, needs to be done. Is this perception right🙂?
Yes, in another prayer She refers to the sunrise and sunset being special hours. But to offer the entire earth would be possible only if
How could a sensible woman like Draupadi say this, “Andhe Ka beta Andha”? People blame her for the war but I think the war was inevitable and that it was the Mother who veiled herself in her as is mentioned in Savitri, Can you please explain this🤔…
This is one of the classic examples of how false narratives are built. This incidence often quoted to justify the War, though a ridiculous and
Alok da, why is it that when I am alone I feel Mother and Sri Aurobindo continuously and when I am with people I don’t feel them so much, I get distracted and what to do so that I feel them all the time specially when I am with people as I actually miss them that time😬
Yes it is a common experience once one enters the path of Yoga and takes it in real earnest. One likes to be either alone
Today on 26th January, someone casually told me – what’s there to celebrate India’s Republic Day or Independence day when a so many inhuman incidents going on inside India! To which my spontaneous reply was-“Forget not what’s going on just a step outside India” But then I realised this still not justify all that has been happening in India throughout…crime is a crime irrespective of the frequencies and numbers…And all that has been going on is really concerning and leads to a doubt leading ultimately to questioning why there’s not any Divine intervention to uproot the devils roaming in the hides of human and songs of the kind – “Utho Draupadi sastra uthalo..govind ab na aayeinge” reiterate themselves in my mind spontaneously😏..
Celebrating India’s Independence day means that we are happy that India is politically free from the long servitude to the British rule. Political Independence does
In this canto, Satyavan dies, but the first line of the thorns begins with ‘Now it was here in this great golden dawn.’ Why is this morning called golden🌄?
Because it is also the same dawn when Satyavan is saved by Savitri armed with the power of …
What spiritual significance does the planetary parade have🙂 ?
From the occult point of view it means that certain forces that govern our life are coming together and aligning themselves. It is likely to
When someone talks to themselves, who are they talking to😏? The mind is just mumbling in solitude, right? If someone prays, isn’t it the same action? The mind creates an image that religion has given, referring to it as God, and then it engages in a conversation with that image in its mind. Is there something different happening that is being overlooked?
There are many levels of the mind and there are things beyond the mind itself. When we speak to ourselves we are speaking from one
How do I get out of the feeling of being caged, imprisoned😬? I feel like breaking free!! This feeling comes to me all the time.
The cage is the ego, the bird is the soul, desires are the bars of the cage and the lock is ignorance. The stifling feeling
Does dé ja vu have any significance🤨?
It doesn’t have a specific significance as such but reveals something about how our mental consciousness operates at times. Its exact cause is not known
To the best of my knowledge, the term “Integral Yoga” was introduced by Sri Aurobindo. How can others use this name? I came across a YouTube channel named “Integral Yoga” and assumed it would be related to Sri Aurobindo, but it turned out to belong to some Swami Satchidananda 😏
It is true that there are at least two organisations or gurus who have used these words integral yoga as well as Divine Life giving
If Sri Krishna picked up the wheel for Arjuna why did he not break his rule or intervene for Abhimanyu😠?
First of all there is a great difference between Arjuna and any other warrior in the Kurukshetra war, be it Abhimanyu, the five sons of
Sir, I am trying to calm the impulse with emotion and striving to know the truth an attempt to understand the truth using life🤔?
Truth cannot be known by quietening the emotions alone. The mind with its ideas, opinions, views, thought formations has to be made quiet. The vital
I know a woman who is a Vaishnava and pushtimargi and all that and when I told her she needs to change her nature and not lie or manipulate people she told me so what even Krishna cheated and played politics.. what to say to such people🤫?
As far as we know, if we take into account the Mahabharata and the Bhagawat, Sri Krishna never lied. Nor did he try to manipulate